WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: On this side - They want to close this column! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

They would like to close this column! But yes, they, the clericals with
their pope, shamelessly launched to occupy the spaces of the secular and
libertarian, internationalist and anti-militarist left, and even the
anticlerical ones. ---- They would like to force us into silence,
because everything we have said and could say, they want to say. ---- On
the climate, Pope Francis' "Laudate deum" seems to have become the creed
of ecologists. If it weren't for that ending in which it is stated that
"it is necessary to be sincere and recognize that the most effective
solutions will not only come from individual efforts, but above all from
the great decisions of national and international politics", in which
the vice of delegation is confirmed institutional and statist of the
Catholic Church (very popular among much of the left), the denunciation
of climate change and its causes might seem banally acceptable.

On the war, Pope Francis is now very quoted, and the Santoros of the
moment are preparing for the electoral battle for the next European
elections by replacing the effigy of Che with that of this other modern
Argentinian, big-bellied and mass-motivator.

The Vatican opens the way to baptism for the children of same-sex and
trans couples, bypassing the clerical-fascist government of Meloni and
Fontana "on the left".

They would like to leave us the crumbs of fish market anticlericalism:
to talk about the hard parties in the diocese of Sosnowiec in Poland,
based on gay orgies between priests, viagra and escorts, discovered due
to the collapse of a prostitute between 30 and last August 31st, who,
poor thing, risked his life because the priest in whose house the orgy
took place did not want to call for help to avoid the scandal. It is a
"hot" diocese, if already in 2010 the rector of the local seminary had a
fight in a gay club, while last March the body of a 26-year-old deacon
was found with wounds that suggested a murder; according to the
magistrates, he had been killed by a 40-year-old priest who then
committed suicide.

Now, is this what our readers deserve? Or even the story of Soile
Lautsi's sudden death in hospital, after an operation that apparently
went well; For over twenty years Soile has been the protagonist of a
secularist campaign against the display of crucifixes in public places,
which has led some gossips to think that his death was not entirely
causal, as happened to other figures such as Ernesto Rossi in 1967 or
Pablo Neruda in Chile in 1973. Should we therefore reduce ourselves to
conspiracy theories just to fill our two columns?

Or we should scrape the bottom of the anti-clerical barrel and talk
about the new mega financing for the Basilica Sanctuary of the Madonna
delle Tears in Syracuse: 2.5 million euros for consolidation and
maintenance works, while another 750 thousand euros will go to the
church Maria Santissima della Misericordia and of Pericoli, also in
Syracuse. The money was allocated by the Ministry of Infrastructure
under the heading "for the protection and promotion of historical
cultural heritage". Now, someone should explain to us what is cultural
and historical about the ugliness of the Syracuse sanctuary: the
sanctuary dates back to the eighties of the last century, and it is the
most horrifying thing concrete architecture has been able to create. But
this is a detail, what matters are the sums that Italian citizens (all:
atheists, secularists, Muslims, agnostics, evangelists, Jews and...
Catholics) are obliged to pay to finance a structure for the use and
consumption of the Catholic church.

No, we don't want our anticlericalism to be reduced to a collection of
atrocities; these will be significant as they confirm the general
assumption of a church that is in any case thieving, sexophobic, perched
on positions of power and privilege, but they must not lead us into the
temptation to lose sight of the general picture: the Vatican today
assumes an objective role of calmer of social contradictions, and thanks
to this it does a great service to the powerful and to the capital that
it verbally contests, since it channels the anger and conscience of many
people into submissive and losing attitudes, proposing prayers,
torchlight processions and symbolic protests, spreading the cult of
delegation in national and international institutions in place of direct
action.

The forms and ways change, but the substance is always the same.

Moreover, from the throne of Saint Peter - an absolute and ahistorical
monarchy - we continue to promote the word of democracy in other
people's homes, while it is evident that the place of the Vatican is
objectively closer to that of the ayatollahs and sheikhs. And not only
for the absolute power of the sovereign, but also for the persistent
attack on women (see the sermons against the abomination of abortion),
on "sick" homosexuals and for the strenuous defense of a male and
chauvinistic hierarchy.

And so we are certain that these attempts to occupy our spaces will not
succeed in closing us down: behind the papal and clerical protagonism so
loved by the progressive and revolutionary world (but also by the
reactionary and fascist one), lies the usual chameleonism, the one that
it has allowed the church to last over 2000 years. Above all, they will
not succeed because our anticlericalism rhymes with atheism, it is
inextricably the product of it, and today more than ever we must have
the courage to call ourselves and show ourselves atheists,
non-believers, unbelievers.

Brother Dubbiosio

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