WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria: Over here. INPS contracts to Caritas (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Latest news: "homosexuality is not a crime, but it is a sin". The pope says so.

However, it is not clear to us how to interpret the sentence. Under the holy
inquisition everything would have been simpler: no burning for gays as criminals,
but as sinners. Today it is different, and the pope is trying to distance himself
from Putin or the Ayatollah, maintaining the characteristic underlying ambiguity.
What is the intention of the Catholic Church towards these sinners? does it
discriminate against them? punishes them with the pains of hell? does he
liquidate them with 10 Ave Marias and 10 Pater Nosters? What comforts us is that
most homosexuals won't give a damn about the papal outburst; unlike that fringe
of gay Catholics who have to live their emotions with guilt. However, the fact
remains that the Vatican continues to dictate the line of conduct to society on
important issues, and that all this finds credibility both in the media and also
in the high ministerial offices. In fact, in the reactionary storm that is
sweeping the country, all of this finds fertile ground: again on 9 January the
same uncomfortable foreign head of state spoke out against abortion, explaining
how "suppressing the life of others" cannot be considered a right. An apparently
bland but pounding chant, and also support for the clerical-fascism government in
Italy.

The reopening of the case of Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared from Rome on 22
June 1983 by the Vatican judiciary, also deserves a few lines. It is not known
what novelties we have induced the judicial body of the papal state to make this
gesture; someone associates it with the death of Joseph Ratzinger, others with
the fact that the Italian government has set up a special commission. Certainly
the pressure from Emanuela's family members has been incessant, and in recent
years (remember that the last investigation was closed in 2015) the truth has
often been lapped, however some pieces now seem established, such as the role in
the kidnapping, of the Band della Magliana and the boss Renatino De Pedis, so
close to the curia that he was buried in the church of Sant'Apollinare together
with cardinals and high prelates. Or more simply, under the dome they thought of
reopening the case before others did it with more frown and less hesitation. As
the Bible says: dirty clothes are washed at home

But the dirtiest matter that we want to share with our readers is that of the new
millionaire deal made by the Church to the detriment of Italian taxpayers. This
is a protocol signed by Inps and Caritas for the opening in all 8,000 Italian
municipalities of branches for the management of requests for assistance to the
most vulnerable citizens (a pool of almost 7 million people), who are entitled to
benefits such as the basic income, the family allowance of the municipalities,.
the maternity allowance of the municipalities, the baby bonuses, the birth bonus,
the nursery bonuses, the Naspi, the social allowance and civil disability.

The reference framework is the "Inps for all" initiative launched in 2019, in
order to be able to reach subjects residing in places far from the Institute's
branches. It seemed like an excellent thing, except that, on the sly, we discover
that, in agreement with the National Association of Italian Municipalities,
Caritas and the Community of Sant'Egidio will manage these branches, at the Inps
offices or at premises granted free of charge by the municipalities. The
agreement was signed on November 21, 2021; it springs from the first Conte
government and is defined by the second, demonstrating, as always, an absolute
concordance in the enslavement to the Church by all parties. So much so that the
"extreme left" minister Speranza, in September 2020 appointed Monsignor Guido
Paglia, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute for marriage and
family sciences, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, spiritual adviser
to the Community of Sant'Egidio. In other words, an archbishop at the top of
institutions of a foreign state, as the monthly "Left" points out.

 From this agreement, the ecclesiastical bodies will derive revenues of around
200 million a year: Caritas has already made it known that it will also rely on
the ACLI to support the very numerous requests.

Another piece of welfare that is contracted out to the Catholic Church. Important
what the lawyer Carla Corsetti of Democrazia Atea writes in comment, "Allowing
assistance to be managed in a monopolistic way by an organization such as Caritas
means degrading assistance to a mere benevolent concession. Charity is the denial
of solidarity and therefore of human and social dignity. Whoever gives charity
demands gratitude.
A state that replaces solidarity with charity is a failed state because it has
betrayed the principle of secularism".

There are as many as 48 items of expenditure that convey to the Catholic Church a
flood of money from Italian taxpayers: public funding, salaries for religion
teachers, pensions and salaries for military, prison, hospital chaplains, etc., 8
per thousand, exemptions from every type. For a total of 6.7 billion euros a
year. It is the charity of the Italian State to the Church, made with citizens'
money and without their consent.

Brother Doubtful

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