SECTARIAN CATHOLICISM

Nowdays in the television debates there’s a sectarian and hysterical, arrogant and intentionally misleading, able and windbag catholicism, that breaks the rules of measure and decency.
An anchor-man director (opusdeist?) said that civilization began with Christ.
Another journalist was as good as he was: not the Everest mountain, but Wojtyla’s alzheimer disease is the only image of God available for people today. In a moment the very perfect being, that catechism reminds us, is thrown away because of a phrase on the brink of necrophilia.
The last one by Messori: in order to be good catholics it is enough to obey the present Pope; not any Pope, but the one on duty.
The “raelians”, also in television, have been got rid in the name of a reason, reduced to the condition of the catholic church propriety. You are catholic only if you think catholic: the television speech of a famous bioethics expert against science sounds like this.
Rather than this dishwater I definetely prefer Benigni’s bad words, direct and light, (I apologize to the modest anchor-woman).
Christ sent his disciples as”sheep among wolves”. Destinies, on the other hand, have been overturned: a lot of sheep have become wolves, snakes and scorpions. And a lot of lay people, with our immense disconcert, have become sheep.

Priest Dr. Franco Ratti

Reported by

  • The newspaper “Il Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia-Bari” of January 16th 2003
  • The “Libero” newspaper of 18 January 2003
  • The “Liberation” newspaper of 19 January 2003
  • The “Corriere dell’Irpinia” newspaper of 19 January 2003
  • The weekly magazine “La Rinascita” of January 24th 2003
  • The weekly “Events” of 24 January 2003
  • The newspaper “Ottopagine” of January 26th 2003

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