Do the latest Italian vote and new surveys
say anything to the Italian bishops and the pope?
They have been backing the wrong horses!
Translated from
June 26, 2017
The latest IPSOS survey says 54% of Italians oppose the ‘
ius soli’ legislation in favor of which the Italian bishops’ conference (CEI), the Vatican, and the reigning pope have flaunted what would in other times be called scandalous interference by supporting it head-on, and let their opponents pull out their hair!
[The so-called 'ius soli' ('law of the soil' in Latin) bill hit the floor of the Italian Senate last week and was expected to be passed despite stiff opposition from the rightwing LN, the small rightwing Brothers of Italy party, and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which has said it will abstain amid a new hardline stance against migrants and gypsies.
The ius soli law would grant citizenship to foreign babies born on Italian soil and to children who have spent at least five years in the Italian school system. Currently the children of immigrants must wait until they are 18 to apply for Italian citizenship.
Rightwing and centre-right parties argue that citizenship should only be granted to those who have earned out by integration. Leftwing, centre-left and liberal parties say the law is a basic right granted in many other countries.]
Mayoral elections Sunday roundly rebuffed the Partito Democratico
[a center-left party trounced by the center-right parties which include former PM Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia] with which the CEI has been flaunting forms of collateralism and contiguity that was unthinkable even in the heyday of the Christian Democrats
Just think of the law on civil unions, the Galantino-Cirinna ‘feeling’
[Italians like to use this English word to describe ‘an emotional state of mutual affection or reciprocity, or a particular transport which a person feels about something he is passionate about; Galantino is Bergoglio’s enforcer at the CEI as secretary-general, and Cirinna is the Italian senator who sponsored the civil union law that legalizes same-sex unions], not to mention the conversation filled with congratulations and best wishes from Mons Paglia, then president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, with the now-unseated PM Matteo Renzi under whom the Cirinna law was passed.
And the deafening silence from the Vatican on sensitive issues having to do with parental rights over education and what is being taught in Italian schools (sex education and gender ideology starting with six-year-olds).
We might add – this is not demonstrable but take my word, if you will –
the growing intolerance one notices in the comments made in the social networks of which I am a member, as well as in casual conversations, towards the obsessive propaganda in favor of uncontrolled immigration preached by this pope and other advocates in the Catholic world who may not all be and always as disinterested in the worldly and financial aspects of the phenomenon as the pope may be.
These commentators may well be considered hardhearted Pharisees and other assorted insults. But they are also members of a community whose culture probably merits the same respect, attention and defense as the Yanomami and other indigenous cultures of South America!
Perhaps we may even expect – alas, not too much – that any of these issues mentioned will cause the hierarchy of the Church in Italy [starting with the pope, who is the Primate of Italy] to think a bit and
take off their foot from the accelerator towards a demagoguery and populism which back in the 1970s and 1980s already showed their fallacy and failure in Latin Americ (its results, from an ecclesial point of view, are clear to everyone) and which now appear to be as appropriate and uptodate as a pair of violet elephant-leg pants!
Last week, there was this interesting item about Bergoglio’s partisanship in the ‘ius soli’ debate.
Bergoglio once more
hand in hand with Emma Bonino
by Antonio Righi
Translated from
June 21, 2017
Parliament discusses the Cirinna proposal [now law] recognizing same-sex unions. Bergoglio says nothing.
Parliament discusses 'wombs for rent' [surrogate uterus]. Bergoglio says nothing.
The radicals of the majority Partita Democrata seek to pass a law to legalize recreational drugs. Bergoglio says nothing.
Parliament discusses the legalization of euthanasia.Bergoglio says nothing.
Parliament discusses ius soli for the children of new ‘immigrants’ to Italy. Now he talks.
Today, June 21, he said:
“I express sincere appreciation for the campaign ‘Ero straniero, l’umanità che fa bene’ (I was a stranger - humanity that does good) in favor of a new immigration law which has the full support of Caritas Italiana, Migrantes and other Catholic organizations”.
About that campaign, from the site ‘radicali italiani’ of the Italian Radical Party [of which Emma Bonino, Grande Dame of Italian abortionists, who has been praised by Bergoglio as ‘one of the greatest Italians of our time’, has long been a leading light, along with the late Marco Pannella, champion of homosexuality, abortion and euthanasia, who was so eulogized at his death last year by the perverse Mons. Paglia:
The campaign was launched officially on April 12 at a news conference in the Italian Senate by Emma Bonino and other organizations which, together with Radicali Italiani, promote legislation of popular initiative to replace the old Bossi-Fini law and change government policy on immigration to emphasize inclusion and work. (http://www.radicali.it/campagne/immigrazione/)