Sad to say, the phenomenon and great sin of lying for convenience and to push one's agenda has become pandemic in the Bergoglian community, starting with the pope himself... In this story, Pinocchio is the president of one of those bleeding-heart liberal Catholic organizations that, I am sure, does its share of good work wherever it operates, but which also trades sanctimoniously, hypocritically and shamelessly on its do-goodism...
Sant'Egidio president claims:
More old people are dying in Italy
because there are not enough caregivers
since the migrant influx slowed down
Translated from
July 19, 2018
We got an urgent telephone call from Pezzo Grosso, who sounded strange. I could not tell if it was from tears or from laughter, pr perhaps from both – he wept because of laughing and he laughed in order not to weep. He said he was sending me a new message and begged me, literally on his knees (we were not using the videophone but it seemed clear to me), to publish it even if it was his second commentary this week, as he knows that I generally space out the contributions to this blog.
And when I finally did get his piece, I realized he was right – it is something not to lose! And I am still laughing over it.
Dear Tosatti, I got this information from a friend – it is too good not to share with your readers if it is the truth. Of course, with my comments:
“The president of the Sant’Egidio Community, Prof. Marco Impagliazzo, released through the most authoritative news agencies, a statistical document that allegedly shows a cause-and-effect relationship between the drastic reduction in the arrival of new ‘migrants’ to Italy, the reduction in the number of persons seeking employment as caregivers, and the consequent increase in the suffering and even the mortality of aged persons”.
In short, the current Minister of the Interior [who implements the government’s immigration laws and has turned away boatloads of ‘undocumented aliens’ seeking to land in Italy] is responsible for an increased death rate among older Italians.
The correspondents of the AP, BBC, CNN and Reuters assure us that at the time he made his declaration to a news conference in Trastevere, Prof. Impagliazzo definitely seemed sober.
My comment: If Impagliazzo had been able to explain his statements rationally, he would deserve the Nobel Prize for Economics and should immediately replace the current Minister for Economic Development!
But his statements were exactly what one has read in the thousands of propaganda flyers circulating in Italy to explain the need for unrestricted immigration into Italy – statements virtually identical to what we have heard from radicals like Emma Bonino or from the Italian bishops’ conference.
Now it seems we don’t have enough people wanting to serve as caregivers. Has anyone seen boatloads of immigrants comprised mainly of caregivers (or people intending to work as caregivers)? If we don’t get as many immigrants now, it’s only because intending migrants who are undocumented no longer have as much incentive as before.
As for the mortality of older people, one must relate it to the cuts in the government’s budget for health and pension services – cuts made necessary in order to pay for the basic needs of those migrants who have come into the country illegally.
Incidentally, once and for all, help me cry out: WHEN CAN WE SEE THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SANT’EGIDIO? I am convinced it would me most interesting to analyze the figures.
Another interesting item from Tosatti:
Rumors about imminent
Vatican sanctions on FFI founder
Translated from
July 21, 2018
On July 11, 2013, an order from the Congregation for the Religious placed the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate under the Vatican’s administrative control and suspended its leadership.This take-over continues (even if the first Vatican commissar has died in the meantime) and no one knows when it could end.
This state of affairs has lasted too long. But this is not the only anomaly in this entire affair. The Vatican never gave a formal reason for the take-over except for the late commissar’s words that the FFI had shown a ‘Lefebvrian drift’ – and what he meant by that, we cannot now know.
[Of course, his words were generally taken to mean that the FFI had become too ‘traditionalist’, choosing for instance to use the traditional Latin Mass in the community liturgies. A handful of FFI priests who prefer the Novus Ordo – and who were not barred from using it if that was their preference – complained to the Vatican, and the take-over was effected on their word.]
These days, however, voices at the Vatican as well as at the Italian bishops’ conference claim that the Vatican is about to issue some sort of disciplinary sanction against Fr. Stefano Manelli, founder of the FFI, who turned 85 last May.
[And who has been under house arrest since 2013, not even being allowed by the Vatican to visit his parents' graves on All Souls Day.]
The rumor is supposed to have originated from one of the three present Vatican commissars for the FFI, Sabino Ardito, a Salesian priest. Though unfortunately not verifiable for now, it is said that a document containing the sanctions and prepared by the Congregation under Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz is already on the pope’s desk and that the sanctions would be followed by a new chapter-general (an assembly of the entire FFI membership) that would review the order’s charter, specifically to do away with the vow of consecration to Mary Immaculate which the commissars have already discarded in the professions required of novices.
[So is the FFI still getting novices???] They would also reportedly do away with the vow of poverty which prohibits the order and its members from having any material possessions.
Because of that vow of poverty, the all of the FFI’s material assets were held by lay associations that provided the order with its material needs. And because of this, the Vatican has been unable to expropriate these assets.
The Italian courts upheld the rights of the lay associations, so the Vatican tried to put pressure on Fr. Manelli to convince the lay associations to turn over the assets to the Vatican!
The legal battle waged by the Vatican was tough, reaching all the way to the Court of Appeals. And it is curious that one of the main protagonists in this legal battle was the secretary of the Congregation for the Religious, the Spaniard Fr. Francisco Carballo, a trusted aide of the reigning pope and the man responsible for the financial collapse of the Franciscan order during the time he was the Superior-General. The encounter between priests and money often leads to unpleasant results.
According to the rumor,
the canonical sanctions against Fr. Manelli would be based on his failure to exercise moral suasion over the lay associations supporting the FFI. If that were indeed the case, we would be witnessing yet another anomaly, in which
the founder of an order is canonically sanctioned not for any crime he committed, nor for whatever reason led to the Vatican take-over of the FFI, but because refused or failed to make persons over which he has no rights whatsoever to do or not do whatever he asks them to do.
In the saga of the FFI, we have been witnessing singular forms of ‘justice’.
Including the pope’s imperious act prohibiting the female branch of the FFI from protesting their takeover to the Apostolic Segnatura, the church’s supreme canonical court.
If the rumored Chapter-General is held, it could possibly sweep out everything that remains of the FFI’s particular charism, starting with its consecration to the Immaculate.
Why this overweening will to destroy – or denature – a charism so beloved to St. John Paul II, which had given rise to so many new vocations when the order was still autonomous? This is the most mysterious and inexplicable aspect of this sad and depressing episode in the annals of this pontificate.
We shall see if the rumors have any basis.
It is worthwhile to be acquainted with the essential facts about Fr. Manelli. It says a lot about this Vatican that it should be persecuting a man like him:
Stefano Manelli (born 1933) was the sixth of 21 children born to the Servants of God Settimio and Licia Manelli, a couple whose cause for beatification is pending. He received his First Communion from Padre Pio, who was a close friend of his parents, and for whose church he served as a choirboy. He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscan Friars in Cupertino at age 12 and was ordained a priest in October 1955. He obtained his doctorate in sacred theology from the Seraphicum in Rome, going on to be a professor of patristics and Mariology at various Franciscan seminaries in Italy. During this time, he became universally renowned in scholastic circles for his studies on the Bible, on dogma, and on Marian devotion.
In response to the call of Vatican II for religious to “return to the spiritual sources of their order” and “adapt them to the contemporary world”, Fr. Manelli conceived of an order that would follow the Franciscan life in its integrity, inspired by Saints Francis of Assisi and Maximilian Kolbe [who had promoted devotion to the Immaculate and founded the he Militia Immaculatae (Army of the Immaculate One), to work for conversion of sinners and enemies of the Catholic Church, specifically the Freemasons, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary].
Manelli founded the FFI in August 1970 in Italy. In 1982, he founded the first community of the Sisters of the Immaculate in Manila. And in 1990 he founded the Mission of the Immaculate Mediarix in Loreto as the lay order of the FFI.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 22/07/2018 02:26]