Surprise: the almost unanimous chorus of Italian Vaticanists enraptured by the papacy of Jorge Maria Bergoglio is losing pieces. In fact, on May 28th, Aldo Maria Valli , an esteemed expert on Sacred Palaces of Tg3, wrote on his blog (aldomariavalli.it) a rather severe article on Amoris Laetitia, the exhortation of Francis who closed the Synod on the family held between autumn 2014 and that of 2015.
Valli notes a series of criticisms of the papal text. “Let us take for example point 308”, writes the Vatican expert, where it is said: “Pastors who propose to the faithful the full ideal of the Gospel and the doctrine of the Church must also help them to assume the logic of compassion towards fragile people and avoid persecutions or too harsh and impatient judgments “. “We must deduce from it”, continues Valli, “that the most effective way to be compassionate is not exactly that of proposing the full ideal of the Gospel
”.
And then, again, on the “vexata quaestio about communion for the divorced and remarried, what is the conclusion
After having read and reread the text over and over again, the answer is: communion yes, but also no. Or: communion no, but yes too “. In the document, observes the Vatican expert, “both conclusions are legitimate. The logic of case by case leads to this, which in turn is the daughter of the ethics of the situation. I have to consider myself a sinner
Yes, but also no. No, but yes too. Depends”.
A reading that prompted Valli to review some papal episodes of which he was probably a spectator. “When Francis went to visit the Lutheran church in Rome”, he recalled, “and was asked if a Catholic and a Lutheran can participate in communion, Bergoglio, through a long off-the-cuff reply, said essentially: no , but also yes, we have to see case by case, because it is a problem to which everyone has to answer ‘».
Or, continued Valli, when the pontiff “taking part in a video on interreligious dialogue (in which a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew and a Catholic priest appear) said that people ‘find God in different ways’ and’ in this multitude there is only one certainty for us: we are all children of God ‘, whoever wishes to have another certainty of a certain depth (which is the true faith
) could come to the conclusion that it is ours, but also that of other”.
Valli draws very clear conclusions from this, citing a great convert like John Henry Newman, who became a Catholic from the Anglican as he was: “In the famous Letter to the Duke of Norfolk”, observes the journalist, “Newman wrote that, in case he had to bring religion in a toast, he would certainly have toasted for the pope, but first for conscience and then for the pope. That is: first for the search for truth, then for authority ”.
Final with the theological bang: “Here: conscience and capacity for truth”, recalls the Vaticanist, “when the conscience of the Christian leaves the narrow and impervious path of this research and sets out along the boulevards of the ‘but also’ (illuminated by the mass media and gratifying, but with no exit), I have the impression that you are in great danger of getting lost. And to go straight into the wolf’s den ”.
Harsh words from a Vatican expert who, like most of his colleagues, expressed himself in highly praiseworthy tones of Francis, ever since his appearance on the balcony of St. Peter’s with the famous “good evening”.
Words expressed by a man of faith, who never made any secret of his belonging to Opus Dei and who, the following day, to justify almost certain perplexities, increased the dose: “For my part, no ‘maneuver’, no some kind of project, no decision to leave one party (but which
one) to join another (but which one
). Only the sincere, and even painful, manifestation of a doubt. Painful because I love the Pope very much “.
Therefore the ranks of Bergoglian critics widen. Among the very first, Sandro Magister, who with his blog on the L’Espresso website, Settimo cielo , makes a timely counterpoint to papal and papist communication, and Antonio Socci , who has dedicated two critical books to the pontiff, “Non e Francesco” (Mondadori), on the failure invalidation of his election due to a vice during the Conclave, and “The final prophecy” (Rizzoli), in the form of an open letter to the Pope (which he wrote to him, thanking him), as well as dealing with it on Libero and on his very popular Facebook page.
Less controversial, but always very precise in reporting uncomfortable facts and circumstances, and then Marco Tosatti , senior Vaticanist at La Stampa, who ended up a bit in a corner with his blog, San Pietro and its surroundings , in the ultra-Bergogliano Vatican Insider.
Valli is now adding to them, and to a more secluded Vittorio Messori , who in December 2014 had confessed to the Corriere, “The doubts for Francesco’s turning point”.
For Gianni Gennari , corrosive cursivist d’Avvenire, who in his Lupus in pagina , takes charge of beating every critic of the Roman pontiff, the work will increase from today.
(Published in Italia Oggi, a newspaper directed by Pierluigi Magnaschi)

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