Bishop Bans Blessing for Italian Democratic Party, Outcry Ensues

Church Militant ^ | 12/7/17 | Juliana Freitag

[marshmallow]

Democratic Party leads Italy in pushing pro-abortion, pro-LGBT agenda

The liberals in the Viterbo, Italy diocese are in an uproar over a blessing ban. The Bishop, Lino Fumagalli, banned all blessings in the inaugurations of political parties' offices in the city, except when done privately. Obedient to the bishop's orders, two priests refused to give an official blessing in the opening ceremony of the new office of the Democratic Party (or PD, Partito Democratico) in town.

The reaction was immediate, if unexpected. In power since 2013, PD has been responsible for aggressively pushing anti-Catholic, extremely unpopular laws in Italy, all to keep up with their progressive agenda: they've approved homosexual civil unions, introduced gender theory in schools and allowed the country to take in an unmanageable influx of migrants; their disastrous government has seen the biggest flight of Italians from their country since the post-war era (the numbers of emigrating Italians for 2017 were 250,000, when in the immediate post-war they were close to 300,000).

The unemployment rate among youth is increasing alarmingly (37% of young people were unemployed in Italy, according to official data released in July), while the number of marriages and the birthrate have both reached historic lows, leading to a demographic crisis.

[TLI]

Why would they care?

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[SauronOfMordor]

Leftists do not tolerate being “disrespected”.

[Rurudyne]

The appearance of this or that?

Anyhoo, I’m sure there’s an Italian Muslim who’s willing to step up to the plate for the pro-poofters/pro-aborts in the name of taqiyya

[Moltke]

Utterly misleading headline. The Democrat Party was not singled out.

The Bishop, Lino Fumagalli, banned all blessings in the inaugurations of political parties' offices in the city,