Posted on 05/25/2017 8:08:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
Poor Children: Monsignor Luigi Negri, the former archbishop of Ferrara, Italy, published on La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana a letter to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing that killed 23 youngsters. The title: "Poor children of a society that does not recognize evil." Negri belongs to the small Catholic wing of the Italian Bishops.
Only Two Things: Negri writes to the victims, "You were born, often undesired, and nobody has given you 'adequate reasons to live'. They only told you two things: that you can do whatever you want, because each of your desires is a right, and that it is important to have the largest possible number of consumer goods."
The Devil: Negri points out that the victims were never told that there is Evil. Quote, "Evil is a person, not a series of forces or energies. It is a person. There, during your concert, this person crouched down."
Deadly Silence: Commenting on the upcoming funeral, Negri writes: "Don't worry, they did not help you to live but they will organize a 'first-rate' funeral for you, during which a short-winded secularist rhetoric will make a supreme effort, with all authorities standing silently, sadly also the religious ones."
Outdoors: Negri continues, "Of course, your funerals will be celebrated outdoors, even for those of you who were believers, because in our times the only temple is nature." And: "In the churches they do not celebrate funerals anymore because, as Cardinal Sarah put it so sharply, in the Catholic churches they are now celebrating the funeral of God."
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Amen, Bishop!
Always wondered why all the candles, flowers, and stuffed animals get stacked up in the street...why don’t people full the churches - any denomination - at times of tragedy?
Wow!
Sometimes the truth just slaps you in the face.
Well said Bishop.
Likely to earn him a reprimand from pope frankie.
the Catholic churches they are now celebrating the funeral of God.”
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Ouch
Obviously an old school traditional Catholic archbishop who won’t fit into the modernist version of “Catholic” AB’s, or the modern version of “education” and snowflakian “culture”.
His timing is painfully poor, but his words are as true as a hard rain. The elderly often forget to follow the proprieties of the day, or reject them outright.
“Ouch” is right.
“you can do whatever you want, because each of your desires is a right, and that it is important to have the largest possible number of consumer goods”
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In a different circumstance I would spread this truth far and wide. But it is callous and inappropriate to use the deaths of children to say it.
No respect for his lack of compassion.
Actually, about half the deaths, maybe more, were of adults: either young-adult attendees at the concert or parents/guardians waiting to pick up attendees.
I really doubt it.
Speaking truth is now an act of courage.
Every religious leaders that embraces or makes excuses for islam spits in the face of Christ.
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