Posted on 06/07/2018 7:55:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME - As fighter jets flew over Rome on June 2 to celebrate Italy’s Feast of the Republic, no doubt many observers were wondering if the country’s new populist government was going to last longer than the green, white and red trail of smoke the planes left in their wake.
Amidst fireworks and parades, bishops invited faithful to pray the Te Deum - an ancient hymn usually reserved for the end of the year - for the future of their republic and constitution, which celebrate their 70th anniversaries this year.
After a three-month hiatus, the boot-shaped peninsula finally has an executive, born from the bizarre union between the right-wing populist Northern League, led by Matteo Salvini, and the left-leaning Five Star Movement, led by 31-year-old Luigi Di Maio.
This political chimera can only be compared, in U.S. terms, to a scenario where Donald Trump is forced to create a government with Bernie Sanders. Both parties can be considered anti-establishment, but the issues, modalities and approach could not be more different.
Italian clergy are aware they will clash with the new administration on matters such as Europe and immigration, but recent developments also suggest the possibility for dialogue when it comes to defending traditional family values.
Italy’s new minister for the family and disability, a practicing Catholic, has vowed to fight the “demographic winter” that is crippling Italy, meaning declining birth rates, and stated his support for a “natural family” with a mother and father, adding that families with same-sex couples “do not exist” under Italian law.
The Catholic Church has long waited for this type of interlocutor at the helm of the country which, to this day, remains the Vatican’s most important global partner, not to mention forming the pope’s backyard.
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Me too!
What irony?
“stated his support for a “natural family” with a mother and father, adding that families with same-sex couples “do not exist” under Italian law.”
Italy doesn’t have same-sex marriages?
Ping.
Italy does not recognize same-sex “marriages”, but does have “civil unions.” And there are differences, e.g. Italy will not allow someone in a same-sex civil union to legally adopt his or her partner’s children.
Why, exactly, would a faithful Catholic "like" a faithless pope?
Irony.
They keep using that word.
I do not think it means what they think it means.
Conscientious Catholics don’t like this Pope.
The pope doesn’t like them. In fact, he hates them, because they don’t want to bring in millions of savages who will destroy Italy.
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