Celibacy of priests, ultraecologism, female diaconate, homosexuality … On this and more the president of the CEI does “Bergoglian resistance” to Pope Leone. Unnecessarily.
On a warm June evening, in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Matteo Maria Zuppi declared a silent “opposition” to Leone XIV. The Republic of ideas happened at the cultural event, where the cardinal of the Emilian capital and president of the CEI – Italian episcopal conference – intentionally admitted: “Pope Francis we regret it all: there is not, but there is. In his ministry he gave many reading keys for everyone. Think of the third world war in pieces, bridges and walls, the laudate yes ». Which is the encyclical of Bergoglio’s total adhesion to the anti -capitalist prejudice that guides the ideology, risen to religion, of climate change because of man, the utmost fault of man.
Almost in the same hours -as noticed Father Santiago Martin, one of the most listened to Anchorman Catholic, founder of the community of the Franciscans of Mary -, the Pope sent to Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, president of the episcopal conference of the Amazon, a very hard document. Barreto is Peruvian and Peru is the second home of Prevost, which however in his pastoral has never listened to the siren of liberation theologies. Today the Pope asks Celam, the Latin American episcopal advice, to return to tradition by announcing “the Risen One”. No Synods, no Pachamama (the goddess of Latin American fertility) exposed by Bergoglio in San Pietro with (almost) equal dignity with the Madonna.
Leo XIV explains in Barreto: «Where the name of Christ is preached, the injustice retreats proportionally, since every exploitation of man by man disappears if we are capable of welcoming us as brothers. God the Father entrusted us with the common house as solicitous administrators, so that nobody irresponsibly destroys the natural goods that speak of the goodness and beauty of the creator nor, much less, submits to them as a slave or adore of nature, since things have been given to us to achieve our aim of praising God “. Who knows how Zuppi took it, which unlike how Andrea Riccardi, founder of the community of Sant’Egidio, of which the spiritual curator is the Bolognese cardinal and candidate defeated, is not a road priest.
In fact, the president of the CEI is the grandson of Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, the textor of the Second Vatican Council II and the son of the man – Enrico Zuppi – who for thirty years has directed the Sunday observer, The weekly of the Vatican newspaper. He knows how to move in the Curia and is organizing the Frond to Leone XIV.
He threw it on ecology, and Prevost responded with the no to Green pastoral care, then tried again with another crucial theme. It is necessary that Bologna is the place of Catholic “resistance” (also for political reasons: Zuppi is very careful to move in tune with the politically correct left) and the Dehonian fathers, who under the towers have headquarters, have relaunched with their magazine, week news (reference point for the parish priests and very welcome to the president of the CEI), another theme of “clash” with prevost. of deacon women. They republished an interview of almost 50 years ago to the Cardinal of Turin Michele Pellegrino, who opened to the women’s diaconate and the abolition of priestly celibacy.
Also this time Leone XIV has indirectly replied. The bishops of South America has reminded that priests must be celibate and that there is no space for the female priesthood. So from Amoris Laetitia-the pre-senodal pastoral letter of almost ten years ago Di Francesco-Prevost takes the exhortation to the family, the no to abortion, the firmness of the marriage, but accentuates, on the fact of sacraments to homosexuals, to gender theories, the affirmation that “the homosexual lifestyle is in contrast with the Gospel”. Therefore, the confidence is also in the archive, a declaration in favor of the blessing of gay couples that the Dicastery for the doctrine of the faith led by Cardinal Bergogliano Integatistico Victor Manuel Fernández had issued a couple of years ago. Matteo Maria Zuppi has always been on the front line on this “pastoral” enlargement.
Prevost to refute this “opening” starts from Bologna; In the Jubilee of the children and the family, he fished largely from the positions of Carlo Caffarra, predecessor of Zuppi as Cardinal of Bologna, and one of the signatories of the famous Dubia addressed to Bergoglio on Amoris Laetitia.
Recovering the Humanae Vitae of Paul VI – the latest encyclical of Montini who disappointed many of the conciliar avant -garde – Prevost said clearly that the marriage “is the canon of love” And that the spouses – man and woman and nothing else – collaborate in the divine project by procreasing. The furrow with the CEI leaders becomes gradually deeper to the hierarchies of the Italian Church – but not the faithful who recognize the prior general of the followers of Sant’Agostino in Prevost – in an almost antagonistic position with Leo XIV.
On the table there are other issues: There is Zuppi who commissioned by Francesco of the Ukrainian mission has distanced himself from the Orthodox, there is Zuppi who does not make discounts on Gaza to Israel. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, an apostolic nuncio in Jerusalem, also in agreement with the Orthodox Theophilus III patriarch, keeps the position of the Catholics stop – “We will not go away from Gaza” – but does not use towards Israel the tones that the CEI has towards Bibi Netanyahu. “He is not doing the good of his people,” said Zuppi, “we have to put peace and justice together”. And justice for the Cardinal of Bologna who in Monte Sole – a sacred place of the Italian resistance – read the names of the Palestinian children killed (but not the Jewish ones slaughtered on 7 October 2023) is to be with the Palestinians. Leone XIV instead has another horizon.
Has relaunched the dialogue with the Jews – He wrote to the Rabbi Capo di Roma Riccardo di Segni recalling the “common roots in faith” – receiving the metropolitan Antonij reopened the relations with the Russian Orthodox. A line that Cardinal Pietro Parolin, displacing the hard and pure Bergogliani, as a secretary of state immediately married.
For now Leone XIV has not made appointments, he has not put his hand to the apostolic constitutions, but he is sending the legacy of Francesco into the attic. Only with formal gestures (from wearing the mozzetta to vacation in Castel Gandolfo to restoring the Latin Mass? No, the “rust” is ancient. In a video of his pastoral meeting in Peru he said: “I do not always get along with Bergoglio.” And he confessed: “He will never make me cardinal.” The Holy Spirit evidently thought it in a different way, so the first American Pope opened a privileged relationship with Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, a very friendly of the US vice -president JD Vance.
Dolan is president of the Board of Directors of Papal Foundation, a charitable American organization, which supports the Pope’s initiatives in developing countries. He understood Prevost that the Obolo di San Pietro–made by Bergoglio-is no longer enough: now the support in dollars is needed.
In Zuppi, which sees Donald Trump like smoking in the eyes and which continues indirectly to arm the rescue boats of Luca Casarini (who uses them to recover migrants at sea), and who does not like capitalism, this Vatican of Western does not like. He made him understand him well a week ago at the Rimini meeting. Unfortunately for him, on the other hand, it seems liked to the faithful, who feel a pope guardian of faith again.
This was revealed by Raymond Burke, the dean of the American cardinals, signatory of the Dubia, the true great elector of Prevost. In a homily he called Leo XIV Pope of the third secret of Fatima, called by God to contrast the apostasias, to free the Church from “modernism”, which projects prevost very far from Bergoglio, but very close to St. John Paul II. And with this statement the American cardinal launched the slogan: Pope is back!
