BLACKMAILS

To try to shut the only real opposition paper, La Repubblica, Berlusconi sues it because it asks questions which, in his view, indicate the answer (not positive for him….)

To try to shut up the international press, that gives more coverage to his mischiefs than the whole of the Italian press and television, controlled by him, he threatens to sue it.

To try to shut up the Italian bishops newspaper, L’Avvenire, very critical of him over the past few months, Berlusconi arranges for his main newspaper, Il Giornale, to attack its director using false documents. A signal to everybody who may still think to oppose him.

Mad at the EU that dares asking clarifications on the rejection to Libya of Eritrean and Somalis who would have been entitled to be considered for political asylum, Berlusconi threatens to block all the EU ministerial work.

He is so desperate that all what he is left with is blackmails. A mafia method, that of many of his friends and supportes……

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The Church antisemitism

Benedict XVI just pardoned the schismatic group of Cardinal Lefebvre who refuse the values of Vatican II. He did so the day before the anniversary of the announcement of Vatican II. A symbol.

A few days earlier, one of the bishops he reintegrated in the Church, had stated that he believed that the gas chambers had never existed and that only 300,000 Jews had been killed by the Nazis. The news of such statements did not prevent the Pope from announcing his decision : was there any urgency ? couldn’t he exclude such bishop from pardon ? The statement by the Pope’s spokesman that the pardon did not mean sharing the unacceptable bishop’s views does not matter. The fact is that he felt that the bishop had to be pardoned.

Such negationist statements are regularly prosecuted in the civil world. In fact just a couple of weeks ago, M. Le Pen, the leader of the fascist French party, was condemned for similar statements. Let us see whether the Pope will undertake an action.

Interesting , is also the fact that another of the pardoned bishops (they are four together) recently repeated the old catholic point of view that “the Jews killed Jesus”. But he was pardoned too.

Icing on the cake, the re-establishment of the Latin Mass, decided upon by Benedict XVI, included the (in)famous prayer of the Good Friday asking God to enlighten the Jews and have them converted to Catholicism. Not to talk about the Pope’s intention to sanctify Pius XII who kept silent in front of the nazi crimes and allowed the Church to protect them after the war (a chapter still to be uncovered).

Apart from the fact that all this is another sign of the going backwards imposed to the Church by Benedict XVI, this is going against the principle of freedom of religion promulgated by Vatican II and is indicative, in my view, of the basic anti-Semite thinking of this disgrace for civilization, Benedict XVI.

Picture: Nazi caricature, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/pm/1198535.stm

Towards a schism in the Italian catholic church ?

Berusconi’s specialty are laws “ad-personam” (made to fit one person, i.e. him and sometimes his laqués. And he always find stupid people who vote for them just to keep their position in Parliament…

Recently, he paid a very publicized visit to the Pope: pictures all over, the opening in the news of private (i.e. his) and public (i.e. controlled by him) TVs, articles of praise in the press aligned to the government.

And the Pope praising him for the new (according to the Pope) friendly “political” climate in Italy, hoping to get money back…( Berlusconi made a law exonerating the Church and religious institution from paying taxes….and now he promised to finance the private schools, i.e. the Church controlled schools).

Berlusconi was seeing flying back to his Palace, from the Pontifex Palaces, on a cloud…..

So he, the strongest ally of the Church in the defence of Family values…., thought that it was time for the Pope himself to make a law “ad personam”, i.e. to grant the opportunity of receiving the Holy Communion also to people who had divorced ( himself and the other two leaders of his coalition, Bossi and Fini, themselves defenders of family values, have divorced).

But the Pope refused ! only those whose soul is pure can receive the Holy Communion he stated (i.e. Berlusconi does not have a pure soul and for a change we agree with the Pope).

So, what to do ? several scenarios: give more money to the Church and get a “personal” permission to get a holy communion (Luterus Luterus Luterus, does it ring a bell ?), to continue suffering in his soul (for the body he has the young girls he is often seen with who ensure that he does not suffer too much) or to follow a famous precedent: like in England, create an Italian Church with the Prime Minister as its head. The Brits have the Anglican church, the Italians will have the Berlusoni’s, oops pardon me, the Italian church.

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