The Great Difficulty of True Dialogue Among Priests Today
THE CAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY TO DIALOGUE among priests today, and also the cause of the great confusion in the Catholic Church today, is that a great number of priests, especially in the last 60 years, have NOT been formed Catholic in the Catholic seminaries, they have not been formed in the immutable Truth of the Creator, but have been formed in subjectivism and relativism, that is, in the subjective and relative truth of creatures which changes continuously according to the whims and arrogance of the creatures. THUS THERE IS NO LONGER UNITY IN THE TRUTH OF GOD among Catholics based on trust in the Truth of God which one finds in Divine Revelation explained infallibly in the Documents of the Church and in the writings of the saints, as it was for 2000 years in the Catholic Church. The Protestant churches were founded on subjectivism! These poor priests, and also the lay people, do not realize that they have not been formed Catholic, even though they think they are Catholic!!!
In order to understand better why it is so difficult to dialogue among priests today, I offer the this paragraph which I wrote in some of my other articles:
More than 60 years ago, ECCLESIASTICAL MAS0NRY, with the help of many Mas0nic bishops and cardinals, entered into a great number of Catholic seminaries and universities to fundamentally change, in a very sly and hidden way, the theological and philosophical teachings of the Catholic Church. This was done in a very intelligent way, printing many books and pamphlets, including APPEALING TO THE PRIDE OF THE YOUNG STUDENTS in that we can interpret reality and truth according to ourselves, instead of having the humility to seek the proper interpretation according to God found in Divine Revelation explained in the documents of the Catholic Church and in the writings of the saints for 2000 years. In most Catholic seminaries today there is no longer offered courses on logic or metaphysics which helps young seminarians to think logically so as to be able to DISTINGUISH between right and wrong, between what helps or harms souls. There is instead promoted relativism in a disguised way. For example, these poor seminarians are brainwashed to believe what was condemned by the Church more than 50 years ago, “Situation Ethics”, which is a derivative of modernism and relativism. Situation Ethics basically promotes the human subjective interpretation and solution in each situation instead of the Divine interpretation and solution in each situation which can be discovered in the teachings of the Church and in the writing of the saints. Most priests and bishops today no longer know the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church on faith and morals and thus normally react negatively to someone who tries to explain the most basic tenets of our faith, such as the Truth comes from the Creator, not from the creatures, and not even from the Church! The seminarians are formed to believe that the old (the immutable Truth of God) is antiquated, while the new (the mutable truth of man) is good and chic, smart, sophisticated, up-to-date. Seminarians, for more than 60 years, have been formed in the worship of man instead of the worship of God, and thus for the great majority of priests and bishops today, the truth comes from the creatures and no longer from the Creator!!!
To have an idea of how the ecclesiastical mas0nry works, read the messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, June of 1989.
“To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”
(https://our-lady-priests.blogspot.com/2015/10/our-lady-priests-1989.html).
From the spiritual and eternal point of view, from the point of view of the almighty Creator, the priesthood, as Jesus Christ instituted it, is incredibly powerful to help in the eternal salvation of immortal human souls. This is why Satan does all he can to arrive at the elimination of the ordained priesthood, and thus eliminate the Most Holy Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Vat. II: LG 11; CCC 1324). The main hidden underlying goal of the Synod on Synodality (among other hidden preparatory tactics) is to destroy the ordained priesthood and thus take away the Most Holy Eucharist. (Mt 24:15; Dan 12:11; 7:25; 9:27).
“The Sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on Calvary. By accepting the Protestant doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal, that is to say, a remembrance of that which Jesus did at his Last Supper. And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the daily Sacrifice consists the horrible sacrilege accomplished by the Antichrist, which will last about three and a half years, namely, one thousand two hundred and ninety days” (December 31, 1992; “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/). That is, we will lose the Most Holy Eucharist in all the public Catholic Churches for three and a half years! These messages to Don Stefano Gobbi from Our Lady are a great gift to us for these very confusing times. Read them and put them into practice so as to be prepared for this period of the “great tribulation”! (Mt 24:21; CCC 675-677)!
From the point of view of God, Who is the Truth (Jn 14:6), we cannot imagine, in our arrogance and spiritual blindness, how far away mankind has slid from God today. Our Lady and various saints tell us that mankind today is further way from living God’s holy laws than just before the great flood when God eliminated all of mankind except Noah’s family (Gen 6).
But we must not lose hope in this period of the great apostasy before the revelation of the Antichrist (2Thess 2:3-8)! We know who wins in the end after this period of great purification of the Church and of the world! In this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), “the Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection” (CCC 677). But “IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!” - Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal, 1917. There will be fulfilled the Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15) – Saint Louis de Montfort!
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The following is an email sent on March 19, 2026, at 20:00 hours, by myself, Father Joseph Dwight (born 1951), to Father Idilio (born 1945), a priest in my same diocese of Perugia, Italy. I have known Don Idilio more than 25 years. After this email you will find a few emails that preceded this email.
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Dear Father Idilio,
Thank you for your email. We priests must communicate and dialogue more often above all in this period even “the elect will be deceived if possible” (Mt 24:24) will be led into error (2Cor 11:14).
Dear brother, both of us have indicated concrete things, but I have come to realize a difference much more profound than our differences in the specific things. I see a great difference in the criteria in which we use in order to decide if something or an action is good or not good!
We are creatures, we are not God. As such we can be “led into error”, without realizing it, by the devil who is much more intelligent than we are. The exorcists explain to us that the devil can play with our imagination and with our emotions inside our head. There are thousands of independent protestant groups and Christian groups who have the same Sacred Scripture but interpret a great number of biblical passages in contradictory ways even in very important passages. Jesus, who is God, knew well about this future problem, and thus Jesus founded a Church which He promised “the powers of death * shall not prevail against it” (Mt 16:18). This means, as the Church has always taught, that the Holy Spirit has always protected the Ecumenical Councils, and thus the documents of these councils are the infallible interpretations of Divine Revelation, the Truth of God that does not change with the world, and that are well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC); ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM).
A great number of people, in their pride, want the Truth according to themselves instead of according to God. A great number of people want a Christianity without the cross, and then are happy to believe the great satanic lie that heaven is automatic and hell does not exist! Behold a fundamental example of this:
When Pope Paul VI issued his prophetic encyclical, “HUMANAE VITAE” (1968), there was an incredible negative reaction not only on the part of the laity who wanted to enjoy the pleasures of sexual relationships without any responsibility or openness to life by using artificial birth control, but even on the part of a great number of priests and bishops, even entire Episcopal conferences (e.g., the ‘Winnipeg Statement’ of the Canadian Bishops)! BEFORE 1930 ALL MAINLINE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS WERE IN ACCORD WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH that the use of artificial birth control was a grave evil and a serious sin. Before 1930 most Christian men realized that using artificial birth control was like using ones wife as a prostitute! When the Anglican Church changed its stance in 1930 (Lambeth Conference) the other protestants churches quickly followed suit while Pope Pius XI reaffirmed the Church’s constant teaching on this grave evil in his encyclical Casti Cannubii (1930). Do we believe that we can make it to heaven without imitating Christ crucified to overcome our egoism and to learn to truly love, without being generous to life (“be fruitful and multiply”; Gen 1:28; 9:1,7; 26:24; 38:8-10; Ps 8:6-9; 127:3-5; Sir 17:2-4; Ex 1:7; Wis 9:2; 10:2; etc.)? Three years before the publication of Humanae Vitae, Saint Michael the Archangel at Garabandal, sent by Our Lady, (Spain, 1965) said: “Many Cardinals, many Bishops and many Priests are on the road to perdition and with them they are bringing many souls”! WE ARE NOW UNDERGOING THE CHASTISEMENT (Mt 24) of Divine Mercy, as the last chance of conversion (Diary of Saint Faustina, no. 1588), for our rejection and great rebellion against God’s holy and saving laws.
Dear brother, in your emails, YOU NEVER MADE REFERENCE TO THE DOCUMENTS OF THE CHURCH but rather to passages of the Bible which can be interpreted in many ways. In the CCC, there are more than 500 paragraphs to explain well the Ten Commandments. But people, in particular today, do not want this precision about the Ten Commandments so that one can interpret the Ten Commandments as one wants without the cross according to one’s own comfort and according to one’s blind arrogance. In the same way in the Catholic seminaries today, Ecclesiastical Masonry has entered with the help of Masonic bishops and cardinals, to promote in a hidden way, this type of Christianity according to each person’s relativistic interpretation. The Ecclesiastical Masonry has promoted subjective interpretation, appealing to our pride, to criticize the documents of the Church which one believes that are not worth anything today in our modern times, even though human nature does not change and God does not change, the Truth of God does not ever change.
Dear brother, IF WE AS TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS, DO NOT TRUST AND BELIEVE THE SAME IMMUTABLE TRUTH OF GOD, both of us, we cannot arrive at any conclusion together. If we two are not able to refer to the CCC as a primary common source of the Truth of God, but rather to the opinions of ourselves or of other creatures, it is useless to continue to dialogue while we seek to convince ourselves that we are seeking the Truth of God! If you trust the interpretation of the truth according to yourself or according to other creatures instead of the Truth according to the Creator, according to the Truth of God in Divine Revelation explained by the Church that Jesus Christ founded, which does not change according to the whims and arrogance of men, we are fundamentally not in the same religion. You can offer your opinion and I can offer my opinion like two fallible creatures in our own subjectivity and human weakness. But I want the Truth of God, which is NOT AN OPINION!!! I believe as an honest Catholic, that I cannot pretend to spend eternity with God if I do not seek with true humility to discover and live the Truth of God, not the truth according to Father Joe or according to another fallible and subjective creature like myself!!! If I trust and follow Father Joe, I will end up in hell. If I sincerely seek the Truth of God and live this, there is hope of salvation for me. There is needed true humility to seek the Truth and the solutions outside of ourselves from the Creator instead of from ourselves! Behold the attack and the fundamental negative fruits of Ecclesiastical Masonry: the Truth no longer comes from the Creator but from the creatures, or rather from the “prince of the world” who is Satan! (Jn 12:31; 14:30; Rev 12:9). The modern Church seems the same on the outside, but inside it is no longer the worship of God but the worship of man behind which Satan feels glorified! “The Truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32), but Jesus was referring to the Truth of God, not the truth of the creatures!!! I have said to many people in the parishes that if I, Father Joe, begin to interpret the Gospel not in harmony with the CCC, the Truth of God that does not change, follow the CCC, do not follow Father Joe to hell!
THE FUNDAMENTAL BATTLE OF ALL TIMES is who establishes the truth, God or the world, God or Satan, God or each person? This battle will increase even more in the next few years before the second coming or Jesus Christ. Lucifer said, I am God, I decide the Truth, and Saint Michael the Archangel replied with his name: “Who is like unto God?” Original Sin was the same deception: “But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:4-5)”. Many modern philosophers led us into the “COPERNICAN REVOLUTION” of not seeking anymore reality and the truth outside of ourselves by way of our five senses but inside of ourselves, as if each one of us “will be like God”. “Abandoning the investigation of being, modern philosophical research has concentrated instead upon human knowing. …” (No. 5; Encyclical Letter: Fides et Ratio; John Paul II; 09-14-1998). In this fierce and underhanded battle, it is very important to be “wise as serpents” and not just “innocent as doves” (Mt 10:16), but above all humble which means to recognize and to accept who is God and who we are!!!
(“Who Decides The Truth?”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html).
Dear brother, I want to spend eternity with God who is the Truth (Jn 14:6) which does not change according to the whims and arrogance of the creatures. If you, Father Idilio, want to offer me the truth and the interpretation of the truth according to you or according to other creatures, without making reference to the Documents of the Church, this is not useful to me to get to heaven, BUT RATHER INCREASES THE CONFUSION which is already greater and more widespread than ever before in the history of the world and of the Church! This confusion is caused precisely because Catholics no longer make reference to the Truth of God which unites, be each person has become a little god as the source of truth in one’s own relativism.
RELATIVISM, according to Pope Benedict XVI, is "the most profound difficulty of our time." (http://popebenedictxviblog.blogspot.it/2005_05_01_archive.html). In his homily at the Mass preceding the conclave that quickly elected him Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger said: “Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. WE ARE BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.” (http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html; http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/colson_relativism_may05.asp).
Dear Father Idilio, look at the great difference between the teachings of the Church for 2000 years and what sees promoted in the Church today!
“We would heartily encourage programs where these dangers are avoided. But we wish to make it clear that DEPARTURE FROM THE CHURCH'S TEACHING, OR SILENCE ABOUT IT, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. ONLY WHAT IS TRUE CAN ULTIMATELY BE PASTORAL. The neglect of the Church's position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve.” (No. 15; Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith; Letter To the Bishops of the Catholic Church: On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons; 1 October 1986; Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect; http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html).
POPE JOHN PAUL II (AMONG MANY OTHER OCCASIONS) SPOKE FIRMLY TO THE US BISHOPS AGAINST THIS "PICK AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORD TYPE CATHOLICISM" in LA in his September 1987 visit: "It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a “good Catholic” and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. THIS IS A GRAVE ERROR that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere. I wish to encourage you in the love of Christ to address this situation courageously in your pastoral ministry, relying on the power of God's truth to attract assent and on the grace of the Holy Spirit which is given both to those who proclaim the message and to those to whom it is addressed."
What happens to the few priests and bishops today who do their fundamental work, to identify and cure, as spiritual doctors, the gravest sicknesses of the souls, mortal sins? THE PRIESTS TODAY WHO PREACH THE WHOLE GOSPEL and all of the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church are labeled ridged and old-fashioned, insensitive, lacking in compassion, divisive, judgmental, moralists. WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THE ONES WHO MAINTAIN A CULPABLE SILENCE, the ones who tell their people what they think they want to hear are seen as understanding, sympathetic, pastorally sensitive and merciful. “Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets” (Lk 6:26). “For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God” (Jn 12:43). “How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” (Jn 5:44; Gal 1:10). But this way of doing is not true mercy! THIS IS FALSE LOVE, MISGUIDED COMPASSION, false mercy, false ecumenism, that does not lead to paradise for all eternity!?!
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF A DOCTOR WHO CARED NOTHING ABOUT DISEASE and sends home the patients with grave sicknesses saying to not to worry because THE DOCTOR DOES NOT WANT TO SCARE OR UPSET THE PATIENT. Such doctors would be called quacks, incompetents, guilty of gross professional negligence; they would be sued for malpractice. But if priests do not speak about the only thing that can kill the soul, mortal sin, because the people (spiritual patients) do not want to hear these things, what would we think about such priests? If the doctor acts in this way, the person could lose his life; but if the doctor of souls, the priest, does like this, the person could lose his immortal which last for all eternity!
WHAT DO THE SAINTS SAY about priests who prefer the comfort of silence to the discomfort of the Truth, who remain in silence about the difficult things, and speak only about easy things in the Gospel and in the CCC? Half truths are worse than lies! Priests no longer speak about the existence of sin, of the devil e of the consequences of unrepentant sin, eternal separation from God! Behold why few people go to confession today!
“A religious leader should be careful in deciding when to remain silent and be sure to say something useful when deciding to speak. In this way he will avoid saying things that would be better not said, or leaving unsaid things that ought to be said. For, just as thoughtless remarks can lead people into error, so also ill-advised silence can leave people in their error, when they could have been shown where they were wrong. Negligent religious leaders are often afraid to speak freely and say what needs to be said – for fear of losing favor with people. As Truth himself says, they are certainly not guarding their flock with the care expected of a shepherd but are acting like hirelings, because hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. These are the people whom the Lord is reproaching through the prophet, when he says: ‘THEY ARE ALL DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’ (Is 56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Whereas, if he stand firm in defense of his flock, he is building up a wall for the house of Israel against its enemies. And so again the sinful people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in order to provoke you to repentance.’ (Lam 2:14) …” …” (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).
“WHAT KIND OF MEN ARE THEY who, FEARING TO HURT THOSE THEY SPEAK TO, not only do not prepare them for imminent temptations, but even promise the happiness of this world, which God did not promise to the world itself? …” (Sermon of St. Augustine on the Shepherds; Office of Readings, Week 24, OT, Friday).
Not being formed Catholic, priests no longer react to Mas0nic formation in the diocese that is contrary, in a camouflaged way, to the teachings of Christ explained infallibly in the documents of the Church! Blessed ignorance is the easy way, but one easily falls into the powerful but hidden trap of Satan, while believing the illusion that all is OK.
Dear Father Idilio:
Do you remember when Cardinal Bassetti invited Father Giuliano Zanchi from the diocese of Bergamo to tell us priests of Perugia in our monthly meeting of the PERMANENT FORMATION OF PRIESTS on November 13, 2019, to surrender to the mentality of the world and to bless the mortal sin of FORNICATION???
Visit, or find on the WEB using the search engine duckduckgo:
Priests Systematically Brainwashed
https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/12/priests-systematically-brainwashed.html
When the disciples “were amazed at His words”, and even “exceedingly astonished”, at the beginning of their walk with Christ, Jesus did not offer false and empty and destructive compromises as so many leaders in the Church today are offering to seminarians and priest and to the numerous gullible “Christians” as we see on TV. But rather Jesus said: “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God” (Mk 10:23-27).
Do you remember that there was always a half hour of Eucharistic adoration before each of our monthly meeting of the PERMANENT FORMATION OF PRIESTS until Cardinale Bassetti eliminated this less than 10 years ago. Will our problems be resolved by ourselves and our meetings, or by the Son of God, Jesus Christ in the Eucharist?
Dear Don Idilio, I do not know if you remember our monthly meeting of the PERMANENT FORMATION OF PRIESTS on December 18, 2019? We listened to Padre BENÔIT STANDAERT; his theme was: “THE THREE COLUMNS OF THE WORLD: A BASIS TO START ALL OVER”. After this meeting you said to me that it seems that there is no longer anything that does not change, there is no longer anything solid, not even the dogmas of the Catholic Church! This was the goal of this meeting to lead us totally into subjectivism and relativism! This “BASIS TO START ALL OVER” is not the infallible interpretation of Divine Revelation by the Catholic Church for 2000 years guided by the Holy Spirit! It is the basis to start all over with the subjective truth of creatures! The people of the modern church feel they know more than all the saints of the last 2000 years so as to interpret Divine Revelation in the right way!?! But the very numerous people of the modern church, even though they feel they are more enlightened and intelligent today than ever before, are not willing to dialogue with any cardinal, bishop, priest or layman who simply and clearly explain that there is a fundamental break with Divine Revelation and Divine Catholic tradition regarding documents such as “Amoris Laetitia” (moral relativism), “Laudato Sì” (pantheism), “All Brothers” (syncretism) and the “Synod on Synodality” (Truth from creatures no longer from the Creator)!
Priests Systematically Brainwashed
https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/12/priests-systematically-brainwashed.html
Today a great number of priests are similar to Father Steven Scheier and his judgment experience” who was a priest of Kansas, who had car accident in 1985. He says, “I saw me before the Judgment seat of Jesus. Our Lord went through my whole life. I could only answer, “Yes, Lord.” Jesus said, “What you merit for all eternity is the hell.” But then I heard a woman’s voice pleading to spare his soul. Jesus said, “Mother, he has been a priest for 12 years for himself and not for me. Let him reap the punishment he deserves.” Our Lady responded, “But Son, what if we give him special graces and strengths and then see if he bears fruit? If not, your will be done.” Jesus replied, “Mother, he’s yours.” Father Steven says:
Visit, or find on the WEB, using the search engine duckduckgo:
Many Priest in Hell - Human Respect
https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2022/09/many-priest-in-hell-human-respect.html
Those who are not anchored in the immutable Truth of God with true humility, and are habituated to trust subjective truth, WILL BE EASILY DECEIVED BY THE ANTICHRIST who will convince billions of people that the Antichrist is the Messiah, before Jesus Christ returns for the second time! In the classic book by Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, he explains to us that the fundamental criteria to end up in the army of Mary or in the army of Satan in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) is humility or pride, false humility!
Dear brother, there is needed a lot of true humility in order to consider the possibility to not be formed Catholic, and then to begin to read the documents of the Church and the writings of the canonized saints in order to discover what it really means to live and be a true Christian according to God, not our own blind subjectivity. I am so stupid that I seek solutions and the Truth from God in the Documents of the Church and in the writings of the saints, instead of from myself!
The saints tell us that the devil always succeeds in deceiving the proud who believe to saints an humble in their blindness. The devil does not succeed in deceiving the truly humble because they understand well that the devil can deceive them.
Best wishes for all eternity dear brother. Pray for me and I will pray for you so that we might follow God, the Truth, not the creatures or the world or Satan who “disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14).
Father Joseph Dwight
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Father Idilio wrote on March 31, 2026, ore 14,00:
Dear Father Joe,
Easter has arrived. Beyond everything, even our thoughts, we have Jesus who offers himself for us, each of us, and makes us understand how love is his main characteristic. And to say that he loves us as we are, otherwise he wouldn't have offered himself for us even before we realized it; "For God demonstrates his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom 5:8).
How are you doing? Where do you celebrate? See you tomorrow afternoon at the cathedral for the Chrism Mass at 5:00 PM?
Meanwhile, Happy Easter, my dearest. I pray for you, and you for me.
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Father Joe wrote on March 31, 2026, at 20:00 hours:
Dear brother,
Love based on objective Truth, that is, on God, is true love. Love based on our subjectivism and relativism is false love and a great insult, a sin, against God, who is the absolute Truth!
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments" - John (14:15). But we must keep Jesus' commandments according to Jesus. It is found in over 500 paragraphs in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC; 1992 edition, promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_it/ccc-it_index_it.html). But this is the most precise objective Truth that we do not want because it explains clearly that we must carry the cross of Jesus and change our lives! We want a religion without the cross and then believe that heaven is automatic and hell does not exist! Joy in the desired blissful ignorance!
How many priests "love" according to their subjectivism and relativism today. This is why Don Donlindo Ruotolo wrote:
"Dear brothers (priests), think about it now while you still have time; Saint John Chrysostom says that 'the priests who are saved are very few,' and this word should truly make us tremble!"
Speaking of the great responsibility of priests and bishops:
Saints John Chrysostom, John Eudes, and Athanasius said that the road (or floor of hell) to hell is made with the bones of priests and religious, and the skulls of bishops are the lamps to light the way!
Saint John Mary Vianney (1786-1859), known as the Curé of Ars, said that a priest goes to heaven or hell together with 1,000 souls!!!
Good Friday shows us the true love of Jesus crucified! Saint Veronica Giuliani was a mystical model and a spiritual reference for Padre Pio. Saint Veronica Giuliani suffered the Passion of Jesus almost continuously. Once, after suffering Good Friday, her spiritual director and bishop ran away because Veronica's suffering was too intense. Jesus told Veronica that she had not suffered even a spark of what Jesus suffered for us! Here is true love!
Attached are images showing some of Blessed Elena Aiello's most impressive moments. In fact, for many years, during Good Friday, she would enter into ecstasy and relive the Passion of Christ. Those present recounted scenes of great suffering and prayer.
Blessed Elena Aiello 1959 - "If men do not convert, there will be a great war. Russia will march across all of Europe."
I have a slipped disc. I'm not going to any meetings.
Happy Good Friday and Easter!
Father Joe
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Father Joe wrote on February 28, 2026, at 20:00 hours:
Thank you for visiting yesterday.
I recently said over the phone to Don Stefano Orsini, whom I have known for 30 years in my diocese of Perugia, Italy: “Dear brother, you have always told people what they want to hear, instead of what they need to hear to help them get to heaven.” At the end of his call, I said at least once: “I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when you die!” THIS IS THE MOST COMMON AND FUNDAMENTAL SIN OF PRIESTS TODAY: to be mercenaries (John 10:11-13), instead of being good shepherds ready to give their lives for the sheep, taking the risk of offering the whole truth, and not just the easy part of the truth without the cross of Christ. Wasn't this the very irresponsible behavior cleverly promoted when Pope Francis said, “Who am I to judge,” referring to those who actively live their homosexual lifestyle??? This is very similar to the behavior of our present bishop, Archbishop Ivan Maffeis of Perugia, Italy, who recently comforted a woman who was promoting euthanasia in Italy and was now dying of cancer. Archbishop Maffeis visited her before she died, and he did not encourage her in any way to trust in her loving God and help her reach heaven, but rather comforted her in her decision to commit suicide.
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I sent this to my friends yesterday:
Where are the real men today??? Where are the husbands who have the courage to say no to wives who don't want to obey God? If the husband doesn't live his vocation as head of the family, or the priests as heads of the parish, not in a democratic synodal way, how can anyone expect to enter heaven???
RUN LIKE JOSEPH, DON'T ARGUE LIKE EVE; FLEE FROM SIN, DON'T ARGUE WITH IT.
Father Joseph
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Pope Francis removed (November 11, 2023) Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, who has always remained faithful to the Deposit of Faith, which does not change with the world, because it is the Truth of God.
Bishop Joseph Strickland strongly rebuked the "silent" bishops of the United States in a powerful letter outside the meeting of US bishops in Baltimore, warning that God will punish those who do not speak out publicly against "the false messages constantly coming from the Vatican" under Pope Francis.
Bishop Strickland: GOD WILL PUNISH THE BISHOPS FOR THEIR SILENCE WHILE POPE FRANCIS DESTROYS THE CHURCH. November 14, 2024
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bishop-strickland-god-will-punish-bishops-for-their-silence-while-pope-francis-destroys-the-church/?utm_source=digest-catholic-2024-11-14&utm_medium=email
Cardinal Pell called the Synod of Bishops initiated by Francis to explore the theme of "synodality" and what the Church of the future must be a "TOXIC NIGHTMARE." In the "secret" Vatican memo, Cardinal Pell wrote: "Commentators of all schools, if not for various reasons... agree that this papacy is a disaster in many or many respects; a catastrophe." Cardinal Pell, who had been in good health, died suddenly on January 10, 2023.
"Stop that Synod! Cardinal Pell's Last Cry" on YouTube
During the two Synods on the Family (2014 and 2015) prior to the publication of Amoris Laetitia (2016), Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, spoke out forcefully against Cardinal Kasper's heretical proposals to allow Holy Communion to remarried divorced couples. Cardinal Caffarra died suddenly on September 6, 2017.
Cardinal Kaspar, strongly supported by Pope Francis, refuses to answer a simple question that Cardinal Caffarra has repeated many times: What happens to a first valid and consummated marriage?
(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/03/cardinal-caffarra-firm-stance-on.html; http://catholicism.org/cardinal-caffarra-gives-strong-warning-against-kaspers-rovings-on-divorcees-and-communion.html).
Jesus told us clearly about marriage: "What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder" (Mt 19:6)!
The distinguished Austrian Catholic philosopher, Professor JOSEF SEIFERT, 72, from the Spanish branch of the International Academy of Philosophy, founded by Seifert himself and headquartered in the Principality of Liechtenstein, is perhaps the most dramatic legacy of "Amoris Laetitia." It is precisely for daring to criticize a passage of this document by Pope Francis in the light of "pure logic" that Seifert was banned.
https://onepeterfive.com/catholic-scholar-official-persecution-orthodoxy-within-church-begun/
Bishop Dominique Marie Jean Rey (born September 21, 1952) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon from 2000 to 2025. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community and is considered one of the most conservative French bishops. He also frequently celebrates the Tridentine Mass. Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon resigned (January 2025) after Pope Francis asked him to resign, ending a controversial chapter in the history of the French diocese.
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Father Idilio wrote on March 1, 2026, ore 14,00:
Thanks to you too… let us always remain united in mutual prayer, always open to the inspirations of the “Spirit of truth (who) will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come” (Jn 16:13). Fraternal greetings.
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Father Joe wrote on March 2, 2026, at 20:00 hours:
Dear brother,
I completely agree with you. But Satan is very intelligent, and he inspired Ecclesiastical Freemasonry. And so the vast majority of priests believe they are following the Truth of God, but they are following the truth of their own subjectivism, as they learned in seminaries and in priestly training.
The training of priests over the last 60 years has been that the old is not good, only the new. But God's truth never changes with the world!!! And they are not even capable of distinguishing this difference!!!
You mentioned the "Spirit of Truth"! So, for you, does this "Spirit of truth" change with the world according to the interpretations of today's men, or the Truth of God found in the writings of the saints and in the documents of the Church, well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC; 1992 edition (not 2017), promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_it/ccc-it_index_it.html)???
Padre Pio said that in this period, in this period of the great apostasy (rebellion) before the manifestation of the Antichrist (2 Thess 2:3), when even "if possible, even the elect" (Mt 24:24) will be led into error (2 Cor 11:14), KEEP THE DOCUMENTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE WRITINGS OF THE SAINTS; listen to nothing else.
Dear brother, the beautiful lie that heaven is automatic, and hell doesn't exist. Our Lady of Fatima is an idiot because she showed the three children hell in July 1917. We modern priests are more intelligent than Our Lady, and we don't talk about these things; in fact, hell doesn't exist because God is love and merciful!!!
"The principal punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can have the life and happiness for which he was created and to which he aspires" (CCC 1035).
Jesus was a priest on the cross to redeem the world. In this period of purification of the world and the Church, priests will be called to give their blood for purification!!! What a beautiful calling, brother, to be another Christ in every sense!!!
If we here on earth see only an instant of heaven, we will immediately die of joy. If we here on earth see only an instant of hell, we will immediately die of terror.
And we priests say nothing!!!
Let us pray for one another to follow Jesus to the very end, according to God, not according to the modern Church which offers people a Christianity without the cross!
Father Joe
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Father Idilio wrote on March 3, 2026, ore 14,00:
I read carefully what you wrote.
I referred to the Spirit of truth with the authoritative words of Jesus because I consider Him the author, beyond the human limitations of the editors, of what is found in the Church's documents, and a decisive animator in the lives of the Saints. And I add that I favor Him as a Friend who helps me better understand God's will in the present moment. I personally try to be both docile and tractable to His action.
After that, I too feel uneasy about the many anomalies in the Church, as Saint Francis also noted, and like him, I do not want to abandon her but rather help her to be herself from within, to the best of my ability. The 80 years of my life have taught me to suffer for the Gospel and for the Church, the Bride of Christ, despite everything.
I too am determined to follow Jesus to the end, but I pray for the Church, the Body of Christ, of which I am a part, so that it may demonstrate through the concrete witness of each of its members that, as the Acts of the Apostles states, "Jesus—Crucified and Risen—is the rejected stone that has become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:10-12). Therefore, with Paul, I too say: "I try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own interests, but the interests of many, so that they may be saved" (1 Cor 10:33).
A broader fraternal greeting.
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Father Joe wrote on March 5, 2026, at 20:00 hours:
Thank you so much for your thoughts. For me, there's something much more to exchanging thoughts with another priest than just with lay people. Just today, in my daily meditation, I read from the writings of Father Dolino Ruotolo, who wrote about the greatness of the priesthood. He explained how the world, with its demons, wants to lower our great dignity before God, to the level of mud and even lower. As he wrote, when we realize our great dignity before God, our great calling from God, it helps us strive to live that great vocation.
This is why the modern Church, deeply infiltrated by Ecclesiastical Freemasonry, wants priests to marry, and to remove every sign of our true identity before God. This is the reason for the Synod of Synodality, which leads us to seek the truth according to the vote of the majority of men, rather than from God, through the hierarchy in the Church that Jesus Christ founded! This is very clever. The great attack on the Truth that is Jesus (Jn 14:6)!
We talk about Synodality, that is, about transforming the Church into a democratic institution, about listening to the laity, and everyone, but we don't listen to the bishops, cardinals, and priests who say that the Truth comes from God, that it doesn't change with the world, and we must remain faithful to God – Truth!!!
Card. Müller. Al Sinodo, le “riflessioni sinodali mirano a prepararci ad accettare l’omosessualità. Solo questo: Non si è parlato di Gesù Cristo”
https://www.maurizioblondet.it/card-muller-al-sinodo-le-riflessioni-sinodali-mirano-a-prepararci-ad-accettare-lomosessualita-solo-questo-non-si-e-parlato-di-gesu-cristo/
Why was there no dialogue with the four cardinals, after the publication of Amoris Latitae, who wrote the "Dubia" (November 2016) and their repressed book "Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church" (October 2014), as well as so many other cardinals, bishops, and Orthodox Catholic professors since 2013? Why has Pope Francis not responded to these four cardinals, and more recently, why has Pope Francis not engaged in dialogue with five cardinals who wrote another "Dubia" regarding the serious problem of the Synod on Synodality?!? Does the Truth come from Cardinal Bergoglio or from God?!? Was Cardinal Bergoglio pursuing a hidden agenda???
Cardinal Müller: The Synod of Synodality Seeks to Transform the Church into a Worldly Institution
https://infovaticana.com/it/2025/10/12/cardinale-muller-il-sinodo-della-sinodalita-cerca-di-trasformare-la-chiesa-in-unistituto-mondana/
Card. Müller. At the Synod, the "synodal reflections aim to prepare us to accept homosexuality. Only this: Jesus Christ was not mentioned."
https://www.maurizioblondet.it/card-muller-al-sinodo-le-riflessioni-sinodali-mirano-a-prepararci-ad-accettare-lomosessualita-solo-questo-non-si-e-parlato-di-gesu-cristo/
Cardinal Pell called the Synod of Bishops initiated by Francis to explore the theme of "synodality" and what the Church of the future should be a "TOXIC NIGHTMARE." In the "secret" Vatican memo, Cardinal Pell wrote: "Commentators of all schools, if not for various reasons... agree that this papacy is a disaster in many or many respects; a catastrophe." Cardinal Pell, who had been in good health, died suddenly on January 10, 2023.
"Stop that Synod! Cardinal Pell's Last Cry" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/3Q1UciB712Y
In most Catholic seminaries today, there are no longer lessons on logic or metaphysics that help young seminarians reason logically and distinguish between right and wrong; rather, relativism is promoted in a disguised manner. For example, these poor seminarians are brainwashed into believing what was condemned by the Church over 50 years ago: "Situation Ethics," which stems from modernism. Situation Ethics fundamentally promotes subjective human interpretation of every situation rather than the Divine interpretation of every situation, which can be discovered in the teachings of the Church and the writings of the saints. Most priests and bishops today no longer know the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church regarding faith and morality, and therefore react badly when someone tries to explain the most fundamental aspects of our faith—for example, that truth comes from the Creator, not from creatures, nor even from the Church!
Dear Don Idilio, when there is so much darkness, that is, a lack of the light of truth, the laity need good shepherds who are ready to give their lives to risk telling the whole truth, not just the easy part.
With the help of Freemasonry, WE ARE LIVING IN A WORLD FILLED MORE THAN EVER WITH FALSEHOOD—beautiful, deadly lies from the "father of lies" (John 8:44), presented as if they were the truth, hidden, destructive deceptions—how the devil, hell, and sin no longer exist!!! The vast majority of shepherds today "are all DUMB DOGS, unable to bark" (Isaiah 56:10) to warn the sheep of the cunning wolf, Satan! These poor shepherds, who seek to please men instead of God (John 5:44; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18; Galatians 1:10), offer misguided compassion and half-truths (which are worse than lies!), especially speaking only of mercy without "GO AND SIN NO MORE" (John 8:11; 5:14)! Our Lady continually asks us to pray for priests and bishops!
Dear Don Idilio, thank you again for your thoughts, which offer us the opportunity to reflect as a priest in a most deceptive period in the history of the world and the Church! These verses are for us, our generation:
“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24).
“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, so that they will believe the lie, so that all who do not believe the truth but have pleasure in wickedness will be condemned” (2 Thess 2:11-12).
“I heard, but did not understand. Then I said, ‘Lord, what will be the end of these things?’ He answered me, ‘Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made white, and made blameless, but the wicked will do wickedly; None of the wicked will understand these things, but the wise will understand them” (Dan 12:8-10).
“It was permitted to him to make war against the saints and to conquer them” (Rev 13:7).
Alleluia. The vast majority of the few priests who remain faithful to Jesus-the-Truth during this time will receive the gift of martyrdom, which will be the fundamental thing for the purification of the Church and the world, as Jesus-the-Priest did 2,000 years ago on the cross!!!
Martyrs do not go to purgatory, but go directly to heaven!
Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote that if you take all the pain and suffering in the world together, it is not equal to the minimum punishment in purgatory.
The Blessed Virgin, in her final message, on October 13, 1973, in Akita, Japan, on the anniversary of the last apparition and the miracle of Fatima, said to Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa: “As I told you, if men do not repent and improve themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the flood, the likes of which has never been seen before. Fire will fall from heaven and will cause the death of a great part of humanity, the good and the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only weapons that will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left to you by my Son. Recite the prayers of the Rosary every day. WITH THE ROSARY, PRAY FOR THE POPE, THE BISHOPS, AND THE PRIESTS.” The devil's work will also infiltrate the Church in such a way that you will see cardinals against cardinals and bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be despised and opposed by their brothers. The Church and the altars will be damaged. The Church will be filled with those who accept compromises, and the devil will push many priests and consecrated souls to abandon the service of God. "The devil will be especially furious against consecrated souls. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be forgiveness for them."
Let us help one another, Father Idilio, not to be "mute dogs" and not to deny Jesus the Truth before men.
"Whoever therefore acknowledges me (the Truth) before men, him I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me (the Truth) before men, him I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven." (Mt 10:32-33)!
I pray for you. Pray for me!!!
See you soon!
Father Joseph
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Father Idilio wrote on March 13, 2026, ore 14,00:
I haven't forgotten you, and I'm answering you on this special day.
You speak to me of priests, and both of us are priests. But there's no contradiction: if the greatness and dignity of the priest is true, the dignity of children of God, recognized and defended by God in Baptism, is no less so.
I then noted how you view the synodal method: for me, it's not a matter of "seeking the truth according to the majority vote," but as St. Paul says: "to equip the brothers for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to perfect manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:12-13). As with all things, there are differences of opinion, but it's important to present it as a method and not as an absolute truth; that is, it's not a dogma.
And then, regarding the lie you mention: if it's true that it seems to prevail over the truth, what Jesus says about himself is even truer: "If it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe. But if someone stronger than he comes and conquers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils" (Luke 11:20-22). And I strive to give Jesus credit and to bear witness to him everywhere, with the effort that entails. St. Paul is a master of this: "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church" (Colossians 1:24).
And this is why I find peace in knowing that evil, with its master, Satan, will certainly not prevail.
Then you mention the rosary: I never neglect it. I know that Mary introduces me to Jesus; in fact, I believe she transfers my requests to Jesus.
I would like to close these reflections you suggested with Jesus' assurance: "In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage: I have overcome the world!" (John 16:33). "To him who conquers, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and am seated with my Father on his throne" (Revelation 3:21).
I pray for you. Pray for me!!!
An ever more fraternal greeting, Father Idilio.
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P.S. A small note. I'd like to return to the phone call with Father Stefano you mentioned. I thought you were particularly harsh. I prefer to tell the truth using charity, because both are true prerogatives that convey God. I'd suggest you contact him again and let him know your friendship, beyond everything else.
You also mentioned Bishop Ivan. I have a non-journalistic version of the event you mentioned, where some things were said but not the others that express the greatness and beauty of life. I'm telling you this because I had the opportunity to thank him for the courage he had in facing life's real and harsh problems. That's where I understood what wasn't said about this relationship... why don't you try asking him about his experience of this relationship here too? I'm telling you this because I'm used to being in the church in the truest obedience, but keeping an ear to the ground for dissent.
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Father Joe wrote on March 19, 2026, at 20:00 hours:
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