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Gabriele Rossi, FAM, suspended ‘a divinis’
The
following is the English translation of a letter in Italian sent by
the former superior general of the congregation, the Sons of Merciful
Love (founded by Madre Speranza; Collevalenza, Italy), Padre
Gabrielle Rossi, FAM, to Aldo Maria Valli who has a rather well
frequented blog in Italian
(https://www.aldomariavalli.it/2019/01/16/ecco-tutti-i-miei-dubia-di-prete-e-religioso/).
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“Behold
my doubts as a priest and religious” (Padre Gabrielle Rossi, FAM)
by
Aldo Maria Valli
Dear
readers, the letter that you find below was sent to me by a priest
and religious, belonging to a large congregation present in many
countries. It is a significant testimony, which brings to light a
reality much more diffuse than what might be imagined.
The
one who writes expresses in a simple and clear way the motives for
which he began to recognize perplexities regarding this pontificate
and why he feels that today the Church finds herself in such a
situation which requires a decisive decision of conscience.
As
it often happens to those who dare to manifest their doubts and to
propose questions about the teaching of Francis, also the priest has
been sanctioned and is thus paying the price in person. But on his
part there is no making a martyr of himself. Only the implicit
confirmation of how little real freedom there is in the actual
Church, before repeated appeals to the paralysis, or rather the
right, the obligation to say what one thinks with frankness.
But
for one thing, above all, I thank this priest: to have shown who he
is by signing his letter. We are in fact surrounded by too many Don
Abbondio (the cowardly priest in the famous Italian movie, “I
Promessi Sposi”).
A.M.V.
***
Blessed
is He who comes in the name of the Lord (Ps 118:26)
Who
am I?
I
am a religious priest seventy two years old and thirty two years in
ministry, belonging to the Sons of Merciful Love. Since last December
I was suspended “a divinis” from being the general superior: I
can no longer celebrate Mass in public, nor preach, nor confess. I
can only celebrate privately. (And I can still write to Aldo Maria
Valli … at least for now) …
At
the moment the sanction is for six months, but how long it will last
God only knows. These are the motivations: 1) because in the Canon of
the Mass, after the name of Francis, I insert also the remembrance of
Pope Emeritus Benedict; 2) because in my homilies, when the theme
requires it, I manifest my perplexity on some of the doctrinal and
moral positions of Pope Bergoglio.
More
precisely, all of this I did in the context of my ordinary ministry:
in two small churches in the country, first; and then in two minor
chapels in the city. I did not seek media amplification, nor did I
cause useless commotion.
In
speaking about these arguments, I believe to have transmitted not a
taste for gratuitous criticism, but a sense of true interior
preoccupation; and to have sought not so much to convince by force
the listeners, but to help them reason about the facts, so as to
understand “what is boiling in the pot” in the Church.
Notwithstanding
this, the suspension arrived.
I
accept this in a serene way, I am not arousing controversy … and I
am thankful.
What
do I think about this?
In
2013 I received the coming of Pope Bergoglio as a strong gust of
wind, coming from the faraway Pampas, capable of sweeping away in a
short time the fumes and fog that was heavily weighing on the Vatican
and on the Church.
Then
everything changed with the publication of Amoris Laetitia, in 2016.
I
remember reading and rereading chapter VIII of that Exhortation for a
whole month, in the desperate attempt to find therein some
inspiration, until I had to surrender to the obvious: that chapter
was ambiguous and contradictory, and such a characteristic could not
be casual!
Thus
I fully shared the initiative of the four cardinals who after a few
months presented the five dubia; and I remained profoundly
disappointed by the fact that Pope Bergoglio did not want to respond
and clear things up.
At
that point my trust in Pope Bergoglio began to vacillate; and a
terrible suspicion began to go around in my head: are we perhaps
seeing some prophecies that have been fluttering around for a while,
such as those tied to La Salette, or to Fatima, or to many other
private revelations, which evoke the possibility of “a great
apostasy” beginning from the summit itself of the Church? And from
this prospective I began to evaluate the writings, the words and the
gestures of the Pope.
The
questions that I asked myself:
This
critical observation led me to ask many questions about the argentine
Pope: some more complex and articulate, others more simple and
popular.
Such
as, for example, the following:
*
Why in 2016 did he not want to respond to the clarifying questions of
the cardinals of the dubia, and instead fomented the most reckless
interpretations of his document, thus increasing the theoretical and
practical confusion?
*
Why in 2017 did he sharply push away cardinal Müller from the
position of prefect of the Congregation for the doctrine of the
faith, after exactly five years from his nomination, and he did not
give him any other position?
*
Why, continuing in 2017, did he accommodate in the Vatican the statue
of Luther, taking a photograph before the statue; and then considered
it an obligation to commemorate the 500 years of the Reformation,
giving in this way strength of voice to those who affirm that there
is going on a very grave process of protestantization of the Catholic
Church?
*
Why does he officially and repeatedly avail himself of the
collaboration of a debatable character such as the American Jesuit
Father James Martin, a declared champion of the gender ideology and
of the homosexual cause?
*
Why, from the beginning of his pontificate to now, does he not
succeed in saying a word truly clear on the very delicate question of
Communion for the divorced and remarried and to the protestant
couples of Catholic faithful?
*
Why, from the beginning of his pontificate to now, he kneels before
people to wash their feet, but he does not succeed to do this before
Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, nor during the consecration, nor
when he is next to the Blessed Sacrament solemnly exposed (and takes
for himself a kneeler with a thick cushion, and all the others –
masters of ceremonies and other ministers – are prostrate on the
ground)?
I
confess that this last item blows my mind: why does he do it? What
type of message does he want to send out? And to who does he want to
send it? I would like it if some actual “guard of the revolution”
might answer me.
The
fundamental question:
Seeing
how things are, someone will ask me: “But do you still consider
Bergoglio the Pope?” I reply: up until the time that it is
demonstrated in an official way that the resignation of Benedict or
the conclave of 2013 had grave irregularities (something that is not
in the competence of anyone), Bergoglio is the Pope in all the
effects and his acts of jurisdiction have full value. In this matter
so important, in fact, it is not enough simple suspicions (no matter
how credible and diffuse), but there is needed absolute and
indisputable certainty.
But
this does not take away the right and the obligation of every
baptized person to express their own critic in the case of teachings
and of inadequate papal behavior, as was done toward Simon Peter by
the apostle Paul “to his face” (cf. Gal 2:11), and the same Jesus
who called him “Satan” (cf. Mk 8:33).
In
the case then that the situation might precipitate with initiatives
still more inconsiderate (for example, in the ecumenical field or in
liturgical matters), one would have to wait for the indications of
some cardinal more enlightened and courageous (in fact, a decided and
clear position formulated by “a significant number of cardinals”
appears more and more improbable). Is it possible that there is not
even one, willing to give complete honor to the purple that he wears?
But
let us avoid projecting too much into the future. Let us limit
ourselves to entrusting everything to the Lord, supplicating Him to
wake up from his profound sleep to calm the waves and the sea, and to
take up again the helm of his boat.
The
reasons for which I write:
I
decided to write this my testimony for two motives.
First.
To address myself to many other priests and religious who, from 2016
to now, are having the same difficulties of which I have spoken of
above, and are still experiencing, on the part of their respective
superiors, moral harassments of every type: reproaches, threats,
removals, marginalizations and suspensions …
I
would like to fraternally encourage them; and to remind them that in
these cases we have the right and the duty to “defend the Truth”
(in the event that, in our judgment, this might be threatened), but
we do not have any possibility of “defending our own person”
(even in the case of onerous decisions regarding us).
And
I would like also to invite them to offer their own tribulations for
the very lovable person of Pope Benedict XVI: so that the Lord might
sustain him physically and spiritually, to the full completion of his
sorrowful mission.
In
fact – that no one might forget -, Benedict gave up “acting as
Pope”, but he did not renounce “to being the Pope”. And so He
still constitutes a sure point of reference for all those who truly
love the Church: in particular, with his example of silent and
prayerful immolation.
Second.
To address myself to that number of growing faithful lay people who
are pawing the ground, in the desire to do something concrete and
useful, to hold up the house of God that is crashing down like the
basilica at Norcia (Italy); faithful lay people who are more
conscious and seasoned than one might imagine.
I
would like to say to them to fight for this just cause with all the
means available, but to never go outside, for any reason, the
official enclosure of the Catholic Church, even if it might become
“false” from the head to the toes. The “true” Church, even if
reduced to a “small remnant”, does not have to produce declared
schisms, because she will survive in the heart of those remaining
faithful to the true Magisterium of the Church, in the midst of a
hostile majority.
In
the dramatic situation in which we are plunged into it is sufficient
to do a type of “internal and underground resistance”, similar to
that of the first Christians toward the Roman empire, pagan and
intolerant, waiting for the Lord and the Holy Virgin to accomplish
their plans of purification of the Church and of the world.
I
thank you for your attention and I offer my cordial regards.
Padre
Gabriele Rossi, FAM
Signed,
January 16, 2019.
The
original of this article in Italian can be found at:
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P.s.
You
can find another very similar article translated from the Italian
into English:
Tosatti:
Vatican Unofficially Restricts Bishop Schneider, Cardinal Burke
(November 6, 2018)
The
original of this article in Italian can be found at:
Il
Papa Impone “I Domiciliari” al Vescovo Athanasius Schneider.
Niente di Scritto, Così Non È Possibile il Ricorso ….
You
can also read my personal experience which is similar to those above:
“A Letter to My Bishop”
(https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-letter-to-my-bishop.html).
There
is less prayer than ever before, more
sin than ever before, even worse, indifference as if sin no longer
exists, and so we have given much greater power to “the father of
lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In particular Satan has more power to
“disguise himself as an angel of
light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his
very deadly beautiful lies as if they were the “truth that sets us
free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus
it is very important in these times of
great confusion, when even Catholic
bishops are no longer in agreement about the fundamentals of our
faith and morals, to not only pray much and to study the Catechism of
the Catholic Church for adults, but to
keep our eyes open so as not to slide into the convenient half truths
(which are worse than lies!), especially to speak only about mercy
without “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (Jn 8:11; 5:14)!
FOR
UPDATES on some of these fundamental, hidden, and disguised
deceptions of the ancient serpent, visit one of my index web sites to
see the more important, latest articles:
(as
well as the DOCUMENTS REGARDING ECCLESIAL APPROVAL of the TESTIMONY
OF GLORIA POLO):
Those
who control the world and the Internet today are clamping down more
and more especially regarding articles that help people to realize
where we are being covertly led. Thus if you do not succeed in
accessing some of my websites, in particular the three index
websites, you might try using Google to find my index websites, with
keywords such as: josephdwight, joseph-dwight-index; giuseppedwight,
giuseppe-dwight-indice.
Father
Joseph Dwight
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Padre
Gabriele Rossi, FAM, at Collevalenza, Italy.
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