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Secci Alberto is a Diocesan Priest in Novara, Italy invites a surprise guest who held everyone enraptured by the clarity of his discourse and the Apostolic fire of his zeal. Here's a brief stab at some google translate with some editing for the ever dependable
Messa in Latino blog. The following is an account of the Third Conference of Tradition in Verbania in the region of Piedmont, Italy:
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"To deny the very serious crisis in which we find the Church is to deny the evidence ... as a result, those who say things as they really are, is considered an enemy of the Church."
With these sorrowful words Don Secci Alberto opened the Third Conference of the tradition that took place, as planned, at the hotel "The Cloister" of Verbania. The conference room was packed with an audience and so the same Don Albert celebrated Holy Mass in the chapel at 17.30.
"While we deny the evidence" - continued the courageous priest of Ossola - "it often leads us to be astonished at the face we see in the mirror.
Coming to Verbania they listened to, for example, a radio interview with a Roman prelate. He went so far as to declare that ... this crisis has enabled the Church to provide, as always, the right medicine."
This medicine is called the Second Vatican Council. ... How do you get to this point?"
Shortly after he was presented, then the keynote speaker of the event was announced.
A surprise came to the table and it was Don Pierpaolo Petrucci, the top guy of the Italian District of the SSPX: "We invited the Society of St. Pius X" - said Don Alberto - "because no one has in more than forty years of study and sacrifice, has been able to further investigate the reasons and meaning of this frightful crisis. The same Roman authorities, agreeing to discuss formally with the SSPX, have implicitly admitted that their positions are important and worthy of attention." [
WOW!]
Don Pierpaolo Petrucci's summary then, in his clear speech about the historical reasons that led to the current situation: "The cause of all the troubles of the Church, throughout its history, is obviously Satan.
He, to act, however, needs of employees and always human, unfortunately, has found in the course of the centuries. "
He then summed up the history of heresies, and especially those that have plagued Christianity humanism forward.
"Luther, in practice, said: Christ yes, the Church no.
Then came the French Revolution and Liberalism have gone a step further: God yes, Christ no.
Finally, the atheistic Marxism: God is dead. "
Until the mid-nineteenth century all these heresies were rife in the world but the Church opposed it vigorously.
Then began a slow penetration, subtle and creeping into the Bride of Christ. St. Pius X was able to vanquish the modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, but after his death, the process continued slowly, until it explodes during and after the Second Vatican Council.
"Archbishop Lefebvre" - said Don Pierpaolo - "he told us, as indeed also stated, in the opposite perspective Card. Suenens, that the Council had been in 1789 the Church. In it imposed the three revolutionary motto: Liberté ( religious freedom), Fraternity, with ecumenism, Equality with the principle of collegiality. "
At the end of his speech, the Italian Superior of the SSPX has answered many questions presented by the most numerous and attentive audience.
Finally Don Alberto Secci concluded its work inviting everyone to "pray and respond."
"Of course, we pray that every grace comes to us from Heaven, but we also have to respond with clarity: many priests, usually in private, admit many of the considerations that we have done, but then, perhaps for understandable reasons of respect for the authorities, they were not the courage to expose themselves in the first person.
But we have to pray and respond with the proper methods but react! "
-Marco Bongi
Rome, August 9, 2013 (Kipa) The brother of a murder victim has received a spontaneous call from Pope Francis. "When I said 'Hello', answered a voice answered me 'Hello Michele, here is Pope Francis," wrote Michele Ferri from the central Italian port town of Pesaro on his Facebook page, as Italian media reported on Friday. Thus, the call was this Wednesday.
