BISHOP BANS BLESSING FOR ITALIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, OUTCRY ENSUES
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The liberals in the Viterbo, Italy diocese are in an uproar over a blessing ban. The Bishop, Lino Fumagalli, banned all blessings in the inaugurations of political parties' offices in the city, except when done privately. Obedient to the bishop's orders, two priests refused to give an official blessing in the opening ceremony of the new office of the Democratic Party (or PD, Partito Democratico) in town.
The reaction was immediate, if unexpected. In power since 2013, PD has been responsible for aggressively pushing anti-Catholic, extremely unpopular laws in Italy, all to keep up with their progressive agenda: they've approved homosexual civil unions, introduced gender theory in schools and allowed the country to take in an unmanageable influx of migrants; their disastrous government has seen the biggest flight of Italians from their country since the post-war era (the numbers of emigrating Italians for 2017 were 250,000, when in the immediate post-war they were close to 300,000).
The unemployment rate among youth is increasing alarmingly (37% of young people were unemployed in Italy, according to official data released in July), while the number of marriages and the birthrate have both reached historic lows, leading to a demographic crisis.
Marian procession in Viterbo led by Bp. Fumagalli
Meanwhile, PD supporters are fasting for the approval of Ius Soli, a controversial bill that would grant Italian citizenship to children of foreigners independently of the parents' citizenship, and battling for "urgent" causes like punishing "homophobia" (a recent survey from the Pew Research Center revealed that 74% of Italians accept homosexuality — hardly a homophobic country), or promoting bills to facilitate abortion. All very charitable politics, indeed.
Giuseppe Fioroni, a deputy from the so-called Catholic wing of the Italian Democratic Party and prominent public figure in his hometown of Viterbo, didn't take the blessing ban lightly.
"This has no precedent in the history ... of our Republic," he complained, adding, "This contradicts the Pope's invitation to Catholics to engage in politics. This behavior is the expression of someone who looks to the past. I believe and I hope that the bishop wishes to rethink this attitude."
He went on, "Infallibility concerns only the pope, not the bishops."
The deputy can be seen expressing his indignation in a video where he vows that "this doesn't finish here."
The Curia of Viterbo responded with a note:
Continued.Regarding the provocative and disrespectful declarations aimed at the Bishop of Viterbo Lino Fumagalli, it's not a habit of the Church to bless party offices, by definition a "part," while the Church is universal. ... This ecclesiastical procedure intends to avoid easy manipulations, as now demonstrated by the specific case of the new PD office in Viterbo.
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