Sunday, January 19, 2014

Italy: Scalfari’s blunders

Italy: Scalfari’s blunders

18-01-2014    
6_scalfariIn an editorial published on December 29, 2013, the founder of the leftist newspaper La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, maintained that Pope Francis is revolutionary and that he has “abolished sin”. He affirmed that the pope, in his recent Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, put an end to sin “by identifying the Christian God revealed by Christ with love, mercy and pardon,” but also “by attributing a total freedom of conscience to man.”
On the waves of Vatican Radio, the director of the Holy See’s Press Office answered that “those who truly follow the pope every day know how often he speaks of sin, of our condition as sinners.” Fr. Federico Lombardi pointed out that there is no mercy without sin, recalling also that Pope Francis, a Jesuit, could not be insensible to the spiritual Exercises of the founder of the Company of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola “the first week of which is dedicated to meditations on sin.”
The Vatican spokesman also pointed out an important error in the editorial by Eugenio Scalfari, who wrote that the pope had “canonized St. Ignatius of Loyola a few days ago.” “As we all know, the Pope canonized Pierre Favre, St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first companion a few days ago,” stated Fr. Lombardi, mentioning that the founder of the Company has been “a saint of the Church for several centuries.”
(sources: apic/imedia – DICI no.288 Jan. 17, 2014)

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