St. Francis Unplugged! RealCatholicTV on Jan 30, 2012 Many have the silly notion that St. Francis is purely a hippy-minded animal lover ... and not the rock of Catholic masculinity that served God …More
St. Francis Unplugged!
RealCatholicTV on Jan 30, 2012 Many have the silly notion that St. Francis is purely a hippy-minded animal lover ... and not the rock of Catholic masculinity that served God through voluntary suffering.
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RealCatholicTV on Jan 30, 2012 Many have the silly notion that St. Francis is purely a hippy-minded animal lover ... and not the rock of Catholic masculinity that served God through voluntary suffering.
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Bishop Mario Toso: The anti-capitalist Salesian
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Is neo-liberal finance becoming isolated?
At a recent meeting, Bishop Toso harshly criticized neo-liberal finance with the accusation of “economic terrorism”
Giacomo Galeazzi
vatican city
“Neo-liberal finance commits economic terrorism.” Bishop Mario Toso, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice …More
Bishop Mario Toso: The anti-capitalist Salesian
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/…/crisi-economica…
Is neo-liberal finance becoming isolated?
At a recent meeting, Bishop Toso harshly criticized neo-liberal finance with the accusation of “economic terrorism”
Giacomo Galeazzi
vatican city
“Neo-liberal finance commits economic terrorism.” Bishop Mario Toso, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace - and neighbour to the Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone - spared no words at the meeting in Rome organized by FIBA-CISL on the topic “Toward reform of the financial system. The contribution of the Church. CISL’s proposals.”
Among Catholic thinkers, Fr. Toso is particularly dedicated to reflecting on the phenomenon of the wealthy State, its complex societal reform, and placing it in a more general philosophical, historical, ethical, and cultural context. Overcoming visions that are merely sociological, historicist, and procedurist, in dialogue with neo-contractualist, neo-communitarian, and dialogic theories, he has re-proposed for the contemporary and democratic social State (animated by multiculturalism) the practicability of a new and necessary social consensus, based on the common search for the authentic human good, experienced by the various spiritual families, each in their own way.
For the Vatican Vice Minister of Welfare, the current financial-economic crisis is not “cyclical” but systemic, and “shows the fallacies of mutilated anthropologies, ethics, and ideologies that are neo-contractual, neo-utilitarian, and merely dialogic, offering legitimation of finance and a neoliberal economy.” At the meeting held by the “White Syndicate,” the bishop demonstrated that neo-liberal finance seems to have gone down a blind alley. It appears irremediably diseased and, in more than one case, implements a kind of “international economic terrorism.”
Dominated by an international oligarchy, failing to universally fulfil its natural duty, which should be to support businesses, work, and families, but like a new and implacable Leviathan, it moves through the world in search of ever more companies and weak or gullible people to devour. To get out of the crisis, Mgr. Toso suggests the strengthening of all the positive aspects existent within the current deregulated global capitalist system, incarnated in a healthy market economy. To concretize such a scenario, however, we would need to “reset capitalism so that it better fulfils its fundamental virtue of being the engine that creates and disseminates real wealth, making it accessible to all.”
The Salesian priest, born in Mogliano Veneto (TV) in 1950, graduated in philosophy at the Sacred Heart Catholic University of Milan (1978) with a thesis on the Thomist thought of Étienne Gilson, the famous French historian and philosopher. Giuseppe Lazzati, former rector of Catholic Action and parliamentarian, was the rector, and also teaching there were the renowned Gustavo Bontadini, Sofia Vanni Rovighi, Adriano Bausola, Efrem Bettoni, and Giovanni Reale. Toso subsequently earned the ecclesiastical title of Licentiate in Philosophy (Salesian Pontifical University) and in Theology (Lateran Pontifical University). He was Rector of the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome for six years (2003-2009). He had previously been Deacon of the Faculty of Philosophy (1994-2000) at the same university and Director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, a position to which he was re-elected just after he completed his term as Rector on 30 June 2009.
Along with Vittorio Possenti, Attilio Danese, Roberto Gatti, and others, he helped - especially in the Italian Pontifical Universities – promote an original deepening and actualizing of the political personalism of Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier. He made use of the theoretical contribution of medievalist Étienne Gilson, studied both in terms of realistic philosophical method and in its manifestation in the social field. He also placed himself in the democratic populist school of Fr. Louis Sturzo, and the Christian humanism of Cardinal Pietro Pavan, great inspirer and forerunner of the pontifical social teachings of the second half of the last century. With his thoughts on the secular and nondenominational State, he anticipated John Paul II’s speech to the Italian Parliament, and the doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (cf. L’Osservatore Romano, Wednesday, 12 February 2003, p. 9).
As a scholar and specialist of the CEI (Italian Conference of Bishops), he participated with the National Office for Social Problems and Work and the related Episcopal Commission when they drew up the documents “Evangelize Society” (1992) and “Economic Democracy, Development and the Common Good” (1994), as well as some supplements on the relationship between ethics and finance. Also in this period his courageous experience in training schools for social and political engagement arose, grew, and was reflected upon. He was a member of the ‘“National Observatory,” of the groups “Civil Society-Third Sector,” “Fair Trade Economy,” and “Ethics and Finance.” As a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, he actively participated in moments of reflection on non-violence and issues of land distribution. Along with other experts, he gave his crucial and important contribution to the writing of various drafts relating to the plan for an updated summary of the Social Doctrine of the Church, merged into the Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican City, 2004). He was also involved in the preparatory work for the most recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, “Caritas in Veritate.”
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/…/crisi-economica…
Is neo-liberal finance becoming isolated?
At a recent meeting, Bishop Toso harshly criticized neo-liberal finance with the accusation of “economic terrorism”
Giacomo Galeazzi
vatican city
“Neo-liberal finance commits economic terrorism.” Bishop Mario Toso, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace - and neighbour to the Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone - spared no words at the meeting in Rome organized by FIBA-CISL on the topic “Toward reform of the financial system. The contribution of the Church. CISL’s proposals.”
Among Catholic thinkers, Fr. Toso is particularly dedicated to reflecting on the phenomenon of the wealthy State, its complex societal reform, and placing it in a more general philosophical, historical, ethical, and cultural context. Overcoming visions that are merely sociological, historicist, and procedurist, in dialogue with neo-contractualist, neo-communitarian, and dialogic theories, he has re-proposed for the contemporary and democratic social State (animated by multiculturalism) the practicability of a new and necessary social consensus, based on the common search for the authentic human good, experienced by the various spiritual families, each in their own way.
For the Vatican Vice Minister of Welfare, the current financial-economic crisis is not “cyclical” but systemic, and “shows the fallacies of mutilated anthropologies, ethics, and ideologies that are neo-contractual, neo-utilitarian, and merely dialogic, offering legitimation of finance and a neoliberal economy.” At the meeting held by the “White Syndicate,” the bishop demonstrated that neo-liberal finance seems to have gone down a blind alley. It appears irremediably diseased and, in more than one case, implements a kind of “international economic terrorism.”
Dominated by an international oligarchy, failing to universally fulfil its natural duty, which should be to support businesses, work, and families, but like a new and implacable Leviathan, it moves through the world in search of ever more companies and weak or gullible people to devour. To get out of the crisis, Mgr. Toso suggests the strengthening of all the positive aspects existent within the current deregulated global capitalist system, incarnated in a healthy market economy. To concretize such a scenario, however, we would need to “reset capitalism so that it better fulfils its fundamental virtue of being the engine that creates and disseminates real wealth, making it accessible to all.”
The Salesian priest, born in Mogliano Veneto (TV) in 1950, graduated in philosophy at the Sacred Heart Catholic University of Milan (1978) with a thesis on the Thomist thought of Étienne Gilson, the famous French historian and philosopher. Giuseppe Lazzati, former rector of Catholic Action and parliamentarian, was the rector, and also teaching there were the renowned Gustavo Bontadini, Sofia Vanni Rovighi, Adriano Bausola, Efrem Bettoni, and Giovanni Reale. Toso subsequently earned the ecclesiastical title of Licentiate in Philosophy (Salesian Pontifical University) and in Theology (Lateran Pontifical University). He was Rector of the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome for six years (2003-2009). He had previously been Deacon of the Faculty of Philosophy (1994-2000) at the same university and Director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, a position to which he was re-elected just after he completed his term as Rector on 30 June 2009.
Along with Vittorio Possenti, Attilio Danese, Roberto Gatti, and others, he helped - especially in the Italian Pontifical Universities – promote an original deepening and actualizing of the political personalism of Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier. He made use of the theoretical contribution of medievalist Étienne Gilson, studied both in terms of realistic philosophical method and in its manifestation in the social field. He also placed himself in the democratic populist school of Fr. Louis Sturzo, and the Christian humanism of Cardinal Pietro Pavan, great inspirer and forerunner of the pontifical social teachings of the second half of the last century. With his thoughts on the secular and nondenominational State, he anticipated John Paul II’s speech to the Italian Parliament, and the doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (cf. L’Osservatore Romano, Wednesday, 12 February 2003, p. 9).
As a scholar and specialist of the CEI (Italian Conference of Bishops), he participated with the National Office for Social Problems and Work and the related Episcopal Commission when they drew up the documents “Evangelize Society” (1992) and “Economic Democracy, Development and the Common Good” (1994), as well as some supplements on the relationship between ethics and finance. Also in this period his courageous experience in training schools for social and political engagement arose, grew, and was reflected upon. He was a member of the ‘“National Observatory,” of the groups “Civil Society-Third Sector,” “Fair Trade Economy,” and “Ethics and Finance.” As a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, he actively participated in moments of reflection on non-violence and issues of land distribution. Along with other experts, he gave his crucial and important contribution to the writing of various drafts relating to the plan for an updated summary of the Social Doctrine of the Church, merged into the Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican City, 2004). He was also involved in the preparatory work for the most recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, “Caritas in Veritate.”
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The controversy began with Italian television show "The Untouchables" on La7: Here is how the Holy See investigated the incidents cited by the current Nuncio to the United States
Andrea Tornielli
vatican city
There is an episode that was not mentioned in the debate that has been going on for days now, regarding the accusations made by then Secretary of the Governorate, Mgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, …More
The controversy began with Italian television show "The Untouchables" on La7: Here is how the Holy See investigated the incidents cited by the current Nuncio to the United States
Andrea Tornielli
vatican city
There is an episode that was not mentioned in the debate that has been going on for days now, regarding the accusations made by then Secretary of the Governorate, Mgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, appointed Nuncio to the United States, after writing dramatic letters to the Pope and the Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, in which he speaks of episodes of "corruption" in the Vatican. The prelate's private letters - a story revealed by Vatican Insider last June 26 - addressed to Benedict XVI and his chief collaborator, were exhibited by the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi during the episode of an investigative television program on LA7, called "Gli Intoccabili"("The Untouchables").
In those letters, Viganò claimed to be the victim of a plot, also involving some anonymous articles published in Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale. Viganò also provided names and surnames of the instigators, citing Mgr. Paul Nicolini, delegate for the administrative-managerial areas of the Vatican Museums as the ultimate instigator. He did so after he received the news of the Pope's decision to appoint him as Nuncio to the United States, distancing him (through the promotion) from the Governorate after less than two years of office there and after undeniable results of morale-boosting and spending cuts.
In a letter sent on 8 May 2011 to Cardinal Bertone, Vigano attributes to Nicolini the "counterfeiting of bills" and a cash deficit, a "participation interest" in companies defaulting to the Government "for at least two million two hundred thousand Euros and that, prior to that he had defrauded L'Osservatore Romano for over ninety-seven thousand Euros, and APSA for more than eighty-five thousand." Vigano also accused Nicolini of "arrogance and bullying towards employees who do not show absolute subservience to him, preferences, promotions and arbitrary hirings done for personal purposes."
The reply to LA7's broadcast, which given the next day by Fr. Federico Lombardi on behalf of the Secretary of State, furnishes indications showing that the merit of the undeniable work of morale-boosting and healing of the management, done by Viganò - the nativity scene in St. Peter's Square, for example, dropped from a cost of 550,000 Euros to 300,000 - was due not only to his efforts, but also those of his immediate superior, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, as is the case with the improved management of the Vatican Museums: all this has allowed the accounts to turn positive again, by several million Euros, while previously they had recorded a heavy deficit.
What was not revealed by the Holy See press release is that, on the basis of Viganò's allegations against Nicolini, an internal investigation was carried out, headed by a disciplinary committee, chaired by a former auditor of the Roman Rota, Mgr. Egidio Turnaturi. The committee has listened to the witnesses mentioned in the prelate's dramatic letters. As for the anonymous articles in Il Giornale newspaper, the committee concluded the "indemonstrability" of Viganò's accusations, while after the investigations, other allegations about Mgr. Nicolini have also proved unfounded, even if the committee retained that it had encountered the qualities mentioned about his character and suggested that measures be taken.
This piece is important in reconstructing the story, since otherwise one might be led to believe that reports of irregularities or crimes remain unanswered in the Vatican. "Of course," an authoritative Vatican source told Vatican Insider - Mgr. Viganò has done his duty by denouncing in private to his superiors what he thought was necessary to expose. But we must not imagine that his complaints were promptly considered rubbish or archived."
The Pope's decision, once he was made aware of the outcome of the investigation and had consulted Bertone and Lajolo, was to appoint the Archbishop apostolic nuncio to the United States: undeniably a "promoveatur ut amoveatur", thought it is true that the prelate had been somehow "promised" succession to the leadership of the Governorate, with the corresponding elevation to the cardinalate. The decision was made because of the climate of tension that has arisen in the Vatican City State. And Lombardi's words on the full faith nourished by the Pope towards Viganò, indicate recognition of his merits in the healing process. Of course, one might also ask why, if all the accusations in the bishop's letters have been judged unfounded, was he considered worthy to fill the delicate and prestigious role of chief diplomat and head of the office in Washington, responsible for relations with the White House and a close associate of the Pope in selecting the ruling class of the U.S. Church. A job that requires balance, confidence and good diplomatic skills.
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/…/vaticano-berton…
Andrea Tornielli
vatican city
There is an episode that was not mentioned in the debate that has been going on for days now, regarding the accusations made by then Secretary of the Governorate, Mgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, appointed Nuncio to the United States, after writing dramatic letters to the Pope and the Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, in which he speaks of episodes of "corruption" in the Vatican. The prelate's private letters - a story revealed by Vatican Insider last June 26 - addressed to Benedict XVI and his chief collaborator, were exhibited by the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi during the episode of an investigative television program on LA7, called "Gli Intoccabili"("The Untouchables").
In those letters, Viganò claimed to be the victim of a plot, also involving some anonymous articles published in Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale. Viganò also provided names and surnames of the instigators, citing Mgr. Paul Nicolini, delegate for the administrative-managerial areas of the Vatican Museums as the ultimate instigator. He did so after he received the news of the Pope's decision to appoint him as Nuncio to the United States, distancing him (through the promotion) from the Governorate after less than two years of office there and after undeniable results of morale-boosting and spending cuts.
In a letter sent on 8 May 2011 to Cardinal Bertone, Vigano attributes to Nicolini the "counterfeiting of bills" and a cash deficit, a "participation interest" in companies defaulting to the Government "for at least two million two hundred thousand Euros and that, prior to that he had defrauded L'Osservatore Romano for over ninety-seven thousand Euros, and APSA for more than eighty-five thousand." Vigano also accused Nicolini of "arrogance and bullying towards employees who do not show absolute subservience to him, preferences, promotions and arbitrary hirings done for personal purposes."
The reply to LA7's broadcast, which given the next day by Fr. Federico Lombardi on behalf of the Secretary of State, furnishes indications showing that the merit of the undeniable work of morale-boosting and healing of the management, done by Viganò - the nativity scene in St. Peter's Square, for example, dropped from a cost of 550,000 Euros to 300,000 - was due not only to his efforts, but also those of his immediate superior, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, as is the case with the improved management of the Vatican Museums: all this has allowed the accounts to turn positive again, by several million Euros, while previously they had recorded a heavy deficit.
What was not revealed by the Holy See press release is that, on the basis of Viganò's allegations against Nicolini, an internal investigation was carried out, headed by a disciplinary committee, chaired by a former auditor of the Roman Rota, Mgr. Egidio Turnaturi. The committee has listened to the witnesses mentioned in the prelate's dramatic letters. As for the anonymous articles in Il Giornale newspaper, the committee concluded the "indemonstrability" of Viganò's accusations, while after the investigations, other allegations about Mgr. Nicolini have also proved unfounded, even if the committee retained that it had encountered the qualities mentioned about his character and suggested that measures be taken.
This piece is important in reconstructing the story, since otherwise one might be led to believe that reports of irregularities or crimes remain unanswered in the Vatican. "Of course," an authoritative Vatican source told Vatican Insider - Mgr. Viganò has done his duty by denouncing in private to his superiors what he thought was necessary to expose. But we must not imagine that his complaints were promptly considered rubbish or archived."
The Pope's decision, once he was made aware of the outcome of the investigation and had consulted Bertone and Lajolo, was to appoint the Archbishop apostolic nuncio to the United States: undeniably a "promoveatur ut amoveatur", thought it is true that the prelate had been somehow "promised" succession to the leadership of the Governorate, with the corresponding elevation to the cardinalate. The decision was made because of the climate of tension that has arisen in the Vatican City State. And Lombardi's words on the full faith nourished by the Pope towards Viganò, indicate recognition of his merits in the healing process. Of course, one might also ask why, if all the accusations in the bishop's letters have been judged unfounded, was he considered worthy to fill the delicate and prestigious role of chief diplomat and head of the office in Washington, responsible for relations with the White House and a close associate of the Pope in selecting the ruling class of the U.S. Church. A job that requires balance, confidence and good diplomatic skills.
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/…/vaticano-berton…
Michael Voris: Many have the silly notion that St. Francis is purely a hippy-minded animal lover ... and not the rock of Catholic masculinity that served God through voluntary suffering.
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Michael Voris: Many have the silly notion that St. Francis is purely a hippy-minded animal lover ... and not the rock of Catholic masculinity that served God through voluntary suffering.
swordofpeter.blogspot.com/…/st-francis-true…
swordofpeter.blogspot.com/…/st-francis-true…