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Blessed acquittals

 

Eutanasia, condom, staminali, omosessualità .In the confessional ones of five city we have collected theanswers of the priests. That a lot often is in clearly contrastwith the directives of Pope Ratzinger

 

Officially there is the doctrine of the Church.A rigid way that little grants to the interpretations.Pack-saddles to think next to the abortion and its absolutesentence. Or to the assisted fecondazione: an impossibleparticipation, says the Church, unthinkable for who respects the humannature. And the preservative? Forbidden, also to who it issieropositivo. In order not to speak about the omosessualità ,or the divorce, from always stigmatizza you. Positions that theymake to discuss, to reflect. Sunday 21 January, not to case, thecardinal Carl Martini Maria is taken part on an other rovente topic,eutanasia and therapeutic fury, auspicando new norms for the refusalof the cures (hypothesis endured stoppata from the president of theepiscopal Conference Italian Camillo Ruini). Little firstUmberto Veronesi had denounced "the intrusiveness of the religiousworld on that scientific one". All while Benedict XVI, to thenational convention of the Italian Church, has criticized the "new bigwave of illuminismo and laicismo", ethics by now reduced "within theborders of the relativismo and the utilitarismo".

But as the great army of the Italian priests thinks to it, thosethat every day listen to the faithfuls, their difficulties and theirperplexities? How they are behaved, in the practical one, theseclergymen in the balance between the principles of the doctrine andthose more lands of the pastorale? And above all: they arein a position to facing topics a lot engaged to you? In order tounderstand it, we are enters to you in the place where they can beexpressed with the maximum serenity: the confessional one.We have constructed identity fictitious and declared imaginarysins, legacies to the issues more scomode of the contemporary society:from the cake died to the drug, from the prostituzione to theswindles, the sex with minors to the baptism in the mixed braces.Their answers, collections in 24 Italian churches, from Turin toPalermo, from Milan to Naples and Rome, here are published: tobrave times, much traditional others, other anchor inadequate.But always amazing, in the shape and the contents.

 

AIDS And PRESERVATIVE
"Nothing condom, many prayers"
They are a trentenne ill-fated. For guiltof a transfusion in fact they have become sieropositivo. To thebeginning it has been a shock, above all for me that they arecatholic, even if not practicing. Then they are resumed to me, Iam well, my body answers to the cures and the examinations say thatthe disease does not proceed. "Therefore", I explain to theconfessore, a priest of average age in a roman church, "I have resumedto having sexual relationships. But in order violare theindications of the Church, not use the preservative. Not evenwith the fixed companion that I have from some time. I limitmyself to hold under control the values. I do good? Orhowever I sin, not tutelando the health of the person that I love ".

The confessore does not answer to me. It changes speech:"In order which reason declares not practicing to you", itasks.

"Because I do not attend the church, I do not come to putting",I answer. And I insist: "It knows, this trauma has carriedto me to concentrate to me on same me...".

The confessore returns but to speak about the prayer,"that it is a lot important", and about the putting, to which I mustmyself "be riabituare". As far as my problem, it asks to me ifthe girl that I attend is married or divorced, if I mean to marry itand if she is to the current of my problem. Then ribadisce notto underrate the putting and the prayer ".

"Therefore", I ask, "continuous not to use the preservative".

"Yes", it answers the confessore. "and currency thepossibility to marry to you. Sennò, best single that badly itaccompanies to you ". After which it does not acquit to me, butit gives "one beautiful blessing to me".

Exact opposite of the confessore that encounter to Turin, whichit listens to my sins in sagrestia, around a small table, while themasons go and come for the works in progress. It acquits to me,to the end. But when I ask to it if I must continue not to usethe preservative, sight my sieropositività , only says "that it is arather personal problem, than conscience".

"Sure", I reply, "but I do not use the preservative because itis the Church that says not to use it...".

"and it believes to make well or badly, to follow theindications of the Church", irritateed question.

"Creed to do good".

"and then".

"Continuous to involve to me according to conscience...", I say.

"Bravo!, Bravo!".

EMBRYONIC STAMINALI
"free Way, with discretion"
They are a investigator on the group of forty.Job in a public technological pole and I take care myself ofstaminali cells. Splendid activity, but with two problems:the insufficient financings and one wage from 1.100 euro.The same figure that earns my moglie, also ricercatrice she."Hour", I explain the confessore young person of a roman church,"me has arrived an extraordinary offer. A Swiss druggist societyhas offered to me to work on the embryonic staminali: the moreadvanced branch of the search. They are tried to go to us, offeralso many moneies to me, but they are refrained from the position ofthe Church, than such sentence practice. For this they are hereto confess to me: what I must make ".

"Then", it begins the confessore: "there are two things tosay: before it is that we must follow the law of the Church, andthe second one that we must act our conscience second. But whenwe act according to conscience, we do not have to go against the wordsof the church ". Insomma, "if one what does not go second thechurch well, does not go well not even for our conscience. Onpurpose ", it to me asks surprise," than what he says the Church onthis thing... ".

"It says that search can be only made on the adult staminali", Ianswer. And I insist: "If you accepted the offer, I wouldimprove finances of my family, could think a son... And then itis better, if in a place therefore there is one with my scrupoli,rather than an other... ".

"In this case", it concludes he, "you have the reasonin order to make it".

"That is? I can accept the offer ".

"Yes, yes, sure...", it says.

Not only: when I ask to it if in the new company I mustface the issue, to speak of, answers that they are not held to makeit: "Absolutely".

Indications that squeak with the official position of theChurch, are obvious. But that they do not change 600 kilometerstoo much more to north, where a from Milan clergyman recognizes that"effectively the staminali are the future... I believe ", Isay," that the job can be accepted, even not taking care itself of theembryonic ones... ".

 

"But it is just that one, the heart of theoffer...", I beat again. To that it finds one curious solution:"One that works in these fields", says, "could not know fromthat it leave comes the things on which takes part... Insomma:what it depends on me, I make. The rest is not myresponsibility. However who analyzes the blood at all knowswhere they have gone to take it... ".

"Therefore I can make my part...".

"Sure, it can play on this ambiguity. And however", it holds to us to specify," religion and scientific search is notin opposition: both come from God, depend then from as they areused turns out to you... ".

 

OMOSESSUALITÀ
"a problem, like badly of head"
They are an architect who until five years agolead one the most normal life. Friends, companions,satisfactions on the job. Senonché I had always one strangerestlessness, a sense not thoroughness. "because I haveunderstood it when I have tried attraction for a job colleague", Iexplain to my confessore. "With he he has not succeeded nothing,I have repressed this emotion. Then I have known mine puts intoeffect them similar, and alive hour with he one relation much sereneone; to the point that is today to Rome in order to organize ourcohabitation. Mistake all? Or I must follow my nature, myinstinct ".

"the Church", answers me the clergyman, "is changing itsattitude towards the homosexual dimension. More is not used thelanguage than years ago, when it was insisted on the concept of ' lifedisordinata'. I do not say that the opinion is changed toofficial level, but at least is more respect. However theomosessualità is one valid tendency like human expression.There are also homosexual clergymen, and lesbian nuns... ".

"They are many, these nuns", I ask.

"It is rarer, regarding the clergymen. In the sense thatthe phenomenon has not still had the attention of the mass medium.However ", it says returning to the problem," if you have theconscience in peace R-with regard to this guideline, not is no sin.The better attitude is that one than to be open, of being dawnedon the issue... ".

"Maintaining my omosessualità secret, or saying to allas they are indeed", I ask.

"It depends on the atmosphere and from the person", it says:"Generally, the better attitude is being same you, to revealitself. What in English it is called ' coming out'... ".

Loyal, comprehensive words, those of the confessore, towhich follow the acquittal. Exact the opposite one of how muchhappens to Turin, where a imbarazzato parish priest limits itself tobless to me after half hour of laborious confession: "theinstruction of the Church", repeats more times, "is much luminosity.If I said to leave to them to lose it, I would be she the firstone to say that I must go to study! Sure, it this situation hasnot tried it, does not have it intentional. Me she seems that usshe can be something of biological order... ".

"He is all much natural one", I emphasize.

"I could say to Them: as there is what she suffers badlyfrom head, therefore it has this situation that comes outside, is inits structure... ". That, she understands same he, she does notresolve null. And then she offers an other possibility to me."We make one what", says: "Tests to maintain thisrelationship in the limits of the friendship, even also deep".

"But father, I would be a hypocritical...".

"I have placed them the alternative", retort."However: confidi in the Getlteman, first of all.And then make honestly what he can in order to maintain itselfin the limits of the friendship. If ce ago, it does not say theGetlteman that it is a good catholic, than does not contest theinstruction of the Church. And it will see that it does notexclude it from its registry ".

SEX WITH MINORS
"the apple is sour, leaves that mature"
They are a scholastic leader and I have onesecret passion. I have lost the head for one child of 16 years.A student who demonstrates more of its age, and that for aseries of combinations I have met also outside from the school."there are speaks to you", I confess a friar of Palermo, "wehave looked at ourselves, and then us they have been also effusions.Insomma, we have had physical relationships... Hour but Iask myself if it is right what I am making... ".

 

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