sin is said .... but not the sinner, goes an old proverb that acute and inalienable wisdom often made of clichés and obvious and self-evident judgments, never subjected to criticism and reflection, and as such accepted good and true expression of that truth that comforts and reassures the spirits in need of simple certainties and enemies of doubt that creeps rather dangerous and perplexing questions, removing the sleep and disturbing the peaceful flow of our existence.
As such it seemed to me the Pope's speech last Sunday at St. Peter's Square, in front of a cheering crowd and came from everywhere to pay homage at this difficult time for him and the church that represents and controls, to support and comfort, protect and defend it from attacks from so many places that receive at this time, well known about the pedophilia scandal within the Church itself.
Yet on closer reading the words he uttered and published in the newspapers yesterday, Monday, something did not convince me, something I was playing out of tune, shrill, preposterous, inappropriate and unconvincing, behind an apparent obviousness and banality of almost content, expected and predictable as expected.
Only today, a fresh mind, to use another cliche, I discovered, I understood the reason, the logic of that subtle annoyance, that 'intangible unease that I tried and I keep on trying in the face of "innocent" His words on Sunday and that carried over in full for those who do not remember: "The real enemy to fear and fight it sin, the spiritual evil, which sometimes, unfortunately, also infects members of the Church. We live in the world, but we're not the world, although we must beware of his seductions. Instead, we must fear sin and this is deeply rooted in God, in good solidarity, love and service. And 'what the Church and its ministers, together with the faithful, have done and continue to do with fervent commitment to the spiritual and material good of the people all over the world ..... We went together, with confidence that path, and evidence that the Lord allows , lead us to greater radicalism and consistency..
"Voila that's it" seems a skilled magician or illusionist as it would be called in the nineteenth century, in front of an audience full of shocked and amazed spectators kidnapped by rapid movements of the maker of the game of prestige, which would miraculously disappear , volatilize an object up to then present and highly visible, concrete and indisputable in its materiality.
With the same skill, the pope in his speech, he made a game of prestige far more difficult and far more attractive working the arduous and complex, subtle art of words compared with that of gestures, words of art that has exercised the Chesa and refined in more than two thousand years of practice of power.
In fact, a moment in front of an audience rapt and astonished, cheering and adoring the Holy Father, what with a clever subtle speech, did the miracle, to disappear suddenly and faults and wonderfully personal responsibility of priests guilty of have spotted the most vile and reprehensible crime for those who arrogate to themselves the right to educate, to show us the way, to absolve and forgive, or to condemn the faithful, that the crime of child abuse, against children and adolescents entrusted to their care and with it the blame and responsibility of those who know they have remained silent and covered, to defend and protect the good name of the Church.
How did this happen? Simple and basic.
In the Pope's speech is missing the personal responsibilities and serious faults of individual priests, replaced by "sin" in general, an abstract entity, incorporeal, ineffable, which permeates and pervades the whole of humanity and a mo 'by virus a fearsome epidemic, infecting all men and among them also, unfortunately, sometimes members of the Church.
From my memories of medical studies, I seem to recall that the infection by a pathogen, takes place against a victim who passively involuntarily to receive, suffer, the sick and not quite an active and willing participation a craftsman, which is far from suffer it, the acts and exercises, he doing instead of the innocent victims.
Similarly it seems to me that the pedophile priests and those within the Church itself have them covered and protected, we are actively busy and lavished hard to be infected by this virus of the "sin" in the words of the Pope, so widespread in the whole of humanity and also in those areas that, claiming the task of caring for souls, should be immune.
So, with a clever and subtle dialectic maneuver, the Pope become the willing perpetrators of child abuse, to be aware and conscious sinners, they also victims of the infection by the mysterious disease called "sin" and deprive them of a single stroke of any liability and guilt by inverting their role from that of artisans in one of the victims.
Not content with this, however, the Holy Father, with a brilliant flash of genius, the last step of his words, above, has also turned a detailed and huge, undeniable and irrefutable responsibility of the Church, through the work of its members and its representatives, in " evidence that the Lord allows," and then propose to the Lord for His Church to push "more radical and consistent," quoting the precise words of the Pope
I wonder this whether the innocent victims of pedophile priests and their protectors are aware
happy and fulfilled, proud to be considered by the Pope unconscious and unintentional " evidence," that the Lord uses to encourage his church to " more radical and consistent."
happy and fulfilled, proud to be considered by the Pope unconscious and unintentional " evidence," that the Lord uses to encourage his church to " more radical and consistent."
Domenico Mazzullo
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