NO GREAT LOSS IF THEY BOOT HIM OUT!
ITALY: PRO-MIGRANT NEWSPAPER CALLS ON CATHOLIC CHURCH TO EXCOMMUNICATE SALVINI
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/italy-pro-migrant-newspaper-calls-on-catholic-church-to-excommunicate-salvini;
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An Italian newspaper has called on the Catholic Church to excommunicate
Matteo Salvini, alleging that he flouts Catholic teaching on social justice.
Salvini has been the target of many attacks from those in the
Catholic Church who uphold the globalist open-door agenda. Church
representatives have demonstrated their animosity toward him on numerous
occasions, calling him “anti-Christ” and “minister of the devil,” while
ostensibly preaching love and kindness (through an open-door
immigration policy) at the same time.Their venom has been ongoing. Over the summer, the Guardian reported that Italian Catholic priests were slamming Salvini over his “anti-economic migrant stance, as racist and xenophobic.” One priest, Gianfranco Formenton, even “put a sign up on the door of his church” against those opposed to mass migration, saying: “Racists are forbidden from entering. Go home!”
Salvini responded:
Perhaps the priest prefers smugglers, slaveholders and terrorists.As expected, the globalist members of the Catholic Church cannot respond to this challenge:
In point of fact, Church doctrine does not encourage politicians to indiscriminately welcome migrants but recognizes their right and duty to regulate immigration for the benefit of the common good.“Newspaper Calls on Catholic Church to ‘Excommunicate’ Salvini,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, December 31, 2018:
An Italian newspaper has called on the Catholic Church to excommunicate Matteo Salvini, alleging that he flouts Catholic teaching on social justice.
Il Fatto Quotidiano published an article Saturday saying that according to Canon Law Mr. Salvini should be excommunicated because of his attacks on the Church’s representatives and disregard for doctrine.
Salvini responded to the article on Twitter saying the suggestion he should be excommunicated as an unworthy Catholic had reached the point of “comedy.”
“Fewer departures, fewer landings, fewer deaths, and less business for swindlers and mafiosos. Simple no?” Salvini said. “What do you say, tomorrow I can go to Mass..??”
In point of fact, Church doctrine does not encourage politicians to indiscriminately welcome migrants but recognizes their right and duty to regulate immigration for the benefit of the common good.
The record also shows that it has been Catholic prelates, priests, and organizations that have attacked Mr. Salvini, rather than the other way around, calling him everything from Satan to the antichrist.
Last week, an Italian priest railed against supporters of Salvini and his efforts to combat illegal immigration, calling them “insignificant Christians.”
In what Italian media referred to as the “umpteenth attack against Matteo Salvini,” Father Enrico d’Ambrosio, a priest from a parish in the northern Italian town of Campagnola, used his church pulpit last week to assail Mr. Salvini, saying that “anyone who does not welcome [migrants] and votes for that party that closes ports even on Christmas Eve is an insignificant Christian.”
The priest’s words referred to the decision by Mr. Salvini to refuse to allow the Spanish NGO vessel Open Arms to disembark the 311 African migrants it had picked up near the coast of North Africa.
“My answer is clear: Italian ports are closed!” Salvini Tweeted. “For human traffickers and those who help them, the party is over.”
During a homily in Saint Peter’s Basilica last summer, one Catholic priest referred to Salvini as the “antichrist” and urged the police to practice “civil disobedience to block the deportation of persons back to countries where their lives are at risk.”….
