Divorce and Abortion: those Ten Years of Sad Italian History

Italy, “Roman Catholic” country.

December 1970: the Baslini-Fortuna Act introduces divorce, because “all civil countries have it”. A large number of Democrazia Cristiana (DC, “Democrats-Christians”, 35-45% of votes) party members did not fight against it, leaving Communists promote and approve it.

May 1974: a referendum against divorce fails. A great delusion for Pope Paul VI, who saw all main Roman Catholic associations giving up. The most known and famous organization, Azione Cattolica (“Catholic Action”), stated something like “vote as you like” instead of “vote against divorce”. DC, again, didn't actually fight against divorce.

December 1975: an Abortion Act got some primary approval by Parliament Chambers, because media were continuously talking about “10,000-20,000 illegal abortions per year” (today we know that the true count was 700 to 1500 abortions per year in Italy) and because “all civil countries have it”.

While majority of Parliament members was against abortion, DC did not vote against it; Prime Minister Aldo Moro (DC) stated the “neutrality” of the Government about abortion.

Summer 1976: elections: Partito Comunista Italiano (“Italian Communist Party”) got 34% of votes (its historical maximum), DC got 35% of votes (its historical minimum).

Spring 1978: a large number of DC members accepted the abortion law because of communists pressure.

May 1978: Aldo Moro, kidnapped by Brigate Rosse (“Red Brigades”, a communist terrorist group) two months before, was killed.

June 1978: the Abortion Act (the infamous “law 194, year 1978”) got the final approval, thanks to absence of 33 Parliament members (all of them were against abortion but did not go to vote against that law) and no true battle from DC members.

Giulio Andreotti, DC, Prime Minister, had the last chance to stop the law: resigning. He did not resign. His government was eventually sunk a few months later.

In the very first years after the abortion law passed, there were some 15,000-25,000 abortions per month.

Spring 1981: a referendum against abortion fails (56% only voted pro abortion). Two months after, Alì Agčà shot Pope John Paul II.

Italian Health Ministry has confirmed that in Italy there were 4,602,117 abortions from 1978 to 2005.

In Italy, in 2003, the cost of an abortion in our Health structures was something like 1700 euro - about 2300 US$.

Photo above: “Mom, I love you! Don't kill me!” - this advertisement of S.O.S. vita (“S.O.S. Life”) has been condemned by a court and wiped out, because it was “hurting” for people willing to kill a baby (that is, “abortion”).

Yes, that's Italy, “Roman Catholic” country.

Christian Family

Published since late 40's, Famiglia Cristiana (“Christian Family”) is an Italian weekly magazine published from Society of St. Paul for Roman Catholic readers, currently targeting housewives and older women.

Today, in a rather large number of Italian parishes, one can buy it on Sundays, soon after the Mass.

Up to early 60's, this magazine was surely a rock-solid apologetics magazine. A girl could write to them: “I fell in love for a guy who rarely goes for a confession... what do I have to do?” and getting an answer like: “Forget him! You cannot get a happy life if you marry someone who does not care about sacraments”.

Then, sadly, it began embracing all sorts of modernism errors. Recently, a girl wrote to them: “I fell in love for a muslim guy... what do I have to do?” and got an answer like: “if you're in love, don't care about religion issues”.

Someone took time for a parody of that issue of Famiglia Cristiana, and corrected its cover as you can see above. Titles:

• Famiglia Musulmana (“muslim family”)
• weekly magazine of muslim culture and news
• what to do if your son does not want to be a kamikaze
• family: Mullah Omar advices
• trends for sea: a burqa for your summer
• bricolage: let's build a car-bomb

Yes, we know that “muslim” does not mean “suicide bombers” (it is hard to believe that a billion muslims means a billion terrorists).

But -alas!- Italian media are somewhat crazy... Communists and leftist sources want to ease immigration of muslims (because they expect muslims to support only leftist politics). Conservative and neocons want to reduce immigration but do not do anything. We do not even have an idea of how many millions of illegal immigrants we have in Italy.

Italy is a place where...

Italy is a weird place.

Italy it's like a 116,000+ sq.mil. abandoned museum.

There are 49,000+ Roman Catholic priests (two thirds of them are “Diocesan”).

Their average age is a bit more than 60 years old: this means that by 2030 Italy will likely have 15-20,000 priests, not more.

There are 225 Dioceses, a lot of them counting no more than 50-100-150,000 people.

Mgr. Bagnasco, president of Italian Bishop Conference, is always accompanied by armed bodyguards. A few days ago, he received a letter with three pistol bullets in it (a common mafia-style way to tell “you're going to be shot”).

In Italy there are some 920+ deputies in our Parliament, out of a population of 54+ millions.

There are 103 (yes, one hundred and three) members of the Government (ministers and undersecretaries); for example, France has a total of 17 (yes, seventeen) members (15 ministers and 2 undersecretaries).

There are two Communist parties plus a large number of other “leftist” parties.

The head of the Communist Refoundation party (“Rifondazione Comunista”) is currently also the head of one of the two Chambers of the Italian Parliament.

Yes, Italy is a weird place.

The plot against the Church

Maurice Pinay, Complotto contro la Chiesa, (“The Plot against the Church”).

This book was first printed in Rome, 1962; soon followed editions in Austria (Jan. 1963), Venezuela (Dec. 1963) and Mexico (“Complot contra la Iglesia”). The definitive and revised edition was published by “Mundo Libre” (Mexico) in 1968, translated by Luis Gonzales, after II Vatican Council ended.

A number of authors, mainly coming from University of Guadalajara (Mexico) and Catholic Union of Trento (Italy) worked for 14 months on this book and then distributed copies to all Fathers of the II Vatican Council.

The book was intended to stop Augustin Cardinal Bea accepting requirements of Jewish authorities that authors considered incompatible with Roman Catholic faith.

Eventually, the Nostra Aetate document of the II Vatican Council wiped out every possible equivocal expression about Jews.

Announcing Rimini Meeting 2007

Edition 2007 of “Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples” (also known as “Meeting di Rimini”, that is, “Rimini Meeting”) will be held in Rimini, Italy, from August 19 to August 25.

The title of this year: «Truth is the destiny for which we have been made»

More information on:

• Meeting di Rimini official site
• 2007 Edition: Program and Exhibitions and other informations
• 2006 Edition: Final Press Release
• Meeting Rimini Videos and photos

What is Rimini Meeting? With an average attendance of over 700,000, the Rimini Meeting – held annually since 1980 and lasting one week in the second half of August – is the world’s biggest summer festival of encounters, exhibitions, music and spectacle. The event is unique of its kind: an association that for 27 years has sought to create points of contact between experiences and people of different faiths and cultures who share a positive desire for knowledge and reciprocal enhancement... (read more)

Other information about Communion and Liberation.

リミニの国際的な会合2007年8月19日から2007年8月25日から

Friendly Fire means Holocaust and Martyrdom

In this holy heroic place, on August 18, 1944, six people from Molinella fell down because of our lead, superb example of love to the ideal.

Their friends, fierce of their holocaust, remember their martyrdom, as a teaching to them who will come.

Translation notes:

• they were soldiers, despite it's not written (there is only a list of surnames and names); the six soldiers were from Molinella, a small town near Bologna, northern Italy.
• “piombo” (lead) means “bullets”; “piombo nostrano” (lead coming from us) means... friendly fire.
• “esempio superbo” actually sounds like “astonishing example”
• “idea” just means idea but in its rhetorical context means “ideal”. So, the six people loved their ideals (which was it, is not specified)
• “conterraneo” does not mean “friends”; it actually means “someone who lives in the same lands” (in our case, near Bologna)
• yes, they were killed by friendly fire, and so it was an “holocaust”
• “martirio” means “martyrdom”, even if they were killed by friendly fire
• “insegnamento” (teaching) suggests that you (the one who will come after 1944) must learn that someday you could be killed by friendly fire, yet yours will be “martyrdom” and “holocaust”.

What a weird life. Being killed by friendly fire while “loving” an unspecified “idea”. And friendly fire makes “holy” and “heroic” that place.