Modesty. That is: Without Sacrificing Self-Respect

Every woman is unique and possesses her own set of physical attributes that set her apart and make her shine. This is just as true today as it was then. The difference, I believe, is that the women of my grandmother’s generation knew how to play to their strengths and do so without sacrificing their self-respect.

(found on The Pious Sodality Of Church Ladies. I wonder why I did not yet find at least one Italian website/blog showing a serious talk about modesty!)

Priests For Life

(source: Priests for Life - Galleries of Images of Aborted Children)

Here in Italy there are some 130,000+ abortions every year.

And I wonder why here a very few priests preach - at least “sometimes preach” - against abortion. As if abortion, here, did not exist.

I wonder what effect could have here the existence of something like Priests for Life, even with a web-site publishing crude images of aborted children.



See also: Face the Truth America

Eluana sentenced to death

Italy is a weird place: this woman was sentenced to death by hunger, her father wants to “switch off her life support system” (actually she only requires food, water and ordinary nursing care) and Italian highest court upheld his view.

Abortion in Italy

Italy: abortions slightly "diminishing"

(some 130,000 per year, on a 58+ millions population).

Guess why? Population is "diminishing". Thus, abortions (which still contribute here for far more than 10,000 babies killed every month) also "slightly diminish".

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.

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.