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The Penitentiary still serves?
Without doubt. In an era characterized by the image and advertising, where everything becomes public, a department, as the Apostolic Penitentiary, attentive to the inner world in its most delicate side and less visible, I think, within the framework of the structured life of the Church , is a very valuable tool.
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What matters most attract your attention?
There are those crimes which, because of their seriousness, the Holy See has given absolution: the acquittal of his accomplice in sin against the Sixth Commandment (canon 1378); the sacrilegious desecration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist (canon 1367 ), the direct violation of the sacramental seal (canon 1388, 1); dispensed by irregularities recipiendos Ordines contracted for procured abortion (canon 1041, 4); dispensed by irregularities exercendos Ordines (canon 1044 1).
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How does the wonder that the public trial in front of so many situations of sin and scandal in the Church?
One can not underestimate the objective gravity of a series of phenomena that have been reported recently and that bring with them the implications of the fragility of human and institutional Church, in this regard, however, one can not help but see how it concerned the serious infertole damage, has responded and continues to respond with strict actions and initiatives to protect the image of the Church itself and for the good of God’s people. However, we must also condemn the emphasis given by their media, which, as part of a mondanizzazione, cast discredit on the Church.
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Sometimes the indulgence of the Church and Christian forgiveness are not understood by people. Why in your opinion?
Today it seems that penance be seized as an opening of oneself to the solution of problems that require attention within that radius social, where it expresses its existence, offering its own contribution of clarification, support those in difficulty. Penance, therefore, today is cultivated mainly in the social dimension, since social relations were complicated and weakened at the same time as a result of globalisation.
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What are the new sins in your opinion?
There are several areas in which today feel sinful attitudes towards individual rights and social issues. First, the area of bioethics within which we can not fail to denounce violations of certain fundamental rights of human nature through experiments, genetic manipulation, whose outcome is difficult to discern and control. Another area, proper social, is the area of drugs, through which weakens the dark psyche and intelligence, leaving many young people outside the Church. Even the area of social and economic inequality: in which the poor are getting poorer and the rich growing richer, fuelling an unsustainable social injustice, the area of ecology, which is now a major concern.
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The frequent use of indulgences fails to promote a magical mentality towards guilt and punishment?
To avoid falling into such a dangerous and distorted vision, I think first of all that it is absolutely necessary to know and understand the right doctrine of the practice of indulgences, understood by the Church as a significant expression of the mercy of God who comes to meet his children to help them meet penalties due to their sins “but also and above all to lead to greater fervor of charity”. The Church has moved primarily by the desire to educate, rather than with the repetition of formulas and practices, the spirit of prayer and penance and to the theological virtues. The reform of the Servant of God Paul VI implemented with the Apostolic Constitution Indulgentiarum Doctrina of 1 January 1967, eliminates, to some extent, as the faithful could lead to a mentality magic. This doctrine clearly exposes the theological assumptions of indulgences, is the solidarity that exists between men in Adam and Christ, the communion of saints, the treasure of the Church, consisting in expiation and the merits of Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints , which are made available to the faithful. The indulgences, in fact - is stressed - may not be purchased without a sincere conversion and without union with God, plus the completion of the works required.
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She does not believe that the conditions for obtaining the indulgence are mild?
If all the conditions usually imposed - sacramental confession not over 15 or 20 days before or after, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of the Pope - you believe that to capture the indulgence is required degree of purity and eminent signs of burning love , whose success remains difficult to our fragility, then I would not established that what is precisely to minimize.
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There are sins that you can not perform?
The Penitentiary is the Pope’s longa manus in the potestas clavium. Therefore, to realize the role that keeps awarded in the internal forum, has all the powers necessary, with the exception of those which the Pope has expressly declared the cardinal of wanting penitenziere reserving for itself. It can consequently make, in the internal forum, all acts of competence of the remaining departments of the Roman Curia.
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Sull'aborto is the widespread feeling that the Church does not take into account the plight of women.
It seems to me that such a concern does not take into account any attitude which manifests the Church constantly in safeguarding and protecting the rights and dignity of women. Many, in fact, are the initiatives that Catholic organizations and movements ecclesial hard courageous and intelligent, do not cease to promote, in order to counter the current cultural and social trends against women, helping, effectively unmarried mothers, striving for the education of their children made for the world and lack even facilitating adoption.
