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Jesuits Vs Vatican banker over future of the world
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Feature - Jesuits Vs Vatican banker over future of the world
For Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, economist and banker, and president of the Vatican bank, the main cause of the economic crisis in the West is the collapse in the birth rate. Gotti Tedeschi has been maintaining this thesis for some time, with great vigour. And he argues for it frequently at conferences and in articles in L'Osservatore Romano.
Some, however, continue to think that what is blocking economic development is not a reduction, but an uncontrolled rise in the birth rate.
One of the most tenacious proponents of this neo-Malthusian thesis is a famous professor of political science who has taught in New York for years, Professor Giovanni Sartori, a prominent editorialist for the leading Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, from the columns of which he repeatedly attacks the Catholic Church as the champion of "insane demographic growth," a prelude to nothing but disaster.
The two theses are opposed, and entirely irreconcilable. In the view of Gotti Tedeschi, even using immigration to compensate for the drop in the birth rate is not enough to resolve the economic crisis in Western countries.
But not everyone entirely agrees with him on this point. Not only among demographers, but even at that "think tank" of the Holy See which is La Civiltà Cattolica, the magazine of the Rome Jesuits that, by statute, is reviewed by the Vatican secretariat of state before publication.
In the October 2 issue of La Civiltà Cattolica, the director of the authoritative magazine, GianPaolo Salvini (pictured), dedicated 11 pages to the presentation of a book by two demographers who demonstrate, statistics at hand, that the population in Italy is not at all on the decline.
But rather, it is experiencing a new "demographic revolution," in which heavy immigration, the increase in life expectancy, the revival of the birth rate, and the cohesion between parents and children are interacting in a positive way.
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Vatican warns bishops of deviant behaviour
The Office Of Inquisition At Work!
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Vatican warns bishops of deviant behaviour
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The Vatican has warned bishops worldwide against "deviant" behaviour by a small traditionalist Austrian movement that promotes devotion to angel.
A letter to the heads of bishops conferences by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith chief Cardinal William Levada claims some members of the movement, including priests, carry out "activities that disturb the ecclesiastical community".
Formed half a century ago in Austria and close to traditionalists, the Opus Angelorum association claims, among other things, that women who have had abortions are possessed by the devil.
Present in Europe, Asia and America, it counts about 140 members, including 80 priests, and is suspected of sectarianism.
Levada's letter, dated October 2 and made public on Thursday, warns that in recent years some members of the movement "have not accepted the norms that have been established ... and aspire or work to reestablish what in their view is the 'real Opus Angelorum,' that is a movement that would profess or practice all that is forbidden," by Vatican documents.
"Propaganda in favour of this deviant movement, which is outside all ecclesiastical control, is done in a very discreet way that suggests it is in full communion with the Catholic church," Levada wrote, calling on bishops to be watchful of disruptive activities and ban those they identify.
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