Preti Influencers? Also not!

Reflections by Massimo Battaglio

The news is circulating on the stunts of Don Ambrogio Mazzai to Vercelli, The priest Influencer Very well known to Tik-Tok users who, invited by the Municipality of Vercelli to talk about communication in middle schools, during his meeting with children, let himself go to phrases at the limits of homophobia.

In fact, he said that gay couples should not even exist. In front of thirteen -year -old kids, including, certainly, someone is starting to question their sexual identity.

To tell the truth, Don Ambrogio also raced against abortion and divorce (for which he played all the hat -trick of the "non -negotiable values". Only euthanasia was missing to do poker). But the school's parents are worrying about these things through a letter sent to all the competent authorities.

We are interested in the first part: the Municipality of Vercelli invited a Catholic priest to speak in a secular school, knowing well that that priest, as "modern" and captivating as he is a bloodbeat, is waiting for nothing but let himself be caused to proclaim his old stuff with the new dress in particular on the theme of homosexuality.

I say "well knowing" because our influencer priest is not new to these free and bad taste sorties. Not long ago, last December, he had exercised his freedom of opinion against the municipal council of Verona. He said, textual, that "There is too much in common frusados".

It was scandalized that the mayor Pd had allowed to install a pink Christmas tree. An evident sign of gender propaganda. Of course, to the question of a journalist: "Don Ambrogio is homophobic?", He replies: "Absolutely not". But his parishioners, the real ones, do not hesitate to reveal that it is not the first time he has taken on "bully" attitudes.

Some time earlier, he had raced on the case of a confrere, Don Vitaliano della room, parish priest in Mercogliano (AV), guilty of having put two Madonne in the crib. A gesture designed to make the agreement discuss.

But nothing that deserved a vulgar reaction like that of Don Ambrogio, who said: "It is a bit like a person came to your home where there is a beautiful family photo attached on the wall, took a marker and began to draw the mustache on people, to make signs, so to artically decorate that photo. Well, do you know where I would put it on, the marker, to that person? Eh, try to imagine. "

Dear Reverend Mazzai, I would tell him if I could: who of us are a few years old, still remember certain priests to the Don Camillo of Guareschi, who flaunted grossness to feel close to their people or to stand out from the "Curia" priests. But now, we are all a little more refined.

Even those who vote for Meloni or Salvini can distinguish a genuine joke from an insult. Which then prefers the latter, is another par of sleeves. But, from those who unravel between the role of influencer and that of the end of theologian, we would expect a little more relevant arguments expressed in a slightly more calm way.

This is to stay on the priest. Because if we widen our actors of Vercelli's episode, there is really for everyone. There is something for the mayor, who, if he really wants to put his nose in the didactic activities of the school, should follow other criteria.

In fact, it is not wrong that the municipal administration proposes activities that have a positive impact on the city. But what impact city can have the presence of a homophobic priest in the classroom, if not to make propaganda to the political part of the mayor himself?

There is then for the school manager Fulvia Cantone, that it is not clear with what logic he joined the initiative of the Municipality. Scrolling through the three -year plan for the training offer of its comprehensive institute (Gaudenzio Ferrari), there is no enthusiasm for subjects such as education for sexuality or affectivity. There is, yes, a paragraph in which we talk about an "inclusive, welcoming, open school for citizenship" and go go. But it is not clear what actions must be taken to reach these "goals". It is to see that the municipal initiative with the priest influencer had to be understood in this sense!

And there is for teachers. It may also be that they did not know the subject - which is already serious because, although they are not obliged, they could have informed themselves, if they keep us in their own educational task. But why, given things, being present, did not even ask the word at least to clarify that the social-president was talking to an absolutely personal title?

The beauty is that, in schools, now, any initiative that seem to come out slightly from the sowing is systematically dismissed for fear. Affectivity? Not even talking about it! Do we not want to arrive the mothers to the pro-life? Sexuality? For love of God! The newspapers would speak badly of us.

Today it seems that parents and newspapers have the competence and power of veto also on how arithmetic is taught. But if the priest speaks - and that priest - everything is fine. Pro-Vita mothers will be happy, so we can be happy too.

But finally there is also for the Church. In fact, if the case of Don Ambrogio were isolated, we could also hide behind the usual Adagio: "Don't give him visibility". The thing already becomes a little more problematic if we discover that ours has about three hundred thousand followers.

The "visibility" is certainly not the one that gives him if we criticize it. But it is even more serious that certain types of hyper-modern priests only facade are starting to be at the last fashion.

Let's think of that other young Don of Milan, Alberto Ravagnani, which with his cool air now spends more time to be interviewed than to manage the oratory. Each of his video is seen by hundreds of thousands of boys. And, every two by three, he lingers in faded on homosexuality To say the least disarming. We had already talked about it.

For him, the homosexual relationship, "biologically speaking", does not allow to "express the value of sassuality". The homosexual act is, according to him, "reductive with respect to the relationship between the male and the female".

The accusation of ostentation all LGBT people who live in the sunlight, because "they make homosexuality a flag to give themselves an identity" and express themselves "in a proud way, almost gaypride style" to affirm "a certain type of ideology". It comes to argue that "it is much easier to go around to get rid of homosexual way than with people of the opposite sex".

Faced with a question about homophobia he replies: "I assure you that, if you go to Milan, people are less afraid to show their homosexuality, than to bring a cross around neck". Too bad that no person has ever arrived home with the bones broken because of a cross around his neck.

Make it note the enormity of the affirmation, it stops for a moment except then restarting trying to demonstrate that homosexual love cannot exist. "Psychology says it." "If you carry out this speech to the end, you authorize that people then get married with dolls."

To these virtual pensions, honoris causes at the University of the web, their bishops have nothing to say?

Or are they also convinced that the future of the Church lies in an influencer pastoral that, in addition to making damage, can only remove any critical mind from faith?