“Bestemmi su Facebook? C’è una multa da 300 euro”

L’Ansa scrive: il blog cattolico Pontifex ha presentato una denuncia per chiedere l’oscuramento dei gruppi blafemi

Il blog cattolico Pontifex dichiara guerra ai gruppi su Facebook che propagandano la bestemmia, denunciandoli penalmente e chiedendone ‘l’immediato oscuramento’.

DENUNCIA – La denuncia e’ stata presentata ai sensi dell’articolo 724 del Codice Penale – cosi’ come modificato da una sentenza della Consulta nel 1995 e da un decreto legislativo del 1999 -, che punisce ‘chiunque pubblicamente bestemmia, con invettive o parole oltraggiose, contro la Divinita”. Pontifex chiede una sanzione pecuniaria da 51 a 309 euro per ogni iscritto (‘reo di bestemmia’) ai gruppi Facebook di cui produce un dettagliato elenco chiedendone la chiusura: sono sette i gruppi del popolare social network nel mirino di Pontifex, tra cui la ‘Confraternita dei Frati bestemmianti’, il ‘Club della bestemmia’, ‘Radio Bestemmia’. “Siamo certi – dicono al blog e quotidiano cattolico – che la Polizia postale e lo staff di Facebook interverranno con solerzia’. (ANSA)



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Polish priests threatened with jail for plagiarising sermons

Poland's 28,000 Roman Catholic priests have been told by church authorities that they may be fined if they are discovered to have plagiarised their sermons from the internet, and could even face up to three years in prison.

The church has published a self-help book on writing sermons to lure parish priests away from the growing habit of stealing the words of their fellow clergy.

Father Wieslaw Przyczyna, the co-author of To Plagiarise or not to Plagiarise, told Polish media that the guide had been written to address what had become an increasingly common problem, as more churches put their sermons online and an increasing numbers of priests used the internet.

Przyczyna, a sermon expert at Krakow's Pontifical Academy of Theology, added that the book's aim was to shame culprits and prompt them to confess what they had done.

"Unfortunately the practice has become more usual than not," he said. "But if a priest takes another priest's words and presents them as his own without saying where he got them from, this is unethical and against the rules of authorship."

Responses to the self-help guide suggest that the problem also exists in other parts of the world, particularly in Britain and America, where the practice has been dubbed "pastoral plagiarism". In the US, the Rev E Glenn Wagner, a former evangelical pastor, and the Rev Robert Hamm, a former minister, resigned in 2004 after admitting to lifting sermons.

Homilists - or experts in the art of religious discourse - argue that while it might be a popular view that no sermon is necessarily based on original thought, a priest should be encouraged to convey ideas in his own words to help foster better dialogue with his congregation.

The 150-page Polish guide is being sold to priests in for £6.

The church authorities have said they will start to carry out systematic checks in an attempt to clamp down on the practice and will rely on sharp-eared parishioners to compare online texts with those in Biblioteka Kaznodziejska, a monthly magazine that publishes sermons which have been delivered from the pulpit in Poland.

Church heads are also discussing the possibility of teaching trainee priests about the concept of intellectual property.

The main culprits are said not to be older priests, who often do not have access to the internet, but their more youthful counterparts.

Young priests turn to the web when they are less than proficient at public speaking, and particularly on a Saturday night when they are panicking about having nothing to say at mass the following morning, said Przyczyna.

But Przyczyna has already faced a backlash to his anti-plagiarism crusade. He told the online Catholic News Service that he had received complaints for "harassing priests and exposing their weaknesses".

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Greek nuns flee business fiasco

An entire order of nuns has fled a convent on the Greek-Bulgarian border after running up huge debts.
The nuns' knitting business, serving 25 shops across Greece, has crashed.
From mother superior to the most junior novice, the 55 nuns sought sanctuary in the Xenia convent in the hills of central Greece.
The Greek Holy Synod is trying to sort out their debts of some 760,000 euros (£500,000) and persuade them to come out of hiding.
As I walked past the small domed chapel towards the cloisters, bolts slammed across heavy wooden doors, keys clicked double locks into place and curtains twitched in the nuns' cells (bedrooms).
Their sentinel was a stooped, beetle-browed, elderly nun clutching a copy of the New Testament.
I asked her to confirm that this was indeed the hideout of the runaway order.
"So what?" she snapped back in Greek, "who wants to know?"
Then her tone softened. "If God wills it," she said, "someone will come and talk to you," and she despatched a novice to find out.
She quickly returned with the news that the mother superior was exercising her right to remain silent.
So I left as empty-handed as the nuns' creditors. According to the Kathimerini newspaper, they exacerbated their financial problems by going abroad to fashion shows to check out the latest designs in woollen garments.
Their assets may have to be liquidated and property belonging to their convent at Sidirokastro could be sold to pay off their debts.

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Il cardinale di Monaco : “I gay sono uomini falliti”

L’arcivescovo della capitale bavarese attacca con durezza gli omosessuali
Il cardinale di Monaco Reinhard Marx ha dichiarato durante il forum della Chiesa cattolica tedesca svoltosi a Mannheim che le lesbiche e i gay sono uomini falliti e distrutti.  Un commento molto aspro che ha suscitato subito vivaci polemiche, anche se finora il porporato bavarese non ha ritrattato
QUEI FALLITI DEI GAY - Durante il forum svoltosi a Mannheim, una delle principali città del Baden-Wuerttemberg, il cardinale di Monaco di Baviera ha rimarcato come gli omosessuali siano in buona sostanza dei falliti, delle persone distrutte con le quali la Chiesa cattolica dovrebbe cambiare completamente il proprio rapporto. Secondo il cardinale i gay sarebbero come i divorziati. Inoltre, il cardinale avrebbe aggiunto di non riuscire a comprendere come mai molti uomini non condividano o non riescano a trovare il tesoro della fede posseduto dai cattolici. L’associazione dei gay e delle lebische tedeschi ha definito molto gravi ed offensive le dichiarazioni del cardinale, rimarcando come nessun dialogo possa partire su queste basi.

CONSERVATORE VICINO A RATZY – Reinhard Marx è stato nominato cardinale da Ratzinger, dopo che Papa Giovanni Paolo II l’aveva scelto per guidare la diocesi di Monaco di Baviera, dal quale proviene l’attuale vescovo di Roma. Marx si è distinto in passato per posizioni di grande ortodossia, tanto che tolse i sacramenti ad un sacerdote che aveva officiato la comunione insieme ai protestanti. Allo stesso tempo aveva licenziato un’insegnate di religione che si era unita civilmente ma non sposata in chiesa. Al Parlamento bavarese Marx aveva ricordato come la religione non sia un fatto privato, ma che la stessa costituzione dello Stato tedesco debba essere legata alla dottrina della Chiesa. La durezza delle prese di posizioni anti gay della Chiesa sembra essere in qualche modo collegata alla prossima visita in Germania di Papa Benedetto XVI.

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