On January 11, Catholic Italian journalists and academics caused to appear in Il Foglio a supplication to the Pope, begging him not to go to Assisi next October. Here are some of the most significant extracts.
http://www.dici.org/en/documents/italian-catholic-intellectuals-beg-benedict-xvi-to-%E2%80%9Cflee-the-spirit-of-assisi%E2%80%9D/
http://www.dici.org/en/documents/italian-catholic-intellectuals-beg-benedict-xvi-to-%E2%80%9Cflee-the-spirit-of-assisi%E2%80%9D/
THE
GRATE
Weary winter
Teary earth
Blessing one
Who is not worth
Looking forward
First of May
Then Assisi
With The way
Wrote a letter
Vatican sent…
Ireland’s
Effeminate bent
Within all that
Beatified?
To show this one
Was justified?
Oh no you can’t
A silk purse make –
Out of a sow’s great ear
What’s fake is fake!
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