Giorgia Meloni . . . A Formidable Voice For Catholics

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK

“I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out” (Luke 19:40).

• + + The party Italians just elected into power is represented by a woman named Giorgia Meloni. An unlikely spokesperson for family values shared by the Catholics who predominate in her native land, she started out as a single mother and, though an advocate for marriage, is not herself married.
  Meloni describes herself as Christian and lives with her daughter Ginevra and “partner” (sic) Andrea Giambruno.
  The religious faith from which she speaks is shared by most Christians, who realize the purpose of faith is to change ourselves who believe and not that which we, who in fact may not believe, attempt to change to suit ourselves.
  She supports faith, family, life, creation of male and female from conception. And she represents well a conviction that, in order to be in support of these things, one must fight against that which would destroy them. It is for this reason she is hated and maligned as a “fascist” by the many who in the ignorance and darkness of their minds embrace sin and demand that others do the same by approving and supporting it.
  The Washington Post, “Bible” of the LGBTQ+ political lobby, describes her and her kind as “illiberal” and “fascist” for their opposition to the destruction of marriage, family, life and the human person created as male and female by God.
  “Meloni will be Italy’s first female prime minister. By coincidence, she will probably take office on the centenary of the March on Rome, the coup that brought Benito Mussolini to power in October 1922. So what does it mean that an ex-fascist woman will be in charge of one of Europe’s biggest countries?
  “Meloni argues that she isn’t a fascist anymore.
  “Meloni argues that her party has turned away from fascism, as she has. However, many Europeans fear that the right’s victory will lead to the ‘Orbanization’ of Italy and its transformation into an illiberal democracy, much like Hungary’s recent path.”
  Interesting that the Post starts with the unproven accusation that Meloni is guilty of the unproven accusation she is “fascist” to begin with, whatever that means to the Post and its readers, but being uselessly vague and sinister enough to signify “bad” and socially unacceptable. Which is the purpose of the article.
  The following comments are from Giorgia Meloni’s keynote address to the International Organization for the Family’s World Congress of Families XIII conference in Verona, Italy, March 2019:
  “I believe that the state should incentivize the natural family based on marriage.”
  “I believe in a society where every choice has consequences, and you accept responsibility for them. I reject a society where every desire becomes a right, every whim becomes a right, where I have no responsibilities, I have only rights. I reject it. It’s wrong.”
  “Is it right for a society to spend more energy and resources trying to find quick and easy ways to get rid of human life, rather than trying to encourage it? Is that normal? Is that civilized? Is it right that you, correctly, cannot rip a newborn puppy from the bosom of its mother but you can with a baby, the child of a desperate mother who sold it to two rich men?”
  “Why do Italian courts take away legal custody from two married parents, the natural parents of a baby girl, saying they are too old to raise her at 52 and 54, taking away their natural daughter? But if two men over 50 go abroad and buy a child, that’s fine. Why?”
  “Why if they told us that that the father of Eluana Englaro should be free to disconnect the plug that kept her alive, because nobody knows better than a parent what is best for their child, why did the same not apply to the parents of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans? Why is the winner always the one who wants to disconnect the plug? Why is the winner always death?”
  “If the life of a sick child like Alfie Evans is defined as pointless, how long before they define as pointless the life of a disabled or elderly person? Or anyone who doesn’t correspond to the idea of a perfect consumer?”
  “Why do we spend our time fighting all types of discrimination but we pretend not to see the greatest ongoing persecution, the genocide of the world’s Christians?”
  “Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening?”
  “There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy. For those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves. And so, they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be Citizen X, Gender X, Parent 1, Parent 2, I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer.”
  “That’s the reason why we inspire so much fear. That’s why this [World Congress of Families] event inspires so much fear. Because we do not want to be numbers. We will defend the value of a human being. Every single human being. Because each of us has a unique genetic code that is unrepeatable. And, like it or not, that is sacred. We will defend it. We will defend God, country, and family. Those things that disgust people so much. We will do it to defend our freedom because we will never be slaves and simple consumers at the mercy of financial speculators. That is our mission. That is why I came here today.
  “Chesterton wrote more than a century ago, ‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.’ That time has arrived. We are ready.” (Source: International Family News)
  It is likely that Meloni will be selected as Italy’s new prime minister. In her, Italians have found a voice to resist the globalist lobby sometimes represented by Pope Francis. In her they speak out for the faith which is the foundation of the West, now under attack along with all the fruit of spiritual wealth that the faith has borne in its train.
  It remains to be seen whether the Pope will treat as a social pariah an unmarried mother who, though in some ways falling short herself, nonetheless praises as, rooted in truth, the goodness of marriage, family, and life from which the Pope has at times tried to distance himself as the stuff of mere “culture wars.”
  Thank you for reading and praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever.
  @TruthSocialPadre