Antonio Staglianò

"There is a conventional Catholicism that would do well to come to terms with Benedict XVI's statement in Regensburg: to act with violence is against the nature of God and the human soul. And Pope Francis always insists that to act with violence in the name of God is satanic."

"That of the Great Architect is a heretical idea that originated in Enlightenment modernity. It lurks in the ancient Arian heresy: Arius does not recognise the divinity of Jesus the Saviour because he sees him only as the 'Greek demiurge' who moulds formless matter. The Council of Nicaea affirms the Christian truth: Jesus is God from God, light from light, true God from true God. The Great Architect knows nothing of the Christian God who is, from eternity, pro-existence, pro-affection, Love. Incarnate presence in the life of man, it makes the believer inhabited by the Holy Spirit and the Catholic Church sacramental...The Masonic brotherhood is abysmally different from the Christian-Catholic one, because the experience of the world (affections, feelings, emotions) of a Catholic is founded on the faith of the Christian hope of the God of Jesus Christ who saves us in death: "you will never die", this is the proclamation."

"(About the Marian title of Co-Redemptrix) The analogy by similarity instinctively (i.e., without critical scrutiny) leads to the emergence of “salvific parallelism.” The document, with surgical precision, dismantles the title not because Mary does not cooperate, but because the term constructs a misleading image. The analogy by similarity works as follows: a. it isolates a point of contact (both Christ and Mary suffered for our salvation. Both were associated with the redemptive event); b. it extends the similarity (if Christ is the Redeemer, and Mary is similar to Him in this work, then she can be called “Co-Redemptrix”); c. it minimizes the dissimilarity (in this process, the abysmal difference—Christ acts as God and Man, the primary and autonomous source of grace; Mary acts as a creature, redeemed and transformed, a derivative and subordinate channel —is flattened. The dissimilarity becomes an appendix, a footnote)."