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Covid is a criminal project of the world elite to reduce us to zombies, without a doubt an affirmation at least without foundation and Father Livio Fanzaga, the religious who spoke those words, was buried with criticism. Needless to say, his message came straight like an arrow to a community of 1.5 million devoted believers. That is, in fact, the daily audience of Radio Maria, the interpreter of conservative Catholicism from whose antennas that message was broadcast. Radio María is a religious and media phenomenon that periodically reappears but is not always understood: a clandestine and widespread phenomenon as well as surprising numbers.
Audience numbers
The Audiradio data does not place the Erba (Como) radio transmission in the higher listening echelons. In the ranking of the March-April 2020 period, it is in seventeenth place among national networks with an estimated audience of just over one million and 400,000 people per day and 3,600,000 weekly. This is only in Italy, because in reality Radio Maria waves are spread all over the world through a network of 77 sister stations. A result achieved by an extraordinary ability to bring the words of Father Livio and his staff to all corners of Italy. Where any broadcaster loses his signal, Radio María reaches the same: it does so thanks to a dense chain of repeaters, a possibility that derives from its status as community radio (provided for by the Mamm law of 1990). It refers to those stations that are not generalists but, on the contrary, are aimed at a well-defined audience.
No advertising, just donations
And here lies the other key to Radio María’s success: the model developed in the 80s by industrialist Varese Emanuele Ferrario, director of the station who died on July 9, 2020. Ferrario’s intuition was to lose funding to through advertising and the general public. No to public records, but instead to a community with a very cohesive and defined identity, very faithful. In this case, the religious sentiment and faith towards the Virgin is what keeps the audience glued to the transmissions. This profile has guaranteed Radio María to prosper only thanks to spontaneous donations (and only in part to public funding) that have also reached 18 million euros a year, while the Facebook page has a community of more than 1,700 .000 non-adoring fans. only from the Gospel but also from Father Livio.
Disagreements with the Church
If the economic fundamentals of radio are very solid, the problems have arisen instead from its religious line. And the words spoken by Father Fanzaga at Covid are just the latest episode in a long series. The leaders say they follow in their work the teachings outlined by Pope Wojtyla on the new evangelization of Christians. This has led the ether preachers to take very rigid positions on all ethically sensitive issues (abortion, assisted procreation, homosexual couples). In some cases the tones have assumed millenary heights that have led ecclesiastical authorities to distance themselves from the very popular female announcer. A strong point of the broadcasts broadcast by Erba is also the veneration of Our Lady of Medjugorje, a phenomenon towards which the official Church still has a rather skeptical position. In 2006, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then president of the CEI, invited Radio Maria to adopt a prudent attitude towards the miraculous narratives of Medjugorje.
The words of Father Livio
The soul and tireless voice of Radio María Father Livio Fanzaga, an eighty-year-old priest and microphone marathoner, not new to verbal excesses. In 2016, the day after the approval of the civil unions law, he addressed these words to Senator Pd Monica Cirinn who was celebrating the milestone: This looks a bit like the woman from chapter seventeen of the Apocalypse, Babylon in short. Now toast to the Prosecco, to the victory. Madam, the funeral will also come, don’t worry. I wish him as far as possible, but that too will come. Affirmation that it cost the religious a six-month suspension by the Order of Journalists. Their positions contrary to Darwin’s theories of evolutionism are also known and repeated: they make chickens laugh! Because all the most up-to-date, more prepared, more serious scientific investigations tell us that man appeared on earth as an ancient man.There is no trace, no demonstration, no possibility that little by little the monkey learned Bergamasco first, then Italian, then in English.
November 16, 2020 (change November 16, 2020 | 14:20)
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