Giacomo Sanfilippo, Author at Milwaukee Independent

Author: Giacomo Sanfilippo

Op Ed: Evangelical “theology” dictates Trump’s clueless Jerusalem policy

Posted by Giacomo Sanfilippo | Dec 13, 2017 |

American Evangelicals do not represent Christianity in America. Much less do they represent Christianity in Israel. For 2,000 years, Christianity has had an uninterrupted presence in what is now Israel. The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem traces its roots to the New Testament book of Acts. It has functioned as a patriarchate in fact from the 5th century, and in name from the 6th century until the present. Theophilus III serves as the current Patriarch of Jerusalem, and his Christian flock consists mainly of Palestinian Arabs. Several decades before the birth of Christ, the Jews lost control of what we...

Op Ed: Abortion, Contraception, And Christian Faith

Posted by Giacomo Sanfilippo | Oct 17, 2017 |

The Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and conservative Protestant Churches have two clear moral obligations with respect to abortion: the first, to do everything in our collective power to ensure that it remain legal, accessible, and performed only by properly trained medical professionals. Internally I am dying a thousand deaths for bringing myself to write those terrible words—I, who have fathered five beloved children myself, whom I cannot imagine not-born; I, who will soon become a grandfather for the second time; I, who even as an aging man never fail to marvel with childlike wonder at the mystery of God knitting...