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Pope Francis Tells Couples To Wait Until Marriage To Have Sex
Breitbart.com ^ | May 28, 2015 | Thomas D. Williams, PH.D

Posted on 05/28/2015 7:33:13 AM PDT by Biggirl

In his weekly audience Wednesday, Pope Francis gave dating couples some radically countercultural advice, encouraging them to hold off on sex until they are properly married. While the Pope’s words merely reiterated traditional Christian teaching on sex, they clash with a reigning mentality that advocates any and all sexual activity, provided it is consensual.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: christian; marriage; sex
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1 posted on 05/28/2015 7:33:13 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

He should tell that to his priests.


2 posted on 05/28/2015 7:33:48 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Biggirl

Gay couples too?


3 posted on 05/28/2015 7:34:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Biggirl

But how will gay couples know that they’re compatible?


4 posted on 05/28/2015 7:35:25 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Biggirl

This is one of the few times I wholeheartedly agree with this pope.


5 posted on 05/28/2015 7:36:14 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: Buckeye McFrog

No, not them - they’re special.


7 posted on 05/28/2015 7:39:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

He probably already has. Hopefully they will pass the message along.


8 posted on 05/28/2015 7:40:16 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Biggirl
"Pope Francis Tells Couples To Wait Until Gay Marriage To Have Gay Sex".

Fixed it.

9 posted on 05/28/2015 7:41:21 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Lazamataz

When he speaks of faith and morals it is Catholic teachings. When he speaks of global warming and economics it’s his personal views. There’s a big difference.


10 posted on 05/28/2015 7:43:00 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("All the evils in the world are due to lukewarm Catholics" ~ Pope Pius V)
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To: NKP_Vet
When he speaks of global warming and economics it’s his personal views.

Too bad he can't keep those idiotic views to himself

11 posted on 05/28/2015 7:44:58 AM PDT by montag813 (Pray for Israel)
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To: GilesB
"This is one of the few times I wholeheartedly agree with this pope."

You, and probably 2 other people.

12 posted on 05/28/2015 7:47:09 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

You should do that to your public school teachers.


13 posted on 05/28/2015 8:09:24 AM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: Biggirl

Sorry to say this, but the 50’s are long gone, thanks to the late 60’s and onward. The Pope is urinating against the tide. Mother nature is in full control of sex, not the church. We now live in the world where “Porn Rules”. What was bad in the 50’s is now good, what was good is now bad. Look at what the internet has become, what is most viewed? What craziness has taken over? From the looks of things, someone is going to end up married to chimpanzee soon. Trying to control human sexual desire in long term relationships? It doesn’t work out, nature takes it’s course. Marriages are a committed loving relationship, where the right chemistry matches the couples. So if we want to marry someone, no sex before marriage? What if we don’t want to marry, we should go without sex for life? How did we all get here anyway, when did all these sex rules come into play and why? This Pope came from a country where having a mistress and additional children wasn’t frowned upon. (i.e.Eva Duarte?) How many Popes in the past have had children out of marriage, wasn’t it a Pope who also made the rules? If pre marital sex was so bad, why does it feel so good? LOL! No wonder the Muslims want to keep their religion, 5 wives, unlimited concubines, 72 virgins, and we want one with no sex before marriage? Agrhhhhhhh. LOL!!! What we have here, is a war against hormones.


14 posted on 05/28/2015 8:12:00 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: rwilson99

I would agree there is a huge a problem in our public schools as well.


15 posted on 05/28/2015 8:12:28 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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The pope is right. Sins include (but not limited to) fornication, adultery and homosexuality.


16 posted on 05/28/2015 8:13:55 AM PDT by ClarenceThomasfan (My dream ticket is Cruz/Rubio 2016)
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To: Biggirl

“Pope Francis Tells Couples To Wait Until Marriage To Have Sex”

It’s comical to imagine this pope pointing and scolding
a couple of rumprangers for buggering out of wedlock.
Francis the pope, for a more principled and moral homosexual union.

I’m sure he means well.


17 posted on 05/28/2015 8:29:15 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Much of what you say is so obviously true.

However, the nuclear family, a married couple, husband and wife, I think has proven to be, by far, the best institution for raising children and for family units. And marital fidelity is essential to preserve the integrity of both married and family life. Without marital fidelity marriage is essentially meaningless.

Your point about the availability porn and the internet is well taken. However, the same sins have been around for thousands of years but in different forms. For example, excavations in Pompeii show murals in brothels and even private homes as racy as anything you could find in Playboy or Penthouse. And rampant homosexuality is certainly nothing new. We can go back to ancient Rome or Greece and even the Old Testament if we want.

The question is do we want to live like wild animals and barbarians or pagans with no rules or restraints? Obviously (at least to me) physical intimacy between a man and a woman is something which is best managed when it is limited to the confines of Holy Matrimony. As someone who married somewhat later in life (my late 30s) I am certainly in no position to be lecturing others on premarital sex. I am guilty of that sin. But now that I am the father of young daughter myself, I have taught her that sexual relations should not occur outside of marriage and that STDs and unwanted pregnancies could also occur as the result of irresponsible behavior. I do believe that Holy Matrimony is God’s plan and that physical intimacy between a man and a woman is God’s most precious gift to the institution of marriage. And I do believe this most precious gift should be denied to no one, not even our priests.


18 posted on 05/28/2015 8:31:31 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: struggle

“But how will gay couples know that they’re compatible?”

Stool samples.


19 posted on 05/28/2015 8:32:01 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: GilesB
This is one of the few times I wholeheartedly agree with this pope.

Yes, me too.
20 posted on 05/28/2015 8:43:39 AM PDT by mlizzy ("Tell your troubles to Jesus," my wisecracking father used to say, and now I do.......at adoration.)
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