By the way, look at the websites that happen to have this statement on them:
“590-604-Pope Gregory the Great said that all sexual desire is sinful in itself”
Future Church (www.futurechurch.org/fpm/history.htm)
Democratic Underground
Jesus never existed: www.jesusneverexisted.com/dark-age.htm
Yeah, those websites are soooooo diligent in their research of things.
Now this is helpful. Clearly RnMomof7 quoted a phrase that’s rocketing around the internet in anti-Catholic contexts. But none of the search result sites that I checked give any citation to a text from Gregory—these sites just hand on stuff that’s been floating around forever.
May RnMomo7 has another more detailed source that actually quoted (selectively and falsely) from Migne.