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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He should tell that to his priests.
Gay couples too?
But how will gay couples know that they’re compatible?
This is one of the few times I wholeheartedly agree with this pope.
No, not them - they’re special.
He probably already has. Hopefully they will pass the message along.
Fixed it.
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.
Too bad he can't keep those idiotic views to himself
You, and probably 2 other people.
You should do that to your public school teachers.
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.
I would agree there is a huge a problem in our public schools as well.
The pope is right. Sins include (but not limited to) fornication, adultery and homosexuality.
“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.
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.
“But how will gay couples know that they’re compatible?”
Stool samples.
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