Posted on 09/10/2020 7:48:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis granted three brief interviews to writer and environmentalist, Carlo Petrini, who proclaims his agnosticism. These were published in Italy on Wednesday in a volume entitled Terrafutura. In it, the Pope and the author reminisce about their grandmothers' cooking, and venture beyond gastronomic topics.
Pope Francis has touted life’s joys such as a delicious meal and loving sexual intercourse as “divine”, unjustly falling victim to “overzealousness” on the part of the Catholic Church in the past, according to a newly-published book, cited by AFP.
According to “TerraFutura, conversations with Pope Francis on integral ecology” by Italian writer Carlo Petrini, based on conversations with the pontiff, the 83-year-old, born in Jorge Bergoglio in Argentina, insists:
"Pleasure arrives directly from God, it is neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor anything else, it is simply divine."
The pontiff acknowledged in the book, published Wednesday, that the church had previously sought to promote an “overzealous morality” that denied pleasure, adding it was “a wrong interpretation of the Christian message”, according to the outlet.
“The Church has condemned inhuman, brutish, vulgar pleasure, but has on the other hand always accepted human, simple, moral pleasure,” he said.
Opposing views, states Pope Francis, “have caused enormous harm, which can still be felt strongly today”.
“The pleasure of eating is there to keep you healthy by eating, just like sexual pleasure is there to make love more beautiful and guarantee the perpetuation of the species,” says the Pope.
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The ImPopester isn’t even trying to hide his blasphemy anymore.
Are the Seven Deadly Sins no longer deadly?
Pope Soros.
I get the feeling Francis thinks all morality is overzealous.
Strange, for a putatively lifelong celibate.
Well, blasphemy aside,..... God DID invent Sex..... so the Pope at least has got that part right.....!!!
If he stated that sexual pleasure is a good of marriage then he is not blaspheming.
What fascinatingly DEVILISH ideas!!!
Sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.
I don't listen to this so called pope....he's a fraud...a shallow petty man with little regard for the sacred church.
Great...we have the Marquis de Sade posing as a pope.
This is brutal to take.
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All I can say is I’m glad I got my share of ‘divine pleasures’ before I got older with health issues.
At least he acknowledges there is a difference between catholics and Christians. I've always been of the opinion that they are mutually exclusive. Either you're a catholic or you're a Christian.
The pope has no idea what he’s talking about. He clearly has no idea the joy of chastity or the joy of fasting. Absolutely foreign ideas to him, which is telling us all about him.
My heart goes out to our Catholic friends who’ve had to endure this creep as your Pope!
I completely fail to see the joy of Chastity.
It’s amazing men and women ever get together at all :-)
Wow, it’s hard to believe that a Pope said that.
Why? He’s just a man and a bad one. And we have the original game plan in the Good Book. He is not my light to salvation.
Jesus is.
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