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Pope Francis Touts 'Divine Pleasures' of Sex, Good Food, Rejects ‘Overzealous Morality' in New Book
Sputnik News ^ | 9/10/20 | Svetlana Ekimenko

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sputniknews.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Theology
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To: BenLurkin

My preference when using any reference to this pontiff is Payaso desviado . When the theocratic assertions moslem’s claim are mono theistic commands gets a well intentional embrace not condemnation from him ,A prayer to St Michael is in order.


21 posted on 09/10/2020 9:26:04 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: MurphsLaw
When I was a kid a friend of mine told me what his (old school Irish) mother told him when she found out he was on to the whole birds and the bees thing.
“ There’s nothing to overrated as sex. And nothing so underrated as takin’ a dump.’
The woman was a philosopher poet!
22 posted on 09/10/2020 9:29:41 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: I-ambush

Guaranteed this “Pope” has raped multiple little boys.

For years he’s done it. Guaranteed. Evil incarnate.


23 posted on 09/10/2020 9:57:50 PM PDT by Spaceman61
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To: marshmallow
I am missing the context, while the link to "The pontiff acknowledged in the book," leads to,

Pope Francis Appoints Six Women to Senior Vatican Roles..The 15-member Council for the Economy has never had a female appointee since it was formed in 2014. The appointment of six women to the body that oversees the Vatican’s finances is the most significant move Pope Francis has made in his commitment to giving more leadership roles in the Catholic Church to women.

Which is about the latest on this liberal lost soul.

24 posted on 09/11/2020 5:54:58 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: mosesdapoet; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; MamaB; ...
A prayer to St Michael is in order.

Prayer to created beings in Heaven is just one of the distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

25 posted on 09/11/2020 5:56:45 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: AlaskaErik
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.

Sadly that usually is the case, as with liberal Prots.

26 posted on 09/11/2020 5:56:51 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

The Bible according to Francis: “if it feels good, do it”


27 posted on 09/11/2020 5:57:47 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: JoanSmith
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.

Both are sacrifices God rewards if done by those of saving heart-purifying regenerating penitent faith. (Acts 10:43; 15:7-9)

28 posted on 09/11/2020 5:58:56 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: BenLurkin
Are the Seven Deadly Sins no longer deadly?

Despite what imbalanced souls as Jerome and Augustine taught, marital relations are not unclean or necessarily lust.

29 posted on 09/11/2020 6:01:44 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: marshmallow

I have to check every story now to see if it’s from the Babylon Bee.


30 posted on 09/11/2020 6:23:38 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: AlaskaErik; daniel1212
I've always been of the opinion that they are mutually exclusive. Either you're a catholic or you're a Christian.

Clearly, the Pope is trying not to use the word "Protestant" here, as it is not ecumenical PC for the clergy to use - nor though, does it even have a common descriptive understandability anymore.. so "Christian" is then assumed to be the preferred descriptor...

Not that the term "Christian" is anymore definitive as a label. Wile some may enjoy an erroneous "mutual" exclusivity of the terms "Catholic / Christian" ... One would find little agreement on what the word "Christian" actually can even mean anymore, inclusive of liberal sects or otherwise....

CS Lewis noted 80 years ago the term "Christian" had already been watered down to a diminished meaningfulness.... yet he was also savvy enough to stay away from the fact that for One thousand- five hundred years after the Resurrection, there were only Catholics, fighting heresy.

31 posted on 09/11/2020 8:07:03 AM PDT by MurphsLaw (His mother said to the servants..DO whatever HE tells you.)
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To: BenLurkin
Are the Seven Deadly Sins no longer deadly?

I guess they're mostly deadly now.

32 posted on 09/11/2020 12:57:28 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: marshmallow

"Pleasure arrives directly from God, it is neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor anything else, it is simply divine."

 

 

I just KNEW these two were NOT the same!


33 posted on 09/11/2020 2:36:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
...sexual pleasure is there to make love more beautiful and guarantee the perpetuation of the species,” says the Pope.

Ain't evolution wonderful!


34 posted on 09/11/2020 2:43:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: lastchance
If he stated that sexual pleasure is a good of marriage then he is not blaspheming.

I've heard that Joseph; Jesus' step-father; had a slightly different view of this.

35 posted on 09/11/2020 2:44:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AlaskaErik

You noticed too; eh?


36 posted on 09/11/2020 2:45:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Mary’s perpetual virginity does not negate the teaching that sexual unity and being open to life is a good of marriage.


37 posted on 09/11/2020 4:52:34 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: MurphsLaw

God did invent the holy Sacracmnt of Matrimony, only where heterosexual sex is permissible, and He did invent acts of penance such as fasting and abstention, both of which the rolly-polly, pervert failed to mention.


38 posted on 09/11/2020 5:10:16 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: MurphsLaw
Clearly, the Pope is trying not to use the word "Protestant" here, as it is not ecumenical PC for the clergy to use-

The non-ecumenical PC popes (i.e. preconciliar) would use the term "heretics".

39 posted on 09/11/2020 5:16:09 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: MurphsLaw; AlaskaErik
CS Lewis noted 80 years ago the term "Christian" had already been watered down to a diminished meaningfulness.... yet he was also savvy enough to stay away from the fact that for One thousand- five hundred years after the Resurrection, there were only Catholics, fighting heresy.

And progressively teaching it.

40 posted on 09/11/2020 6:13:40 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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