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 ...
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.
Guaranteed this “Pope” has raped multiple little boys.
For years he’s done it. Guaranteed. Evil incarnate.
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.
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).
Sadly that usually is the case, as with liberal Prots.
The Bible according to Francis: “if it feels good, do it”
Both are sacrifices God rewards if done by those of saving heart-purifying regenerating penitent faith. (Acts 10:43; 15:7-9)
Despite what imbalanced souls as Jerome and Augustine taught, marital relations are not unclean or necessarily lust.
I have to check every story now to see if it’s from the Babylon Bee.
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.
I guess they're mostly deadly now.
"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!
I've heard that Joseph; Jesus' step-father; had a slightly different view of this.
You noticed too; eh?
Mary’s perpetual virginity does not negate the teaching that sexual unity and being open to life is a good of marriage.
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.
The non-ecumenical PC popes (i.e. preconciliar) would use the term "heretics".
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