JTN: Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, Pope Francis’ pick to serve as the Catholic Church’s doctrinal guardian, is defending his book, “Heal Me with Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing.”
Fernandez says conservative sectors within the church are criticizing how Francis designated him to lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office. The department was founded to defend the church against heresy and more recently has made statements about same-sex marriages.
“These are ultra-conservative sectors that deeply hate the Argentine pontiff (Francis),” Fernandez told The Associated Press on Sunday. “They take a phrase from the book and say: ‘Look at the level of this theologian. How can a person who uses these expressions be the prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith?”
Fernandez, 60, currently serves as an archbishop in Argentina. He said he wrote the controversial 80-page book in 1995 along with a group of young people when he worked as a parish priest. more
Stories like this make it difficult to accept ‘religion’ seriously.
Maybe that’s their intent.
So many wolves dressed as sheep.
Probably got pointers from the Dalai Lama
“21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
Romans 1, 21-36
ICYMI: Not just authors of questionable literature, the Vatican and its the current pope have been patrons of some questionable artists as well…
An odd gathering of contemporary artists with a papal audience:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pope-francis-artists-andres-serrano-vatican-2328251
And then there’s this guy, who is NOT a good artist OR a good person:
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2023/06/16/marko-rupnik-abuse-mosaics-245504
*sigh* So much scandal, so little outrage.