■ Pope Francis warmly greets infamous ‘artist’ who created image of crucifix in urine.
ROME — Pope Francis has elevated Argentinian Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, his longtime friend and ghostwriter, as chief of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office…
Among the books written by the 60-year-old Fernandez, a past rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, was a surprising text titled Heal Me With Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, which he published in 1995 as a 33-year-old priest.
“The penetrating kiss is when you suck and slurp with the lips. The penetrating kiss is when you stick in your tongue. Watch out for teeth.”
“I want to clarify that this book was not written so much on my own experience, but based on the lives of people who kiss,” he wrote in the introduction. “In these pages I want to synthesize the popular feeling, what people feel when they think of a kiss, what mortals experience when they kiss.”
“Trying to synthesize the immense richness of life, these pages emerged in favor of kissing,” he wrote. “I hope they help you kiss better and motivate you to release the best of your being in a kiss…”
“I went to bars, colleges, businesses, in order to ask young people about what they knew to say about kissing,” he wrote. “I collected varied opinions about what a kiss means for them, about the different ways of kissing.”
Not my Pope.
Said by a priest, I find that statement rather disquieting.
Yes, a bozo. The only way to push back against leftists is to highlight and uphold their abuse of values. Hosting the piss Christ author was an attack on the values of the church from the person who is supposed to be its principal. Only a bozo in that position would need a person like me to point that out.
A bozo.
Someone has to say it – there is the thing of a transfer of germs; perhaps the bozo wrote a Consider Whom You Kiss chapter. Or one devoted to Those Who Have No One To Kiss.
Not written so much on his own experience? – thanks be – and who cares
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Placing folks like this in positions of influence then giving them a free pass, while scrutinising every misstep from your ideological opponents is the mo of marxists the world over.
The elevation of Francis is simply a stepping stone to this destination.
One of today’s readings is the escape of Lot from Sodom as the cities of the plain were obliterated. Seems like a good option in the current state of things. (But how long before that text is prosecuted as hate speech, or ‘disinformation’?)
So this book is not about Judas Iscariot?
Archbishop Vigano establishes a redoubt for victims of “deep Church.”
Interesting.
Bishop accountability group voices concerns about Archbishop Fernández appointment
Yeah no. Not so fast…
An arrest warrant isn’t proof.
She means alleged victims.
That is not the Prefect’s job, particularly. Doyle is right that the appointment is “baffling” but for the wrong reasons. Critics of Pope Francis have to be very careful not to fall in with bad company. Anne Barrett Doyle is a dishonest idiot.
No, Fernández has been appointed because Francis sees him as sympathetic to his ‘synodal’ ideas. Those ‘ideas’ will very soon cause worldwide scandal and – in their practical application – end up on the Prefect’s desk for adjudication.
Fair comment C.L.
My mistake.
Error even!
Not a mistake at all, NFA. Your link is the reason I looked her up!
That said, I was already a little concerned that some of Francis’s critics are going too far – and making some dodgy alliances with child abuse lobbyists – to prosecute their case. Englishman Damian Thompson is an example.
Thank you C.L. but I didn’t actually read the entire article before providing that link.
My bad!
And there is a rebuttal at CNA to Doyle’s allegations (which I have read… lol),
Archbishop Fernández didn’t side with alleged sex abuser, archdiocese says
PS
It is amazing to reflect and consider that Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria did all that he did by the age of 36.