US Catholics must rally for the removal of the Pope’s pervy prefect
Every time you think news out of the Vatican can’t get any weirder as we approach the end of the Francis papacy, another high-ranking, well-connected cleric asks for his beer to be held.
This week, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, came under fire over the discovery of a hardcore erotica book he authored in the late 1990s while serving as a priest in his native Argentina. Fernandez, who was handpicked by fellow Argentine Pope Francis for the lofty position in 2023, is commonly considered the second-most powerful figure in the Vatican and a potential papal successor.
To be clear, the book, titled Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality, is not the exquisitely sensual religious poetry of St. John of the Cross. It is pure smut. And perhaps worse for a man of Fernandez’s distinction, it’s second-rate smut: unimaginative, misogynistic, and downright creepy.
In one passage, Fernandez quotes a 15th-century Islamic theologian who once said, “Praise be to Allah, who establishes penises as hard and straight as spears to wage war on vaginas.”
In another, he examines the differences in pornography preferences between men and women: “A woman … is less attracted than a man to watching photos containing violent sexual scenes, orgies images, etc. This does not mean that she feels less aroused by hardcore pornography, but rather that she enjoys and values this less.”
In another chapter, Fernandez writes: “Let’s not forget that women have rich venous plexus around the vagina, which maintains good blood flow after orgasm. That’s why she’s usually insatiable. She needs to release the pelvic congestion, and when this doesn’t happen, after orgasm she may want more.”
I can’t even bring myself to describe the chapter that features a sexual encounter between Jesus and a 16-year-old girl.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini...fernandez/
Every time you think news out of the Vatican can’t get any weirder as we approach the end of the Francis papacy, another high-ranking, well-connected cleric asks for his beer to be held.
This week, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, came under fire over the discovery of a hardcore erotica book he authored in the late 1990s while serving as a priest in his native Argentina. Fernandez, who was handpicked by fellow Argentine Pope Francis for the lofty position in 2023, is commonly considered the second-most powerful figure in the Vatican and a potential papal successor.
To be clear, the book, titled Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality, is not the exquisitely sensual religious poetry of St. John of the Cross. It is pure smut. And perhaps worse for a man of Fernandez’s distinction, it’s second-rate smut: unimaginative, misogynistic, and downright creepy.
In one passage, Fernandez quotes a 15th-century Islamic theologian who once said, “Praise be to Allah, who establishes penises as hard and straight as spears to wage war on vaginas.”
In another, he examines the differences in pornography preferences between men and women: “A woman … is less attracted than a man to watching photos containing violent sexual scenes, orgies images, etc. This does not mean that she feels less aroused by hardcore pornography, but rather that she enjoys and values this less.”
In another chapter, Fernandez writes: “Let’s not forget that women have rich venous plexus around the vagina, which maintains good blood flow after orgasm. That’s why she’s usually insatiable. She needs to release the pelvic congestion, and when this doesn’t happen, after orgasm she may want more.”
I can’t even bring myself to describe the chapter that features a sexual encounter between Jesus and a 16-year-old girl.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini...fernandez/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
