Pope Francis Speaks About Sex In The Vatican

<h4>Pope Francis Speaks About Sex<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Pope Francis has reportedly said that engaging in pornography &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;undermines sexual pleasure that is a gift from God”&comma; describing it as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;satisfaction without a relationship&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Delivering a homily at the Vatican as part of a series on vices and virtues on Wednesday&comma; the Pope described sexual pleasure as a gift from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">God<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the sermon focused on what he called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the demon of lust&comma;” the Pope said sexual pleasure needs to be disciplined with patience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Among all human pleasures&comma; sexuality has a powerful voice&period; It involves all the senses&semi; it dwells both in the body and in the psyche&comma; and this is very beautiful&semi; but if it is not disciplined with patience&comma; if it is not inscribed in a relationship and in a story where two individuals transform it into a loving dance&comma; it turns into a chain that deprives human beings of freedom&comma;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> the Pope said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sexual pleasure that is a gift from God is undermined by pornography&colon; satisfaction without relationship can generate forms of addiction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have to defend love&comma; the love of the heart&comma; of the mind&comma; of the body&comma; pure love in the giving of oneself to the other&period; And this is the beauty of sexual intercourse&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Pope’s address comes amid heavy criticism of Victor Manuel Fernández&comma; his new head of doctrine&comma; who has been under fire for a book he wrote and published in 1998 titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mystical Passion&colon; Spirituality and Sensuality&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Although the book has been out of circulation&comma; a blog disclosed its existence on January 8 and was later reported by other media outlets&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The book consists of nine chapters&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The fire of divine love&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A well of sublime passion&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A crazy love story&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mystical passion&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Until the end&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My beautiful one come&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Male and female orgasm&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The path to orgasm&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;God in the couple’s orgasm”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fernández said the book was drawn from research on male and female orgasm that he had done with a group of married couples intending to discover if it had any influence on the way they related to God&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fresh condemnations also come a month after the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith which Fernández heads introduced a declaration later approved by the Pope detailing guidelines allowing priests to bless same-sex couples relationships&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23709" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23709" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-23709" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;01&sol;sex-lives-e1705661117184-300x170&period;webp" alt&equals;"Pope Francis Speaks About Sex " width&equals;"300" height&equals;"170" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23709" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Male and female<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;