PopeWatch woke up to this. PopeWatch will report as soon as he knows more.
Update 1:
Is this it?
I doubt if the news that Fernandez is a pervert in a cassock will surprise many. So low have the men controlling the Church fallen. An extract:
Sounds like the Pope has a fondness for clerics like Rupnik and Fernandez who use religion as an excuse to focus on what they are really interest in: sex.
Update 2:
This is getting legs. Catholic News Agency has just published a report on this. Go here to read it.
Let’s pray to Our Lady of Prompt Succor to help it happen.
Does it really matter if the same person who knowingly installed him will be the one to pick his replacement? Was he just following orders, or not?
Someone is publishing his mile high file of how all his writings had been found heretical?
I’m here to say it’s impossible for PF to pick anyone different than that group so Touchy or some unknown Touchy. 🤷🏻♀️
Pope Francis resign
We are creatures who live in time. I have come to think of time as a blessing in that it keeps man from having to deal with everything at once.
Time also is a finite. Whether it is three months or three years, this pontificate will only last a certain amount of time.
As such, time lost to them is our gain. Time spent replacing personnel and addressing scandal is time that cannot be spent advancing the agenda.
May Christ’s Church be protected from damage from within and without and may His little ones not be dissuaded by the folly of the age!
A priest!, a bishop!!, a cardinal!!!, Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith!!!!!! – turns out to be obsessed with the erotic.
We’re only 8 days into 2024 and already it’s Unbelievable, but not quite-
No wonder these men love Contraception, and hate NFP with it’s “total self giving”.
How did a book written by this guy in 1998 only just now come to the surface? Does anyone in the Vatican do any due diligence? Even it’s enemies are slow to the game.
They knew, and they knew the Pope wanted him anyway.
Yes, I think that’s the “bombshell.” Return to Tradition earlier this morning mentioned that Lepanto would be breaking news about a book worse than Heal Me With Your Mouth. I doubt anything will come of it besides a few days of spicy news coverage and the usual suspects (rightly) complaining about it.
“I doubt anything will come of it besides a few days of spicy news coverage and the usual suspects (rightly) complaining about it.”
Agreed, Jason. And the popesplainers will be chiding the rest of us for “worrying about the past.”
To be succeeded by Cardinal Malvolio Smegmatis, author of “Tongues and Saliva: Coming At You With Sexy Wetness”
How on earth does a supposedly celibate priest know that much about sex that he is able to write in that sort of graphic detail?
PF is completely incompetent. I wouldn’t trust him to run a washing machine let alone the Catholic Church.
Works such as this book are why, I think, the Church Fathers were (at least to modern sensibilities) very skeptical about sexuality and rather severe in advising its curtailment. Many of them lived in times of the explicit (in both senses of the word) melding of sexuality and religion. They knew that if you give reign to the passions you end up at the very least de facto spiritualizing them, which leads to a divinization of sex and the eventual eroticization of theology. FC is thus not some aberration but rather a step in the logical fulfillment of making peace with the Sexual
RevolutionRegression.”Sounds like the Pope has a fondness for clerics like Rupnik and Fernandez who use religion to focus on what they are really interested in: sex.”
As the excellent Henry Sire (writing under the pen name Marcantonio Colonna) explained about Francis in his book Dictator Pope, even as an Archbishop Bergoglio surrounded himself with staff of dubious morals— and meager qualifications.
Unlike men of integrity, such men are easy to control; and can be counted on to do whatever the boss wants. Having a scandalous or even criminal skeleton in the closet, coupled with an indifference to right and wrong describes the ideal employee for someone like Francis; who is interested primarily in his own power and control. And such men, if they outlive their usefulness or fail their boss, will likely find their past ‘discovered’ and be sent away.
This is why Francis systematically rooted out upright men from positions of power, and why he covers for the lowlifes with whom he surrounds himself.
While I mentioned earlier that I don’t think anything will come of this, I think there is a non-0% chance an ouster might have so much pressure behind it that there will be no choice. When news about Heal Me With Your Mouth came out, it was largely confined to small segments of the commentariat and news. After all, most Catholics are likely not paying attention to who the CDF/DDF prefect is (or even what that is!) (Tangent: future Pius XIII needs to just revert to “Inquisition.”)
But FC is something everyone knows about, and thus there might be more of this in the mainstream awareness. One weird creepy book from decades ago is one thing, but two makes a pattern, especially since FC deals with questions of sexuality. Even normies might be able to connect those dots.
I’m not saying it’s likely, but as the prophets Dumb and Dumber remarked: so you’re saying there’s a chance!
Amy Welborn notes that it’s Chapter 6 that is the skeeviest bit of the whole book.
https://twitter.com/amywelborn2/status/1744378104057885001
And now we wait as the popesplainers say how super-duper okey-fine orthodox this is.
It’s the Tucho Sex Book that is the bombshell.
Early analysis: It is a PR embarrassment for Pope Francis, but nothing may come of it. Not even a Tucho resignation.
Once again proving that the writings of academics are read by few until some unrelated matter comes to light and the “stuff” starts to smell. Might even take Dr. Gay off the news pages for a few days.
That’s how US seminaries have operated for decades and got us into this fix. That rot runs deep with many in who wear red and magenta among the compromised. We’re fools if we think Tucho is an aberration. He’s just been saying the quiet part out loud. And given how many are in “the club” nothing will come of it, save embarrassment by those with humility enough to be embarrassed for the Church.
St. Theresa of Avila had a mystical experience of God that pierced her heart and her whole being. Fernandez has God and man confused. When doing the will of God man has sex. In this instance sex has man.
I do not want to read this pornographic material: it is an occasion of sin. I think you should take it down.
How on earth does a supposedly celibate priest know that much about sex that he is able to write in that sort of graphic detail?
Epstein Island might of been the Lavender Mafia’s seminary of choice, Ezabelle.
Cure the infection.
Please.
Herod and his worms in heaven.
Sexual predators of innocent minor children may not have to go to hell if the worms do their best here on earth.
In seeking to murder the Infant Child Jesus, Herod murdered all infant children under the age of two years. Herod had Saint John the Baptist beheaded.
God sent worms which devoured Herod while he lived.
Sexual predators of innocent children need the same worms to devour them while they still live.
The worms will eat the scrotum, chum down the testicles and chew on the grissle in the penile tissue before they head for the voice box, the throat, the tongue, the ear drums, and once inside the sinuses they will wallow in the eye balls before eating them. The worms will not eat the brain of a stupid man for fear of become stupid, nor will the worms consume the black evil in the heart of a sexual pedator of innocent children. The black evil heart and stupid brain of a sexual predator of innocent minor children will be dumped outside for the wild dogs, dingoes and hyenas. The hyenas cannot stop laughing for the largess.
Meanwhile the worms swim down to the arms and eat until the finger nails fall off. The worms then chow down the legs until the toenails and knee caps fall away.
The sexual predator is in shock without his sex organs for that is which he lived. The stupid brain is still there but the criminal never paid it much mind if at all. The black evil heart was nothing more than a recepticle for more and more evil.
The plump overfed worms are billowing out of the predator’s bellybutton.
The predator cannot see without eyes nor hear without ear drums but his stupid brain is telling him that he is not in a good position.
The bones destined for the wild dogs, dingoes and laughing hyenas are showing having been sucked off of all warm flesh.
Herod and his worms ought to have been a sign to all sexual predators of innocent children, “God’s children are not for sale.” from the film The Sound of Freedom.
Send the worms, God, to save your children from predation and the predators from hell.
After his encounter with worms, Herod may have repented. Herod may be in heaven. John 14:1-6 There are many rooms in my Father’s house; (NIV)
I do not want to read this pornographic material: it is an occasion of sin. I think you should take it down.
It is an important story. I will not take it down. The true occasion of sin here is a Pope who would appoint such a man.
Mystical Orgasm and trying to equate love of God and God’s love of man, in this contexts proves one thing, imo. The anti-church is brazen enough to promote and unashamedly support a pervert Cardinal, who holds which office?
The DDF?
Anti Church isn’t a strong enough definition.
Satan’s lap dogs fit better.
These are not the hounds of heaven.
These are rabid vicious dogs of hell who seek the destruction of Holy Catholic Church.
What’s the other chapter intitled?
Mystical road to orgasm, according to the link provided.
There is no doubt. A non-fictional road to hell is paved with the corpses of religious who sold out Christ for less than 30 pieces of silver. That is your cue, Vick the dick. Sir.
“How on earth does a supposedly celibate priest know that much about sex that he is able to write in that sort of graphic detail?”
People used to ask the same question of Fr. Andrew Greeley with regard to his steamy novels, however, his sex scenes were nowhere near as explicit as those of other contemporary novelists and were absolutely chaste compared to this.
Philip said, “Cure the infection.” God isn’t going to tolerate these perversions from the Vatican forever, for He didn’t at Sodom and Gomorrah, and He didn’t when the Temple in Jerusalem was filled with abominations. Re-reading Genesis 18 and 19, and Ezekiel 8 through 11:13 may be appropriate. Just one SLBM would fix this. Sorry. I am an uncouthed, politically incorrect submarine sailor.
https://youtu.be/1aPvGGvnAGQ?si=6j032KAQ4COoh_0w
LQC:
The bolide that vaporized the Cities of the Plain was God’s equivalent to an SLBM. Interesting evidence for that event is causing a row in archeology.
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LQC.
Twenty twenty four. Taiwan has it’s election next week. November for US. Tensions abound in the middle east. Russia. China. Culture wars, Pornography through out the airwaves, child slavery and child extermination via abortion. A Church with a captain who advances scallywags and demotes experienced tested seamen.
If ever an era was ripe to end and a new era to begin, it would be our era. Twenty twenty four may well usher in a giant reset.
The living would envy the dead if ICBM’s became the hammer of chastisement.
I wouldn’t blame God if He chose not to thwart the missions of destruction.
It’s a hell of a time.
This scandal won’t go away regardless if Fernandez is flushed or not from his present position. The text of his book, especially chapter 6, will be around forever what with modern communication. The book is fodder for haters and enemies of the Catholic Church and perverts.
Maybe “ectasy” with its sexual and drug connotations is the wrong word to have been used with the saints’ interactions with God? Perhaps there is no word in human language that accurately describes one’s feelings when the Almighty speaks.
Ezabelle, Fernandez may have been lived a sinful youth as St. Augustine did. He was ordained in 1986 his early 20s. However Fernandez had been a priest for about ten years when The Art of Kissing was penned 1995 and Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality 1998. Augustine’s autobiographical Confessions was written in 13 books, each book starting with a prayer. Written as humble sinner. Augustine the13 books were meant to encourage conversion to Christianity. The few exerpts from Fernandez’ books, that I have seen, are plain erotica that does not encourage a path to holiness or salvation.
Creepy is how I would describe Cardinal Fernandez.
People used to ask the same question of Fr. Andrew Greeley with regard to his steamy novels,
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He co-authored a book with his sister in 1983 which got some caustic reviews. His sister sent a tetchy letter to one reviewer informing him that he could check the introduction to the book (which delineated who wrote what) and there you will discover that you’re roasting my brother over passages written by me. It’s a reasonable wager that Mary Jule Durkin (who bore seven children) gave her brother some off-the-books assistance as well.
I don’t see what the big scandal is. It reads like a science text book, not pornography.
@John, the comparison between a mystical experience with God and sexual orgasm is frankly offensive. Sadly I have not had a mystical experience (only God’s spiritual two by four aside my head during recovery from heroin addiction), but from all the mystical experiences I have read, whether in the Bible or in writings by the Saints and Church Fathers, never have I observe anything remotely resembling orgasm.
I do NOT want to see John’s reference library … EVER!
The devil is a liar. So, I am sure Fernandez’s orgasms are fake. Everybody in heaven knows Fernandez’s orgasms are fake. Only the souls who love God know what the sexual orgasm is. And the more power to them.
By the way: All the Herods, the HItlers, the Neros are all created in original innocence by “their Creator” “There are many rooms in my Father’s house (Heaven)” said Jesus.
When in heaven and the room adjacent is occupied by Herod and his worms; the room across the hall is occupied by Hitler; the room down the hall is occupied by Nero and the room down the other hall is occupied by Judas Iscariot, you will see the mercy and forgiveness of God.Be glad and rejoice.
John you are a troll. Wear the badge with honour you dirty man.
While no condemnation of Fernandez can be harsh enough, let us not forget how he obtained the position he has disgraced with his pornographic novels. As long as Bergolio reigns as Pope, expect no better as a replacement (or no replacement). The next head of this Office may be more sly, but he will continue to carry out Bergolio’s plan for the destruction of God’s Church, as Fernandez was doing.
CAM, the word “ecstasy” meaning “standing outside (of one’s own body) was literally invented to describe mystical spiritual experiences. It was only centuries later that some besmirched the word by using it in sexual and drug-abuse contexts.