In a book written in 1998, an Argentinian priest presented a spiritual reflection on human sexuality and the meaning of orgasm. The text was played again A controversial statement “Fiducia supplicans” issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope Francis, which allows same-sex couples to be blessed under certain conditions.
“Of course I wouldn't write it now,” Cardinal Fernandez told Crux, noting that he wrote the book when he was younger.
The cardinal noted that he canceled the publication of the book on sexual topics shortly after it appeared and “never allowed it to be reprinted.” But then Gayara realized that the book “may have been misinterpreted.”
– So I don't think it's a good idea to spread it now. “Actually, I didn't agree to it and it's against my will,” Fernandez said.
A controversial book
The book depicts an imaginative sensual relationship between Christ and a teenager, combines human orgasm with divine intimacy, and speaks of sinful sexual acts performed “without guilt and without losing the experience of God's grace and his love.”
In the seventh chapter of the book, Fernandez touches on the topic of pornography and sexual arousal, noting that “women (…) are less attracted than men to watching images with scenes of violence, images of orgies, etc. This does not mean that he is not aroused by hard pornography, but that he enjoys it less and appreciates it less.”
The text discusses “the possibility of reaching a kind of satisfying orgasm in the relationship with God, which does not mean physical changes so much as God is able to touch the spiritual-physical center of pleasure, a satisfaction that covers the whole human “experience”.
“Remember that God's grace can coexist with weaknesses as well as sins when there is a very strong conditioning. In such cases, a person may do something that is objectively sinful, but he is not guilty of it and does not do it. Lose God's grace,” he said. In the passage about homosexuality, the author.
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