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The pleasures of sex or good food are divine and have been unjustly victims of the Church’s overzealousness in the past, Pope Francis said, quoted in an interview book published Wednesday.
“The pleasures come directly from God, they are not Catholic or Christian, or anything else. They are simply divine,” said Pope Francis, quoted in a book by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini.
“The Church condemned vulgar, inhuman, rude pleasure, but, on the other hand, it always accepted human, simple, moral pleasure,” the Pope added, quoted in the book “Terra-Futura, conversations with Pope Francis on ecology.” , written by Petrini, founder of the global movement “slow food”, with the aim of promoting greater enjoyment of food, valuing products, essentially local and seasonal, and raising the quality of meals.
In the past, there has been some “excessive zeal” from the Church, due to “a misinterpretation of the Christian message,” argues Pope Francis. “The pleasure of eating exists to keep us healthy through food, just as sexual pleasure exists to beautify love and guarantee the perpetuation of the species,” said the Pope.
“The pleasures of food and sex come from God,” Pope Francis emphasized, considering that the contrary opinions “were very harmful and are still felt in some cases today.”
As an example of the pleasures of life, Francisco mentions the movie “Babette’s Party.” A 1987 Danish production in which the lottery winner uses the money to give a banquet to a group of ultra-Puritan Protestants.
“The film is a hymn to Christian charity, to love,” said the Pope in the interview, who shares the views of the leader of the Catholic Church on conscious and humanized environmentalism, as reflected in the 2015 encyclical “Laudato Yes “, in which he criticizes consumerism and rebellious development, which requires a paradigm shift to combat environmental degradation and climate change.
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