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    Papst Leo signalisiert eine Abkehr vom Fokus der katholischen Kirche auf Sex

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    1. Nuclear-Jester on

      Funnily enough, he is not the first Pope to propose this

      Pope John Paul I did show support for dropping the catholic ban qgainst contraceptives in 1978

      Unfortunately he died barely a month after his election as pope

    2. Substantial_Milk8170 on

      I’ll believe it when they shift that focus toward actual accountability and ending the cover-ups.

    3. Ok-Blackberry-3534 on

      „Can everyone *please* stop talking about sex around me. It’s like describing steak to a starving man…“

    5. Spiritual_Many_5675 on

      I mean so many Catholics became one issue voters. Either sex or abortion. So about time the pope tells them off for that. But the greater question is if they will listen.

    6. BreezyNate on

      I’m a Catholic – and the headline is comically misleading. 

      Sexual Ethics have never been a huge focus – but it’s certainly been the main focus of the media. 

    7. MalvernKid on

      It was so telling that JD Vance basically told the church to stick to condoms and abortion as issues and leave the desecration of US democratic values out of the conversation.

      I guess Leo didn’t get the memo ….

    9. Fire_Otter on

      *“It’s the strange thing about this church: it is obsessed with sex. Absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and our rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly, because it’s a primary impulse. It can be dangerous and dark and difficult; it’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting! The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.”*

      -Stephen Fry

    10. Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter on

      I agree, in the grand scheme of what Catholicism covers, Sex is soooooo unimportant compared to genocide, war, fascism, slavery etc etc etc

    11. luca097 on

      Its something that has been discussed for years in the church.
      A good friend of my dad is a Salesian monk and he try to do his thesis about sex and pleasure in relation to God , he was advise to not do that because it was a „hot theme“ and depending which professor/priest grade it could had really hampered is future work into the church ,this was in the 1970.

    12. steve_ample on

      Doesn’t really matter about whether it’s Catholicism or anything else – religious obsession about sex was always creepy.

    16. ScreenMuch90210 on

      They’re actually just going to move sex to a different parish and let it operate under another name

    17. andawer on

      Considering tha Jesus had (almost) nothing to say about sex and a lot of things to say about other stuff, like peace, compassion, helping other people etc. it’s high time 🙂

    18. Wisdomlost on

      The catholic church is against abortions. The catholic church is also against gay people. Who has less abortions than gay people? You’d think they would be natural allies. – George Carlin.

    22. hpff_robot on

      If you are reading this as a liberalization of sexual ethics, you’re in for a bad time. He’s saying he’s going to dedicate more energy into other topics of importance, not that dogma will change.

    23. Brym on

      This needs to trickle down to the diocesan level. A Catholic school is set to go to the Supreme Court to enshrine their right to exclude kids with gay or trans parents. If you want credit for toning down the hate, you have more work to do. 

    24. Evening-Row9022 on

      Crazy right? Religion lost its way with televangelists and the conservative party. Christianity was always about loving each other and learning how to live in community and respect each other regardless of your skin color, sexual orientation, gender expression/identity, and wealth.

      I cannot fathom being a conservative religious person. Who did you think Jesus was helping? Only the white heterosexual folks? Only the poor white folks? Jesus was a Palestinian Jew. He walked among the blind and disabled to teach them how to live again. He cured the sick. Get a grip and maybe stop caring about things that don’t matter in the bigger picture.

    25. SmokeyDBear on

      The church’s current sex planning method is supposedly around 80% effective. So that’s obviously not beyond God’s abilities to deal with but over 99% for condoms and other secular contraception is obviously taxing his purported omnipotency. I suspect that we were having enough sex that we would be able to reliably measure the exact point where God’s ability to sneak in a pregnancy breaks down and the church just couldn’t risk that being discovered.

    26. izwald88 on

      The Church should never have made it such a centerpiece. Jesus surrounded himself with sinners. The job of the Church is not to prevent humans from sinning. Humans are going to sin, and are born into sin, according to their teachings.

    29. icemelter4K on

      If they changed a few dozen rules Catholics would become 75% of the world population

    31. _Hipnotiq on

      It’s been noted before that the Bible references sex/sexual immorality a fraction of the amount (50-100 times) as other things like poverty and justice for the poor (~2000 times). Love (~500 times).

      Obviously the frequency in which they appear isn’t an argument for how important they are, but it does put some of the obsessions into perspective.

      Another interesting stat is that homosexuality is referenced less than 10 times. While adultery is mentioned over 5x that amount.

    34. NothaBanga on

      And the King will answer, „In truth I tell you, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.

      -Woke Jesus

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