Did you hear THIS message from the pope?
He had plenty to say, but are you hearing it in the mainstream media?
Pope Benedict XVI urged tens of thousands of young Catholics packing a soccer stadium Thursday to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other “snares of evil,” and told them to promote life from “its beginning to natural end.”
The references to church prohibitions against abortion and euthanasia came in Benedict’s first major speech since arriving in Brazil, the world’s largest Catholic country, on his first pilgrimage to Latin America.
While he made no mention of the church’s battle against Brazil’s free distribution on condoms to combat AIDS, he touched on sexual themes with a call for fidelity between spouses and chastity “both within and outside marriage” — church language for responsible sex.
Chastity is not just “Church lanuguage”, though the Church is the only institution that dares to utter it. Who would argue against fidelty? Who puts down chastity? Let anyone make their argument, who has one.
Listen to the pope in Latin America this week. It’s going to be very interesting.
