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501 | moreover
502 3,2 | young people well be the “morning watchmen”, faithful and
503 3,2(7)| sense, that in the large mosaic of the Redemptoris Mater
504 | mostly
505 3,2 | concluding ceremony. It was moving to observe the attraction
506 2,2 | hiding it underground (cf Mt 23:25) or in a handkerchief (
507 2,1 | of unrealistic hopes and mutual expectations of possession
508 | my
509 | myself
510 1 | without any presumption and naiveté) 3. But there are also some
511 3,2 | Sexuality…in summary---necessarily meets the reality of the
512 3,2 | still seem theoretical and needing further pedagogic mediation
513 3,1 | even more by God and by the neighbor. One who complains is not
514 1,0(1)| Libertà e maturità affettiva nel celibato consacrato, Bologna
515 3 | excessively risky, made up of never-ending trials, instead of emphasizing
516 3,2 | which is transformed into new life, it is salvation, as
517 2 | in the periodical scandal news or they amuse themselves
518 2,1 | indicating the dignity and nobility of each man and each woman,
519 1 | sexuality, but its outright non-management. It is not a Church problem,
520 | none
521 1 | crisis and the celibacy norm.~1.3.2- Second observation:
522 2,1 | they exist…~Virginity is nostalgia for one’s origins, like
523 1 | years ago, in which some not-infrequent episodes of violence came
524 2 | those who look upon it with notable diffidence and seek and
525 1 | same problems have been notably experienced also in other
526 3,2(6)| Novo Millennio Ineunte, 9~
527 1,0(2)| equal to 0.3% of the total number of American priests. While
528 1 | contradicted by facts, or numbers, and without any presumption
529 2 | and religious brothers and nuns. On the one side there is
530 2,2 | Virginity, universal formation objective~There is already a significant
531 3,1 | it is a choice that is obligatory and also free, humble and
532 1 | case African) in which the observance of celibacy would be impossible.
533 1 | celibacy norm.~1.3.2- Second observation: it is obvious that a society
534 1 | absolutely, but there are two observations to be made in that regard.~
535 3,2 | ceremony. It was moving to observe the attraction of this sign
536 2,0(4)| is more embarrassing than observing someone who does what you
537 1 | Second observation: it is obvious that a society like this
538 [Title] | it could have been a good occasion to formulate a full response
539 1 | well-known events, capable of occupying first place in the attention
540 1 | understand and store up what has occurred there.~1.6- It
541 3,2 | as a way of receiving and offering his/her own life.~On the
542 3,2 | care, standing beside as an older brother or sister, who knows
543 | Once
544 3,1 | already having been loved, is open to being loved even more
545 1 | cases, because the exact opposite is true. Pedophilia cases
546 1 | pedophile tendencies can be ordained). It is licit to ask ourselves
547 1 | is not an~intelligent and orderly management of sexuality,
548 1 | and to a lesser extent Oriental, were victimized at the
549 2,1 | he comes from God and is oriented toward Him, and virginn
550 [Title] | just so pertinent to our original topic, the connection between
551 2,1 | Virginity is nostalgia for one’s origins, like a wound that does
552 3,2 | certain extreme and painful outcome, of passion, of painful
553 1 | management of sexuality, but its outright non-management. It is not
554 3,1 | wealth in which everything is owed to one, and which has taken
555 2,1 | Paraphrasing what Bloy says about pain, we could say that man has
556 3,2(7)| of the Redemptoris Mater papal chapel, Fr. Rupnik depicted
557 3,1 | will be full…~It could seem paradoxical; and yet, here the Paschal
558 2,1(5)| In these next two paragraphs I am following my Un Dio
559 2,1 | from the One who made him. Paraphrasing what Bloy says about pain,
560 2,2 | interpretations that have given a partial and artificial idea of it,
561 3,2 | sexuality; virginity is a particular manifestation of the capacity
562 1 | also religious life seems party to the case in all these
563 3,2 | cross and sexuality, between Pasch and virginity, with all
564 3,2 | is a sexuality that has passed through the cross and resurrection;
565 3,1 | the choice for virginity passes through these two certainties,
566 3,1 | right direction in their past life.~The choice for virginity
567 2,1 | its happiest, conjugal or paternal/maternal or between friends,
568 3,2 | can be only prepared with patience and infinite care, standing
569 1,0(2)| 124 in the ‘70s are the peak, 53 in the ‘8’s, 2 in the
570 3,2 | unusual and strange, but pedagogically it is extremely effective.~
571 1 | wisely (if even persons with pedophile tendencies can be ordained).
572 1,0(2)| University, published last year (Pedophiles and Priests) there are currently
573 1 | such a mentality will have penetrated subtly also into the believing
574 1,0(2)| According to a study of Pennsylvania State University, published
575 2,2 | lived it for our private perfection, making it scarcely credible;
576 2 | their suspicious in the periodical scandal news or they amuse
577 3,2 | premise for it, like the phase of a route that can lead
578 [Title] | discernment, and finally, to pick up a link that seems precious
579 3,2 | North Star/Polaris, and pilgrim in our life, and we will
580 3,2 | and women, and laity. The pilgrimage of the Jubilee cross in
581 [Title] | reflection on the topic planned for this meeting, which
582 2 | recommendable to a young man who is planning his future. ~These reactions
583 1 | the characteristics of~ plasticity and all-invasiveness, so
584 3,2 | disguised as wanting to play with the other, even using
585 3,2 | cross, heart of the world~It pleased the Father to make all fullness
586 3,2 | the world”, the North Star/Polaris, and pilgrim in our life,
587 3,2 | effect of the charm of the Pope’s personality, but the fruit
588 3,2 | of the very precious and positive link between the cross and
589 2,1 | therefore “for” God. The person possesses a grandeur that comes to
590 2,1 | and mutual expectations of possession of one another, with the
591 1 | corresponding attitude, that is very possibilist, even in the admission criteria
592 2,0(4)| is the last sign of the possibility of living differently in
593 1 | choice, a verification, possibly not waiting for the diaconate
594 3,2 | its exuberance or by its potential disruptive force. And consequently
595 3,2 | a great example “of the power of community preparation,
596 2,1(5)| alla verginità, Milan 2002, pp. 11-16.~
597 1 | the presbyterate, of our practices of formation and of formation
598 1 | for some time it has been preached that homosexuality is a
599 3,2 | the greatest, is always preceded by a love received (Jesus
600 3,2 | person carries inside like a pregnant woman, even when he/she
601 3,2 | constitutes an indispensable premise for it, like the phase of
602 3,2 | dedicated… But it can be only prepared with patience and infinite
603 1 | celibacy in connection with the presbyterate, of our practices of formation
604 3,2 | to lack of clarity in the presentation both of the vocation and
605 3 | first perspective ends up presenting this option as excessively
606 2 | reaction or aggression of the press or certain publishing entities
607 1 | compromises between instinct that pressures and values that “draw” less
608 1 | numbers, and without any presumption and naiveté) 3. But there
609 2 | levels. But it is necessary previously to clarify the idea we have
610 1 | seems to be, a call to the priesthood there will also be the interior
611 2,0(4)| Priestly celibacy irritates many
612 1,0(3)| seven priests sentenced to prison for pedophilia (cf Bobbio,
613 2,2 | we have lived it for our private perfection, making it scarcely
614 2,1 | practicable, or embarrassing to proclaim. As we have experienced
615 2 | quality of his life and his proclamation: being celibate cannot but
616 1 | modern culture, and to the progressive process of trivializing
617 2,1 | which therefore cannot but project each human being to seek
618 1 | though it did not get much prominence, the document reserved to
619 3,2 | pedagogic mediation in order to promote a choice for virginal love.
620 1 | does there exist a real and proper formation to affective-sexual
621 2,1 | memory of beginnings and prophecy of the future, reminder
622 3,2 | precisely as Jesus had prophesied: “I, when I am lifted up
623 3,2 | millennium like that great prophet Fr. Alexander Men said.
624 1 | found, and even in greater proportion, in other categories, and
625 2,2 | of a pedagogical path to propose to others also, to whom
626 3,2 | be important not to fear proposing the icon of the cross, demonstrating
627 3,2 | the cross was the great protagonist, not only of the final vigil,
628 3,2 | nothing, again like the cross, provokes him at the same time, to
629 3,2 | nothing escapes its warmth”, Ps 18:7), and on the affective
630 2,1 | besides turning out to be psychologically disliked and hardly practicable,
631 1,0(2)| Pennsylvania State University, published last year (Pedophiles and
632 2 | of the press or certain publishing entities which seem voraciously
633 2 | is still understood as a purely clerical or religious fact,
634 3,2 | gives an order and corrects, purifies and grants full expression
635 2,2 | credible; we have often put up with it with little joy
636 1 | us to understand also the qualifying content on the exquisitely
637 1 | reflections and ask ourselves some questions around some fundamental
638 1 | attitude is legal, but it is quite natural that this mentality
639 3,2 | a young person, too…on a rational level, because it can give
640 2 | and in general the public reaction or aggression of the press
641 2 | planning his future. ~These reactions say a lot not only about
642 1 | will also be the interior readiness to live celibate? Is there
643 1 | it permits us to take a realistic look at the problem. Returning
644 1 | other local-national Church realities are involved. I think that
645 3,2 | even when he/she doesn’t realize he/she expects everything
646 2,1 | thirst for love. And if man really wants to love another human
647 1 | conscience only seeks-finds reasons for confirming its conduct,
648 1 | contexts. I think you will recall, even though it did not
649 3,1 | affection. This, also, must be recalled to the young person. So
650 1 | other categories, and in recalling that most cases of sexual
651 3,2 | world, can “bring together” (recapitulate) all things, give full meaning
652 3,2 | who gives life while he receives it from the Father, and
653 3,2 | choose virginity as a way of receiving and offering his/her own
654 | recent
655 3,2 | Jubilee of Youth had a secret, recognized by those few who were attentive.
656 2 | excessively demanding choice, not recommendable to a young man who is planning
657 3,2 | Christ, bringing together and reconciling all things in him and in
658 1 | sexual abuse were to be recorded as pedophilia cases, because
659 3,2(7)| the large mosaic of the Redemptoris Mater papal chapel, Fr.
660 1 | reality, impel us to make some reflections and ask ourselves some questions
661 1 | observations to be made in that regard.~1.3.1- The first,
662 1 | idea of celibacy for the reign, and I think that it is
663 3,2 | maximum realization of the relation and fecundity, the two essential
664 1 | clergy relate to homosexual relationships with adolescents2. But precisely
665 2,1 | prophecy of the future, reminder that arises from the radical
666 2 | forward, with significant repercussions in the formation context,
667 2 | the reverend. For all, it represents a risky and excessively
668 1 | Celibacy, in so far as it requires a certain type of renunciation
669 1 | prominence, the document reserved to the Congregation for
670 1 | times matrimony has not resolved the problems of the ex-priest1).
671 2 | cannot but have an immediate resonance on all these levels. But
672 2,1 | degree that it learns to respect that space, that direct
673 2,1 | other, because only God can respond fully to the human thirst
674 1 | considered as such). This in turn results in a lowering of defenses
675 1 | realistic look at the problem. Returning to the internal life of
676 3,2 | mystery. The cross helps to reveal it, to grasp its nature
677 3,2 | itself. The cross, in fact, reveals that…~- any gesture
678 2 | the infidelities of the reverend. For all, it represents
679 1 | is worth while going and reviewing precisely that idea, in
680 3,2 | and freed, moderate and rich with life, capable of renunciation
681 3,2 | to grasp its nature and richness, to give order to that energy
682 2,2 | looking for that path, we risked understanding very little
683 3,2 | of the cross, as a cross…road. Virginal love is fundamentally
684 3,2 | fact. The success of the Rome days of the Jubilee of Youth
685 2,1 | intense does well to make room in some way for God and
686 1 | exercise of an instinct deeply rooted in human nature, will always
687 3,2 | a Paschal mode, we have run in vain, and no choice of
688 3,2 | the human being, if our running and wearing ourselves out
689 3,2(7)| Mater papal chapel, Fr. Rupnik depicted all the risen souls
690 3,1 | not only a self-giving and sacrificial love, but it is also the
691 1 | find that area a type of safety valve, an exit route, obviously
692 2,0(4)| Avvenire” of 22/4/1995, p. 12). Sam Ewing echoes this in his
693 2,1 | One. It does not expect to satiate completely the other’s thirst
694 2,1 | s thirst for love nor be satiated by the other, because only
695 2,1 | them. On the contrary, God saves the love of man, to the
696 2 | suspicious in the periodical scandal news or they amuse themselves
697 2,2 | private perfection, making it scarcely credible; we have often
698 1 | the celibacy norm.~1.3.2- Second observation: it is obvious
699 3,2 | the Jubilee of Youth had a secret, recognized by those few
700 1 | and does not have to go seeking the necessary help who knows
701 1 | well, one’s conscience only seeks-finds reasons for confirming its
702 3,1 | virginity is not only a self-giving and sacrificial love, but
703 1 | community, also into the seminaries, to the extent of creating
704 3,2 | stormy wave of sentiments and sensations in a frequently confused
705 1,0(3)| there are seven priests sentenced to prison for pedophilia (
706 2,2 | Here is the sin: we have sequestered the concept of virginity,
707 2 | Virginity: sharing or sequestering of a charism?~ ~These facts,
708 3,2 | relationship with another seriously; with one different from
709 1,0(3)| In Italy there are seven priests sentenced to prison
710 1 | with responsibility (“have sex with whom you wish, how
711 3,2 | love: one who loves, in short, must by force of circumstances “
712 2,1 | dependence, infantilism, short-term belonging, weak fidelity
713 1 | in recent years, this is shown also by the fact that the
714 2 | brothers and nuns. On the one side there is a large part of
715 3,2 | though as demanding and signed by the Cross.” 6~The vocational
716 2,1 | virginn in its essence, signifies precisely this immediate
717 2,1 | relationship.~Virginity does not signify immediately and exclusively
718 3,2(7)| Paschal Time: “and with the signs of the passion lives immortal”.
719 2,2 | the others.~Here is the sin: we have sequestered the
720 | since
721 1 | ask is how much the N.A. situation is applicable also to other
722 3,1 | self be loved and enjoy the slightest sign of affection. This,
723 3,2 | gesture of love, from the smallest to the greatest, is always
724 1 | of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and then
725 1 | demanding and culturally (and sociologically) “dissonant.”~1.3-
726 2,1 | and does not violate that solitude where every human being
727 | sometimes
728 3,2 | the same sentiments as the Son who gives life while he
729 1 | area of~ the personality sooner or later will affect the
730 1 | But precisely this has a sort of explanation. For some
731 3,2(7)| Rupnik depicted all the risen souls with the stigmata.
732 1 | events: it is not correct to speak generically of pedophilia,
733 2,1 | the radical depths of the species (almost Jungian archetype);
734 3,1 | the psychological plane, spell affective freedom for a
735 2,2 | it. Especially, we have spiritualized it, taking away its concreteness
736 3,2 | are still frightened, in spite of appearance and a certain
737 2,1 | everything else that can spoil the human relationship.~
738 3,2 | be an extemporaneous and spontaneous decision, nor can it be
739 1 | if bit by bit the idea spreads that… a transgression in
740 2 | ongoing formation and its stages, and therefore also in the
741 3,2 | patience and infinite care, standing beside as an older brother
742 1 | this disruptive crisis stands to tell us some very precise
743 3,2 | of the world”, the North Star/Polaris, and pilgrim in
744 1,0(1)| reading of the data of the statistical “Annuario” of the Church:
745 1 | to try to understand and store up what has occurred there.~
746 3,2 | unpredictable and often stormy wave of sentiments and sensations
747 [Title] | strategy based on the concrete story, as painful as it was. Many
748 3,2 | give those two certainties strategic for the choice of virginity
749 [Title] | precise vocation pedagogy and strategy based on the concrete story,
750 2 | themselves by digging up and stressing the infidelities of the
751 2 | choices of the majority, and strictly pertinent to priests and
752 2,2 | virginity”; it is necessary to strip it of all those mistaken
753 3,2 | has an intrinsic Paschal structure and which therefore always
754 1,0(2)| According to a study of Pennsylvania State University,
755 2 | look at this concept, to subject it to healthy reflection.
756 2 | which in some way we undergo/submit to (also from public opinion),
757 2 | religious fact, something substantially unnatural and outside the
758 [Title] | Text~ ~The subtitle of our conversation says
759 1 | mentality will have penetrated subtly also into the believing
760 3,2 | consoling thing, in fact. The success of the Rome days of the
761 3,2 | attentive. It was not a sudden firecracker or the effect
762 3,2 | even to the most irrational suffering “nothing escapes its warmth”,
763 3,2 | Sexuality…in summary---necessarily meets the reality
764 2 | more than everything of the super-man priest or brother, almost
765 3,2 | I would not want to do superficial or unjustified interterpretations,
766 3,1 | loved and able to love), surely there could also be many
767 1,0(2)| are currently 60 priests suspended for sexual abuse (that is
768 2 | fine confirmation of their suspicious in the periodical scandal
769 3,2 | Eph 1:10) The cross is symbol and icon of virginal love,
770 3,2 | excludes no one. It is a synthesis of the highest level of
771 3,2 | believe that the thematic and systematic contact with the mystery
772 3,1 | owed to one, and which has taken away the freedom of enjoying
773 3,2 | drama in the life of one who takes relationship with another
774 [Title] | than it was in reality: the talks touched the dramatic problem
775 3,2 | maintain or rediscover the taste for being educators, without
776 1 | the psychological order, teaches that sexuality has the characteristics
777 2,2 | had to defend it from the tempting world, hiding it underground (
778 1 | even persons with pedophile tendencies can be ordained). It is
779 2,2 | recover the truth of the term “virginity”; it is necessary
780 [Title] | very aggressive in that territory.~Certainly, the topic could
781 [Title] | Text~ ~The subtitle of our conversation
782 3,2 | registers.~I believe that the thematic and systematic contact with
783 3,2 | of this might still seem theoretical and needing further pedagogic
784 2,1 | Virginity, this is our thesis, describes in some way the
785 3 | to insist on this way of thinking. Also because the first
786 3,1 | grateful for it, everybody thinks they have the right to complain
787 3,2 | at the beginning of the third millennium like that great
788 2 | entities which seem voraciously thirsty for clerical scandals, tell
789 2,2 | were a misfortune; we have thought we had to defend it from
790 1 | first of all, seems to be tied to the difficulty of managing
791 3,2 | from this point of view, told us a very consoling thing,
792 3,2 | the World Youth Day (as a Tor Vergata), where the cross
793 3,2 | above all, knows how to touch the right registers.~I believe
794 [Title] | was in reality: the talks touched the dramatic problem only
795 3,2 | mystery, it is death which is transformed into new life, it is salvation,
796 1 | the idea spreads that… a transgression in that sense is not so
797 3,2 | wearing ourselves out do not transmit the idea that love lives
798 3,2 | crucified-risen; therefore it must travel that precise itinerary,
799 [Title] | a vocation topic. I will treat only this element.~ ~We
800 1 | and therefore are to be “treated” elsewhere (that is why
801 3 | made up of never-ending trials, instead of emphasizing
802 3,1 | these two certainties, or tries to accompany the person
803 1 | the progressive process of trivializing and devaluing sexuality,
804 1 | exploded in a dimension so troublesome must be connected with this
805 2,1 | from the outside, besides turning out to be psychologically
806 2,1(5)| amare. La vocazione per tutti alla verginità, Milan 2002,
807 2,1(5)| paragraphs I am following my Un Dio da amare. La vocazione
808 2,2 | and little love, making it unattractive; almost as though it were
809 1 | be assumed, perhaps even unconsciously or implicitly, also by the
810 3,2 | precisely everything, also to uncontainable youthful sexuality and to
811 | under
812 2 | challenged, which in some way we undergo/submit to (also from public
813 1 | imposed and not chosen, undergone and not loved, cause and
814 2,2 | tempting world, hiding it underground (cf Mt 23:25) or in a handkerchief (
815 2,2 | for that path, we risked understanding very little of it ourselves,
816 2 | part of public opinion that understands it as something irritating
817 2,1 | we have experienced and, unfortunately, continue to experience~
818 2,2 | 2.2 Virginity, universal formation objective~There
819 1,0(2)| study of Pennsylvania State University, published last year (Pedophiles
820 3,2 | want to do superficial or unjustified interterpretations, but
821 2 | something substantially unnatural and outside the time, the
822 2,2 | about it, maybe, making it unpleasant and arrogant; we have lived
823 3,2 | can it be entrusted to an unpredictable and often stormy wave of
824 2,1 | excessive responsibility, of unrealistic hopes and mutual expectations
825 3,2 | Paschal mystery. It may seem unusual and strange, but pedagogically
826 | upon
827 1 | truly disconcerting and upsetting fact. Among other things,
828 | used
829 | using
830 3,2 | enough to awaken it or the usual example of the “father”
831 3,2 | registers. Which perhaps we utilize little, frightened by the
832 2,0(4)| differently in the world” (V. Messori, in “Avvenire”
833 3,2 | and of essential Christian value”.~If the cross will continue
834 1 | instinct that pressures and values that “draw” less and less.
835 1 | that area a type of safety valve, an exit route, obviously
836 1 | homosexuality is a simple variation of the sexual tendency (
837 3,2 | cross, demonstrating that we’ve understood the lesson of
838 1 | moreover, sometimes~they are vented precisely there; they find
839 3,2 | World Youth Day (as a Tor Vergata), where the cross was the
840 2,1(5)| vocazione per tutti alla verginità, Milan 2002, pp. 11-16.~
841 1 | Church problem, it seems, verifiable by the fact that the same
842 1 | lesser extent Oriental, were victimized at the hands of priests
843 3,2 | protagonist, not only of the final vigil, but of the World Youth
844 1 | not-infrequent episodes of violence came to light, in which
845 2,1 | 2.1 Virginal-spousal character of the human being5~
846 2,1 | oriented toward Him, and virginn in its essence, signifies
847 3,2 | using him/her; also to that visceral need for love that the young
848 2,1(5)| following my Un Dio da amare. La vocazione per tutti alla verginità,
849 2 | publishing entities which seem voraciously thirsty for clerical scandals,
850 1 | admission to orders (or to vows) is not always done wisely (
851 3,2 | or sister, who knows the walls and basements of the heart,
852 3,2 | vain labor.~I would not want to do superficial or unjustified
853 3,2 | suffering “nothing escapes its warmth”, Ps 18:7), and on the affective
854 3,2 | people well be the “morning watchmen”, faithful and joyous witnesses
855 2,1 | infantilism, short-term belonging, weak fidelity and everything
856 [Title] | moments of major human weakness have been moments of grace
857 3,1 | that, in this society of wealth in which everything is owed
858 3,2 | being, if our running and wearing ourselves out do not transmit
859 1 | of the media in the last weeks, even though they relate
860 2,1 | relationship with an impossible weight and excessive responsibility,
861 2,1 | much and forever, he must welcome God’s love in himself, in
862 1 | at interpretation~ ~The well-known events, capable of occupying
863 | whatever
864 | whether
865 3,1 | about. One who complains (whines), therefore, will never
866 3,2 | father” or the “sister” wholly dedicated… But it can be
867 1 | problems for someone who wishes to live a celibate life
868 | within
869 2 | about the quality of our witness.~It is necessary and absolutely
870 3,2 | watchmen”, faithful and joyous witnesses of the Gospel, jealous and
871 3,2 | interterpretations, but I wonder if also the N.A. crisis
872 3,2 | 3.2.1- That mysterious wood…~There is a mysterious bond
873 1 | and I think that it is worth while going and reviewing
874 2,1 | for one’s origins, like a wound that does not heal, memory
875 1 | perhaps there is nothing wrong with it. Often, we know
876 3,2 | everything, also to uncontainable youthful sexuality and to that need
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