Pontiff approves Tinder, says Catholic sexual catechesis is ‘still in diapers’.

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) A radical pro-LGBT media giant has released a controversial film featuring Pope Francis in conversation with 10 young adults — including a porn creator, a Catholic pro-abortion activist and a nun who lost her faith.

The Catholic Church’s catechesis on sex is “still in diapers,” Francis tells his interlocutors in an 83-minute Spanish documentary titled Amen: Francis Responds, featured by Disney+ on its streaming service on the Wednesday of Holy Week.

“We Catholics have not always had a mature catechesis on sex,” the pontiff noted when asked about the morality of masturbation.

“But the expression of love is probably the central point of sexual activity. Anything that drags it to you and takes it away from that direction detracts from your sexual activity,” Francis explains. “Sex has its own dynamics; it has its own raison d’être.”

Francis listened attentively to Alessandra, a Colombian, who argued that she is justified in creating pornography and selling it on the internet because it allows her to value herself more and spend more time with her daughter.

The pope praises the potential of social networks as a tool to facilitate communication and establish human relationships but insists that “the morality of the media depends on how you use it.”

“If you sell drugs through the network, you are intoxicating young people, you are causing damage, you are fomenting a crime. If you establish mafia contacts through the network to create social situations, it is immoral,” Francis maintains.

Milagros, from Argentina, tells the pope that she is a Catholic catechist and, at the same time, a proud pro-abortion activist. She handed Francis a green scarf inscribed with this slogan: “Free, safe and voluntary abortion.”

The pope accepts her gift and tells the youth how he has always urged his priests to be pastoral in accompanying women who have had abortions by “not asking too many questions and being merciful, as Jesus is.”

Francis added that abortion must be viewed scientifically and objectively because any embryology book teaches that at conception the DNA is already outlined, and the organs are all already defined. “So it’s not a cluster of cells that come together but a human life,” he replied.

“Is it permissible to eliminate a human life to solve the problem? Or if I go to a doctor, is it permissible to hire a hit man to eliminate a human life to solve a problem?” the pontiff asks the young adults. “It’s one thing to accompany the person who did it, quite another to justify the act.”

Celia, a Catholic girl who identifies as nonbinary, asks Francis if he knows what a nonbinary person is and if there is space in the Church for sexual and gender diversity.

“Every person is a child of God, every person. God does not reject anyone; God is father. And I have no right to kick anyone out of the Church. Not only that, my duty is also to always welcome. The Church cannot close the door to anyone, to nobody,” the pope responded.

Francis attacks those who use the Bible to justify excluding LGBT persons from the Church: “These people are infiltrators who take advantage of the Church for their personal passions, for their personal narrow-mindedness. It is one of the corruptions of the Church.”

Lucía, an ex-nun from Peru, explains why she lost her faith in Christ after suffering years of abuse in a religious community. She tells the pope she is happier now that she is neither a Catholic nor a believer. On the screen, images of her embracing another girl scroll by.

“This doesn’t scandalize me,” the pope tells her. “This bad place, this place of corruption, this convent dehumanizes me. I go back to where I started to seek the humanity of my roots.”

The tension in the film increases when Juan, a Spaniard, tells Francis he was abused at the age of 11 by an Opus Dei numerary who worked as a teacher in his school. The perpetrator was convicted by a civil court but with a reduced sentence.

Francis is taken aback when Juan hands him the pope’s own personal reply addressed to the young man’s father, in which Francis told him that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would deal with the case at the canonical level.

The young man, who confesses he is no longer a believer, tells the pope that the CDF has decided that the teacher should be reinstated, exempting him from responsibility.

Stunned when he is challenged by the young adults over clerical sex abuse, the pontiff agrees to review the case: “These cases of abuse of minors do not become statute barred. And if they become statute barred over the years, I automatically remove that statute of limitations. I don’t want this to ever go statute barred.”

Maria is an exception to the nonbelievers in the documentary. She tells the pope that she is proud of her Catholic faith. Addressing the other nine young adults who constantly disagree with her in the film, Maria explains how her relationship with Christ gives her life meaning.

Francis listens to her attentively and admiringly but warns her that her journey will be difficult: “The testimony of faith you give touches my heart because it takes courage to say what you are saying in this meeting. Thanks for your testimony.”

“I don’t want to scare you, but gather your strength and prepare for the test. Continue to do these things well, but when the test comes, don’t be frightened, because even in the moment of darkness, the Lord is there, Who is hidden there,” the pope assures her.

When asked about relationships, Francis assures the young adults that using dating apps like Tinder to meet potential partners is “normal,” despite the designers of the app promoting it as a tool for married people to engage in secret adulterous relationships.

Theologian Larry Chapp blasted the pope for responding to the questions in the documentary with “a melted gelato of word salad deflection.”

Chapp wrote:

The Pontiff, probably out of a desire to truly engage the young people in a pastoral manner, comes across as a pastor who is pandering to his audience — and in so doing has “made a mess” of the Church’s clear teachings on these matters.

Faithful Catholics have questioned why the pope consented to be filmed in a documentary for Disney, an organization that has intensified its war on the traditional family in its promotion of LGBT ideology.

Disney threatened to block programs in support of the Boy Scouts because of the organization’s earlier policy that prohibited gay squadron leaders.

Provita & Familia, an Italian Catholic pro-life organization, has issued a petition asking Disney to stop LGBT propaganda in its cartoons.

Karey Burke, the president of the Disney General Entertainment Content and the “mother of a transgender child and of a pansexual child,” said she hoped that soon “50% of Disney cartoon characters would be LGBT.”

In February, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., signed a bill depriving the Walt Disney Company of control of a special tax district surrounding Walt Disney World due to its opposition to his so-called “don’t say gay” law.

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here is a division of the house. On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us that the mass murderers such as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and suicide bombers who detonate their explosive vests in crowded marketplaces and even mosques are individual anomalies and Islam is not responsible for what they do.

On the other hand, are those who have been fed up with the numberless daily horrific acts that are clearly committed under the banner of Islam throughout the world. In all fairness, there needs to be a distinction. Numerous criminal acts are also committed, on a daily basis, by non-Muslims. The critical difference is that non-Muslim criminals do not hoist a religious banner to justify their misdeeds, while Muslims proudly claim that they commit their heinous acts in obedience to the dictates of their religious faith.

“Investigators in the FBI and U.S. Army determined that Hasan acted alone and as of yet have found no evidence of links to terrorist groups, satisfied that his communications with Awlaki posed no threat. Regretfully, Attorney General Eric Holder has declined to state that radical Islam was the major motive for Hasan’s attack.”

Would someone, please, explain what motivated Nidal Hasan who had been, at tax payer’s expense, educated from college all the way through medical school and post-medical-school training, to turn his deadly weapons against a nation that gave him everything he had?

If Islam had nothing to do with what Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan did, why:

• had he repeatedly preached the ascendancy of Islam to the U.S. Constitution?
• had he publicly supported Islamic suicide bombing?
• had he proclaimed his highest loyalty to Islam?
• had he been in contact with violent anti-U.S. Islamists and a virulent Yemeni Imam?
• did he distribute copies of the Quran to people on the morning of his bloody attack?
• did he keep screaming “Allah-o-Akbar” as he heartlessly sprayed over a hundred bullets, killing thirteen and injuring some thirty innocent men and women?

Here is the truth, as bitter as it may be. Islam is the culprit. Islam is anything but a religion of peace. Violence is at the very core of Islam. Violence is institutionalized in the Muslim’s holy book, the Quran, in many suras:

Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

Qur’an:9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s cause; they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”

Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”

Qur’an:8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”

Qur’an:9:38 “Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah’s Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place.”

Qur’an:47:4 “When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

And the Quran is considered by Muslims as the word-for-word literal edicts of the Muslims’ god, Allah.

Right from the start, violence served as the engine of Islam under the command and supervision of Muhammad himself. For one, the Prophet’s son-in-law’s cousin, Ali, was titled the Commander of the Faithful for his unsurpassed feats of butchery. Ali with the assistance of one or two of his thugs, beheaded some seven hundred captives, most of them Jews, in only one day. This man, highly esteemed by the prophet of Allah, had a sword that had its own name—Zulfiqar. Ali’s portrait, holding the menacing sword, adorns the homes and shops throughout Shi’a’-lands. And the Shiites, at the same level as Muhammad, revere Muhammad’s executioner, Imam Ali.

On the Sunni side, Muhammad’s co-revered is Umar, another unabashed killer of untold numbers. And of course, the choice weapon of these champions of the religion of peace was the sword. And to this day, a sword adorns the flag of the birthplace of the religion of peace, Saudi Arabia.

And Islam, by the nature of its very doctrine, appeals to man’s base nature. It promotes intolerance, hatred, discrimination, and much more:

Qur’an:61:2 “O Muslims, why say one thing and do another? Grievously odious and hateful is it in the sight of Allah that you say that which you do not. Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in a battle array as if they were a solid cemented structure.”

In reality, Islam is like a deadly contagious disease. Once it invades the mind of its victim, this debilitating disease is capable of transforming him into a helpless pawn that has no choice but to execute what he is directed to do.

Of the reported 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, millions are already trapped in the terminal stages of this affliction while millions of others are rapidly joining them. The people enslaved with the extreme cases of Islamic mental disease are highly infectious. They actively work to transmit the disease to others, while they themselves engage in horrific acts of mayhem and violence to demonstrate their unconditional obedience to the dictates of the Islamic cult of violence.

The savagery and variety of the actions of these Islamic captives are seen daily around the globe. Many of these acts, committed under the banner of Islam, have become so commonplace that the world has come to view them as the normal part and parcel of troubled humanity. And, from time to time, the world is shocked into a passing and momentary realization of the evil deeds these Islamist robots commit and quickly gets over it and does nothing to seriously address this affliction of humanity.

November 5, 2009, dastardly mass murder at Fort Hood, committed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is no longer in the public eye. Life will continue on its deadly course, pushed along in a variety of ways by agents of death, Islamists. Only the families who lost their loved ones and those who survived the bullets have to live the rest of their lives with incapacitating injuries, in the main, won’t be able to put the episode behind them.

The mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan did not riddle people with bullets under the pressure of momentary insanity. The insanity, ironically, in a man who was trained to help people with sanity was introduced in him from the moment of birth and from the very early years when he prostrated himself five times daily toward Mecca in the expression of total submission to the dogma of hate called Islam.

Islam is a mental retrovirus that has mutated into numerous varieties and degrees of severity, over the past 1400 years. Everyone born in a Muslim family, as well as those who convert to Islam, contract a particular mutation of the Islamic Virus. As is the case with all retroviruses, the Islamic Virus burrows deeply in the person and erupts, from time to time with potentially devastating consequences.

The Islamic Virus first divests the person of his most fundamental human attribute. It takes away his right to make decisions himself and absolves him, in return, of any responsibility for his actions rendered in blind obedience to it.

A true Muslim does not and cannot believe in freedom of choice. In the religion of Islam—Submission—everything is up to Allah, as clearly and repeatedly stipulated in the Quran. The Raison d’être for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will and dictates of Allah. Everything that a “good” Muslim does is contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to believe.

Humanity is facing a deeply troubling dilemma. On the one hand, is the desire of enlightened people whose aim is to forge a world of diverse people into one universal society ruled by peace and justice for everyone while, on the other hand, Islamists are hell-bent on imposing their stone-age system on everyone. Tellingly, the Muslims themselves are at one another’s throats regarding which of dozens of Islamic sects’ dogma should rule.

For now, Islam is busy with what it did from the time of its birth, fighting the non-Muslims and infighting. Truth be told: Violence is the animating force of Islam. Islam is a religion born through violence, raised by violence, thrives on violence, and dies without violence.

©2023 Amil Imani. All rights reserved.

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