Pope gets crash course in joys of sex

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VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops from around the world got an unexpected lecture on the joys of sex, from a Catholic couple brought in to talk about what makes a marriage last.

Ron and Mavis Pirola, parents of four from Sydney, Australia, told a Vatican gathering of some 200 prelates that sexual attraction brought them together 57 years ago and that sex has helped keep them married for 55 years.

“The little things we did for each other, the telephone calls and love notes, the way we planned our day around each other and the things we shared were outward expressions of our longing to be intimate with each other,” the couple said in a joint statement to the closed meeting late Monday.

“Gradually we came to see that the only feature that distinguishes our sacramental relationship from that of any other good Christ-centred relationship is sexual intimacy, and that marriage is a sexual sacrament with its fullest expression in sexual intercourse.”

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[No Vested Interest]

1. The statement by the Pirolas should be required reading for all clerics

and for those men and women preparing for marriage.
It's too important to gloss over or bury.

[rug]

2. Absolutely. Sex isn't even on this list.

“The little things we did for each other, the telephone calls and love notes, the way we planned our day around each other and the things we shared were outward expressions of our longing to be intimate with each other,” the couple said in a joint statement to the closed meeting late Monday.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. Yes, it is, rug.

In the next paragraph.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

4. The last paragraph in the story says

“The unqualified welcome of homosexual couples into family and parish environments in fact damages everybody, by serving to normalize the disorder of homosexuality,” said Maria Madise, co-ordinator of Voice of the Family in a statement.

It damages everybody, in that people might actually not be as bigoted as Maria Madise. I'm not sure what religion Ms. Madise practices, but it surely isn't Christianity.

I just sent her an e-mail to that effect. The e-mail address for Voice of the Family is [e-mail]