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Pope Francis opens the doors of the Catholic Church to "queer theology"? The question arises spontaneously after learning who leads the upcoming and now traditional spiritual exercises of Ariccia addressed to Pope Bergoglio himself and to the members of the Roman Curia, the Portuguese priest-poet was called José Tolentino de Mendonça, known to be a fan of Suor Maria Teresa Forcades i Vila, a theologian known for her "queer" positions who is currently in Italy to present her book "We are all different! For a Queer theology” (Castelvecchi Publisher).
As reported by theRoman Observer, the next ones spiritual exercises of Lentscheduled from 18 al 23 February ad Ariccia at the House of the Divine Master, they will in fact be held by the priest-poet, vice-rector of the Catholic University of Lisbon and consultant to the Pontifical Council for Culture, who chose as the theme of his meditation the «In praise of thirst».
But who is Sister Teresa Forcades? Forcades is a cloistered nun at the Benedictine monastery of Montserrat who travels the world to spread today's homosexualist word within the Catholic Church. In this role, she spoke Thursday 1 February in Reggio Emilia, as part of a series of conferences on the theme "Women's theology”, aimed at promoting the acceptance of homosexuality in the Catholic Church, of which, as the LGBT Christians website explains gionata.org, “The protagonists are female theologians who, with their analytical skills, manage to characterize and give a specific value to theological thought, to offer a new point of view, different, renewing, inclusive aimed at those who feel on the "margins" of the church”. Interviewed on the sidelines of her presentation, the Spanish nun underlined how the relationship between the Church and homosexuality has finally changed thanks to the advent of Pope Francis who attempted to do everything possible through Synod on the Family to change the Church's attitude towards homosexuality:
“I think Pope Francis tried to take a step forward in this sense with the synod on the family, he didn't manage to do it but it's not the same atmosphere as when Pope Francis wasn't there. For example, Sister Jeannine Gramick, who has been working for many years in the United States for the acceptance not only of being homosexual but also of homosexual activity, of physical homosexual love, he said that since Pope Francis arrived he has no longer had the pressure he felt before not to do this type of apostolate".
So the pitchforks he specified how in South America and Oceania, the local Churches are making important "steps forward" in dialogue with homosexuals. faster than in Europe, admitting however that, in recent times, and precisely since the arrival of the Argentine pontiff, also in terms of his experience he is finding much more open doors: “My experience to date is that I have found more people and people who support me, they support me and are close to me”.
The pitchforks she is therefore a clearly "partisan" nun who has never made a secret of her heterodox positions on matters of sexuality and the "renewal" of the Church and for this very reason she is celebrated and carried in the palm of her hand by mainstream cultural, in favor of a “queer revolution” within the Catholic Church.
Il 19 April 2015, interviewed by Corriere della Sera, when asked whether or not he was in favor of gay marriage, he responded like this:
«And, because sexual identities should not be considered as closed boxes that God wants to complement each other and which must remain this way forever, fixed in defined and separate roles. I live in the world and I see people of the same sex who love each other and ask me: “Why would it be wrong?”. They seem happy, they really love each other. Why then should they not be blessed? Why not inside the Church? Because we must not rejoice in the face of love, whatever form it takes ».
A few months later, il 9 February 2016, are The Republic had further clarified his thoughts on the matter, answering the question, “What do you think about civil unions and same-sex marriages?, they can be considered as a sacrament, they can function in the eyes of God and society?”, with the following words: “A sacrament is the manifestation of God's love in space and time. Love is always a sacrament of God if it respects the freedom of others. Possessive love, on the contrary, even if it's between a man and a woman, may not be sacramental in the profound meaning of the term". Then asked about her thoughts on children "adopted" by a homosexual family, with two fathers or with two mothers, the queer theologian had explained that she didn't see any kind of problem with it: "Yeah, absolutely. What children need is adult love, mature and responsible parents who put their needs before their own and who at the same time know how to set the right limits for them and help them grow. Growing up with two women or two men is no problem”.
It therefore seems apparently inconceivable, if it were not revealing of a precise "political plan" within the Catholic Church, the Vatican's choice to call him to lead the spiritual exercises in Ariccia José Tolentino de Mendonça, a priest known for his connection with a character as "exposed" and discussed as sweat Teresa Forcades. A bond based on an evident commonality of thought attested by a book by the Catalan nun entitled, Feminist theology in history, in which the priest-poet dedicated a flattering preface in which he praises the author's original ideas of which the West (and the Church), how to read it, you would do well to treasure: “Perhaps the history of the West would have been different if a symbolic way had been adopted, open and sensitive to approach reality instead of the triumphal univocal grammars we know. I repeat: perhaps the story was different. And it is precisely here that this extraordinary work by Teresa Forcades i Vila, the feminist theology of history, that the reader has in his hand, comes to our rescue”.
Tolentino de Mendonça therefore underlines how the apostolate of Forcades must be taken as a model to "free" Christianity from the dogmatic bonds of the past and present:
“Teresa Forcades i Vila is a name that, for many reasons, it's worth keeping in mind. (…) Wherever he acts, his method is courageously the same: point out contradictions and seek alternative interpretations that support a breakdown in meaning and civility. One of the convictions with which this book leaves us is that the future of Christianity depends greatly on the process of clearing out its past and its present.. There is a lot of silence, there is too much submerged life, there is a cultural repression that causes history, in its dominant version, hide what questions it and moves it in other directions. The Gospel of John says that “the Spirit blows where he wills” (Gv 3, 8), but history doesn't always know this. Ora, we need to hear the same thing told another way, reported by other voices, with unusual wording, starting from other experiences”.
The merit of Sister Forcades, always second to Tolentino de Mendonça, it would therefore be to have highlighted the importance of the ethics of relationships free from rigid and codified rules: “Teresa Forcades i Vila reminds us of the essential thing: which Jesus of Nazareth neither codified nor regulated. Jesus lived. Meaning what, he built an ethics of relationship; he somatized the poetics of his message in the visibility of his flesh; he exposed his own body as a premise”.
What spiritual fruits will the participants in the spiritual exercises of Ariccia obtain given these premises??
