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‘TIA Is Spreading Soft Porno’
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Re: Blessing Nudism at Tor Vergata
You do not need to spread soft porn to prove that progressivist Rome tolerates it. The presumption that such images will “shock” souls into resisting is a dangerous gamble that risks the opposite — stirring the passions and leading to sin.
This is not a grave necessity, and safer means exist. To rebuke your use of these images is not progressivism, nor is it covering for Rome. It is to challenge your means — because the temptation of the passions is a graver effect than any presumed good your “shock” might achieve. A good intention does not sanctify an evil means.
R.V., the Philippines
TIA responds:
R.V.,
We will divide your objections into parts to make it easier to answer them:
First objection: 'You are spreading soft porno'
We believe that you are over reacting by calling those photos soft porno. This can be proved by the following reasonings:
- To call those photos porno or soft porno is tantamount to calling the entire youth event in Tor Vergata porno or soft-porno, which is clearly an exaggeration.
- Immoral dresses like those worn in Tor Vergata are unfortunately seen everywhere in our cities – particularly at beaches and swimming pools – and photos of youth and adults dressed like this are extremely common in the daily media. To qualify all the persons who walk in the streets, stores, etc. in this type of apparel and all the media outlets that broadcast their photos as porno appears to be obsessive. So also, to qualify TIA as porno for posting those photos reveals the same lack of balance.
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Oxford Languages Dictionary defines pornography as “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic … feelings.” Now then, none of these elements are present in the ensemble of photos TIA posted.
- Therefore, the photos we posted were neither pornographic nor soft-pornographic. They are photos criticizing persons in poses and dresses that offend Catholic Morals, which are normally qualified as immoral photos.
As a consequence of this obsessive exaggeration without a base in reality, your accusation appears to be biased. What the real cause of your indignant criticism is, we leave open to speculation.Second objection: 'This is not a grave necessity'
We believe you are underestimating the importance of the event in Tor Vergata for the following reasons:
- You assume as something to be taken for granted that we have a “progressivist Rome.” This affirmation was indisputable until the end of Pope Francis pontificate. With the ascension of Pope Leo XIV to the See of Peter, this statement is being put in doubt by many Catholics, including many traditionalists. So, it is important to prove that the morals for youth have not changed under the new Pope. The fact that you are unaware of these expectations of the Catholic public regarding the new Pope shows that you are out of touch with reality.
- Pope Leo XIV is in the first months of his pontificate and the line he will adopt – progressivist, conservative, middle-of-the-road – is not clearly defined. Since Leo XIV is sending mixed symptoms in various different directions, many persons with these various tendencies are hoping he will take their position. So, it is important to expose all the indications
we are seeing that he is moving in the progressivist direction, in order to prevent persons from being fooled.
- The event in Tor Vergata is being presented by the Vatican and the press as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit and a sign that God is approving Leo XIV’s pontificate. So, it is important to prove it was not an event that adhered to Catholic Morals, and, therefore, could not be approved by God. The tolerance of the religious authorities toward bad customs
and immoral dress could never be a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
- These various factors characterize a grave necessity for TIA to expose Progressivism.
Third objection: 'I challenge your means … a good intention does not sanctify an evil means'In Catholic Morals there is a principle that is called principle of double effect, which affirms that something which normally has a bad effect – without being sinful per se – can be used in some circumstances to achieve a beneficial effect for an entire society, a sector of it, or for someone in particular. Some examples follow:
- A lawyer can bring to a court of law a photo of a woman in immoral dressing in order to prove the guilt or the innocence of a defendant. Should someone try to prevent the lawyer from doing this on the grounds that he would be promoting immorality, that objector could be charged with obstruction of justice.
- A police agent at an airport security checkpoint can search a woman by 'patting down' her body in order to check whether she is carrying weapons. If a person were to prevent the agent from doing so, accusing him of lascivious behavior because he had to touch private parts, that objector could be charged with complicity with terrorism.
- A physician may examine the private parts of a woman’s body for the sake of her health. If someone would prevent her from going to a doctor on the grounds that she would be sinning,
that objector could be damaging her well-being.
- A missionary preaching to primitive peoples can accept nudism for a while until he is able to convince them to dress with modesty. If someone would be scandalized with that nudism because it excites the passions, he would be preventing the conversion of those peoples to the Catholic Faith.
- At TIA we use the same principle in order to expose Progressisivism in the Church. Several times – in our section
Church Revolution in Pictures – we use photos that are immoral to prove that the religious authorities who accept such immoral dress, etc. are accomplices to that sinful behavior. They have the authority and obligation to reprimand such behavior and preach against it, not to smile and accept it. By exposing their complacency, we help to break the myth that those authorities are well-intentioned, a myth so frequently spread and accepted by many good Catholics.
We can see by your multiple objections that you are incapable of seriously considering the big picture. You are reducing the entire onslaught of Progressivism inside the Church to a matter to be evaluated under the narrow criterium of personal problems of purity. You are not putting things into perspective, and are dramatizing “the temptation of the passions.” This is neither a correct nor honest position.If you try to stop us from offering these proofs, you – no matter what is your main concern – favor the spread of this myth and deep down help Progressivism. With this, we also answer your Fourth objection: "To rebuke your use of these images is not Progressivism."
Although purity is a precious jewel that we must treasure and preserve at all costs, when it comes to defending the Catholic Church from her progressivist usurpers, we do not hesitate to denounce them by exposing their moral complacency with bad customs.
As a personal note of charity, we offer you this advice: When you visit our website and find these photos, use the same discretion of eyes that you must practice every day when you walk in the streets of your city where you find immoral clothing and bad customs very similar to the ones shown in our photos, and often much worse.
Be sure of our prayers for your intentions.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk