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BERGOGLIO’S LAST TANGO –
Some readers may react strongly against this title saying: “Here comes that irreverent Atila again inventing an offensive title to put down our dear Pope Francis. He should be more respectful of the dead…”
My answer: I am not inventing anything. I am referring to the last preface Francis wrote to the book: Love Forever on marriage. Of his own free will he titled it: On Tango and Lasting Marriage. It was one of his final written works, shortly before his death.
The book was authored by Bernhard Meuser from the Austrian YouCat movement, which owns YouCat Foundation.
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YouCat is short for the Youth Catechism written and published in 2011 under the responsibility of Card. Christoph von Schönborn, then Archbishop of Vienna, today retired. So, I surmise that the movement was born in the wake of that Catechism and took its name from it. When the Youth Catechism was ready, Schönborn asked Benedict XVI to write a preface to it, which he did. Thus, recently the organization asked Francis for a similar performance for its new book Love Forever. Francis chose to take that opportunity to make an exaltation of the Argentine tango.
Before entering into an analysis of Francis’ words, let me remind my readers that in November 1913 the tango was duly condemned by St. Pius X as an immoral dance forbidden to Catholics.
Pope Bergoglio started his foreword with these phrases: “In my homeland of Argentina, there is a dance I love very much, one that I often participated in when I was young: the tango. Tango is a wonderful, free game between man and woman, filled with erotic charm and attraction.”
Such words seem more fitting coming from a bohemian in the red light district of Buenos Aires than from a religious, much less a Pope. Notwithstanding, here we see Francis confessing his attachment to the dance, and precisely for the reason that it was condemned: “Tango is wonderful … filled with erotic charm and attraction.” So, Bergoglio did not just disregard the condemnation of St. Pius X, but also he ignores the Sixth Commandment which orders us not to sin against chastity. In his view, having erotic charm is wonderful…
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He continued: “The male and female dancers court each other and experience closeness and distance, sensuality, attention, discipline and dignity. They rejoice in love and understand what it might mean to give themselves to someone completely.”
The presupposition of this description is that the man and the woman who are dancing are not married. As they dance, they are being erotically exited and enjoying a taste of that forbidden pleasure, and they imagine how a complete donation to one another would be. It is very difficult to not see in this affirmation an approval of the pre-marital sexual relationship. But, when such words come from the pen of a Pope, we have the state of sin being recommended as a “marvelous” experience to prepare for marriage. If this is not an invitation to sin, a scandal, then I no longer know what these words mean.
Bergoglio went on to reveal the shocking background of one of his famous documents: “Perhaps it is due to my distant memory of this dance that I have called my great apostolic exhortation on marriage Amoris Laetitia: the joy of love.”
Thus, the memories Jorge Bergoglio retained of his early sinful dances, which he as Pope considered “wonderful” for their “erotic charm,” were the inspiration for Amoris laetitia, an apostolic exhortation in which he as Vicar of Christ taught 1.4 billion Catholics how to live on earth.
After this scandalous beginning, Francis went on to commit another mistake. The Catholic Church always taught that the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children, and the secondary end is the mutual support of the spouses.
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He did not care about the offspring – this is not mentioned even once as an end of marriage – but he cared a lot about love: Marriage is to “take love to completion,” to be “capable of taking on the adventure of a love that lasts a lifetime.”
If a person who marries is not properly prepared, then he “dances the tango poorly,” because “the tango is a dance that must be learned.” Thus, for marriage preparation the young couple should read the book by YouCat which is a rendering of Amoris laetitia in youth language.
Young couples preparing for marriage should ready themselves and discuss the topics in the book with friends because “as I wrote in Amoris laetitia, ‘in young love, the dancing – step by step, a dance toward hope with eyes full of wonder – must not stop.’”
This is the moral legacy Francis left for History after 12 years as Pope: The ideal of marriage is to live “life to its fullness”; to enjoy love as in dancing a tango.
He initiated his pontificate with a tango feast at St. Peter’s Square. He finished it comparing the eroticism of the tango with marriage life. This sinful dance encompasses his pontificate from the beginning to his death.
I believe it is a good symbol of a man who – except for the Conciliar Popes – did more harm to the Catholic Church than all the other bad Popes together during her entire History.
My answer: I am not inventing anything. I am referring to the last preface Francis wrote to the book: Love Forever on marriage. Of his own free will he titled it: On Tango and Lasting Marriage. It was one of his final written works, shortly before his death.
The book was authored by Bernhard Meuser from the Austrian YouCat movement, which owns YouCat Foundation.
A tango feast was held in St. Peter's Square to celebrate Francis birthday - December 14, 2014
Before entering into an analysis of Francis’ words, let me remind my readers that in November 1913 the tango was duly condemned by St. Pius X as an immoral dance forbidden to Catholics.
Pope Bergoglio started his foreword with these phrases: “In my homeland of Argentina, there is a dance I love very much, one that I often participated in when I was young: the tango. Tango is a wonderful, free game between man and woman, filled with erotic charm and attraction.”
Such words seem more fitting coming from a bohemian in the red light district of Buenos Aires than from a religious, much less a Pope. Notwithstanding, here we see Francis confessing his attachment to the dance, and precisely for the reason that it was condemned: “Tango is wonderful … filled with erotic charm and attraction.” So, Bergoglio did not just disregard the condemnation of St. Pius X, but also he ignores the Sixth Commandment which orders us not to sin against chastity. In his view, having erotic charm is wonderful…
An apostolic letter inspired by the tango’s eroticism
The presupposition of this description is that the man and the woman who are dancing are not married. As they dance, they are being erotically exited and enjoying a taste of that forbidden pleasure, and they imagine how a complete donation to one another would be. It is very difficult to not see in this affirmation an approval of the pre-marital sexual relationship. But, when such words come from the pen of a Pope, we have the state of sin being recommended as a “marvelous” experience to prepare for marriage. If this is not an invitation to sin, a scandal, then I no longer know what these words mean.
Bergoglio went on to reveal the shocking background of one of his famous documents: “Perhaps it is due to my distant memory of this dance that I have called my great apostolic exhortation on marriage Amoris Laetitia: the joy of love.”
Thus, the memories Jorge Bergoglio retained of his early sinful dances, which he as Pope considered “wonderful” for their “erotic charm,” were the inspiration for Amoris laetitia, an apostolic exhortation in which he as Vicar of Christ taught 1.4 billion Catholics how to live on earth.
After this scandalous beginning, Francis went on to commit another mistake. The Catholic Church always taught that the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children, and the secondary end is the mutual support of the spouses.
‘A tango for Pope Francis’ -
Italians commemorate his birthday
If a person who marries is not properly prepared, then he “dances the tango poorly,” because “the tango is a dance that must be learned.” Thus, for marriage preparation the young couple should read the book by YouCat which is a rendering of Amoris laetitia in youth language.
Young couples preparing for marriage should ready themselves and discuss the topics in the book with friends because “as I wrote in Amoris laetitia, ‘in young love, the dancing – step by step, a dance toward hope with eyes full of wonder – must not stop.’”
This is the moral legacy Francis left for History after 12 years as Pope: The ideal of marriage is to live “life to its fullness”; to enjoy love as in dancing a tango.
He initiated his pontificate with a tango feast at St. Peter’s Square. He finished it comparing the eroticism of the tango with marriage life. This sinful dance encompasses his pontificate from the beginning to his death.
I believe it is a good symbol of a man who – except for the Conciliar Popes – did more harm to the Catholic Church than all the other bad Popes together during her entire History.
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