{"id":66,"date":"2008-02-25T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/erotic-catholicism-in-brazil-66.htm"},"modified":"2008-02-25T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T15:33:40","slug":"erotic-catholicism-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/erotic-catholicism-in-brazil-66.htm","title":{"rendered":"Erotic Catholicism in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informusic.it\/old\/padre_marcelo_rossi8.jpg\" height=\"347\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathtube.com\/mediadetails.php?key=1cf5a9a8fbc12d9b3309\">Chapter Seven <\/a>of my book The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity (available on line at another part of this web site) I examine the strong streak of erotic mysticism in Catholicism, a streak that turns to turn men off.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kath.net has a brief article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kath.net\/detail.php?id=19146\">Marcelo Rossi,<\/a> a Brazilian priest who is a hit pop singer whose newest album just sold 1.3 million copies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Here is a Rossi video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathtube.com\/mediadetails.php?key=1cf5a9a8fbc12d9b3309\">Sonda me<\/a>, Look at me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Notice:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The music is romantic love music<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">99% of the laity shown are women<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The erotic atmosphere is unmistakable.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">This is not to accuse Rossi of any misbehavior \u2013 he is simply using a strong and popular tradition in Catholic popular religion, but one that has unfortunate consequences in alienating men from the Church.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Our Brazilian housekeeper came in while I was playing the video and expressed her undying devotion to Rossi. Her English is limited, and my Portuguese non-existent, but she was trying to express part of Rossi\u2019s message about the body. I got the drift.<\/font><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-66\" data-postid=\"66\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-66 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chapter Seven of my book The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity (available on line at another part of this web site) I examine the strong streak of erotic mysticism in Catholicism, a streak that turns to turn men off.\u00a0 Kath.net has a brief article on Marcelo Rossi, a Brazilian priest who is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[68,1114,67,69],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-in-church","tag-brazil","tag-catholic-church","tag-marcelo-rossi","tag-sonda-me","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}