VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Holy See Press Office pointed out Pope Francis’ shocking scatological diatribe against the media and replaced it with a disinfected version after the pope attacked sensationalist reporting using the harsh terminology of ‘coprophilia’ and ‘coprophagia’.
During the 100th anniversary of his founding, Francis spoke to journalists from the Catholic News Service (CNS) at Casa Santa Marta, recalling an earlier occasion in Argentina where he spoke to print journalists and used the same terms to describe the “sins” that harass, to denounce. journalism.
Encyclopedia.com, an online source referring to academic sources such as Oxford University Press, defines coprophilia as “the state of desire for sexual gratification and sexual arousal derived from the smell, taste, or sight of feces or as a result of feces.”
According to Encyclopedia.com, coprophilia, once almost exclusively associated with homosexuality, is “considered the most taboo sexual activity and is usually more or less insulted as violent or non-consensual acts such as rape and pedophilia.”
The journal Case Reports in Psychiatry defines coprophagy as “a rare and disturbing disease characterized by symptoms of forced bowel movements.” The term is used by dogs that eat their own feces or feces of another species, according to the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior.
Francis told reporters at CNS – the official news agency of the American Bishops’ Conference – in a private audience on Monday “not to forget these four sins: disinformation, harassment, libel and coprophilia.”
The lips that daily utter the holy words of devotion of Our Lord have uttered words in public that refer to the worst sexual depravity.
According to Vatican News, the pope defined ‘misinformation’ as ‘one side without the other’. Nuances are seen as journalists report on both sides. But misinformation is a sin because it leads to error.
However, Pope Francis did not pay attention to the failure of the Holy See Press Office to respond to media questions and requests for clarification.
The serious sin of ‘blasphemy’ is to tarnish a person’s reputation ‘with a lie’, while ‘blasphemy’ spells a person by recalling a past that no longer exists. Francis continued.
Eventually, the pope denounced ‘coprophilia’ and described it as ‘the love of filth’, which is motivated by the fact that ‘scandals sell’. People often have the downfall of ‘coprophagy’, or the use of scandals, he added.
A Vatican insider told Church Militant that an Argentine priest close to Francis begged the pope not to use harsh and contemptuous terms, which would be appropriate for the back streets of Buenos Aires, but not for consumption by the international media and the global church.
A Google image search for the word “coprophilia” immediately yields photos of Pope Francis along with immoral images of people engaging in dehumanizing psycho-sexual disorder.
Francis told the CNS delegation that the role of American Catholic journalists was to promote unity and to “try to get people to talk, reason together and seek the path of brotherhood.”
How wonderful it would be if the Petroleum Office were restored to the holiness and honor it held during the days of the Council of Chalcedon.
The pope slammed the section in the church, noting: “But if the communication media on one side or another throws gas on the fire, it does not help.”
“There may be traditionalist groups in the United States, but there are also here in the Vatican,” Francis remarked, referring to his familiar theme of traditionalists causing divisions in the Church. He remarked, “It can be healed.”
CNS tried to explain away Francis’ distasteful references, pointing out that the pope described ‘coprophilia’ as’ a love of filth ‘, because’ scandal sells’.
“As successor to St. Peter and divinely ordained Vicar of Christ, Pope Francis shares in the teaching office of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” popular Catholic writer Nick Donnelly told Church Militant. “His words must expose and enlighten the most exalted mysteries of the Most Holy Trinity before whom the seraphim protect their faces with their wings.”
“But those lips and tongues that daily utter the holy words of the dedication of Our Lord in persona Christi in the heart of the church, words spoke in public referring to the worst sexual depravity, ‘lamented the deacon from the diocese of Lancaster, England.
Donnelly expanded:
Where was concern about caring for souls? Where was respect for modesty? Where was the call to holiness? How wonderful it would be if the Petrin Office were restored to the holiness and honor it held during the days of the Council of Chalcedon when the bishops recited the wise words of Pope St. Leo I applauded by shouting “Peter has spoken!”
It appears that the pope is commenting on the media ‘four temptations’ in a December 2016 interview with the Belgian Catholic weekly Tertio, the online record of which was unprovenly maintained by the Holy See Press Office.
But if the communications media on one side or the other throws gas on the fire, it does not help.
In the interview, Francis uses both terms that refer to the “fecal” psychological disorders and says:
I believe that the media should be very clear, transparent and not fall prey – please, please – to the disease of coprophilia, which always wants to communicate scandal, wants to communicate ugly things, even if it is true. And since people are prone to the disease of coprophagy, it can do great harm.
A year before he was elected pope, the then cardinal Jorge Bergoglio told the Italian newspaper La Stampa: ‘Journalists sometimes run the risk of getting sick from coprophilia and thus inciting coprophagy, which is a sin that all men and women infected – that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. ‘
The interview took place following the VatiLeaks scandal – with leaked documents exposing the Vatican’s infighting and financial corruption.
Britain’s The Times calls Bergoglio’s controversy a “bizarre attack on journalists covering church scandals.”
“So, basically, Pope Francis says that journalists who talk s *** about the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church run the risk of eating s ***. Maybe a good point,” Business Insider said.
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