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Rome, Italy, Jul 7, 2009 / 10:19 pm (CNA).- The secretary general of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Mariano Crociata, said in a recent homily that the Church does not have any kind of contempt for the human body and sexuality, but that she does say “no to moral degradation and to contempt for modesty, sobriety and self-control.”
The bishop made his comments July 6 during a Mass on the feast of St. Maria Goretti at the house where the saint was martyred. He called the young saint “a witness of fidelity to one’s conscience and to God in the most extreme consequences and paid for with martyrdom.”
The testimony of Maria Goretti, who was stabbed 14 times in defense of her purity and who forgave her transgressor before dying, is still timely today and shows the need for rediscovering “words that are in disuse today, such as purity, chastity, virginity, which we struggle to say and that make us blush,” Bishop Crociata said.
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The bishop made his comments July 6 during a Mass on the feast of St. Maria Goretti at the house where the saint was martyred. He called the young saint “a witness of fidelity to one’s conscience and to God in the most extreme consequences and paid for with martyrdom.”
The testimony of Maria Goretti, who was stabbed 14 times in defense of her purity and who forgave her transgressor before dying, is still timely today and shows the need for rediscovering “words that are in disuse today, such as purity, chastity, virginity, which we struggle to say and that make us blush,” Bishop Crociata said.
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