No one was nude. The woman had on native dress. Her breasts weren’t entirely covered. Her genitals certainly were covered by her skirt.
Breasts are sexual in the western world, but that is a western problem. Breasts are for feeding babies. Most indigenous peoples dress this way because female breasts are not sexualized.
They were not covered at all in front of the pope who was a westerner. I understand that it was a different culture, but there was a little girl (probably the daughter) in a western style children dress while (I’m guessing) her mom was fully exposed on her chest and the sides of her buttocks were obvious. Oh, during mass. Not to mention she was the lector. I just don’t get why she had to be nude in front of all those western priests and the pope. I mean, I feel bad wearing a one piece at the beach because it doesn’t cover me enough. What happened to spreading the gospel? Or, do the parts about modesty not apply because they they are “different cultures”? If that is the reasoning then I should be able to wear a string bikini considering the direction our “culture” is going.But, I don’t because I respect the message of our lady of Fatima who said “fashions” would be introduced that would be offensive to God. One of those fashions, I would venture to say, is having half nude people lecturing at mass.
That is you, conditioned by your own culture.
The natives in attendance weren’t pagans, they were fellow Catholics.
Papua New Guinea, not New Guinea. Half the land Mass is an independent state and different country.
I would never put on a one piece and go to the beach. I have the same ‘wow what is she wearing, or not’ that you have with this woman.
I am sure Our Lady would never wear a one piece to the beach.
This word ‘native’ is equivalent to the ‘N’ word in American Society. Please do not use it.
I would guess that he left the dress code up to his hosts at the location. Good for him. This reminds me of Paul’s approach as described in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. He serves others as they are.
I would have to say in this particular case, yes, because you are rejecting all the reasonable explanations that several people in the thread have given to you and insisting that your own view is the “Catholic” view.
The traditional dress of an indigenous people who probably have been dressing that way for hundreds of years, who do not see it as sexual or indecent, and whose dress is adapted to their climate and lifestyle is hardly “fashion”, nor was it just “introduced”.
shhh!
True. The pregnant belly and full breasts are testament to the mysterious gift of fertility. It makes me baulk to think that westerners who’ve no doubt at some point in their lives used contraception to thwart this gift revered as natural and divine in tribal cultures, have a gall to destroy that notion. Strange strange place the Catholic psyche has gone to.
In fact I wonder if people feel that it would not be theft to go into a persons home and destroy their condoms and pills as they are symbols of idol worship according to the New testament? Idolatry of the flesh is so serious as to prevent entering heaven/1ke:
True. The pregnant belly and full breasts are testament to the mysterious gift of fertility. It makes me baulk to think that westerners who’ve no doubt at some point in their lives used contraception to thwart this gift revered as natural and divine in tribal cultures, have a gall to destroy that notion. Strange strange place the Catholic psyche has gone to.