The Book of Gomorrah

[JimG]

According to this interview, it seems that St. Peter Damian might have written his book for our own times as well as the eleventh century.

Here’s an interview with the translator of a new edition of this book.

St. Peter Damian and Today’s Moral Crisis

 

[ProdglArchitect]

According to this interview, it seems that St. Peter Damian might have written his book for our own times as well as the eleventh century.

Here’s an interview with the translator of a new edition of this book.

St. Peter Damian and Today’s Moral Crisis

This just goes to reinforce the fact that nothing is new under the sun, and the problems we’re dealing with today have been faced, and defeated, before.

Also:

Indeed it connects this epidemic of sodomy with the abuse of “penitential sons” by confessors. It also approvingly quotes an ecclesiastical law that requires any cleric caught in an act of sexual abuse of a boy or adolescent to be publicly humiliated, bound in iron chains, required to fast on barley bread for months while imprisoned in a monastic cell, and then placed permanently in the custody of two other monks to prevent any further harm to children. Damian’s canon provides a stark contrast with the lax attitude that so many modern prelates have shown regarding the sexual abuse of minors, which has caused so much damage to souls and to the Church’s reputation in recent decades.

Why are we not still doing this? >_>

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to look for this book!

 

[JimG]

It should be noted that under the term of ‘sodomy,’ St. Peter Damian includes not just homosexual acts but contraception, masturbation, pederasty, and other sexual sins.