Recently, a 1998 book by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández (author of Fiducia Supplicans) containing sexually explicit language has come to light, in which he compares how “the particular characteristics of men and women during orgasm somehow appear in a mystical relationship with God”. The book also downplays the immoral nature of homosexuality.
Titled “Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality,” the Argentine cardinal’s 1998 work is based on themes from his scandalous work “Heal Me with Your Lips – The Art of Kissing”.
In particular, chapters 7, 8, and 9 were selected as containing particularly offensive material and were titled “Male and Female Orgasm”, “The Path to Orgasm”, and “GOD in the Couple Orgasm”, respectively.
Fernández, connecting the fullness of spirituality with the performance of sexual intercourse and orgasm, explored the question of “whether it is a mystical experience in which the entire being is embraced by God, or whether this type of ‘mystical orgasm’ is experienced by each person according to his/her sexuality.”
In particular, chapters 7, 8, and 9 were selected as containing particularly offensive material and were titled “Male and Female Orgasm”, “The Path to Orgasm”, and “GOD in the Couple Orgasm”, respectively.
Fernández, connecting the fullness of spirituality with the performance of sexual intercourse and orgasm, explored the question of “whether it is a mystical experience in which the entire being is embraced by God, or whether this type of ‘mystical orgasm’ is experienced by each person according to his/her sexuality.”
Writing in detailed, sexually explicit language about the act and completion of sexual intercourse, Fernández applied this concept to one’s relationship with God:
Let us now ask ourselves whether these characteristics of men and women during orgasm also appear in some way in the mystical relationship with God. It can be said that a woman, because she is more open, is also more willing to devote herself to God. She is more open to religious experiences. Perhaps that is why women dominate the churches.
Fernández also appears to have downplayed the power of God’s grace and the need for personal conversion and purity. In the closing passage of chapter 8, “The Road to Orgasm”, Fernández wrote about the inability of God’s grace to help us stop homosexual acts:
This does not necessarily mean, however, that this joyful experience of God’s love, if I achieve it, will free me from all my mental weaknesses. This does not mean, for example, that a homosexual will necessarily cease to be a homosexual.
Let us remember that God’s grace can coexist with weaknesses and even sins when there is a very strong conditioning. In such cases, a person can do objectively sinful things without being guilty and without losing God’s grace or the experience of His love.
Continuing, Fernandez said that an orgasmic relationship with God “leads us to another important consequence: it encourages us to discover that if God can be present at this level of our existence, he can also be present when two people love each other other and reach orgasm; and that orgasm experienced in the presence of God can also be a sublime act of worship of God.”
That’s not all of Fernanez’s antics. A short fragment of his homily delivered on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at the La Plata Cathedral has been published online. The entire ceremony can be seen at this LINK.
“Without realizing it,” says Monsignor. Fernández, the Church over the centuries developed a doctrine full of ossification, which stated that:
a) Only the baptized who are in God’s grace can receive Communion, and those who are in mortal sin cannot do so.
b) Sacramental absolution can only be received by those who repent of their sins and show a desire to repent.
This, according to the prelate, was “something terrible.” Fortunately, this happened in the times that have passed since Pope Francis began to change all these atrocities.
