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Disney Film Features Pope Francis With Porn Creator

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) A radical pro-LGBT media giant has released a controversial film featuring Pope Francis in conversation with 10 young adults — including a porn creator, a Catholic pro-abortion activist and a nun who lost her faith. 

Disney+ promo for Amen: Francis Responds

The Catholic Church’s catechesis on sex is “still in diapers,” Francis tells his interlocutors in an 83-minute Spanish documentary titled Amen: Francis Responds, featured by Disney+ on its streaming service on the Wednesday of Holy Week. 

“We Catholics have not always had a mature catechesis on sex,” the pontiff noted when asked about the morality of masturbation. 

“But the expression of love is probably the central point of sexual activity. Anything that drags it to you and takes it away from that direction detracts from your sexual activity,” Francis explains. “Sex has its own dynamics; it has its own raison d’être.”

Francis listened attentively to Alessandra, a Colombian, who argued that she is justified in creating pornography and selling it on the internet because it allows her to value herself more and spend more time with her daughter.

The pope praises the potential of social networks as a tool to facilitate communication and establish human relationships but insists that “the morality of the media depends on how you use it.”

The Church cannot close the door to anyone. 

“If you sell drugs through the network, you are intoxicating young people, you are causing damage, you are fomenting a crime. If you establish mafia contacts through the network to create social situations, it is immoral,” Francis maintains. 

Milagros, from Argentina, tells the pope that she is a Catholic catechist and, at the same time, a proud pro-abortion activist. She handed Francis a green scarf inscribed with this slogan: “Free, safe and voluntary abortion.” 

 

The pope accepts her gift and tells the youth how he has always urged his priests to be pastoral in accompanying women who have had abortions by “not asking too many questions and being merciful, as Jesus is.”

Francis added that abortion must be viewed scientifically and objectively because any embryology book teaches that at conception the DNA is already outlined, and the organs are all already defined. “So it’s not a cluster of cells that come together but a human life,” he replied.

This doesn’t scandalize me.

“Is it permissible to eliminate a human life to solve the problem? Or if I go to a doctor, is it permissible to hire a hit man to eliminate a human life to solve a problem?” the pontiff asks the young adults. “It’s one thing to accompany the person who did it, quite another to justify the act.”

Celia, a Catholic girl who identifies as nonbinary, asks Francis if he knows what a nonbinary person is and if there is space in the Church for sexual and gender diversity. 

Pope with his interlocutors (top), directors of the film (below)

“Every person is a child of God, every person. God does not reject anyone; God is father. And I have no right to kick anyone out of the Church. Not only that, my duty is also to always welcome. The Church cannot close the door to anyone, to nobody,” the pope responded. 

Francis attacks those who use the Bible to justify excluding LGBT persons from the Church: “These people are infiltrators who take advantage of the Church for their personal passions, for their personal narrow-mindedness. It is one of the corruptions of the Church.”

Lucía, an ex-nun from Peru, explains why she lost her faith in Christ after suffering years of abuse in a religious community. She tells the pope she is happier now that she is neither a Catholic nor a believer. On the screen, images of her embracing another girl scroll by. 

“This doesn’t scandalize me,” the pope tells her. “This bad place, this place of corruption, this convent dehumanizes me. I go back to where I started to seek the humanity of my roots.”

The tension in the film increases when Juan, a Spaniard, tells Francis he was abused at the age of 11 by an Opus Dei numerary who worked as a teacher in his school. The perpetrator was convicted by a civil court but with a reduced sentence. 

We Catholics have not always had a mature catechesis on sex.

Francis is taken aback when Juan hands him the pope’s own personal reply addressed to the young man’s father, in which Francis told him that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would deal with the case at the canonical level. 

The young man, who confesses he is no longer a believer, tells the pope that the CDF has decided that the teacher should be reinstated, exempting him from responsibility.

Pro-LGBT activists support Disney’s woke culture

Stunned when he is challenged by the young adults over clerical sex abuse, the pontiff agrees to review the case: “These cases of abuse of minors do not become statute barred. And if they become statute barred over the years, I automatically remove that statute of limitations. I don’t want this to ever go statute barred.” 

Maria is an exception to the nonbelievers in the documentary. She tells the pope that she is proud of her Catholic faith. Addressing the other nine young adults who constantly disagree with her in the film, Maria explains how her relationship with Christ gives her life meaning. 

Francis listens to her attentively and admiringly but warns her that her journey will be difficult: “The testimony of faith you give touches my heart because it takes courage to say what you are saying in this meeting. Thanks for your testimony.” 

“I don’t want to scare you, but gather your strength and prepare for the test. Continue to do these things well, but when the test comes, don’t be frightened, because even in the moment of darkness, the Lord is there, Who is hidden there,” the pope assures her.

When asked about relationships, Francis assures the young adults that using dating apps like Tinder to meet potential partners is “normal,” despite the designers of the app promoting it as a tool for married people to engage in secret adulterous relationships.

If they become statute barred over the years, I automatically remove that statute of limitations.

Theologian Larry Chapp blasted the pope for responding to the questions in the documentary with “a melted gelato of word salad deflection.”

Chapp wrote: 

The Pontiff, probably out of a desire to truly engage the young people in a pastoral manner, comes across as a pastor who is pandering to his audience — and in so doing has “made a mess” of the Church’s clear teachings on these matters. 

Faithful Catholics have questioned why the pope consented to be filmed in a documentary for Disney, an organization that has intensified its war on the traditional family in its promotion of LGBT ideology. 

Disney threatened to block programs in support of the Boy Scouts because of the organization’s earlier policy that prohibited gay squadron leaders. 

Provita & Familia, an Italian Catholic pro-life organization, has issued a petition asking Disney to stop LGBT propaganda in its cartoons. 

Karey Burke, the president of the Disney General Entertainment Content and the “mother of a transgender child and of a pansexual child,” said she hoped that soon “50% of Disney cartoon characters would be LGBT.” 

In February, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., signed a bill depriving the Walt Disney Company of control of a special tax district surrounding Walt Disney World due to its opposition to his so-called “don’t say gay” law.

 

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