Wanting to meet potential partners through dating apps like Tinder is "normal," and the church's teaching on sex is "still in diapers," Pope Francis said in a conversation with a group of young people gathered in Rome.
Other tidbits from the interview:
In a conversation on pornography and masturbation opened by a young woman who says she creates adult content, the pope said that "expressing yourself sɛҳuąƖly is a richness," but that "everything that diminishes real sɛҳuąƖ expression diminishes you too, it makes you partial, and it impoverishes that richness."
https://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-says-sex-beautiful-103235807.html
Compare these scandalous statements to this anecdote from the Middle Ages:
"St. Bridget of Sweden’s son Charles was presented to the pope wearing ‘a mantle on which were sewn whole ermine skins from top to bottom, so that when he walked it looked as if ermines were running all over him; and each ermine’s head had a little glided bell hung about the neck and a gold ring in its mouth.’ ‘You are a son of this world’, said the pope – accurately, no doubt, but ermine was a lot cheaper in Sweden."
- Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades, pg. 178
If this mere ostentation was enough to warrant the "You are a son of this world" rebuke from the pope that Charles met, imagine what this pope would have said to these young people!
For reference, the ermine is a kind of weasel that lives in Northern Europe. Example pictured below:
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