Lightworks pro crack.rarRoman Catholics by the millions live in a real-world culture of sin. This is the view of the papal nuncio, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who spoke in the Vatican on Saturday.
"Christians cannot be modern men and women if they live in a society that is not Catholic," said Sambi, to applause.
The clear implication is that Catholics should be at least nominally celibate, or at least married, and to live in sin in a world of supposed secular freedoms is to contradict the Gospel.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi
The nuncio's intervention is the latest indication of the primacy of the papal office in enforcing the apparently always enforced norms of Catholic sexual morality.
It also indicates that the Church is still far from accepting the more modern understanding of sexual relationships.
The nuncio has a loud megaphone. He is the papal ambassador to the Holy See. In a country with a huge Muslim population, some of whom are traditionalists, he is the visible face of Rome to millions of Catholics.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi addresses the annual Holy Land pilgrimage
Even though the city is officially secular, the five million strong population is overwhelmingly Christian and Catholic.
Not only is the pope a visible figure, he is also the first among equals of about 120 other bishops who live in the city and make up the College of Bishops.
It is not just a voice, it is a voice that holds significant authority.
Warming welcome
Sambi was warmly welcomed by pilgrims and observers. Many gathered to welcome the nuncio.
Sambi has been nuncio in Tel Aviv since 2011, the first time a Vatican diplomat has had a posting in the Holy Land.
He was a long-serving bishop in the southern Italian port town of Cagliari before taking the job.
He will meet Pope Francis, who will be on his first trip to Israel, on Saturday.
Sambi spoke of how he had seen the impact of the First World War on Catholics in his home town of Cagliari, and then how the secularization of modern Italian society led to the Church's decline.
"The [Catholic] Church does not exist in a bubble," he said.
"Catholics today live in a real-world culture of sin," he added. ac619d1d87
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