Porn or Confession? Priest Tells All
 

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Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - A 77-year-old
Roman Catholic priest in Argentina has published his
memoirs recounting sex with women and a frustrated gay
liaison, angering Church officials.

The autobiography "No Beating About The Bush. The Life
of a Priest," tells of the life and loves of Father
Jose Mariani in a posh parish in Cordoba, Argentina's
third biggest city where he has been a priest for 53
years.

"I could hear my heart beat in ecstasy before the
beauty of the body offered before me. I smothered the
body with the sweat of my skin," Mariani wrote in the
book about having sex with a woman.

One secret romance ended when the woman's five
brothers and her parents discovered the liaison and
took her away from the parish to escape the priest.

Elsewhere in the book he wrote how he tried to have
sex with "Antonio" but "our mutual inhibitions
conquered our momentary permissiveness and openness."

The book's first edition of 3,000 copies had almost
sold out in Cordoba, where it was printed by a local
publisher. Radio stations in Cordoba, which has over 1
million inhabitants, were jammed with calls by
listeners as controversy over the book surged.

Roman Catholic officials criticized the book for
advocating an end to celibacy. "In my personal opinion
... it should not have been published," said Gustavo
Loza, an official in the press office of Cordoba's
Archbishop Carlos Nanez of Cordoba.

Mariani reflects a radical wing of the Roman Catholic
Church in Latin America which often clashes with the
Vatican (news - web sites) and which promotes more
solidarity with the poor and opposes rules like
celibacy and birth control.

I love the title! Don't know if I could make it all the way through the book though. I'm sure at some point he's gonna start talking about guilt and remorse. That's where he'd lose me.

As a side note.A, very,close friend of mine,wanted to be a Catholic
Priest.He,finally,dropped out of the seminary(?)because he couldn't keep sex out of his mind.He said that he walked around with a constant "Hard-on" & always felt like,at least, masturbating.The Catholic Church,forbids masturbating(spilling
your seed)so he finally dropped out! Irish