Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Godspy has posted a fascinating interview Paola Binetti. Binetti is a member of Opus Dei and of the Center-Left Governing coalition in Italy. She is a former psychoanalyst, with many published articles, who is pro-life. She has some interesting insights regarding the current political debate regarding homosexuality. This debate is, in her eyes, “reductive” and unhelpful. She opposes “gay marriage” and homosexual adoption, yet she is not happy with the level at which the political debate on the issue is carried out.

She claims that there is still room for a Christian voice in left-wing politics in Europe. Christians have not yet been completely banned, as they have been by the Democratic party in the U.S., from substantive participation in the coalition of left-leaning political parties. The article ends with a vehement defense, on her part, of the transcendental importance of beauty. It is certainly worth a read…