The erotic fixation seeping into the "sacristies"

In recent weeks, a priest well known on social media left the ministry. The news lasted a few hours. Then only the question remained, always the same question, phrased in different ways but driven by the same appetite. There was hunger. A specific, recognisable, almost ritual hunger: "Did he transgress? Did he have relations? The celibacy - that was the problem! He couldn't keep to it any longer". The person vanished. All that remained was the body as the site of "presumed sin" - or rather, of gossip - the only territory the contemporary man seems still capable of inhabiting with any real interest. This behaviour reveals a cultural symptom that this priest's story has brought to the surface with scorching clarity.

Sex as a Totalising Fetish

Fetishism, in its original anthropological sense, refers to the substitution of reality with a partial object invested with absolute power. The fetish is not the whole thing: it is a fragment that usurps the place of the whole. Contemporary culture has performed precisely this operation with sexuality. It has not liberated sex, it has idolised it. Fr. Alberto Ravagnani himself said as much in one of his Reels and TikToks. And idolatry is not freedom: it is another form of slavery, more insidious because it dresses itself as emancipation.