What we crave even more deeply than sexual unity is moral affinity, to be truly one heart with another. More than we desire a lover, we desire a kindred spirit, a soul mate. If this is true, then the deepest violations of each other are also not sexual but moral. It's when we try to be captain of somebody else's soul (more so even than of his or her body) that we rape someone.
Neither the priest-columnist nor the archdiocesan newspaper editors could see a problem with this argument, neither its logic nor what some readers might regard as its context.
Rohlheiser is the "most fave" columnist of the new Pastor at St Luke's parish, Fr. Ken Augustine.
ReplyDeleteThere'll be no soul-raping goin' on THERE.