Incarnate Word versus All-Powerful Sex, Jean Cardonnel, Jean-Théophile Banzouzi

Never before had a churchman of Jean Cardonnel's caliber addressed the issue of sex as an expression of the will to power so directly. He denounced the pan-sexualization of the world. In the demonization of women, he saw the cause and effect of the dictatorial power of the male, the supermale - the Idol God - over humanity. He equated pedophilia with a blasphemy against the spirit, the only scandal considered unworthy of forgiveness by Christ. As for chastity, he offered this unprecedented and fervent praise: not continence, but the condition for an exclusive devotion to preaching, experienced as "folly," to use Saint Paul's expression. For, according to the author, only the radical exercise of the incarnate Word can unmask all powers, from sex to money, and bring about the advent of a fraternal and creative humanity. To conclude this call for humanization without fractures, Jean-Théophile Banzouzi, Jean Cardonnel's Congolese friend, offers, beyond colonialist slanders, an introduction to African spirituality based on Kongo proverbs and its Word, both singular and universal.