Pope Francis presided over the usual general audience on Wednesdays in St. Peter's Square Photo: Vatican Media

Interview: broadening desire or what does it mean to talk about affectivity, love and friendship?

«Chastity is a fullness,» explains the author, a Trappist monk and, since 2020, Bishop of Trondheim in Norway. «It is an attitude towards things and people that springs forth when the human heart is invested by that embrace that heals and fulfils its most radical expectations. That is why it is reductive to equate chastity with ‘not doing’ and ‘not being’. It is a state of grace.