Posted on 12/20/2014 9:42:22 PM PST by Steelfish
Pope Benedict XVI Denounces Gay Marriage In His Christmas Message Saying 'Manipulation of Nature' Will Put Future Of Mankind At Stake His Holiness says idea destroys the very 'essence of the human creature' He made comments in one of his most important speeches of the year By LEON WATSON 21 December 2012
The Pope has pressed his opposition to gay marriage today saying the future of mankind is at stake.
Pope Benedict XVI denounced what he described as people manipulating their God-given identities to suit their sexual choices - and destroying the very 'essence of the human creature' in the process.
He made the comments in his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, one of his most important speeches of the year.
He dedicated it this year to promoting traditional family values in the face of vocal campaigns in France, the U.S., Britain and elsewhere to legalise same-sex marriage. In his remarks, Pope Benedict quoted the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, in saying the campaign for granting gays the right to marry and adopt children was an 'attack' on the traditional family made up of a father, mother and children. 'People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being,' he said. 'They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.
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Yes.
Here’s another
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/24/world/europe/vatican-pope-christmas/
Marriage, life, freedom: what I love about the Catholic faith.
The last real/good pope?
Yes!
TYVM
God bless and keep POPE Benedict XVI!
Still MY Pope.
MINE TOO!
God bless.
May OUR Pope live 120 healthy, happy years.
Well, now he'll never be able to teach at Marquette or any other Jesuit University.
Never mind the fact that he is a Jesuit.
More correctly, Pope Benedict XVI, Emiritus...
Ok, so he may have taken a few pot shots at B-17’s, but I still liked him better than the new guy
If you want to get really technical, (with the proper spelling) it's Pope Emeritus.
Unfortunately, you missed the point. Pope Benedict XVI, is still MY Pope.
I'm not fond of Francis.
Are we sure this is the correct translation?
How timely.
Sir Elton John and his longtime partner, David Furnish, are getting married on the 21st of December.
*sigh* Ew.
Will Rush be there?
Is this why he lost his job?
Needs more hellfire.
Pope Francis, when asked about gay men and lesbians who profess religious faith, replied, “Who am I to judge?” After Pope Benedict XVI, Francis is creating confusion for Catholics on the front lines in the culture wars — fighting abortion, gay marriage, contraception, cohabitation and divorce. There is a strong sense that the Church is a ship without a rudder.
AND MINE!
Meanwhile, Pope Francis’s Christmas Message for 2014 denounces Catholics for following too many of the Commandments.
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