This Archbishop has a spine. God bless him!
Posted on 09/29/2012 6:34:11 PM PDT by Steelfish
It’s not the Bishop they should be worried about. It’s He Who the Bishop works for that they’ll have to answer to.
It is not possible.
You can be homosexual and celibate (or marry the opposite sex and behave normally sexually) and be Catholic, or you can be a homosexual CINO. Regrettably, there are a number of priests who are Catholic In Name Only.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.
Gay Catholic?!?
So they will need to follow the CCC and scriptures....long overdue.
The ones who are worried are,in fact,Unitarian/Universalists masquerading as Catholics.The Catholic Church isn't a democracy...Christs word was crystal clear on numerous points,including issues of basic morality and immorality.It ain't rocket science..."thou shalt not" means *don't do it or there will be very severe consequences*.
It’s simple, really.
If your homosexual identity is more important to you than your Catholic identity,
Then you are in the wrong church. Buh-bye!
Don’t let the church door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.
How far we have fallen. I’ve been watching youtube videos of people who have died and came back. Some extremely scary and extremely beautiful visions. We all have to answer to The Almighty.
“gay Catholic”... as phony as “gay marriage”
“those parishes that have somehow bridged the colossal gap between their gay members’ lives and church doctrine”
You said - “It is not possible.”
I say, a bridge from New York to France would be easier.
your statement is completely ignorant as to Catholicteachings....Catholice love Gay people as much as they love anyone else. You can be gay and a Catholic at the same time...you can be a pedophile, an alcoholic, a whatever....you just cannot act on your temptations. A person who is attracted to a same sex partner has comitted no sin whatsoever...it is only when that person acts on that attraction that a sin might occour. Homosexual activity is forbidden...being a homosexual is not.
Yet how far the perversion is carried out in the mind is of no concern to God?
probably not...you are certainly not responsible for your proclivities, nor your temptations. Good grief, if everyone is held responsible for their temptations...Heaven would be a very lonely place.
Your neighbors wife/daughter looks mighty fine, your business deal that could net you many thousands if you'd only lie a little but you didn't....is the temptation a sin....of course not...you are responsible for what you do, not what you're tempted to do....
Though Jesus thought it was, in Matthew 5:28, for example.
Now, I’m not a Christian, though I believe that God takes a dim view of how far we’d go in our minds with what would certainly be sinful activity were it carried out. Would God allow the limit to perversion as in calculus? How would that make for a healthy and Godly mind?
It’s admittedly almost a trick question, but a real one nonetheless.
Although you win no empathy for your arrogant attitude, I hear you and agree... although I disagree there is such a thing as “gay marriage.” That is a lie.
This Archbishop has a spine. God bless him!
Careful who's around when you say things like that...
You’re not a Christian yet you lecture another Freeper on Catholic theology?
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