Africa and Asia are in many ways more adherent to Judeo-Christian ethics than the West.
The Catholic Church will outlast America.
This pope has stayed true to Jesus’ call there.
Two opposite sex participants, or virtuous singlehood.
But it’s pretty obvious even to this here Protestant. This is NOT talking about male bonding, not even a David-and-Jonathan pal relationship where one obtained garments for the other. May their tribe increase; there is way too much isolation in society. But they weren’t “married” and they didn’t do violent things to one another and call it love.
Civilization needs a pope who is strong in opposition to sexual deviance. The priest - little boys scandal is not diminishing without clarity.
Uh oh, my liberal “catholic” family members are not going to like this!
I don’t like the Catholic church. But it is the Catholic church that stands most prominently against abortion. Now this. I am grateful for their stands and I hope that they will advance the cause against our cultural sins.
Those who have paid attention to this Pope and what he has done in the past are not at all surprised by this pronouncement. There will be more such pronouncements to be sure.
This was a couple of weeks ago and my gaydar was pinging the whole time he was talking.
I know that he was obviously lying through his teeth but can the church not at least stifle him?
BTTT
Regardless of one’s denomination in Christianity its documented in the pages of the Bible the warnings and repudiations of homosexuality.
Its quite possible that so-called same sex marriage has only been pushed upon a culture here in the 21st Century. Think of how far-fetched and ludicrous an idea on all previous generations.
A society built on perversions is doomed to fall.
For one example, the 1st chapter of Romans clearly identifies rampant homosexual activity by the antediluvians as the primary reason why God destroyed all mankind except righteous Noah's family with a worldwide flood. The Old Testament account of fire and brimstone falling on Sodom and Gomorrah also shows that God hates homosexual acts, not homosexuals themselves, and will eventually punish or even destroy the people of cities and even entire nations that allow and even promote those forbidden practices. God doesn't hate homosexuals, Jesus died to atone for all of man's sins. But He hates and forbids homosexual acts and will punish nations that legalize those acts. The US won't be an exception.
America's recent history indicates, to me at least, that God's judgment is already beginning to fall on the US because we as a nation have turned our collective back on God and His Holy Word. Review the major news events that have adversely affected the US within just the last decade or two if you doubt it. I believe that His punishment on our once-Christian** nation and it's people will become much more severe as time goes on unless we as a nation begin identifying and enforcing God's moral laws again, as most of our local and state governments did up until I was a young adult (mid-1950s).
**Not Christian in the sense of an officially Christian nation as Iran is as an officially Islamic nation, but in the sense of being predominantly Christian-oriented in law and practice.
Well, the honeymoon with the libs who liked his simpler, less-lavish lifestyle has come to an end.