Posted on 05/07/2019 3:43:32 PM PDT by Ennis85
The Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain had served as a vicar for around two decades until his fractious exit in 2017. His crime? Marrying his partner, Stephen, in 2014.
While he kept his position at St Mary with All Souls, Kilburn, and St James’, West Hampstead, after his wedding, he says he was “blacklisted” from finding a new job. In 2017, he resigned, publicly condemning the church as “institutionally homophobic”. It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him from ever returning.
While heterosexual priests can marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to remain unmarried and celibate. “Insisting on celibacy,” he argues, “[implies that] God will only accept you if you don’t have sex; that is, if you don’t want what everybody wants, which is to be loved by somebody and to love them on their terms.” He pauses, weighing his words. “I think that’s abusive.”
He has spent the year and a half since his exit from the clergy near the Peak District, in the quiet Derbyshire village of Chapel-en-le-Frith, restoring a neglected Georgian vicarage. It has been, it seems, an opportunity to create something he couldn’t find in the church: a home for him and his husband.
Now, Foreshew-Cain is returning to the ministry. In the autumn, he will become the chaplain of Lady Margaret Hall, a college at Oxford University, which operates outside the Church of England’s jurisdiction. “It feels as if I’m ready to become a priest again, but a different kind of priest, perhaps.”
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Even if we wish to peacefully coexist with them, the reverse will never - CAN never - be true. We are dealing with a mental illness regarding which attention-seeking at any cost, including total personal degradation, is a major feature.
NOT to promote the sin or pretend God doesn't care.
Ok. Go burn
“What bothers me the most about gays & lesbians is they are always trying to push their sexuality in everybody’s face.”
That’s a disturbing analogy.
“The church is “institutionally homophobic”.” Of course it is. So am I. I have fear of unknown diseases carried around by vicious people. A priest got married? To another man? Wow. Double trouble.
Fine, send them to parishes and congregations in Iraq and other Islamic terrorist countries. Let them showcase the homosexual perversion there.
If your kids are looking for "options," they should consider the option of taking their Confimation graces seriously, becoming more responsible members of the Church Militant, and fighting whether convenient or inconvenient, in season and out, for the Catholic Faith.
The present Pope and many of his higher-perch clerics are disgusting us by abandoning Catholicism. How can you fight that by...abandoning Catholicism??
Does leaving the Church present a good witness of unshakable courage and fidelity? Does YOUR leaving the Church make the Church a better place?
No fear.
No flight.
Stand and fight.
Marxists love envying the private property of their neighbors and planning ways to take it by force.
“My children are already looking for non Catholic worship options.”
Are they Catholic now? If so, how will they handle the absence of the Eucharist; the Real Presence of Jesus Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity?
Or maybe that is of secondary importance to them?
But their parishioners will.
I assume that we’re talking about Anglican priests here. Unless I’m mistaken the Anglican Church stopped being Christian years ago so none of this should be a surprise..
They don’t have to go away. They can do as Jesus said - Go and sin no more.
Uhhhhhhhhhhh what did he look like???
Look east to Orthodox Christianity.
Swim the Bosporus--the water is fine.
“What bothers me the most about gays & lesbians is they are always trying to push their sexuality in everybody’s face.”
Homosexuality used to be the love that dared not speak its name. Now it’s the love that won’t shut the **** up.
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Like Roman Catholicism is a bastion of heterosexual normalcy.
The irony is so rich........
But the homosexual molesting priests are allowed to remain members and dispense the sacraments.
Don't Catholics see the disconnect there?
Our fidelity is to a person, Christ, not an organization, a church, no matter what it calls itself.
Homosexuality is not love.
It’s perverted sex.
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