Posted on 09/18/2015 6:38:00 AM PDT by marshmallow
Bishop Bode says the Church could do more to support people in stable unions
One of the three German bishops who will attend next month’s Synod of Bishops on the Family has proposed that the Catholic Church might offer “private blessings” to same-sex couples.
Bishop Franz-Josef Bode of Osnabruck said it was possible to see strengths as well as weaknesses in both gay relationships and in those of cohabiting heterosexuals.
He said that the Catholic Church could not accept gay marriage because it understood marriage as a union between a husband and a wife that was open to the procreation of children.
But the bishop said that since the Church was bound not to discriminate against homosexuals by the Catechism of the Catholic Church it should do more to support those who were in stable unions.
He said: “With prayer and a private form of blessing you will be able to accompany their way.”
His comments were made in an interview with KNA, a German Catholic news agency with close ties to the German bishops’ conference.
In the same interview Bishop Bode also raised the prospect of allowing Catholics who have divorced and remarried access to the Blessed Sacrament even if they have not repented and changed their way of life.
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Most of those agitating for this sort of blasphemy are themselves homosexuals, who have infiltrated the Church in large numbers.
Two high profile bishops have recently been deposed by +Francis, Finn in KC and Livieries (now deceased) in Paraguay (both Opus Dei,) for alleged crimes far, far less serious than heresy and undermining the sacrament of marriage but it's guaranteed that Bode will not only suffer no consequences for this outrage, he will take his seat of honor in the Synod while men like Card. Burke remain in outer darkness.
There is great, great evil afoot in Rome.
Yeah they can get a private room in which to give those blessings.
No wonder the LCMS is doing so well.
The German Synod Father has not read what God says about it?
He doesn’t believe what God said?
That, honestly, is the only conclusion I can come to.
Homosexuality is intrinsicly against nature and against the Laws of God and the Bible.
Cardinal Burke is right, the Church is rudderless.
I nominate San Francisco and NYC.
They were both conservative bishops, and neither of them had done anything themselves or even intentionally covered up misdeeds by other clergy. But the conservative ones have to go.
Meanwhile, the Pope has personally invited RETIRED Belgian cardinal Danneels to be part of the Synod. Danneels, who was suspected of being part of a pederasty ring himself, and who certainly knew about it and covered it up and destroyed the Church in Belgium. I think that tells us all we need to know.
My friends, choose whom you will serve.
The time is growing short, and I do not envy you situation.
We baptized three families, and confirmed a half dozen more last month.
Between this and the massive payout a local diocese had to give abuse victims (again), about half of those above were former Catholics.
I came across this while looking for something else.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2822214/posts
“The time is coming when princes and peoples will reject the authority of the Pope. Some countries will prefer their own Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be divided. Church property will be secularised. Priests will be persecuted. After the birth of Antichrist heretics will preach their false doctrines undisturbed, resulting in Christians having doubts about their holy Catholic faith.”
One does have to wonder which one of these reports is true (does Francis support homo civil unions too?):
or
There is more than a whiff of lavender about this papacy.
I’m Baptist, so I don’t know the answer and I’m not being facetious. Can’t the Pope excommunicate this bishop, or send him to minister in a village in Greenland?
He could depose the bishop. As mentioned up thread, he’s recently done this to other bishops. The chances of it happening in this case are close to zero.
I actually have been trying to keep an open mind re: comments on homo issues. In other words, when others say that we will see the Church approve homo marriage under Francis, I really don't think that is what will happen.
However, although he has made statements against "gay marriage" and for traditional male and female marriage, I also believe that he is open to civil unions.
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