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Posted on 10/24/2016 5:41:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
October 24, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Pro Familia, a Belgian association of Catholic lay people, has decided to act against the public stance made by Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny, who suggests in a new book published Friday that homosexual pairs, divorced, remarried and cohabiting couples should receive a Church blessing as part of a “diversity of rituals” that would recognize the “exclusiveness and stability” of their unions.
“The question of Communion for the divorced and remarried should be carefully weighed," he writes. "It is not a question of a general ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ but of an evaluation. You have to judge on the basis of the individual situation of the persons involved. Or, better said, they can and must participate in that judging in the light of certain criteria.”
In a press release published last week on its blog and picked up by the Flemish media, Pro Familia announced its intent to file a complaint in Rome with Cardinal Beniamino Stella, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, before the book May I? Thank you. Sorry. Open dialogues about relationships, marriage and family reached bookstores in Flanders. Cardinal Beniamino will be asked in his capacity as superior to the bishop to “investigate and condemn the statements and writings of Johan Bonny.”
This of course seems like the world turned upside down: Bishops are supposed to follow “Church teaching.” Together with the Pope, they are responsible for transmitting the Magisterium to laymen and the members of the clergy who do not have the fullness of priesthood that belongs to the bishops. So how can mere laymen judge their own bishop?
In truth, the complaint filed in Rome is an appeal to authority, so that the obvious erroneous teaching of a particular bishop, Bonny, will be known, assessed, and judged by...........
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Absolutely nothing will be done about Bishop Bonny since the sodomites are in charge at this hour of darkness. This is what we've come to; faithful Catholics pleading to be protected from the "shepherds" who are entrusted with their care.
I don’t understand propessing blessings for cohabiting couples, why don’t they just get married?
Proposing.
Because the POINT is to bless fornication. If they get married, that ends the holy fornication.
ROME APPROVES ATTENDANCE AT SYNOD OF ANOTHER BISHOP [Bonny] WHO SUPPORTS SAME-SEX UNIONS
P.S. From the article I linked to in my last post: “Bishop Bonny joins an increasing number of synod fathers who openly reject Catholic teaching on homosexuality. These include Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop Munich and Freising, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and Bishop Heiner Koch of Berlin.”
‘why don’t they just get married?’
Governments have provided tax penalties for married humans: a gift conveniently dedicated to destruction of the primary bulwark against their corporate tyrannical proclivities? The current Catholic tendencies on the matter are an addressment of the oppression? Un-marriage is becoming more common...what of peopling the earth?
Better, however, that the Church would, rather, militate against the tyrants, than bend the knees of its members to evil, maybe.
Then again, render unto?
Tough call.
It will never happen. In fact, he may be promoted.
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