Posted on 07/16/2017 1:35:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
Do you think anyone would waste their time with AA if it didn’t consider drunks to be “intrinsically disordered” people?
Do you think anyone would waste their time with AA if it didn’t consider drunks to be “intrinsically disordered” people?
Do you think anyone would waste their time with AA if it didn’t consider drunks to be “intrinsically disordered” people?
The”Gays and Grays” sums it up. This community is dying out. The grays are no doubt nice people, their children have moved away and time marches relentlessly on, as it does for us all. The gays are caught up in a lifestyle that is killing them and if they are consistent, will have no children. So this is prime real estate for the Mexicans or the Chicoms to take over in just a few years.
Maybe if the Catholic Church began addressing the SIN of homosexual activity, they would find a common ground with God and each other.
Saint Paul spoke of Christians who HAD been homosexual.
From Father Joseph Martin to Father James Martin.......
What a long strange trip it’s been.
Sure, you just need a good civil engineer.
Wonder if the good Frs. are gay?
Wonder if the good Frs. are gay?
Ok. I’ll analyze the garbage above.
“…welcome strangers into our midst.”
Sinners are not strangers and are familiar.
“…those who are on distant shores.”
How polite. Again, sinners are not on distant shores. They are just on the path to hell.
“…people we consider to be different.”
Yes, sinners and people in the state of grace are different.
“…some courageous bishops and Cardinals of the Church.”
Nero in early Rome was gay and he killed courageous bishops.
“The very fact that this topic was being discussed so openly is a change from previous synodal discussions.”
Bandwagon. No, not everyone is gay, Fr. Rosica. Only 1% of the population.
“No matter how well-intentioned scholastic theology tries to describe the human condition…”
Only a non-Catholic hates scholasticisim. Scholastic philosophy makes it clear that sin is the contrary opposite of the state of grace.
“Serbs, Native Peoples, gay persons…”
Notice the trick, making it sound like gays belong to a race of people. Scholastic fact: gender is interior (hormones) and race is exterior (skin color). Gender and race are contrary opposites. Rosica is a fool.
“There is no fear in love.” There is no love and only fear when getting stalked by aggressive gay men in San Francisco, West Hollywood and Palm Springs. Ask any tourist.
Moral of the story. Rosica shows his true colors: anti-Catholic and vicious.
In the videos I’ve seen, books I’ve read or the lecture I attended by Father Joseph Martin, I was never given any indication of that. Father James Martin on the other hand......
Your query causes me to wonder what you know of Fr. Joseph Martin.
As a civil engineering prof once told a class I was in, "Any fool can build a bridge that will hold up. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that will just barely hold up."
Good analysis.
There are many devout Catholics who are from China or Mexico.
There are great bridges that survived the test of time.
Yes, we need to build bridges but it is not between the “LGBT community” and rigorous church but between the personal sinner and God. The Church has always been that bridge, with loving care calling the sinner to repentance and obedience to the will of God. What a horrible tragedy it would be if we withheld the truth and made the active homosexual feel welcomed in the pew but thus hardened his heart to remain in his sin and reject God’s welcome to him in heaven.
Correct. Whether they were “born that way” or chose to go that route, they no longer engaged in that conduct for the sake of the kingdom.
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