Posted on 07/19/2017 7:20:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
AUGSBURG, Germany, July 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Reinhard Marx is more concerned about the Catholic Church apologizing for its inaction against previous German law prohibiting homosexuality than the country’s recent legalization of gay “marriage.”
The Munich cardinal, who is head of the German bishops’ conference and a member of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals, was decisive in saying he firmly upholds the Church’s teaching on marriage in a recent interview with Augsberger Algemeine.
But he criticized the Church for not being at the forefront on homosexual rights in Germany and said the Church must express regret for not acting to oppose the former law against homosexuality.
It must be recalled, Cardinal Marx said, “that the Church has not exactly been a trailblazer as far as the rights of homosexuals are concerned.”
“We must express our regret that we did nothing to oppose homosexuals from being prosecuted,” he continued.
“The (German) law (against homosexuality) was not rescinded until 1994,” he said, “and we, as a Church, did not concern ourselves with it."
The German parliament voted 393 to 226 on June 30 to legalize gay “marriage.”
The new law was not a defeat for the Church, Cardinal Marx said, because marriage and family were issues that extend beyond the Church.
“The Christian position is one thing. It’s another thing to ask if I can make all the Christian moral concepts (state) laws,” he said, according to LaCroix International. “Whoever fails to understand that the one does not automatically lead to the other has not understood the essence of modern society.”
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All satan all the time.
He is appropriately named
God owes them an apology?
wolf in shepard’s clothing
“Sorry you’re going to Hell. We should have preached the Sixth and Ninth Commandments in their fullness.”
Q.E.D.
The Catholic Church needs to apologise to God for not practicing Christianity and to thousands of little boys and little boys who grew up to be troubled men that they molested.
Could I be taken seriously as Rabbi JONES..?
It just really SEEMS weird.
These cowards always leave out the muslims.
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
What next? Demanding an apology from GOD, too?
I guess I can never defend the Church again for the abuse that reigned on so many and defining it as isolated and of no conspiracy.
I will never lose faith but I find it sad that the Church has left me and plenty of other Catholics.
The Catholic church is committing spiritual suicide.
Lets see how the church does with only unrepentant sinners in the pews.
For what? Calling sin a sin?
Homosexual acts should still be illegal.
It is right and proper if they are.
A German named Marx that condones faggotry, that’s rich.
You mean something like; we’re sorry you’re deviant sexual perverts committing a sin in the eyes of God and we are really sorry you can’t go to heaven and are doomed to an eternity of pain in hell?
Is that the kind of apology he means?
The sad , really sad part of this statement by this cardinal is that a young man just coming of age sexually will now see the perverse lifestyle of homosexuals as more mainstream and condoned by this particular pay to play church.....I am so glad I’m not of the Catholic persuasion....
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