Posted on 08/21/2018 6:43:55 PM PDT by Salvation
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/episcopal-sodomy-gay-seminarian-pipeline?
Mighty Christian of you Salvation.
It’s not just the “high church” Protestants.
Evangelicalism too...
It’s everywhere.
At least they are not transgendered....
Everywhere money can be made by running your mouth and writing pretty words.
Organized religion, the entertainment business, the education establishment, the publishing industry...
I'm sure I've forgotten a few.
Another ping on this story of Bishops and homosexuals.
Thank you.
But very painful for me.
Ecumenical prayers offered for all of Christ’s people!
Is this true?
This is one of the many consequences of the evil Synod of Mainz, A.D. 1049, which forcibly ended Priestly Marriages (wives sent to convents) and which was one of causes of the Great Schism of 1054—after which the Church ceased to breathe with both her lungs.
The Orthodox have not departed from Apostolic practice of allowing Priests to marry, provided that they enter into Marriage before Ordination.
This was the universal, catholic practice for the first millenium.
The innovation of mandatory celibacy has to go.
Celibacy is not the problem.
Don’t you see that homosexuality is the problem?
What do you think?
...like peeling an onion.
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This stinks
I’m not sure the term ‘episcopal’ in your title is being understood by everyone.
“From Newark Cdl. Joseph Tobin — who knew all about McCarrick” .... and Wuerl belongs in prison, too.
That Wuerl has always rubbed me the wrong way.
So deceitful, and always acting so prim and proper.
Episcopal stands for Bishopry.
The Episcopate is the seat of the Bishop.
I intend, instead of money, to drop a note into this year’s Pastoral Services Appeal envelope.
Heartbroken and disgusted.
I see that homosexuality (and pedophilia) are the problems brought on because the Roman church, in departing from the apostolic practice that served her well for over 10 centuries has deprived men of the God-ordained means (Marriage) of channeling their God-given urges.
In my Protestant days, a Monsignor once told me and my brothers on a retreat “the problem with your church is that you refuse to embrace the charism of celibacy and the problem with my church is that we refuse to embrace the gift of a married Priesthood”.
It is an x/y matrix or grid involving Marriage and Ordination. Some are called to one or the other—those who are married laity and those who are celibate Priests. Some are called to neither: What our grandparents called spinsters and confirmed bachelors, and unordained monastics. And some are called to both.
In the Orthodox Church we have mostly married Priests but there are some who know that they are also called to the chaste life of celibacy. They are a minority, but they are the only Priests who can be elevated to the office of Bishop.
There have been scandals, but the few have mostly been Priests engaging in extra-marital affairs with adult women. And they have been dealt with severely as the Canons require.
Pedophelia concerns children.
This is pederasty for those post pubescent teens and older.
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