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"A Spanish diocese has rejected a request by the city government to have Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Pla transferred due to a controversial Good Friday sermon that critics have labeled as 'homophobic.'. . As part of a larger cultural critique of sexual behavior in modern society, he lamented how some with same-sex attraction 'corrupt and prostitute themselves or go to gay night clubs' in order to 'validate' their struggle. 'I assure you what they encounter is pure hell,' he said on April 6. In response to the bishop, Socialist Party spokesman Javier Rodriguez said his comments have put him as well as the diocese 'on the homophobic map.'" Diocese rejects transfer of Spanish bishop over gay remarks (05/16/2012)
5 posted on 09/28/2018 9:07:57 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Mons. Reig Pla is probably the best bishop in Spain (although there are a couple of other very good ones, appointed under BXVI). He is orthodox, an extremely good writer and speaker, and a very kind and dedicated shepherd. I met him once at a conference in Alcala de Henares.

This is a university city and he’s been under attack there for years. Also, the lay faithful were very badly formed by their prior bishop and many of them are pro-gay, pro-transgender, anti-family, pro-wacky feminist “modern Catholics,” whose main goal in life is to conform to all the teachings of the anti-Christian Socialist Party or its more radical offshoots. So he has had to work very hard and fight very hard to do his job. But he just sticks with it and is a very heroic shepherd, in my mind. I wish we had one of his like in the US!


6 posted on 09/29/2018 4:10:06 AM PDT by livius
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