Posted on 10/24/2020 6:11:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis’ recent statement in support of gay civil unions contains a number of inconsistences and contradictions to Christian teaching, His Eminence Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary, the Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, said yesterday.
In a new documentary, “Francesco,” released on Wednesday, Pope Francis said: “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be rejected or be made miserable over it.”
However, “There are already a number of contradictions in this one phrase,” Met. Anthony said in comments to the Ukrainian outlet Orthodox Life.
“Of course, we are all children of God—both the righteous and sinners, and all will be judged by the Lord. But what does ‘everyone has the right to a family’ mean? The family is God’s gift, given to our first parents at the same time as the commandment: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:28),” the hierarch explained.
According to Christian teaching, the foundation of the family is the marriage of one man and one woman, so “What kind of family is the Pope talking about?” Met. Anthony asks. Same-sex marriage cannot be accepted by the Church, despite any simple arguments about how people should be happy.
“We know that true happiness can only be achieved in union with the Lord, and not in sinful union that satisfies lust,” he emphasized.
And what does creating a law on “civil unions” have to do with the Church anyways, the Ukrainian Chancellor asks. “There are many questions, and they’re all just hanging out there.”
Met. Anthony also comments on a scene in the documentary where Pope Francis talks with a same-sex couple and advises them to leave aside their concerns and go.....
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This Pope is the Anti-Pope. A Heretic. On another thread, there is a Bishop issuing a Call to Prayer for Francis calling on his conversion.
I have thought for some time that the gays/Marxists within the church’s hierarchy had succeeded in deposing Pope Benedict for the same reason’s that the Marxists/Deep Staters tried (unsuccessfully) to depose President Trump and for much the same reason.
Marriage is for normal people. Civil unions can be for everyone else.
The statement about family was deliberately vague and dissembling so that “family” would be interpreted one way by faithful Catholics but able to include more when heard by LGBT and everybody would be happy.
Why sanction sodomy at all?
Pope on a Grope
Because they insist on legal recognition.
So you’re for giving the sodomites what they want?
How charitable you are. Will you do the same for rapists and child molesters?
Civil unions will always lead to marriage.
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