Cardinal O’Malley Says He Favors Recognition for Gay “Married” Couples

Boston Catholic Insider ^ | 10/11/2014 | bostoncatholicinsider

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Amidst the backdrop of the circus of a Synod going on in the Vatican–where some of the highest ranking officials in the Catholic Church hierarchy are skating around Christ’s teachings on marriage and flagrantly ignoring the admonition of St. Paul to the Romans, “Do not conform yourselves to this age”–comments by Cardinal O’Malley to a staffer from New Ways Ministry about recognition for gay “married” couples after the recent Crux event in Boston merit a response and correction.

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In a one-to-one conversation following a public speaking engagement, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley said that the firing of church workers because of LGBT issues is a situation that “needs to be rectified,” becoming the first prelate to speak against this trend.

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Recall, O'Malley is Pope Francis' "BFF."

[Drango]

~sigh.

[Viennacon]

Absolutely disgusting. Are we about to see the death of the Church?

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The bearded Minor Capuchin devil whispering in Francis’s ear, as if Francis wouldn’t be bad enough without O’Malley’s “advice.”

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Well as I understand it, O’Malley’s diocese is in pretty poor shape. He’s trying to bring the entire Church down to the lowest common denominator — ie, his own backyard.

[Mouton]

“Says He Favors Recognition for Gay “Married” Couples”

I agree, they can wear a sign to be recognized like: I am a queer.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“We can be just like the CofE, if we can just give up on the whole, annoying, “God” thing. Think of all the cocktail parties we can get invited to!”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Wow. This guy is poorly catechized!

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I doubt that's his problem.

I think he knows the catechism, and doesn't like what it says.

[ebb tide]

How quickly they've forgotten good Pope Benedict XVI.

“This tacitly accredits those dismal theories that strip all relevance from the masculinity and femininity of the human being as though it were a purely biological issue….Theories “according to which man should be able to decide autonomously what he is and what he isn’t,” end up with mankind destroying its own identity.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ll bet he favors The Ten Commandments being changed to The Ten Suggestions also. Gimme that old time, Have It Your Way religion. Everybody sing! When THEY win, WE lose.

[alstewartfan]

This buffoon should resign.

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You’re right. He’d rather see the Ten Commandments carved in clay than in stone.

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He can't -- in case you haven't gotten the memo, he's going to be the next pope!

Pope Francis II -- or maybe Pope "Fabulus" I.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

Any thoughts on how this would impact Catholic elementary and secondary schools.

[Pollster1]

I recognize gay “married” couples, thieves, adulterers, drunks, and many other categories. I see nothing wrong with recognizing sinners - and helping them to repent and return to God’s word.

[FlingWingFlyer]

He probably wants to do to The Ten Commandmants what they did to the U.S. Constitution. A “living and breathing” set of boundaries, guidelines and rules that mean absolutely nothing. No boundaries, no guidelines, no rules. Total chaos.

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Openly gay teachers at all levels of education -- if you can't fire "LGBT" Church employees, what's to stop them? Do you recall the feminut that brought vagina cookies to class in San Fran? Well, just wait 'til you see those anus cookies.

I know far, far too many Catholics that think homeschooling is for Protestants -- "we don't need to homeschool, we've got Catholic school!" That mindset needs to change.

[BlatherNaut]

Well as I understand it, O’Malley’s diocese is in pretty poor shape.

And heavy with "lavender" personnel, hand-picked and deployed to incur maximum damage. He's also in bed with the Boston Globe ("Crux" - John Allen, associate editor) despite the Globe's pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and rabidly anti-Catholic agenda.

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"And heavy with "lavender" personnel, hand-picked and deployed to incur maximum damage."

Would you suppose O'Malley might be a little light in the designer-sandals himself?