Bishop Lynch optimistic after Vatican meeting on divorced and gay Catholics

Tampa Bay Times ^ | 10/23/14 | Waveney Ann Moore

[ebb tide]

While he wants doctrine to be upheld, Lynch said he thinks there are ways the church can reach out to those "who erred in their first choice of spouse and now find themselves in a loving, caring, mutually trusting and giving relationship."

[ebb tide]

Ping

Bishop Lynch is the bishop who did not lift a hand when Terry Schiavo’s husband murdered her so he could marry his mistress.

Talk about “pastoral” care.

[JPG]

[Montana_Sam]

Yep - this is all just more Vatican II-style misrepresentation and misinterpretation of what actually happened at the synod, which was they had a nice chat. The cardinals and Pope have zero authority to restructure marriage. But the folks over at the National Catholic Reporter want everybody to think the Church is bending its dogma to the breezes of social currency. Nope. Not gonna happen. No way, no how.

[BlackElk]

Bishop Robert Lynch is a total embarrassment to those who are Irish Americans, to those who are Irish, to those who are Americans and particularly to any Catholic who has any business calling him/herself Catholic. Fortunately, he will turn 75 years of age on May 27,2016 and will have to submit his resignation to whoever may be pope at that time. I am betting that, if Francis is still pope, there will be footdragging on accepting the resignation.

OTOH, most bishops either retire at 75 or soon thereafter or, as my wife is fond of noting, sometimes God removes them whether they serve as bishop of St. Petersburg or bishop of Rome. In any event Christ will be with His Church all days until the end of this world. We have survived worse than Bishop Lynch (for example: Archbishop Talleyrand) and worse than Francis (for example: Alexander VI).

There is a dismal article in this week's Newsweek on Francis and how he moved leftward while Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Sophomoric nonsense by reporter and subject. Both have the overwhelming "smell of the sheep" about them.

[lastchance]

Some of us will always remember his treachery.

[LadyDoc]

let’s see. They got married in January 2011

they have a nine year old son.

Ah but they are “good” Catholics so we don’t want to hurt their feelings.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

True, true...the Church has survived many storms. My hope and prayer is that this recent bit of mischief is just coughing up the flem left over from the 1960’s when many of these bishops were young and perhaps too enthusiastic about making a difference in this world without regard for the next.

[Arthur McGowan]

He forbade his priests to make an appearance outside the murder scene, and ran off to inspect the damage from the tsunami.

Robert “Adonis” Lynch.

[Arthur McGowan]

He added though, that he "cannot promise them that we will ever be likely to recognize the nature of their unions as sacramental, but if they are willing to accept that reality, then they can be full participants in the life of the Church."

Note the deadly ambiguity: "...if they are willing to accept that reality..." What does that mean? If they "accept" it intellectually, then they are home free??? "Full participants in the life of the Church"? You mean, receive Communion??? Of course not. But the bishop wants to give that impression.

Translated into Catholic:

The Church will never teach that sodomy is anything but a mortal sin. When people are not committing the sin of sodomy, or other mortal sins, they can receive Communion.

[Arthur McGowan]

Here's the original blog. The most absolutely disgraceful, scandalous drivel yet to come in the wake of this Synod from Hell.

http://bishopsblog.dosp.org/?p=6250

[kalee]

I think the son is from his first marriage. The new wife is saying they married civilly so they could provide a home for him.

[Arthur McGowan]

When a bishop writes something this scandalous and wicked, he might as well rape an altar boy on the steps of the cathedral, at a press conference. This is the most intellectually, morally corrupt thing I have ever seen issue from a Catholic bishop.

Read the original blog. Warning. You will want to shower.

http://bishopsblog.dosp.org/?p=6250

[Ken522]

I clearly remember the fiasco during Terry Schiavo’s murder - Bp. Lynch’s refusal to take any action at all to support a fellow Catholic was disgraceful! He has earned the contempt many feel toward him ...

[Arthur McGowan]

Of course, Lynch did nothing to form the conscience of another Catholic, Jeb Bush, who didn’t lift a finger to save the life of a citizen of Florida who was being murdered.

Robert “Adonis” Lynch is proof that a human being can live with absolutely no sense of shame.

[vladimir998]

Remove me from your ping list immediately. I told you to do that yesterday.

[piusv]

How do you know he has not removed you? He hasn’t made a ping since the current thread.

[vladimir998]

“How do you know he has not removed you? He hasn’t made a ping since the current thread”

I asked him to do it already - before he sent me the latest two pings. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3219255/posts?page=31#31

That’s how I know he didn’t do it BEFORE THE LATEST TWO PINGS. Any other questions?

[ravenwolf]

They obviously do not believe their Church is of God and they are fine with that but thinks this Church that is not of God should make adjustments to suit them.

On the other hand if this Church which claims to have the authority from above is really from God why don`t they get these people who do not believe out of the Church?

[BlatherNaut]

Bishop Lynch is the bishop who did not lift a hand when Terry Schiavo’s husband murdered her so he could marry his mistress.

Lavender mafia. Misused donations. Restricted Perpetual Adoration.

There was another homo molester bishop in Boca whose perversions were exposed and he got the boot. Apparently he didn't have enough friends in high places to sweep his misdeeds under the rug.