Posted on 12/09/2014 10:18:02 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The Catholic Church must help parents stand by their gay children, Pope Francis said in a new interview about his papal ministry. The pontiff’s comments come a day after Francis urged top church officials to pay attention to the “signs of the times” and listen to ordinary Catholics, according to The Independent.
“We come across this reality all the time in the confessional: a father and a mother whose son or daughter is in that situation. This happened to me several times in Buenos Aires.... We have to find a way to help that father or that mother to stand by their son or daughter,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with the Argentine daily La Nación. While it is important to find ways to welcome gay Catholics, gay marriage is still not on the church’s agenda, Francis said.
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No.
With the post-Vatican II church truly anything is possible.
” I think the electors are going to be much more keen next time to not elect a loose cannon. Just look how the Bishops were baffled by and ticked at the Synod.”
At the Synod, the majority of Bishops voted for the Francis view, just not the 2/3 required to adopt.
The internet transmits sarcasm poorly. I was quoting the esteemed Pope Francis in a facetious way.
Yes I would.
Pope of the Month Club
lol
Question for Dr. Phil Francis. When has the church never stood up for families with homosexual family members. And will you please quit using the PC term gay to when referring to homosexuals? It’s nauseating.
“My guess is that they misjudged Bergoglio’s stance on such issues or his ability to provide clear leadership”
Or the early stages of Alzheimer’s. By the way Francis can’t change Catholic doctrine. But he can ignore it and from there it floats downhill. That’s what Catholics need to be on the guard for.
He now seems to be putting people that got married by an Elvis impersonator or anyone else (outside the church) on the same footing with Catholics who were married in the church. He wants them to be able to receive communion, be godparents, teach sunday school, etc. Has there ever been a more loose cannon or another pope that has utter contempt for Catholic doctrine?
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1405095.htm
The pope answered several questions about the October 2014 Synod of Bishops on the family, which considered a controversial proposal to allow some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion even without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriages. By church law, such Catholics may not receive Communion unless they abstain from sexual relations, living as “brother and sister” with their new partners.
Regarding such Catholics, “we posed the question, what do we do with them? What door can be opened for them?” Pope Francis said. “Communion alone is no solution. The solution is integration.”
The pope noted several currently prohibited activities, including teaching Sunday school and distributing Communion, that he said amounted to the de facto excommunication of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
“Let us open the doors a bit more. Why can’t they be godfathers and godmothers?” Pope Francis said, dismissing the objection that they would set a poor example for the baptized.
Just a note:
The annulment process is concerned only with discovering evidence of the invalidity of a marriage. The sacramentality of a given marriage is never the issue. All valid marriages between two baptized persons are sacramental.
Those who have known and observed him for years say he is exactly as he always was as archbishop: says one thing in front of one audience, the opposite in front of another office. Totally inconsistent. An extreme extrovert, shallow, thoughtless, always wants to be liked.
When my kid has his finger up his nose, I tell him to cut it out because he might damage his nasal passage and get an infection. It’s a common tendency that good parents seek to help their children avoid. They don’t sit back and say, “Who am I to judge?” They counsel and help their children. I think you see the analogy, yes?
I suppose you know I was giving a famous Pope Francis quote?
Yes, I do know that Pope Francis said “Who am I to Judge?” But “not judging” does not mean “accept;” it acknowledges that there are some things that we do not understand, but it does not relieve us from our responsibility to help people avoid bad behaviors, regardless of our understanding of what leads them to those behaviors.
I don’t judge my brother for his gambling addiction, but I do try to help him avoid gambling situations.
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