Posted on 07/04/2015 4:04:32 PM PDT by NYer
The chairman of the theology department at Fordham University has gotten marriedto another man.
The New York Times, which up until a few years ago, declined running wedding announcements involving same-sex couples, reported that J. Patrick Hornbeck II married Patrick Anthony Bergquist Saturday at St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The ceremony took place June 27, just a day after the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. That would not have been necessary legally, since New York State has allowed gay "marriage" since 2011. But the ceremony was conducted before the Episcopal Church in America voted this week to allow same-sex "marriage" rites in its churches.
When asked whether Fordham was concerned about having a professor of theology whose lifestyle choice is in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church about marriage, a spokesman for the university said Hornbeck has the right to get married.
While Catholic teachings do not support same-sex marriage, we wish Professor Hornbeck and his spouse a rich life filled with many blessings on the occasion of their wedding in the Episcopal Church, said Bob Howe, Fordham's senior director of communications. Professor Hornbeck is a member of the Fordham community, and like all University employees, students and alumni, is entitled to human dignity without regard to race, creed, gender, and sexual orientation.
Howe emphasized that same-sex unions are now the law of the land, and Professor Hornbeck has the same constitutional right to marriage as all Americans.
Hornbeck, 33, teaches medieval and reformation history at Fordham. He graduated from Georgetown. His mother is an administrative assistant at Brophy College Preparatory, a Jesuit high school for boys in Phoenix. Bergquist, 35, is director of children, youth and family ministries at St. Bartholomews, where the couple "married."
An automated email response from Hornbeck indicated that he would "be away from my email altogether from June 27
until July 5."
In 2014, Hornbeck participated in a symposium at Fordham titled Who Am I to Judge? How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church.
In the last 18 months Pope Francis has taken the Catholic world by storm, Hornbeck in promotional material for the symposium, which was to focus on the future of Catholicism as well as examine recent public statements from the pope on subjects that range from the role of LGBT persons in the church, to the restructuring of the Vatican Bank, to unmarried couples and divorce.
American Catholics and their church have not been on the same page for some time, said Hornbeck. But now the pope is opening up space for dialogue.
Meanwhile, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga., is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a former teacher whose employment was terminated in 2014 after the school found that he would be legally marrying his same-sex partner, the Cardinal Newman Society reported.
Of course he does. He's one of the foremost to expose the heresy Catholicism. They hate anyone who exposed the heresy and apostasy of Catholicism with the truth from scripture. It's like their eyes turn red.
Pope Frank the Apostate.
I didn’t see that come up in Malachi’s prophecy. If you anagram that around, it probably spells “Peter the Roman”.
They seem to be getting a ‘burning in the bosom’, eh? Maybe, there is a small whisper they just cannot seem to get out of their ear. Would do well to listen quietly to that still, small voice.
LOL, oh, so now it is a burning in the bosom. For s second there, I thought I was in Temple Square in Salt Lake City. 😂😇😎
I know it is afternoon there, but, it is almost 3 AM here, so I am having trouble staying awake. 🇵🇭😱
alledgedly...
I tried BOTH Pope Frank the Apostate
and
Pope Frank the Apostate
Nary a one of the online anagram solvers came up with ANYTHING!
I find that VERY hard to believe!
Try Francis The Talking Mule
You still seem desperate - and three days late.
On the contrary...I never made an unsubstantiated claim. Those are the rules around here. Make a claim and then cite it.
You failed to do so.
Obolo does stuff like that.
“God blessed sex. The Catholic church vilifies it...”
Completely, 100% wrong statement about the Church’s teaching.
See CCC 1616 which sets forth (in part) the Church’s actual teaching on marriage based on:
Ephesians 5:25-26,31-32; Genesis 2:24.
For non catholics to actually understand what the Church’s full teaching about marriage consists of - the entire Article 7 “The Sacrament of Matrimony” would be worthwhile. Also be sure to look up all of the scripture proofs that the teachings are based upon.
God did indeed bless sex and the sacrament of matrimony is the manifestation of this blessing. (man and woman only, of course!)
The Church also teaches that some are called to chastity, a vocation that is actually superior to marriage (Isaiah 56-3, Rev.14,4; Matthew 19:10-12 and more). This is where Martin Luther went off the rails, breaking his own vow of chastity.
Our Lord Himself was chaste.
“...Of course he does...”
The pope and the entire Catholic Church live rent free in some people’s heads. Some churches are set up specificially to (attempt to) discredit the teachings of the Church.
The Catholic Chruch and her teachings live rent free in the heads of entire church so called -denominations because that is their sole raison d’etre.
“On the contrary...I never made an unsubstantiated claim.”
Except for that one right there.
Revelation 2:6 'Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Nicoaitans = those who would set up a hierarchy of leaders who lord over the lay people.
God commended them for hating churches like the Catholic Church.
Revelation 2:6 ... the deeds of the Nicolaites ...
The Nicolaites weren’t Catholic.
In ancient antiquity there was no such sect as the “Nicolaitan”. Outside of the Apocalypse, biblical and secular history has no reference to such a group. They are a mystical “type” found in the Apocalypse alone and they are a reference to the people who follow Balaam; Apocalypse 2:14 and 15
Balaam is the anti Christ - Destroyer of the People (of God). The Nicolaites and the Balaamites were one and the same and not a true group but were everyone who broke the covenant and worshipped false gods, and didn’t follow the commandments.
The Nicolaitans/Balaamites are not sects that bore those names in early times; they are the followers of the sin of Balaam in the Old Testament; the sins of fornication and the flesh. Numbers 25: 1-3
Actual Nicolaitans did come later (2nd century) They were antinomian gnostics not Catholics. (Clement of Aledandria and Tertullian) These later “Nicolaitans” took their name from the Apocalypse, not the other way around. They were libertines who felt free to sin because they were ‘saved”.
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