Posted on 06/01/2016 6:35:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
On 25 May 2015, the official website of the German bishops, katholisch.de, reported on an interview given by the notable German Jesuit, Father Klaus Mertes. In his interview, originally given to the German newspaper, taz, Mertes claims that it took the Catholic Church in the West 200 years to get “where we are now” with regard to the question of homosexuality. He continues: “In Africa or South East Asia, people are still at a very different point. The fight for the rights of the homosexuals is a world-wide project for which it is thus worth remaining in the Church.” In order to make the way free to a new assessment of homosexuality, Mertes proposes that the Magisterium “reflect upon sexual morality in light of charity, and not in light of a notion of nature which considers the marital act in an isolated way, without taking into account the different [sic] contexts.” In his eyes, Catholic sexual morality “is stuck in a fixation.”
This is an argument that was to be found repeatedly, if less explicitly, during the recent discussions surrounding the synods on marriage and the family, namely: to separate the marital act from its procreative aspect. If the marital act is not morally bound to the procreation of new life, homosexuality, so some think, could more easily come to be considered not really sinful. For example, the well-known German theologian Stephan Goertz proposed in 2015:
In biblical times, says the theologian [Goertz], “procreation was the first God-given purpose of sexuality.” At that time, “sexuality had as its first purpose to secure the survival of the people”; however, “that is obviously not any more our situation, and that, since the [Second Vatican] Council, it has also not been any more our own moral teaching on sexuality.”
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Evil is a human right?
He needs to be defrocked.
Meanwhile, the boss hog of how we should behave is pro-islam.
Take a hike the of those that follow blindly ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymSR_E0W9_A
Satan has been working overtime for the last 7 1/2 years while he has an audience.
Every human has the right to sin and disobey God.
The Church in Germany needs prayers... badly.
Abomination is a right?
Spoken like a true homosexual.
If it is to become a “human right” it should be kept out of the church and synagogue. Leave it as a secular society issue. Churches should continue to preach and teach God’s law as set forth in the Bible. Church clerics should not be promoting homosexuality. Compassionate pastoral care, fine. But keep to His Word
Well since the Imans will soon be in charge over there, what he believes or does not believes in does not much matter anymore. It is just the silly twitter of a dying culture and certainly not Catholic whether he thinks so or not. I will be going to World Youth Day in Poland this August as a chaperone for some So Cal teens. I’ll also be spending some extra time in traditional Europe and will be very interested in seeing how things have changed in the last few years for myself.
The Church is in a dreadful state in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
the Rhine flows into the Tiber...the same nefarious bunch that brought us the Spirit of Vatican II...
Maybe someone could talk him into going to Syria to extol the virtues of tolerance and coexistence to those notorious homophobes in ISIS?
“Defrocked” is not a Catholic term. Not that he’s a Catholic.
He should be dismissed from the Society, and laicized.
Can’t he just join the Methodist, Episcopals, or Anglicans?
Ya know, a Jesuit may be even more evil than a mullah.
If that is possible.
His Bishop needs to shut him up.
This has nothing to do with “rights”.
This is about promoting evil as being acceptable.
Has anybody asked him how old he was when he was molested?
Most homosexuals were molested as children.
(And maybe an exorcism.)
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