Posted on 10/25/2016 8:47:03 AM PDT by ebb tide
The Catholic Primate of Ireland has said people in “new relationships and unions” should be welcomed into the church.
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin made the comments at a conference celebrating “family and family life”, in preparation for Ireland’s hosting of the World Meeting of Families in 2018.
“The Synod [OF BISHOPS]was clear that we need to be mindful of those who have begun new relationships and unions, and find sincere and truthful ways of welcoming and including them in the life and worshipping community of the church,” he told some 700 delegates at DCU St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra on Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...
In 1946, Pope Paul VI called Ireland the most Catholic country in the world.
It only took 1-2 generations to turn it into just another post-modern secular pit.
Homosexual activities and second marriages without benefit of death or annulment are Mortal Sins. No matter what this disturbed prelate believes.
My brother’s in-laws are Irish Expats. They are fairly disgusted whenever they return home. In their opinion joining the EU has dragged Ireland down the moral sewer.
Oh Well, the Scotland of John Knox used to be one of the most reformed Protestant countries in the world and now it is an even worse post-modern secular pit.
What’s next? Forgive the pedophile priests? I had to serve Mass for those pervs.
Hopefully Poland won’t meet the same fate.
correction, I should have said “future Pope Paul VI” - he was an archbishop in 1946 when he said it....
What an excellent picture. I’m reminded of the quote from Hamlet
See, what a grace was seated on this brow?
....A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
to give the world assurance of a man.
I had a mental image of a gorilla with a hat.
Note: I'm a Catholic, but every time I hear Catholic Primate I think of this, too!
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