Posted on 12/28/2014 11:45:39 AM PST by cleghornboy
As noted here:
"The Bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny advocates an ecclesiastical recognition of homosexual relationships. The dogma that the Catholic Church can only accept male-female relationships, he put in question in an interview with this newspaper. "There should be a diversity of recognition forms."
With his plea Bonny, is one of the first church leaders who attacks the absolute monopoly of the male-female marriage. "We have to look inside the church for a formal recognition of the relationality which is also present in many gay couples. As a variety of legal frameworks in society exist for partners, he wants to instate a diversity of recognition forms in the church."
Bonny, the designated (in fact, for the time being, most likely) successor of Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, who will retire in 2015, believes that gay couples should be able to get a church blessing.
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Just found a chapel 15 minutes from here that has Mass daily at 8:00 AM. Although some of the Mass is in Latin, Kyrie and Angus Dei, most is in English.
The priest faces the Tabernacle throughout the Mass, except for the readings and the homily. We also use the Communion rail during Communion.
I absolutely adore it.
this should have been expected from a guy named Bonny
There is a channel that’s devoted to this. My elderly mom watches it.
Marriage is the union of one man and one woman in matrimony.
Modern ‘reinterpretation’ does not invalidate a word’s definition.
What Bible does this guy read?
Time for a removing from office, there, Francis.
DISGUSTING. He should be excommunicated and a Vatican City warrant for his arrest put out.
Perhaps he means “forgive” instead of bless.
It seems to be Francis’s main purpose in life to give ammunition to the sedevacantists.
This Bonny character has been pushing this idea for months, if not longer. That he is still in office means that Francis shares completely in his heresy and his sin.
He’s still there?
It won’t be the first time the Church went off the rails.
Not what the article said.
And yet, this bishop will likely suffer no discipline. In fact, he stands a better chance of being promoted by this anti-christ pope of the Roman Cult.
Yup.
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