Deacon Ryan Duns: Archbishop John Nienstedt comes across as homophobic

La Salette Journey ^ | March 3, 2015 | Paul Melanson

[cleghornboy]

In a Blog post addressing a letter written by Archbishop John Nienstedt to a mother explaining the Church's teaching regarding homosexual acts and the reception of the Holy Eucharist, Deacon Ryan Duns, the Jesuit seminarian who believes that "gay marriage" might be a movement of the Holy Spirit, said that the Archbishop's letter, "..serves only to reinforce the belief that the Catholic Church is a homophobic institution more concerned with obedience than human flourishing." See here.

In his Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), Pope Benedict XVI writes, "It is characteristic of mature love that it calls into play all man's potentialities; it engages the whole man, so to speak. Contact with the visible manifestations of God's love can awaken within us a feeling of joy born of the experience of being loved. But this encounter also engages our will and our intellect. Acknowledgment of the living God is one path towards love, and the 'yes' of our will to his will unites our intellect, will and sentiments in the all- embracing act of love. But this process is always open-ended; love is never 'finished' and complete; throughout life, it changes and matures, and thus remains faithful to itself. Idem velle atque idem nolle —to want the same thing, and to reject the same thing—was recognized by antiquity as the authentic content of love: the one becomes similar to the other, and this leads to a community of will and thought.

[jsanders2001]

You don’t compromise with the Devil...

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Homophobia” is a liberal myth. Homosexuality is their religion.

[paterfamilias]

The Jesuits need to be slapped down again.

Too bad it will never happen under this (Jesuit) Pope.

[circlecity]

“The Spirit gives life, the flesh profiteth nothing.”

[Last Dakotan]

Since when do seminarians question Archbishops publicly?

Strange times indeed.