Posted on 05/05/2005 7:13:16 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
Archbishop Harry Flynn has told gay-rights supporters they will not be allowed to receive Holy Communion while wearing rainbow-colored sashes because the practice has come to be perceived as a protest against Catholic teaching and is unacceptable to the Vatican.
Flynn's decision, conveyed in a letter this week to the Rainbow Sash Alliance USA, reverses his four-year policy of not interfering with sash-wearers receiving Communion at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Rainbow-sash supporters in St. Paul and elsewhere have typically organized their presence around the Christian celebration of Pentecost, which this year is May 15
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Ok, now it is Cardinal Mahony's turn. I am lookinf forward to his press release.
[T]he practice ... is unacceptable to the Vatican.Benedict!!!
They should go down the street to an Episcopal church.
Musta been a directive from the new pope.
Yeah Benedict is finally saying "You want to be Catholic, act like a Catholic, if you reject Christ, he will reject you."
I sure hope that's the case. The Catholic Church much untapped potential to do good, and this is a symbolic, yet meaningful step in that direction.
Why do I have the feeling that this policy causes Flynn desperate anguish?
The prayers of this house are with the Catholics.That they
will find the will to cleanse the temple (again) Those who
are Catholic will accept this as necessary and remain.
Those who want the Cathoic to be weak and silent, and
a facade will try to change it -or ignore it -and leave if
their lusts cannot change the Church. They will be stronger for it-- and I fear they will need the stregnth the Church has shown in times like these.
Flynn's a bleeping Marxist. He had an editorial the other day in the Red Star aimed at the state legislature that was basically right out of the communist manifesto.
Either Pope Benedict leaned on him, or he is afraid that he WILL lean on him.
My reading is that none of the bishops will want to be the one the Pope picks out to make an example of. None of them will want to have a higher profile than the others.
Flynn already has a reputation for being one of the worst, so he must hope this will take the heat off him and move it elsewhere.
I can see no other reason for Flynn's turn around, than the fact that there's a new sheriff in town-Benedict XVI.
Yes! Catholic Bump.
Well. uh, I should say bishops growing spines, for whatever reason.
>>eaching and is unacceptable to the Vatican.
Read into this: He doesn't have a problem with it, but if you do, go complain to the vatican...
Flynn also said that no one wearing a devils outfit, carrying a pitchfork, and praising Satan while walking up to the alter will be allowed to receive communion.
Way overdue but welcome all the same.
I am struck again by the studied ambiguity and equivocation of the Sash-people's statements: We aren't protesting the Catholic Church's teachings; but we're calling the Catholic Church to a change of heart about sexuality; our gay sexuiality is a grace and a gift of God, etc.
If you think the Church's teachings are wrong and you want the Church to have a "change of heart," and you go out in public wearing a large, colorful emblem that says just that, you're protesting. Duh.
And as for your "sexuality" being a gift from God: well, if you're talking about the main meaning of sexuality (being either a male or a female), yes, being male or female is a gift from God. But if you experience same-sex desires, unfortunately, you have a disordered sex drive. This is an affliction.
I have afflictions, too. Parts of my mind/body self that are really not the way they should be. Things in my personality that draw me into sin again and again, but which I struggle to resist.
But apart from calling myself a sinner, I don't ~identify~ myself by my afflictions. And I sure don't ask my Church to approve and affirm my disorders. I hope my Church will help me overome them.
I wish there were a Sash that said ~that~.
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