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Vatican appointee says gay sex can express Christ’s ‘self-gift’
lifesitenews.com ^ | May 19, 2015 | Lisa Bourne

Posted on 05/20/2015 9:26:41 PM PDT by FR_addict

ROME, May 19, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Pope Francis has appointed radically liberal, pro-homosexual Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

The Holy Father made the appointment on Saturday, according to Vatican Radio.

Father Radcliffe, an Englishman, author and speaker, was Master of the Dominican order from 1992 to 2001, and is an outspoken proponent of homosexuality.

"We must accompany [gay people] as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open,” he said in a 2006 religious education lecture in Los Angeles. “This means watching 'Brokeback Mountain,' reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord."

In 2005, as the Vatican deliberated the admission of men with homosexual tendencies to study for the priesthood in the wake of the Church sex abuse scandal, Father Radcliffe said that homosexuality should not bar men from the priesthood, and rather, those who oppose it should be banned. ...

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To: Gamecock; CynicalBear
**Seems we have a bunch of little Luthers here.**

LOL! Wanting to Reform the church!

To quote (loosely) the Colonel in Full Metal Jacket: "Inside every Catholic is a Protestant trying to get out!"

Well. One can hope and pray at least, right?

Hoss

101 posted on 05/21/2015 6:00:48 AM PDT by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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To: metmom

They can’t quite seem to hit a consistent note, can they?

Hoss


102 posted on 05/21/2015 6:01:45 AM PDT by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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To: onyx; mlizzy

I too was skeptical from the start and he has done nothing but substantiate my fears— there is a new outrage almost daily. I never put a minute’s worth of credence in the mis-translation theory. This has to be intentional. Didn’t he himself say something after his election that the Cardinals might be sorry they elected him?


103 posted on 05/21/2015 6:03:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: mj1234
Why doesn’t Rome DE-FROCK him?

Why doesn't the US do something to stop the advance of miltiant Islam all over the middle east?

Maybe the guy at the top isn't so opposed.

104 posted on 05/21/2015 6:05:11 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: HossB86

Dang!!! I missed the best one....


105 posted on 05/21/2015 6:06:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: onyx
It's hard to believe the Holy Spirit was at work in his election, when it has always seemed to me that his election was more political or politically geographical than anything else.

If Catholics don't believe that the Holy Spirit had a hand in his election, where does that leave your church?

How, then, can you be sure of ANYTHING that has happened in its 2,000 year or so history?

And how is that determination made? On what basis does the laity question the decisions of the hierarchy?

106 posted on 05/21/2015 6:10:07 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom; HossB86
...the vicar of Christ appointed in apostolic succession

Unless he is wrong of course.

107 posted on 05/21/2015 6:11:03 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: George Varnum

Controversial preacher, writer Timothy Radcliffe given Vatican role
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/16/controversial-preacher-timothy-radcliffe-given-vatican-role/


108 posted on 05/21/2015 6:14:14 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: FR_addict
Vatican appointee says gay sex can express Christ’s ‘self-gift’

Appointed to WHAT office??

109 posted on 05/21/2015 6:14:52 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FR_addict
Vatican appointee says gay sex can express Christ’s ‘self-gift’

While the BOOK says....



 

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.


Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.



2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.



But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
 

 
 
 
 
 
 


The Health Risks of gay sex.


110 posted on 05/21/2015 6:15:35 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gator113

Maybe he’s just not a follower of Christ.


111 posted on 05/21/2015 6:16:27 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: FR_addict
...letting our images be stretched open,”

There is NO way I'm gonna jump on THIS!!!

I...
Must...
Resist...



112 posted on 05/21/2015 6:17:52 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FR_addict
"letting our images be stretched open".

Gross

113 posted on 05/21/2015 6:18:12 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: TYVets

It’s too late for me!


114 posted on 05/21/2015 6:18:15 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

LOL!


115 posted on 05/21/2015 6:18:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: onyx
THIS DOESN'T WASH WITH ME.

Of course not, because the excuse is terribly lame. The one crafting the excuse would have us believe that there is practically no effort to vet appointees to such positions.
116 posted on 05/21/2015 6:18:45 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: TYVets
Sometimes it is better not to say anything


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
--Edmund Burke

117 posted on 05/21/2015 6:19:22 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FR_addict
Pope Francis has appointed radically liberal, pro-homosexual Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe

Pope Frances is "Peter the Roman".

118 posted on 05/21/2015 6:20:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: cherry

That RATS left it 500 years ago...


119 posted on 05/21/2015 6:21:06 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
NetPope Hossus I has spoken, Ex Catechismus

:D

Hoss

120 posted on 05/21/2015 6:21:49 AM PDT by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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