Posted on 08/20/2018 7:45:49 PM PDT by Ennis85
A research project by an international Catholic think tank, to be launched today by Mary McAleese, is to challenge the theological evidence for church teaching that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disorder". Plans for the study by Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research will be unveiled at Trinity College by McAleese, a former president and an outspoken critic of the Vatican. The institute will call on Pope Francis to question official church teaching on same-sex relationships. "I am hoping the project will advance an intelligent and scholarly debate about the warped, damaging, unchristian, unscientific, fake gender ideology which currently underpins Catholic teaching on LGBTI issues," McAleese told the Sunday Times.
A spokeswoman for the Institute said that tomorrow's event would address "the exclusion of gay and lesbian families from the World Meeting of Families" which it argues furthers the church's "marginalisation and demonization and" of LGBT Catholics and their relationships. The launch takes place a day before the World Meeting of Families opens in Dublin's RDS. The week culminates in a visit by Pope Francis. On Sunday, he will say mass for up to 500,00 people in the Phoenix park. The Wijngaards research will provide a critical evaluation of the arguments behind official Catholic teaching which dates from 1986 Vatican document Homosexualitatis Problema, according to Luca Badini Confalonieri, director of research at the Institute.
"Since [then], however, biology and genetics have made some progress towards understanding the causes of homosexuality. The same can be said of biblical studies, on what the Bible affirms with regard to the meanings purposes of human sexuality and sexual diversity," writes Confalonari in a preliminary paper on the research . "The question of homosexual acts is sometimes regarded as settled from the earliest days of Christianity...A process of debate and consultation would be tantamount to putting this in doubt and so, no such process has been initiated or encouraged by the Vatican. The reports aims at filling that gap." Confalonieri said the argument in the Vatican document that homosexual acts were "intrinsically disordered" was based on a belief that biological procreation was an "essential and indispensable finality" of each act of sexual intercourse. This was based on a "mistaken biological "fact" that each and every act of sexual intercourse has a procreative "finality" and "significance".
"The teaching that same-sex sexual acts are "intrinsically evil" always and everywhere is not reevealed in the Bible," he said. "Nor has it ever been shown to be essential for the truth of the Christian revelation. Accordingly, it cannot become the object of an infallible definition.
Romans Chapter 1 vs 25-32 Clear and in New Testament~
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Catholic think tank works to justify homosexuality.
But even if those words had never been written, homosexual inclinations would still be disordered and homosexual behavior immoral.
‘it must be argued that sterile sex is natural.’
interesting to see how that argument could possibly be advanced, except as natural aberration; sterile sex may in fact occasionally happen in nature, but quite clearly is not the purpose of it...
There is no such thing as homosexuality, which is why the Bible describes it referentially rather than defines it existentially: It is fake, done as a man lies with a woman.
It is homoeroticism: the narcissistic fetishization of a person of the same sex.
Yes. But to dare suggest that the purpose of the reproductive organs is reproduction raises a hue and cry these days.
“So, they aren’t going to actually read the Bible, then.”
With careful editing it comes out just how they want it.
Yep, itching ears.
Last Days.
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Thanks for explaining due penalty.
“Well JESUS never said homosexuality was bad so it’s perfectly ok”
Actually, Jesus said he came to preach the Word (O.T) and it was not to be changed one iota or one tittle.
Don’t reprobate minds ever get tired?
The little faggot is out of uniform. He should be wearing the same little dress as the ladies.
She is a disgrace. She’s taking advantage of the Pope’s visit to Ireland to get publicity for her anti-Catholic organization,
And oil rights....
Genesis Chapters 18-19, Sodom and Gomorrah.
What oil income?
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