Posted on 01/14/2022 6:10:12 AM PST by Salman
Pope Francis has sent an encouraging letter to an American nun thanking her for her 50 years of ministry to LGBTQ Catholics, more than two decades after she was investigated and censured by the Vatican for her work.
In his letter dated Dec. 10, Francis wrote that Sister Jeannine Gramick has not been afraid of “closeness” and without condemning anyone had the “tenderness” of a sister and a mother. “Thank you, Sister Jeannine, for all your closeness, compassion and tenderness,” he wrote.
He also noted her “suffering ... without condemning anyone.”
Gramick, who lives just outside of Washington, D.C., in Mount Rainier, Md., said that the letter felt like it was “from a friend.”
“Of course, I was overjoyed,” she said. “It felt like a turning point in the church, because for so long, this ministry has been maligned and in the shadows.”
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Maybe someone can buy a Bible for the pope.
Seems to make sense that the head of that church has one that’s not just part of the interior design.
A bigger pile of human garbage never existed before this one lunged, commie scumbag.
From the beginning, in presenting the Church's teaching on homosexuality, Father Nugent and Sister Gramick have continually called central elements of that teaching into question. For this reason, in 1984, James Cardinal Hickey, the Archbishop of Washington, following the failure of a number of attempts at clarification, informed them that they could no longer undertake their activities in that Archdiocese. At the same time, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life ordered them to separate themselves totally and completely from New Ways Ministry, adding that they were not to exercise any apostolate without faithfully presenting the Church's teaching regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts.
Despite this action by the Holy See, Father Nugent and Sister Gramick continued their involvement in activities organised by New Ways Ministry, though removing themselves from leadership positions. They also continued to maintain and promote ambiguous positions on homosexuality and explicitly criticised documents of the Church's Magisterium on this issue. Because of their statements and activities, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life received numerous complaints and urgent requests for clarification from Bishops and others in the United States of America. It was clear that the activities of Sister Gramick and Father Nugent were causing difficulties in not a few Dioceses and that they were continuing to present the teaching of the Church as one possible option among others and as open to fundamental change.
In 1988, the Holy See established a Commission under the Presidency of Adam Cardinal Maida to study and evaluate their public statements and activities and to determine whether these were faithful to Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
After the publication of Building Bridges, the investigation of the Commission focused primarily on this book, which summarised their activities and thinking. In 1994, the Commission issued its findings, which were communicated to the two authors. When their responses to these findings were received, the Commission formulated its final Recommendations and forwarded them to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life. While not overlooking the presence of some positive aspects in the apostolate of Father Nugent and Sister Gramick, the Commission found serious deficiencies in their writings and pastoral activities, which were incompatible with the fullness of Christian morality. The Commission, therefore, recommended disciplinary measures, including the publication of some form of Notification, in order to counteract and repair the harmful confusion caused by the errors and ambiguities in their publications and activities.
Embarrassing!
Gets worse every time I see a story about this guy!
Complete charlatan!
Does he still believe in that outdated old book that most call THE BIBLE?
The guy is a joke.
Pope Face-Palm strikes again.
“Thanks for sending and directing people to Hell for our father, Satan”.
and you wonder why church pews are empty?
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Not a “pope.”
Frank is a giant lump of communist, faggoid, devil-shit who gives aid and comfort to our worst enemies.
Maybe he’ll just burn in hell or something.
Just what sort of “tenderness” and “closeness” was she bestowing on these LGBT’s? Was she promoting their lifestyle?
The Joe Biden of the Papacy.
Future saint?
Has anyone ever heard Frances say the word “sin”? Is there such a thing in his version of the Bible?
I’m not so much aggravated with this pope as I am the group that selected him.
Think about that for a sec. More than one had his blinders on or just totally was asleep at the switch.
I’m Catholic. I attend what could be described as a fairly conservative church considering. And it pains many of us to see what is happening over there.
The “Pope” who came straight from hell.
This guy is the Devil’s representative on earth.
So this Pope condones deviant sexual behavior!The POS imposter has to go.
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;
So this Pope condones deviant sexual behavior!
Condones? Or actively promotes?
What the Pope is doing is a toned town version of what has already taken over American "mainline" Protestantism (and much else).
Kind words from the pope will surely soothe her and comfort her as she burns in hell for all eternity.
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