They want to educate all parishoners that:
| Part 3, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article 6, SubSection 2, Heading 5 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, 141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." 142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
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| Part 3, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article 6, SubSection 2, Heading 5 2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
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| Part 3, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article 6, SubSection 2, Heading 5 2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
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| Part 3, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article 6, SubSection 4, Heading 3 2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
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I'd really like to believe this is what they want to teach. I'm having difficulty doing so. AB |
I'd really like to believe this is what they want to teach. I'm having difficulty doing so.I had hoped that the article I posted (#30 above) from the November/December 1998 issue of the St. Catherine Review was outdated; unfortunately, both Bishop Moeddel and CCGLI are featured prominently in this September's 2002 National Conference of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries:
Annual Creating A Welcoming ParishSounds to me like Bishop Moeddel is the alpha male of this perverted pack.The Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Concerned Catholics for Gay/Lesbian Inclusion (CCGLI) will describe how, through prayer and education, they seek to energize the accepting, educate the questioning, and challenge the condemning, to create a more loving, caring Church.
Having a huge bevy of active homosexual priests in the Church (who are, among other things, responsible for teaching Catholic sexual morality) is an enormous hypocrisy. It's like having a bunch of priests who are pornographers, or a bunch of priests who never forgive, or a bunch of priests who never go to Church. It's crazy.