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To: A CA Guy

In the days before Vatican II, homosexuality wasn’t even an issue for seminarians. Then afterwards, they were told to be “open to new modes of expression.”


4 posted on 09/30/2009 10:41:06 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII (There's no such thing as divorce)
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Not true. In the past there wasn’t the drive of lawyers to make money off the Church. No sin that can make a lawyer money is left in the shadows these days.

There is some level of this throughout the world, far less in the religious community than in the secular world, but it is there.

Yep, as all of life went forward from about the time of V2 there was a loss of shame in public and somewhat within the Church regarding behavior and how people conducts their lives.

The basic measure used to be that you would behave as if God himself were before you always watching all you do and as if you could see him.
The way it turns out today sadly enough is, out of sight, out of mind.


7 posted on 09/30/2009 10:48:34 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Pope Pius XII
In the days before Vatican II, homosexuality wasn’t even an issue for seminarians.

Incorrect. If your assertion were valid then there would have been no need for the following instruction to have been issued by the Vatican on 2 February 1961.

Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers.

8 posted on 09/30/2009 11:39:59 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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