This is the kind of ministry for Christ and witnessing I believe Jesus Christ commanded..
A Great Witness for Christ who just passed away...
ELKTON, Maryland, January 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pro-family movement is mourning the loss of a great advocate for authentic sexuality, as Courage founder Fr. John F. Harvey passed away December 27.
The priest, 92, died at Union Hospital in Elkton, Maryland; a funeral was celebrated on December 31 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Fr. Harvey founded the Courage apostolate in 1980 at the request of Cardinal Terrence Cooke, then-Archbishop of New York, and served as director until 2008. The ministry offers a spiritual support system to men and women struggling with same-sex attractions, and promotes chastity and the development of an integrated sexuality.
They now run over a 100 chapters in a dozen countries, and have been endorsed by the Vatican.
“For Fr. Harvey, homosexuality was not a cultural issue or a topic to be debated,” said Fr. Paul Check, Fr. Harvey’s successor at Courage. “It was a reality in the life of individual people, who came to the Church with the hope of finding some understanding, some maternal love and solicitude, some compassion, some mercy, and, of course, truth.”
“He understood very well the human condition in both its vulnerabilities and in its nobility,” he added.
Fr. Check called him a “remarkable” yet “undervalued” man and a “pioneer” in authentic pastoral care for homosexual persons. He said the late priest was characterized most by “fidelity to the Church, humility, cheerfulness, great generosity of heart.”
“No matter how much resistance or misunderstanding he encountered - which was a great deal over a long lifetime of dealing with a very controversial subject - he was always very charitable,” said Fr. Check.
o/t but what is “integrated sexuality”?
What does posting about a Priest’s work with homosexuals have to do with the false religions and the occults? Further labeling it the kind of ministry Christ ‘commands’ us to do?....more like the blind leading the blind.
They’ve tried for years to “Rehabilitate” these criminals..to no avail..which obviously after this deceased guys ‘30’ yrs. “helping” the evidence in the news attests he certainly hasn’t been very successful.
Given your report.. over 100 chapters of this organization in over 12 countries simply testifys that the problem with homosexuality in the Priesthood remains out of control... Regardless.
The best thing that could have happened was the news media exposing all this, but particularly the catholic leadership over up.
So this guys “ministry” could have very well been another one of the catholic leaderships places they parked these creeps at.