Jesuit priest cites Pope Francis in praising Catholic student activism backing gay marriage

LifeSIte News ^ | Fri Jan 24, 2014 | Matthew Archbold

[ebb tide]

Note: Pope Francis is also a Jesuit priest. I wonder if there will be any repercussions for Fr. Whitney, S.J.

[Ken H]

Did Francis lighten up?

[CaspersGh0sts]

This intolerant and backwards religious teaching should not be acceptable. The Bible is quite clear about the corrupt nature of homosexuality and homosexual acts. There is no place for it in the church.

[SubMareener]

The Bible is also quite clear that the Harlot of Babylon will have her capital in the city of seven hills.

[Robwin]

I wonder if there will be any repercussions for Fr. Whitney, S.J.

Not likely. Were there any for this?: A Jesuit parish priest who marched in a homosexual parade...

[Cronos]

And Istanbul has 7 hills.

Modern Rome has more than 7 hills -- the Vatican is on the 8th and is outside the walls of ancient rome in any case

[john drake]

As usual, several misguided Jesuits, for the past several decades, spout their own interpretation of the Gospels and what previous Popes, including the latest, Pope Francis, has said. Simply put, the Church continues to condemn homosexual acts (and premarital sex,masturbation, contraception, abortion, etc.) but not the homosexual himself, whom for whatever reason, has leanings or attractions to the same sex. Just as the church does not condemn heterosexuals who have leanings towards members of the opposite sex but who refrain from committing sexual acts outside of marriage. Another words, we are all sinners, corrupted, impure, broken, and in need of redemption. We need to refrain from all sins. Condemn the sin, not the sinner, however if the sinner does not repent or condones or promotes sinful behavior, then he remains in sin and likely condemned. That hasn’t changed in two thousand years, and won’t, if a church remains truthful to the Gospels and the Bible in general, last time I checked.

[miss marmelstein]

NYC has only one hill - we call it “uptown.” Well, we have Murray Hill but that actually is pretty flattened out after two centuries of building.

That said, awful story.

[delchiante]

They are just following their rock star Catholic politicians pelosi, biden and the cuomos...

[Mrs. Don-o]

[WilliamIII]

How many hills does San Francisco have?

[allendale]

The Jesuit order of today is not the Jesuit order that was founded by Ignatius Loyola or even the Jesuit order of forty years ago. If the parishioners of Whitney’s parish were smart they would find another Catholic parish until the archbishop arranges his removal. Also unless the Pope removes homosexuals from the clergy, the vile molestation of young boys by decadent homosexual priests will continue.

[Vaquero]

San Francisco has 1. Down hill all the way.

[Vaquero]

My church and school growing up was run by the Jesuits(thought the teachers were Dominican nuns). They were intellectual, but not, at that time immoral. To my knowledge, that is. I never heard of choir boys or altar boys getting diddled.

[Celtic Cross]

The harlot was possibly the empire of ancient Rome, but not the Catholic Church. Rome has more than 7 hills -- the Janiculum (named after the Roman god Janis) is an eighth, not counted usually because it is across the Tiber. The Vatican is also across the Tiber, on yet another hill, northwest quite distance from the seven traditional hills of Rome.

[VerySadAmerican]

The thought of this Pope meeting with obama scares me.

[Celtic Cross]

Hate to say it, but they’ll probably hit it right off.

[ebb tide]

Bergoglio made that statement as the Archbishop of Buenos Aries, not as Pope. At the same time, he urged his fellow bishops to not argue against a proposal for the civil recognition of homo-unions. His fellow bishops rejected Bergoglio's suggestion.

Now, as Bishop of Rome, he seems to have lightened up even more.

[Steve_Seattle]

For years, I have strongly suspected that the pastor of Seattle’s Roman Catholic cathedral (St. James) is gay - he very much looks the part, and he has tolerated openly gay - and newly elected mayor - Ed Murray to receive communion for many years.

[Steve_Seattle]

"If the parishioners of Whitney’s parish were smart they would find another Catholic parish until the archbishop arranges his removal."

In the Seattle area, probably 50%-70% of Catholics support gay marriage. The local church has gone TOTALLY gay. My younger sister works in a Catholic school, she thinks gays are cute and cuddly, almost like pets. She has been totally Opraha-ized.