Posted on 03/13/2014 12:18:19 PM PDT by ebb tide
Yesterday, the Archbishop of Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) received a group of religion journalists for his annual chat, and the talk was moderated by a famous Vaticanist in Italian public television and radio network RAI, Raffaele Luise.
The evening concluded with a debate in depth on the matter of homosexuality. Both Luise and the archbishop praise, in substance, the opening of the Church regarding gays and de facto couples. Particularly for Luise, it is necessary on this theme, "a cultural revolution, that contemplates the fact that homosexuality is not a deviancy, but a human attitude, and not just that, considering that almost 500 natural species display homosexuality." "The new paradigm - says bishop Castellani - is that every diversity is richness. In my life as a parish priest, I saw and lived so many situations [and he describes a few]; and I am convinced that the time has come for Christians to open up to diversity."
(Excerpt) Read more at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com ...
Oh, and as for Card. Dolan ——wincing, mincing, maddening minimal makeshift madcap morality. He is very much in the wrong.
Tagline from Jorge Bergoglio/Pope Francis
However, this kind of "natural" has nothing to do with the moral reality known as Natural Law; and any Catholic with more than a 9th grade education, should know that.
I hope you are right.
But the news coming out today is very disconcerting.
“As Pope marks first year, Italian archbishop says the new paradigm opens Church to homosexuality”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3133110/posts
"Per impossibile"
“Depends who yhou mean by “they””
“They” are the large number in hierarchy who have gone soft on homosexuality. The problem is their teachings and thoughts get back to young students.
It's the silence that does the most damage.
Tagline courtesy of Jorge Bergoglio.
I challenge him to name one that actually engages in buggery.
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