Posted on 06/25/2014 9:21:22 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
The Franciscan Friars of Boston's Saint Anthony's Shrine---members of the same religious family as our Capuchin Cardinal Sean O'Malley---manned a so-called information booth at the city's homosexual Pride Festival on City Hall Plaza on Saturday, June 14th. The booth featured banners, buttons and t-shirts emblazoned with the words: "Who am I to judge?" There was nothing evident which suggested traditional Catholic teaching about the mortally sinful, soul endangering character of homosexual relations, which The Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1984, described as "grave depravity."
When contacted by concerned Catholics, Franciscans assured callers that they had "the full support of the archdiocese." The Archdiocese of Boston however, issued no public statement on this scandal. The closest thing to an official response was an e-mail sent by the Archdiocesan Cabinet Secretary for Parish Life and Leadership, the Very Rev. Kevin M. Sepe, who told one outraged Catholic:
St. Anthony Shrine, although within the Archdiocese of Boston, is a parish of the Franciscan Order and so I encourage you to contact them directly with your questions and concerns. The Archdiocese has no knowledge of the intent of this initiative and is not associated with it. Thank you for your correspondence.
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "Religious orders operate churches in the archdiocese with the permission of the archbishop. A telephone call from the cardinal could have put a halt to this scandal in five minutes."
"The archdiocese was silent about the aggression of homosexual militants against the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. It was silent about the anti-Catholic hate group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, leading the homosexual Pride Parade. It is now dodging responsibility for Franciscan participation in the Pride Festival."
"The 'Welcoming Mass' and 'Rainbow Ministry' at Saint Cecilia's in the Back Bay obviously enjoy the tacit endorsement of the archdiocese, as does the LGBT group at Saint Anthony's. When pro-life scholar and attorney Dan Avila---who spent years serving the church---suggested a link between homosexuality and the demonic, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, The Pilot, became a forum for pastors, priests, and deacons of the archdiocese to savage Avila in the letters to the editor column."
"When the Pastor of Saint Paul's Parish in Hingham declined to enroll the child of a lesbian couple in his parochial school, the Director of the Catholic Schools Foundation---whose Chairman is the Cardinal---threatened to withhold funding; the leading member of the Archdiocesan Council of Finance ridiculed the pastor's decision to the secular media; the Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools hastened to find another school for the couple; and the Archdiocesan Communications Director refused to publicly defend the priest, who was being viciously maligned in the media."
"When the courageous pro-family organization, Mass Resistance, mounted a referendum campaign to restore the 1913 law limiting Bay State acceptance of certain out of state marriages (a statute which gained new relevance with some states recognizing same sex unions as marriages), the Cardinal, after some coaxing in the middle of a pro-life event, signed the referendum petition, albeit with the wrong address. His aides then attempted to retrieve the petition sheet. When Mass Resistance publicized the Cardinal's signature---which was, after all, on a public document---they were told to stop using the Cardinal's name, and forbidden to collect anymore signatures in front of Catholic churches."
"Betrayals of Catholic principles never permitted under Cardinal Law are now becoming routine under Cardinal O'Malley. It should be apparent to any informed Catholic that this archdiocese, under its current leadership, will offer no meaningful opposition to the homosexual agenda, either in civil society, or even in the church itself."
They ask “who am I to judge”. Right is it not for them to judge. God has already judged. To contradict Him is to make your own judgment. To submit to His pronouncement is nonjudgment.
Nothing happens without the explicit - or complicit - approval of the local bishop.
“Who am I to judge?”
How very open minded of them. When it comes to homosexualism or even pedophile priests...
“Who am I to judge?”
The leaders who affirm homosexual behavior and the leaders who fail to sanction them are probably themselves homosexuals. What else are we to think?
“Betrayals of Catholic principles never permitted under Cardinal Law”
Is the author serious? Law was buddy-buddy with every one of the worst architects of the culture of death! Ted Kennedy, anyone?
The Franciscans already judged by participating in the pride festival.
They should’ve stayed away — no need for them to be there.
They set a bad example.
Bing Bing Bing Bing! Give that man a cee-gar!
One and the same. There was almost NO pedophilia among priests, only fags doing what fags do: chasing boys.
It does no good to call a burglar a bank robber.
It is impossible to perform the third spiritual work of mercy, which is to admonish the sinner, without exercising objective judgement.
“The basic reason that we admonish sinners is because their salvation may well be in jeopardy.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=8158
I think we have a large percentage of homosexuals in the Conciliar hierarchy.
I saw the picture of their booth and was very troubled. In my opinion, the Cardinal needs to have a fraternal discussion with those Franciscan’s Superior.
It is one thing to have a booth encouraging reconciliation and promoting the message of God’s love for us all, but it is totally different to imply homosexual acts are of no concern.
People are rightly outraged.
I went to a Jesuit University and without having statistics (or first-hand knowledge, God forbid!) , would guess that 20% of the priests were homosexual.
Agree.
Indeed. And to attend their sinner-'pride' parade and say only "Who am I to judge?" is to put one's own salvation in jeopardy.
Don't hold your breath. The Cardinal has a history of protecting and promoting such priests.
.....”to attend their sinner-’pride’ parade and say only “Who am I to judge?” is to put one’s own salvation in jeopardy”....
One could easily say they aren’t the Lords to begin with, rather masquerading as so. I would tend to lean they are not Christians at all.
I think we have a large percentage of homosexuals in the Conciliar hierarchy.
...gee...ya think...?
There is a former Jesuit priest teaching “Gay Parenting” at the University of San Francisco ( a Catholic, er uh Jesuit school), butt who am I to judge.
...more of the rotten fruit of Vatican II, where the Church could not run away from its tradition fast enough...and all for the purpose of making nice with the World Council of Churches...smh...
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