He had to go, sure -
But you have to admit, without this fellow's flair
The Vatican will lose a little - shall we say - charamsa.
Posted on 10/03/2015 4:47:51 PM PDT by NYer
I am afraid many have been blinded, by God, actually. Scripture speaks of this. God can call us and call us, but when we are not obedient to his call, hearts are hardened, ears can be tickled and we are finally blinded, so that we can not see. Pray that we can stand. The Lord Himself wondered aloud if upon his return, “...would their be *any* faith”. Shepherds can be wolves, sadly.
While this premise is quite true, we are called to admonish the sinner. It is one of the Corporate Virtues, found in any missal. Grant it, the admonishment is to be with sincerity and in love, for the salvation of the human soul.
Why would that be a factor— your pay grade? We are taught well, and we act on these teachings as the people of God.
You can go ahead and cast the first stone. Just don’t ask me to.
Is that the priest?
To quote Ed Morrisey: “the homosexual priest was not CELIBRATE.”
“Shepherds can be wolves, sadly”
Well spoken. Many “Shepherds” blind their sheep with false motivation for “salvation”, like giving the Shepherd, in the name of God, money when God already owns everything.
I am not recommending casting stones, idiot.
Would you not cast advice to a child playing in the street?
If not, would you weakly whine that it’s really none of your business, the child is not yours, therefore your self-righteous pose means you don’t have to care if they live or die?
The Christian faith, doubtful you are aware, teaches the spiritual works of mercy from example, that we are to counsel the doubtful, instruct the ignorant, TO ADMONISH SINNERS, comfort the afflicted, forgive offenses, bear patiently the troublesome, and pray for the living and the dead.
It is merciful to want to save a soul, where possible, and do so because we care. Of course it doesn’t always bear fruit. The child may go back into the street to sit and play, or the atheist continue in his sinful gay behavior, but we try.
At least most of the civilized do warn, and comfort and try. Is that so foreign to a Christian way of life???
"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
One who is gay and is searching for the Lord is more than likely living a celibate lifestyle. I only wish he had included “… is repentant …” or something like that. Maybe then people would see what he’s really getting at.
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