Posted on 05/09/2016 6:12:56 AM PDT by marshmallow
At least eight Catholic colleges across the country are hosting “lavender graduations” this spring — many of them as part of an annual campus tradition — to celebrate and honor students with same-sex attraction (SSA) or who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ).
Lavender graduations and similar ceremonies for seniors have been announced at the College of St. Rose, DePaul University, Georgetown University, Loyola Marymount University, St. Mary’s College of California, Santa Clara University, Seattle University and the University of San Francisco.
Although intended as a compassionate gesture to students, the ceremonies reinforce harmful ideologies about sexuality and gender that contradict Catholic teaching and have been deplored by Pope Francis. They potentially lead students into sinful activity and undermine a Catholic college’s claim to teach the truths of the Catholic faith.
The Church is clear in teaching that sexual attraction to persons of the same sex is not itself a sin, but such attractions are “objectively disordered.” As explained by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
The Congregation continued: “Therefore special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cardinalnewmansociety.org ...
“this happening at other universities that are not Catholic? Just curious.”
I would guess these catholic schools are imitating what is happening at other schools.
“If salt has lost its saltiness, it is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”
It is no longer even possible to try to satirize by exaggeration.
Isn’t the Q redundant?
What church did you go to?
A social cataclysm leading to a population bottleneck would be hard to exaggerate.
Their parents must be so proud.
Jonathon Edwards, early American Church father, said the Satan’s two greatest enemies of Christianity are Islam and the Papacy led Roman Church. These are perhaps the 2 horns of the second beast in Revelation 13.
Very good! I shudder at how accurate your statements are...You should write a book!
Christ would disagree. He stated that if a man lusts after a woman, he has committed adultery in his heart. The Masters implication is that even allowing the sin into your heart is tantamount to sin and must not occur. For it is not what goes into a man that makes him unclean, but what comes out.
Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"
John when mankind has convinced itself that its wisdom has replaced that of God or Natural Law, God or Natural Law will hiccup and set mankind right.
Does the church have the will to contain this?
bkmk
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