[ebb tide]

Michael Sean Winters is a known homosexual employed by the National Catholic Distorter.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Translation: The Bishop has actually read the Bible.

[ebb tide]

I discovered that a guy I went to seminary with more than twenty years ago had turned into a kind of quixotic shill for the Catholic Church's opposition to DC Gay marriage. Michael Sean Winters was a very flamboyant gay man in the seminary. There is literally no other way to describe him. I always liked him in those days, and was always pleased that there did not seem to be any erotic energy between us. I liked hearing all his liberal postulations and glosses. I shared many of his views. But by nature I am more reserved about letting people know what I am thinking, even though gregariousness is a part of my nature. When I trust someone then it is a different story. Michael Winters was not someone you would trust, because he was really all over the place. It saddened me to hear other seminarians constantly make cruel fun of him for his psychological difficulties and his labyrinthine liberalism. I recall sitting in the refectory with him being entertained by his analysis of certain Church trends as "fascism".

DC Gay Marriage and Michael Sean Winters: Crypto-Right Wing Traceries

[amihow]

Unfortunately for author, St. Thomas taught that homosexual acts were more egregious than other forbidden, but heterosexual sins.

It is also a sin against nature whereas heterosexual sins are not.

Some smart Thomist can correct me if I have misremembered, but I do not think I have.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Thank you, Bishop Paprocki !

[tjd1454]

God bless the good bishop! (typed by an admiring Protestant).

[BillyBoy]

>> Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, should be sacked. He issued a decree last week setting guidelines and limits for how the pastors in his diocese treat people in same-sex marriages. Bishop Paprocki's decree states, uncontroversially, that no priest or other minister of the Catholic Church can preside at a same-sex marriage. No one so far as I know has proposed otherwise. the decree states that people in same-sex marriages should not present themselves for Communion, nor should they be admitted to holy Communion, meaning that a priest can deny them the sacrament. The decree also states that no one in a gay marriage should be allowed to serve in a public ministry, "including but not limited to reader and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. <<

Sacked?? Hmmm. Obvious typo there. The correct statement should have read "promoted to Cardinal". In fact, Paprocki (a Chicago native) should have been named Cardinal George's successor instead of Cupich.