U.S. Archbishop: Active Gays Must Repent and Change Lifestyle Before Receiving Communion

LifeSite News ^ | 7/10/17 | Pete Baklinski

[marshmallow]

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- An American archbishop has released guidelines upholding the Church's constant teaching that Catholics in "serious sin" – including active homosexuals and those in adulterous unions – must repent before receiving Communion.

The new guidelines from Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon are intended to implement Pope Francis’s Exhortation Amoris Laetitia in a way that he said is “compatible with Church teaching.”

The guidelines state that those in “serious sin,” including divorced and civilly-remarried persons living unchastely as well as persons in an active same-sex relationship, must “sacramentally confess all serious sins with a firm purpose to change, before receiving the Holy Eucharist.”

Sample wrote in his May 2017 guidelines that Amoris Laetitia “calls for a sensitive accompaniment of those with an imperfect grasp of Christian teaching on marriage and family life, who may not be living in accord with Catholic belief, and yet desire to be more fully integrated into Church life, including the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.”

But true accompaniment, he said, can only take place within the “tradition of the Church’s teaching and life.”

“In fact, pastors must always convey Catholic teaching faithfully to all persons – including the divorced and remarried – both in the confessional as well as publicly. They should do this with great confidence in the power of God’s grace, knowing that, when spoken with love, the truth heals, builds up, and sets free (cf. Jn 8:32),” the guidelines state.

The Archbishop said that there have been “misuses” of the Pope’s Exhortation “in support of positions that are not compatible with Church teaching.”

Among these is the notion that an individual’s conscience has, after Amoris Laetitia, become the final judge in moral matters. Such a position is taken by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, who......

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve been in many arguments with “Christians” who believe that you don’t have to be repentant to be redeemed, i.e. that practicing homosexuals who have no intention of stopping can be saved.

[LibFreeUSA]

What about molestor priests? Have they also been told the same thing?

[Marchmain]

Sample a good guy. He ran one out of the country and another is in jail. Our diocese is clean, at least it that regard.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, absolutely, they have.

[buffyt]

What about the gay sex drugs orgy near Vatican last week!

[buffyt]

What about the gay sex drugs orgy near Vatican last week!

[RegulatorCountry]

Must Repent and Change

Well, that's refreshing, coming from the US Roman Catholic hierarchy. Refreshing that they're actually acknowledging this behavior as a sin for one, but the real stunner is a Roman Catholic speaking of repentance and a change of heart, rather than the mechanical, physical penance. I guess repeating some words over and over, fingering beads and, heck, I don't know, donning a chicken suit and running around the courthouse square a hundred times isn't sufficient.

As I said, quite refreshing. There is hope.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Serious sins, vomitously disgusting as well.

And...?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Serious sins, vomitously disgusting as well.

And...?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Serious sins, vomitously disgusting as well.

And...?

[rlmorel]

Wow...I almost bugged out there...when my eyes first saw the title, I thought it said:

"...Anti Gays Must Repent and Change Lifestyle Before Receiving Communion..."

I just cannot stand this stuff anymore, the constant barrage of intrusion and indoctrination. I watched a movie last night, a stupid, animated KIDS movie called "Storks". I had no idea.

They showed a montage at the end of parents getting their new babies from the Storks, and they were very quick flashes on the screen, when I did a double take...backed it up frame by frame, and saw these two images just squeezed in there, so fast if you blinked, you would have missed them:

I couldn't believe it. A kids movie. A little kids movie. So I guess when I saw this thread, I felt a bit like the nail that sees everything as a hammer...

Anyway, nice to hear someone stand against it.

[Campion]

the real stunner is a Roman Catholic speaking of repentance and a change of heart, rather than the mechanical, physical penance.

Would it be fair to say that you haven't actually read much real Catholic devotional literature? You might try starting with "Story of a Soul" by St. Therese of Lisieux and the "Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis.

[Bigg Red]

Careful there, your ignorance is showing.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve witnessed enough threads on this topic over the years to understand the Roman Catholic layman’s understanding of penance vs. the Protestant understanding of repentance to know that this statement is noteworthy, Campion. You likely do, too.

[RegulatorCountry]

Why, then, are the Catholic Bibles translated “do penance” rather than “repent” as is the case in the King James Bible and every other so-called “Protestant” Bible?

[Bigg Red]

And, I suspect, you could examine many more children’s movies and find such subliminal messages. These evil monsters have been working on this agenda for a long time.

[Songcraft]

"Why, then, are the Catholic Bibles translated “do penance” rather than “repent” as is the case in the King James Bible and every other so-called “Protestant” Bible?"

That's simply not true.

Go to this "Bible Gateway" search for "repent" in the "Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition" of the Bible, and you will find it returns 115 instances of the word "repent", with roughly half in the Old Testament, and half in the New Testament.

(The "Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition" of the Bible is likely the most widely used English version of the Bible by Catholics today.)

[RegulatorCountry]

Now, do likewise in the Douay-Rheims which has been so heavily touted by RC partisans here on Free Republic.

What does it say?

“Do penance.”

[Jane Long]

Agree...nice to hear someone stand against this sin.

Thanks for the warning on that animated (aka targeting kids) movie, “Storks”. I cannot stand this evil agenda being pushed at our kids, nonstop.