Posted on 07/13/2017 6:33:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
Peruse the online biographies of the St. Clare Parish Council in California and one comes across this line: “John and his husband Willie are the parents of twin third graders at St. Clare School.”
As it turns out, not only is "John" a member of the parish council, this man who is “married” to another man is also employed by Catholic Charities, “training psychology interns and providing bilingual mental health services.”
For the last decade or so, local Catholic Charities across the country have been chased out of the adoption business in one jurisdiction after another because of their belief that children deserve both a mother and a father. Yet that belief evidently does not extend to employees at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara.
St. Clare Parish is in the Diocese of San Jose, headed by outspoken pro-gay Bishop Patrick McGrath.
Just two weeks ago, McGrath issued a terse letter to the priests and other religious of his diocese, asserting his own interpretation of the Church’s magisterial teaching because orthodoxy is “confusing.”
McGrath was responding to Illinois Bishop Thomas Paprocki who, following Catholic teaching, said those in same-sex “marriages” shouldn’t present themselves to or be admitted to Holy Communion, nor should they receive a Catholic funeral if they died without showing signs of repentance.
McGrath’s June 29 directive began, “Recent news reports of policies and practices related to members of the LGBT community in other dioceses can be confusing.”
“I take this opportunity to assure you that the pastoral response in the Diocese of San Jose remains just that: compassionate and pastoral. We will not refuse sacraments or Christian burial to anyone who requests them in good faith,” he added.
McGrath justified admitting “anyone” to Holy Communion by quoting Pope Francis.
“Finally, let us remember and be guided by the words of Pope Francis: ‘The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.’” he said.
If being an active homosexual — engaged in same-sex marriage — does not bar one from receiving the sacraments, then of course it makes sense that men “married” to men and women “married” to women should be welcome to serve on parish councils.
The diocese also openly boasts a “Catholic LGBT Ministry” that “offers a monthly ‘All Are Welcome’ Mass for LGBT Catholics, their families, friends, and all our brothers and sisters in Christ.”
New Ways Ministry, a pro-LGBT group previously condemned for representing itself as a Catholic organization, welcomed McGrath’s letter, “instructing clergy and religious in the diocese to be compassionate and inclusive when it comes to pastoral care. [sic] a direct repudiation of last month’s alienating directives from an Illinois bishop.”
The posting continues, indirectly condemning Bishop Paprocki while extolling McGrath. “But beyond that, his letter is significant because, even if indirectly, he is publicly challenging a fellow bishop. This development is a sign of health in a church where there is too often silence from bishops when their peers act inappropriately. More U.S. bishops should follow McGrath’s example by issuing guidelines of welcome and inclusion.”
LGBT Media has seized upon the story. The Advocate headline blares, “San Jose Catholic Bishop Welcomes LGBT People to Receive Sacraments.” The article informs readers that “McGrath has a history of being LGBT-welcoming, even though the church officially opposes same-sex relationships and gender transition.”
Catholic parishioners in some major urban centers may also have noticed a creeping incrementalism of the acceptance of homosexuality within their parishes.
On the other side of the country, efforts remain in full force to normalize homosexuality, where gay and lesbian couples long for a time when “LGBT couples can be equal to straight couples in the eyes of the Catholic Church.”
For instance, in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, St. Matthew’s Parish has been promoting homosexuality and its so-called “compatibility” with Catholicism for years.
In the Archdiocese of New York, leaders of “gay and lesbian ministries” in three separate parishes openly flout Catholic teaching on sexual morality, saying their lifestyle choices are part of how God made them.
I thought Rome was against this sort of thing.
This is all because of Luther no doubt.
Frankie the idiot pope approves.
The Church is going to lose a LOT of property when this is all said and done.
It won’t be long before the catholic church will be doing same sex marriages, blessing abortions, and allowing married priests and priestesses.
Romans sure has some student things to say about it.
People who never knew much about God, Jesus or the Gospel are not in the crosshairs of Romans:1:18-32 but people like this, who have refused to retain knowledge, are sure putting themselves in harms way and it doesn’t end well for them.
“Left field, out of it is, yes.” — Yoda
Of course cause blame shifting is always easier than accepting responsibility for your actions.
The Catholic church is nothing more than a pile of smoldering wreckage at this point, but just like some on the Titanic who denied that it was sinking as it was going down, there are many Catholics who misquote the verse about the gates or hell and bury their heads in the sand waiting and hoping for things to get better.
How many centuries has this kind of debauchery been going on? And they are STILL working under the delusion that things are going to change for the better some day?
You're putting marriage in the same category as homosexuality and abortion?
And Catholics wonder why people think they are opposed to marriage.
Hey, at least the married priest is married to a WOMAN and having his sex in a God approved context.
It staggers the mind that you would equate that with abortion.
“The Catholic church is nothing more than a pile of smoldering wreckage at this point, but just like some on the Titanic who denied that it was sinking as it was going down, there are many Catholics who misquote the verse about the gates or hell and bury their heads in the sand waiting and hoping for things to get better.”
We still have the Magisterium to give us the Only True Interpretation!
Yes, we have a Rogue Pope our Cardinals chose.
Yes we have a gay Vatican Mafia.
Yes, they have drug-crazed gay sex parties.
Yes, it’s true that half our membership or more doesn’t attend church all year.
Yes, we have a small pedophile problem.
And yes, this would seem to indicate no one listens to our Magisterium and does what is right in their own eyes.
Ah, never mind!
- Catholic Dude
In a very short amount of time, the Catholic Church has pretty much destroyed itself. The only remedy would be the ouster of the fake Pope and purge of these apostates and heretics. I do not see this happening except by some divine miracle. The mask is officially off of Vatican inc.
ampu:
We still have the Magisterium to give us the Only True Interpretation!
Yes, we have a Rogue Pope our Cardinals chose.
Yes we have a gay Vatican Mafia.
Yes, they have drug-crazed gay sex parties.
Yes, it’s true that half our membership or more doesn’t attend church all year.
Yes, we have a small pedophile problem.
And yes, this would seem to indicate no one listens to our Magisterium and does what is right in their own eyes.
Ah, never mind!
- Catholic Dude
Don't you mean ...
It's LUTHER's fault!
?
We must have people calling and leaving messages of disgust. Just called myself.
As she was established by Jesus Christ himself, the Catholic Church has through 2000 years outlasted every attempt to destroy it, either from within or without. She has survived worse Popes than Francis and has outlived all of her critics, often coming back from the depths stronger and more glorious than before. If the Lord doesn’t come first, she’ll long survive all of us on this thread. Praise be to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
I don't believe there have ever been any worse popes than Francis.
You’re equating that in your own mind.
I’m simply listing some of the longstanding church traditions and teachings that will soon be jettisoned.
No, I am not.
YOU are the one that put all three together in one sentence and put them on the same level.
They must invade the culture to last. They would be gone in one generation. How did a husband and a husband have children? What will they teach them? When you call God a liar you are evil. When you teach evil to children you offend God and the innocent. Any church that rejects God’s Bible shall be rejected by God.
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