Posted on 09/08/2017 7:08:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, September 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Pope Francis seems to have affirmed recognizing homosexual relationships under law, an apparent contradiction of the Church's longheld teaching.
In a new book-length interview, the Pope reiterates his strong opposition to same-sex "marriage," but recommends using the term "civil unions" instead.
“Let us call things by their names. Matrimony is between a man and a woman. This is the precise term. Let us call the same-sex union a ‘civil union,’” he said.
Pope Francis made the comment during more than a dozen conversations with French journalist Dominique Wolton, who published the Pope’s words in a 432-page book titled Politics and Society. It was published in French on Wednesday.
The Catholic Church teaches that since homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered,” Catholics cannot approve of same-sex civil unions.
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reiterated this teaching in a key document in 2003. It was authored by then-prefect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who would be elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005) and approved by Pope Saint John Paul II.
“The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions,” it reads.
It is widely known that when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis (then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio) was publicly critical of the government’s push to legalize homosexual "marriage," but privately signaled he would be willing to live with civil unions as a compromise measure.
The Pope’s authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin, wrote concerning this that Bergoglio argued privately that the Church should come out for civil unions as the “lesser of two evils.”
“He wagered on a position of greater dialogue with society,” stated Rubin. This claim has been backed by homosexual activist Marcelo Marquez.....
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Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
But it’s all a sham. I thought that was made clear.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
Don’t be so hard on the Russians. One evening last winter I was eating at a Rubio’s when about 20 people walked in and sang Christmas carols. They were Russian immigrants.
It is no longer a rhetorical question to ask, “Is the pope Catholic?”
What, exactly, are you contending to be a sham about Patriarch Kirill?
Are you doubting that he is pro-life?
I take it you didn’t read my earlier post.
I don't know if you're joking or not, but I don't have a thing against the Russia people. Only their sham leadership.
It appeared to be hundreds of pages long.
However, if you address my question, or summarize your contentions about Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church, I will read that.
The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member church in the WCC" [World Council of Churches]
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The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) describes itself as a “fellowship of 349 churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service.” Founded in August of 1948, the WCC began as a moderate ecumenical council whose goal was to alleviate poverty and to aid displaced peoples.
Starting in the 1960s, the WCC became a champion of a variant of religious Marxism, known as Liberation Theology.
The council soon put its new-found ideology into practice, directly funding violent revolution through its “Program to Combat Racism.”
Recent evidence has shown that the KGB and its Bulgarian intelligence affiliate were able to infiltrate the WCC and influence its policy.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the WCC continued to advocate global socialism and to criticize American foreign policy and Israel, and to warn of the dangers posed by man-made global warming.
Before the Eastern Bloc churches joined the WCC in 1961, KGB and Bulgarian intelligence had already chosen the WCC as an “object of penetration.” During the next two decades, the KGB was able to get a number of its operatives elected to top positions in the WCC. In the 1960s, Bulgaria’s Todor Sabev served on the WCC’s Central and Executive Committees, eventually becoming deputy general secretary in 1979.
In 1975, the Russian Orthodox bishop Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad became a president of the Council. These members influenced the WCC to criticize U.S. foreign policy, while ignoring Soviet human rights abuses.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the WCC funded the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a group that praised Fidel Castro’s Marxist policies and fiercely lobbied for Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime.
The WCC has continued its support of Communist Cuba, advocating a lifting of the Cuban blockade and championing “the resilience and creativity of the Cuban people against great imperial odds.”
The WCC has also supported and funded a number of the most vicious insurgencies and totalitarian regimes in Africa. In the early 1970s, the Council gave aid to the Marxist insurgency known as the Liberation Front of Mozambique, also known as FRELIMO, before it seized power in. In the late 1970s, the WCC funded Robert Mugabe’s Patriotic Front revolution in Rhodesia and viewed his 1980 usurpation of power as divinely ordained.
The WCC has consistently denounced Israel and championed the Palestinian cause. At the 2001 United Nations World Conference on “Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” in Durban, South Africa, the WCC demanded an official denunciation of Israel for “systematic perpetration of racist crimes including war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
Echoing the Council’s long-held beliefs in a 2009 address, Samuel Kobia, chief of the WCC, attacked Israel’s “occupation” as a “sin against God.” He went on to call Israel’s founding a “catastrophe” and a “form of ‘ethnic cleansing’ that saw the largest forced migration in modern history.”
Once an opponent of capitalism, the WCC now contends that capitalism needs to be “reformed” by an international body. Sponsoring a panel at the 2009 World Social Forum, the WCC argued that the global economic downturn provided an opportunity to push “for long-overdue, radical reforms” to the capitalist system, particularly in terms of radical environmental policies that liberate people from the “logic of private profit.”
“We need to abandon the model of unlimited economic growth,” Bertille Darragon advised the WCC, “and start thinking in terms of ‘de-growth’ décroissance -- that is, to decrease the consumption of resources and energy, beginning with the very rich but including the middle classes both in the North and the South.”
Speaking at the Forum, Marta Ruiz, a member of the financial crisis caucus to which the WCC belongs, appealed for an end to the dollar’s “supremacy,” “state and citizen control of banks,” and the cancellation of the debt of developing countries.
That is about the World Council of Churches, not the Russian Orthodox Church. The ideology of the latter is not derived from the ideology of the former.
Worst Pope of my lifetime, absolute worst.
Completely off tracking the original church mission made of people persecuted by Roman sodomites. There will be zero distinction from here on out.
At least he could change the cathechism or convene before doing these secular “executive” orders
[[Pope Francis Signals Support for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex ‘Civil Unions’]]
I guess he doesn’t care what God thinks about it .
Lev_18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
His antichrist colors are showing...
“Let us call things by their names.”
Sodomy.
Oh, it is much deeper than money alone. This is open battle with the Prince of the Air, and foretold. We even know the ending, though it has come in small puzzle pieces over centuries, but now we see unfolding much worse is coming for the Church and the world.
Well said.
YES. Like minds and all that. %:D
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