Catholic Bishop Says Gay Adoption Is ‘Moral Abuse’ of Children

“Entrusting children to so-called homosexual couples constitutes in the last analysis a moral abuse of children, the smallest and most defenseless,” said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in an interview with Italian media last week. Mincing no words, the bishop said gay adoption “will go down in history as one of the greatest degradations of civilization. Those who daily combat this gross injustice are the true friends of children and the heroes of our age.”

An auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, Schneider told the Italian daily Il Giornale that the “Catholic Church, just like every human person with good sense and sound reason, has always rejected homosexual activity.”

Handing children over to homosexual couples “is a violation of the fundamental right of every child to grow up and be raised by a dad and a mom,” he said.

The bishop’s words come in the wake of an ongoing battle in the United States over the unwillingness of adoption and foster care agencies run by the Catholic Church to place children in homes with gay couples.

Last March, Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services ceased new foster care placements with Catholic Social Services and another faith-based agency, Bethany Christian Services, because of the agencies’ policy of not placing foster children with same-sex couples.

At the time, the city also announced its intention to terminate its contract with Catholic Social Services at the end of June because of its beliefs about gay marriage.

Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.

They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!

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On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.

The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.

"Yes. But, wait long enough and you can find a Catholic bishop who will say anything. Later today some other Catholic bishop will say the exact opposite."

That is true in our confused day and age. But since the dogmatic teachings of the Church do not change, a smart and non-lazy Catholic will do this: observe what the bishop has to say and compare it to the Scriptures and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If what the bishop says contradicts them, politely ignore him. If it is in line with what the Church teaches, pay attention. Bishop Schnieder and few other bishops I can name are straight arrows and have proven themselves worthy of credence. The current Holy Father and many other bishops, not so much. Hold onto the good, and resist the bad.

Intrinsically disordered

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Thursday, July 5, 2018

At the present time there are those who, basing themselves on observations in the psychological order, have begun to judge indulgently, and even to excuse completely, homosexual relations between certain people. This they do in opposition to the constant teaching of the Magisterium and to the moral sense of the Christian people.
A distinction is drawn, and it seems with some reason, between homosexuals whose tendency comes from a false education, from a lack of normal sexual development, from habit, from bad example, or from other similar causes, and is transitory or at least not incurable; and homosexuals who are definitively such because of some kind of innate instinct or a pathological constitution judged to be incurable.
In regard to this second category of subjects, some people conclude that their tendency is so natural that it justifies in their case homosexual relations within a sincere communion of life and love analogous to marriage, in so far as such homosexuals feel incapable of enduring a solitary life.
In the pastoral field, these homosexuals must certainly be treated with understanding and sustained in the hope of overcoming their personal difficulties and their inability to fit into society. Their culpability will be judged with prudence.
But no pastoral method can be employed which would give moral justification to these acts on the grounds that they would be consonant with the condition of such people. For according to the objective moral order, homosexual relations are acts which lack an essential and indispensable finality. In Sacred Scripture they are condemned as a serious depravity and even presented as the sad consequence of rejecting God.
This judgment of Scripture does not of course permit us to conclude that all those who suffer from this anomaly are personally responsible for it, but it does attest to the fact that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and can in no case be approved of.") –from Persona Humana (1975)

You may have noticed, Goveror Dinwiddie, that the Catholic Church has been in a state of low-grade civil war since 2013, when the newly-elected Pope Francis proclaimed what has turned out to he his de facto motto, "Hagan Lío" ("Make a Mess.")

Yes, he had his Synod of Subversives have, it's true, said all kinds of contradictory things over the past 5 years. And yes, within a 24-hour news cycle, somebody can be counted on to say the opposite, each and every time.

However, Pope Francis has not changed, and cannot change, doctrine. (That's why his modus operandi is ambiguous antitheses, coy footnotes, stage whispers, winks & nudges & knowing glances.)

The above is still the doctrine of the Church, and will remain so.

If you care about truth, you should not throw them all in the same 'bucket of warm spit'. You should support the truth-tellers --- note who they are --- those who are faithful to Scripture and Catechism; and if you still have the spit, denounce the rest.

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