Posted on 12/02/2018 12:32:01 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Pope Francis has been quoted in a soon-to-be published book as saying that having gays in the clergy “is something that worries me” and remarking that some societies are considering homosexuality a “fashionable” lifestyle.
... Separately, the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Francis in the book as commenting on a clergyman who had told him that having gays in Catholic religious housing “isn’t so grave” because it’s “only an expression of affection.”
That reasoning “is in error,” Francis said. “In consecrated life and priestly life, there is no place for this kind of affection.”
He said candidates with “neuroses or strong unbalances” should not be accepted “to the priesthood nor to (other forms of) consecrated life.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
He’s a Jesuit so I disagree with you.
Yep. A head fake or a smoke screen.
He’s worried there aren’t enough of them.
I said kiss, not lick - not supposed to be a pleasure thing - but then I’m not of that flock.
Does anybody actually believe that liar anymore?
I’ve never figured this out. The Catholic Church, an organization where its leaders cannot marry? Gee, what could go wrong?
When growing up in a small town we had a Catholic church and the priest was a very likeable and respectable person. My dad, who was raised a Catholic, when seeing this priest, often said they have their own harem.
With the nuns also having to practice celibacy, again, what could go wrong when you have a nun or two and a priest sleeping under the same roof? This priest of my childhood was also a very happy person, and I believed my dad to be correct.
If the church would get rid of this stupid rule the homosexuals would have one less place to hide and the church could regain some respect.
It’s easy to read him. You look at what he does, not what he says.
I thought the church sanctioned such non sense now..why does he care..Is God talking to His soul telling Him being gay is am abomination
Fake news about a fake pope. No way this clown said that.
(2) Married clergy doesn't stop clergy sex abuse (cf. Anglican/Episcopalians.)
(3) Historically, and for very sound reasons, esteem for marriage and for celibacy advance each other. When they rise, they rise in tandem; when they fall, they fall in tandem. When people respect and honor vows made in the sight of God and all, they live honorably as holy married people or as holy consecrated virgins. If they come to reject vows and reject God Himself, the can't live honorably, period. No honor at all.
When I was a kid, the priest and nuns did sleep under the same roof. The church itself was located about a block from where I lived. Father Volk lived about two blocks from there in a very large home, where for fact when nuns came they did reside there.
I recall Father Volk quite well, as he drove a Volkswagen. People would see him driving around, and jokingly would say: “There goes Father Volk in his wagon”. He was easy to like and respect, as he liked and respected all, Catholic or not.
I was raised a Lutheran and those of that church were the most hateful bunch of hypocrites imaginable at the time. This turned me from religion for decades until I adopted the belief that one can believe without actually going to a church.
The cunning, manipulative Bergoglio is gaslighting us again.
I can. Read Revelation Chap. 18. Under this pope Vatican City fits the description of Babylon.
It was from the very beginning of his "reign". He'd say or issue a confusing statement, and the LSM would spin it pro-liberal, anti-traditional.
The Vatican would not issue clarifications or corrections, unless it found some outlet praising a pro-traditionalist aspect.
He has the authority to do something about it.
More than whine.
He’s a bit late on the uptake if he’s just noticing this....decades of homosexuality in the priesthood is well known.....he’s known too.
Married priests I can understand. I’m Catholic and my pastor is married, and expecting his ninth child litterally any moment. He was an Episcopalian priest who converted to Catholicism about ten years ago and was given a dispensation from the vow of celibacy and ordained about six years ago. He’s probably the most orthodox priest in the city,
But a married nun?! What would that even be?! It’s kind of like saying you want bacon ice cream. Bacon is great, and so is ice cream. But the two together doesnt even make any sense.
I might believe him if he got rid of all the homosexual priests and bishops he has as close advisors, and if he makes this point during the February meeting.
In any case, though, he’s now given cover for any bishop who wants to clean up his own diocese but hasn’t yet found the courage to do so. And we as laity can now use Francis’ own words to push them to do it.
Oh, NOW he’s worried...
Sorry, I just don’t get your point.
Women have a much similar drive in the sex department as men. The focus is on male homosexuality primarily because they molest young boys.
With a bunch of nuns living together, there has got to be lesbianism. It simply cannot be helped for it to occur, maybe as often as male homosexuality in the Catholic church.
Lesbians not at all affiliated with the Catholic church are not widely known to molest young girls. With that in mind, nuns probably would not either, so there is much less chance of it surfacing as a church issue.
Allowing nuns to marry would have the same homosexual curbing effect it likely would on priests. A happily married nun could serve the church just as well as a happily married priest. And they can all be just as dedicated to serving God.
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