Remember when Pope Francis was declared the LGBT "Person of the Year"?
Well,now he's being attacked by the Elgee-Beaty tribe. a step in the right direction.
I still think he's guilty of "praising with faint damns".
- He "recommends" that seminaries exclude gays, when he should *require* them to exclude them
- He "recommends" that active gays leave the priesthood and religious orders rather than lead a double life,instead of *requiring* this
- He implies that the problem is that this "scandalizes" the faithful, when the root problem is that it is a mortal sin to engage in this damnable practice of perverse sex, and this endangers their souls and those of others
- He implies that this is inappropriate (only?)for people under vows of celibacy, when actually it is outright forbidden for everyone, and
- He even obliquely applies the word "affection" to acts of gross perversion with only minor rebuke, when he *should* use the word "abomination".
If he's at a loss for words, he should refer to the Catechism (as good Catholics do!) and say that such acts are "acts of grave depravity," they are "intrinsically disordered," they "do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity," "under no circumstances can they be approved," and even a homosexual tendency or inclination is "intrinsically disordered."
The Catechism (LINK) is a good resource, Holy Father. It contains Scripture, Tradition, and the authentic Papal Magisterium. I'd look into it, if I were you.
But thanks for trying!
So much for words, words, words.
P. Francis hasn't hesitated to sack whole religious orders for the crime of fidelity to the Latin Mass. Let's see if he fires any LGBT "allies" from his own elite cabinet, the G9 (hint: start with Rodriguez Maradiaga and Bernhard Marx) or if he suppresses any religious orders or "media personalities" which advocate for this perversion (like Fr. James Martin, LGBT.SJ).
I'd stand on my hands and clap my feet if that happened....I'm not holding my breath.
But do keep praying. This may be some Holy Spirit action here, almost like the Balaam Syndrome (Numbers 22-25), where the false prophet is pretty much forced by the Lord to say the right thing.
To: Mrs. Don-o
"...the Church recommends that people with this ingrained tendency not be accepted into the ministry or the consecrated life.”
"recommends"?!?!?!?!?
How about FORBIDS!?!?!?!?!
2 posted on
12/03/2018 11:58:02 AM PST by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Mrs. Don-o
1978:
Is the Pope Catholic?.................Are you nuts? Of course he is!
2018:
Is the Pope Catholic?.................Good question................
3 posted on
12/03/2018 11:59:20 AM PST by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Mrs. Don-o
“Francis, who has implied tolerance but never officially remarked that he approves of same sex marriages, has in the past said that Catholics should accept and welcome gay parishioners to the pews among them. But it seems that he doesn’t want them behind the pulpit.”
So said the early Boy Scouts “tolerant” appeasers.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Obviously, there is something wrong with the mechanism of the church. This man should not be the head of the Church.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Sounds like to me Francis might be in trouble.
:-)
7 posted on
12/03/2018 12:03:14 PM PST by
Zathras
To: Mrs. Don-o
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter practices the Latin Mass without repercussion.
What entire orders has he “sacked”?
10 posted on
12/03/2018 12:18:39 PM PST by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mrs. Don-o
..it would be better for priests who are actively gay
to leave rather than lead a double life
Would be best? Horrific understatement
To: Mrs. Don-o
Anyone who falls for this is just a dang fool.
17 posted on
12/03/2018 1:46:31 PM PST by
piusv
To: Mrs. Don-o
Now the Gay Mafia will go to work and do what it always does. Destroy their target.
They’ve been on an unstoppable roll ever since they successfully ran Dr. Laura off TV.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Perhaps someone should loan him a Bible. Perhaps there’s a brand new one around the Vatican.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Excellent posts, Mrs. Don-o.
What's most disturbing is Francis' promotion of homosexuals and/or homo advocates, e.g. Fr. James Martin, (a fellow Jesuit) and Msgr. Battista Ricca.
26 posted on
12/03/2018 5:16:44 PM PST by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Hard to spin “Thou shall not lie with a man as with a woman” in any convincing way, unless you just want to be convinced. Wonder if God smacked him upside the head with the reality stick.
27 posted on
12/03/2018 6:58:33 PM PST by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Perhaps Francis stayed very ignorant over the decades and is a slow learner who means well but has to take a lot of time to grasp something well enough to be able to do the right thing...no run-on sentences when talking to him....
28 posted on
12/04/2018 2:44:05 AM PST by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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