Posted on 01/29/2019 9:57:10 AM PST by ebb tide
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, January 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A famously pro-gay Catholic bishop is slated to lead an “LGBTQ retreat” next weekend at the University of Notre Dame.
At the retreat, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky “will be integrating sexual orientation and faith from a Scriptural and Biblical perspective,” according to an online description provided by the University’s Gender Relations Center (GRC). The University’s Campus Ministry is a cosponsor.
LifeSiteNews reached out to Bishop Stowe requesting an explanation of what it means to integrate “sexual orientation and faith,” but he declined through his spokesman.
Other questions which went unanswered were:
The upcoming retreat featuring Bishop Stowe “is primarily geared toward students of the LGBTQ community,” according to its description, a term which in and of itself defies Catholic Church teaching.
Bishop Stowe recently made headlines for penning an op-ed scolding the Covington Catholic High School students who were accosted by radical activist Nathan Phillips while wearing “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hats after the March for Life. The bishop criticized the students, whose lives have been turned upside down by false media reports, death threats, and doxxing, suggesting they weren’t being pro-life by wearing MAGA hats.
Stowe is one of five bishops who endorsed pro-gay Fr. James Martin, S.J.’s book, “Building a Bridge,” and was also a featured speaker at a 2017 conference for the dissident group New Ways Ministry. The gathering was titled “Justice and Mercy Shall Kiss: LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis.”
New Ways Ministry was condemned in 2010 by then-president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, and in 2011 by Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl, USCCB chairman of the Committee on Doctrine.
Additionally, in 1999 the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “permanently prohibited” the group’s co-founders, Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, “from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons,” after ruling that their teaching was “erroneous and dangerous” and “doctrinally unacceptable.”
Last summer, a spokesperson for Bishop Stowe’s diocese said it was “up to each parish” whether to promote homosexuality.
Also in Bishop Stowe’s diocese last year, Fortunate Families, a pro-LGBT “Catholic” organization working in partnership with “Lexington Catholic LGBT Ministry” and the University of Kentucky LGBTQ* Resource Center, hosted dissident Fr. Bryan Massingale. He spoke about “LGBT Persons in the The Age of Pope Francis & Social Ethics.”
Ping
I don’t want to rush to judgement, but knowing nothing about this Stowe guy, I predicted he was a homo.
Sounds like a heretic for sure. Why doesn’t the Catholic Church excommunicate anyone anymore?
I’m pretty sure the pope is gay.
Seems like it for sure.
Good question. I would guess that it doesn't mean what it used to. Back in the day, like before 1100, a pope could excommunicate someone and it was a major source of shame. The reason for excommunicating was to knock moral sense into the wayward.
Today, things are happily amoral. There is no leverage with someone who may not believe hell is a reality.
I’m still trying to figure out why he was elected.
It appeared to me to be some sort of silent coup. I never heard of a Pope retiring.
Aren’t all bishops “pro-gay”? Sheesh, the church is half gay. I wouldn’t send my kid to a Catholic school if priests were on campus.
That whole Benedict retirement was too weird.
“A famously pro-gay Catholic bishop is slated to lead an “LGBTQ retreat” next weekend at the University of Notre Dame.”
Maybe they should burn the parts of the Bible that condemns homosexuality.
There's nothing in the Bible to condemn sodomy or abortions . . . just ask the United Methodist church (if you want to call it a church).
A famously pro-gay Catholic bishop is slated to lead an “LGBTQ retreat” next weekend at the University of Notre Dame.”
Now I see why they covered the Chis Columbus statue.
He’s not gay. He’s homo.
Where would a seeking individual go to find some semblance of sanity, wondering if every priest he or she encounters is a homosexual?
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Other groups exist, as well, but are smaller.
Yeah, so the statue wouldn’t die of embarrassment.
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