Posted on 02/26/2019 5:09:24 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME, February 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Decades of widespread homosexuality in US seminaries had “nothing to do with the sexual abuse of minors,” a key organizer of the Vatican abuse summit said on Friday.
At today’s summit press briefing, LifeSite asked Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, adjunct secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and papal appointee to the summit’s organizing committee, a follow-up to a question posed yesterday by Italian journalist Sandro Magister.
Magister had asked the Maltese archbishop on Thursday why the word “homosexuality” was completely absent from the summit’s opening day — particularly in light of the fact that over 80 percent of clerical abuse victims were post-pubescent boys.
Archbishop Scicluna responded by saying that “to generalize about categories of persons is never legitimate.” He added that both homosexuality and heterosexuality are “human conditions that we recognize, and that exist, but they aren’t something that really predisposes to sin.”
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Do the Catholics on this forum agree or disagree?
If it’s this bad in a Christian church, can you imagine the raping that takes place in mosques when their prophet was a pedophile?
Bovine Excrement.
More than that, there’s an out-and-out chomo subculture in the Catholic Church from the looks of it.
You f*ing liars and murdering pedophiles deserve to burn in hell.
I lean toward “yes”, but the faith in and practices of Christ the King holds until He comes. There will be the remnant who will survive without holy shepherds and therefore without the Holy Eucharist, but for only underground faithful priests. Anti-Christ may be not long away. He wants Holy Mother Church. This has been known. All Catholics are aware of the Warning of the Blessed Mother, in 1917, at Fatima, and of her instructions for the Church.
It is the Shepherds who have left their flock. Especially in America and the West.
Nope. Men having sex with male boys. No connection at all. Pederasty has nothing to do with homosexuals. Nothing to see here
That Vatican spokesman was sweating like a hunchbacked altar boy when he said that.
And in other news; water and sunlight have nothing to do with plant growth.
Catholic Church is the religion of choice for homesexuals and pedophiles. The clergy right up to the Vatican is gay.
Bull! These men are compromised, which is why they cover up for the ones who prey on children. If they don’t they get outed as well!
Pretending the homosexual cabal in the church is not a cause of this is lies
Scratch a homo, find a pedophile.
Bump
Probably had no effect at all on the eventual sex scandals.
This is all ridiculous. First, if you are supposed to remain celibate as a priest, then none of us should be aware of your sexuality, one way or another. If the Church thinks it’s OK for homosexual priests to have sex with one another, or other partners, then the whole issue of celibacy is a joke. Further, if openly homosexual priests are present throughout the priesthood, what does this do to the recruitment of new heterosexual priests? How can you ask heterosexual priests to remain celibate, and then look the other way when homosexual priests are having sexual relationships and it is OK for them?
This isn’t about loving and tolerating all people. It’s about the priesthood, and about the future of the Catholic Church.
At a time when the US Senate votes down a bill that makes it illegal to ‘abort’ babies after birth, we need spiritual leaders who are truly spiritual leaders - not a hierarchy that cares more about protecting predatory priests than protecting innocent young lives.
Part of me wonders whether some of what is happening in the Church was planned by those who know we are weaker without morality and spirituality.
When Jesus saved the prostitute, he said go and sin no more. She was still a prostitute, she was still seen as a prostitute, but she didn’t prostitute herself again - she kept the bargain to sin no more. She refused to act on impulses.
A gay can be gay all day long; just like the prostitute is a prostitute is a prostitute. Acting on it, is the sin - the deviant behavior.
And when one group is involved in deviant behavior, it begets deviant behavior in others. So yes, a gay subculture does induce other deviant behaviors.
He says homosexuality is not a sin. Throw away your Bibles people, they’re obsolete in the new order. God just got an upgrade.
Pervs on parade They do great harm to people...to the church...to society. Truly pathetic.
Riigghhht... What is that guy on?
Indeed.
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