Did Maltese Archbishop Propose a Preferential Option for Gays?

Crisis Magazine ^ | 3/26/19 | Jeffrey Tranzillo

[marshmallow]

The recently concluded Vatican summit on clerical sexual abuse did not prove disappointing to the many Catholics who had no expectation that it would address the main source of the problem: active homosexuality among clerics. There were a few uncomfortable moments for the summit’s organizers, however, when a journalist or two boldly ignored the embargo on the forbidden topic. When silence or evasion could not save the day, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta provided us, perhaps unintentionally, with a preview of the approach to the homosexual issue that seems to be taking shape at the Vatican. It can only be realistically interpreted as pro-gay.

The Church’s core teaching on homosexuality is expressed concisely in the following text from the CDF’s 1986 Letter to the Bishops On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons: “Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder” (para. 3). Apparently caught off guard when, during a summit press briefing, Italian journalist Sandro Magister inquired about the glaring absence of the word “homosexuality” on the summit’s opening day, Archbishop Scicluna flagrantly contradicted the irreformable truth of the Church’s teaching on the subject. Virtually equating homosexuality and heterosexuality, he asserted that these are both “human conditions that we recognize, and that exist, but that aren’t something that really predisposes to sin.”

It is not clear whether Scicluna was referring, in his declaration, only to sexual inclination (be it same-sex or opposite-sex), or whether he also meant to include the sexual activity by which people express their “sexual preference.” Given that he was compelled to pontificate on the matter in reference to the Church’s clerical sexual abuse.......

[Pearls Before Swine]

I apologise for any offense to adhersnrs, but sometimes it seems that the Catholic Church is drifting to a “gay and proud of it” stance. And, this Pope is accelerating it.

[VietVet876]

And the parishes will become islamic centers.

[irishjuggler]

Without a doubt, you're right. There absolutely IS a push for acceptance of “gay and proud of it" within the Catholic Church. It's an international juggernaut, led by the likes of the German, Austrian and Dutch bishops in Europe, some Italians at the Vatican, the two bishops in Malta, and in the U.S. by Fr Jim Martin SJ., Bishop Bob McElroy in San Diego, Cardinal Cupich in Chicago et al.

There are rumors that Pope Francis is going to implement a "paradigm shift" on gays in a speech next week.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-francis-set-to-give-historic-speech-involving-persons-of-same-sex-leaked-letter-claims

God help us if this is true. I truly believe that it would cause a schism, as a certain segment of faithful Catholics will NEVER accept "gay and proud of it" clergy or reclassification of homosexual acts as non-sinful. I put myself in the category of those who will never accept these things, Vatican and pope be damned.

[kearnyirish2]

For years there have been rumors that many diocese couldn’t staff their parishes without the deviants; too much of the priesthood is gay. It is time we returned to traveling preachers, selling off residences at three out of every four parishes; the Church is quickly shrinking here, and the overhead - especially to accommodate false priests, is crippling.