Posted on 08/08/2019 5:49:33 PM PDT by ebb tide
WARSAW, Poland -- The president of the Polish bishops' conference confirmed the country's Catholic Church will resist "LGBT ideology" as equality campaigners demanded the dismissal of an archbishop who branded gays and lesbians a "rainbow pestilence."
"People belonging to so-called sexual minority circles are our brothers and sisters for whom Christ gave his life," Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan said in a statement Aug. 8.
"But respect for specific people cannot lead to accepting an ideology which aims at a revolution in social norms and interpersonal relations. This revolution in custom and morals, as Pope Francis stresses, often brandishes a flag of freedom, while in reality inflicting spiritual and material devastation," he said in response to ongoing disputes between church leaders and LGBTQ groups.
Supporters of LGBTQ rights are planning a series of "equality parades" across the country in upcoming weeks.
Archbishop Gadecki said the "worsening polemic" was linked to the "offensive by LGBT-plus circles," as well as to related plans by some local authorities to introduce "a new approach to sex education" beginning in September.
LGBTQ groups frequently have complained of discrimination in Poland, where the predominant Catholic Church has vigorously rejected same-sex marriage and backed the exclusion of LGBTQ staffers from Catholic schools.
In July, gay rights campaigners accused Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Bialystok of inciting violence against an LGBTQ march in the eastern city during which police used stun grenades and pepper spray to hold back aggressive counter-protesters.
"Respect for specific people cannot lead to accepting an ideology which aims at a revolution in social norms and interpersonal relations."
Meanwhile, in an Aug. 1 homily, Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow told Catholics that those demanding tolerance had in reality supported "violence, humiliation and sneering against the most sacred symbols." He said the "red pestilence" of communism had been replaced by "a rainbow one," which also sought "to conquer spirits, hearts and minds."
Poland's Catholic Radio Maryja said Aug. 6 it had been ordered by Google to remove Archbishop Jedraszewski's homily from its YouTube channel on grounds it "promoted hatred."
A day later, about 200 protesters, including LGBTQ Catholics, demanded the dismissal of Archbishop Jedraszewski and other church leaders during a demonstration outside the Vatican's Warsaw nunciature.
In his statement, Archbishop Gadecki said he was appealing to local officials not take decisions "concealing an ideology which denies natural sexual differences," and to parliamentarians not to support LGBTQ efforts to push through laws allowing "homosexual marriages" and child adoption.
He added that criticism of Archbishop Jedraszewski and the hostile reaction of some employers to staffers voicing disapproval of "LGBT+ ideology" indicated the spread of a "totalitarianism of outlook," which sought to "banish people thinking differently from the sphere of freedom."
"I appeal to all people of goodwill to defend the principle of non-discrimination not just for supporters of this ideology, but also to allow equal rights to its opponents," he said.
Ping
Great news. Great to see Catholics being Catholics.
JoMa
**”People belonging to so-called sexual minority circles are our brothers and sisters for whom Christ gave his life,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan said in a statement Aug. 8.**
One of the good Archbishops.
I saw a news photo of this brave Polish teen, holding high the Cross, being carried off by the police--- but evidently it was scrubbed from the site.
If anyone sees it anywhere, please post it.
God bless this faithful young man!
That picture doesn’t look real to me.
The above link has a closer image, which does look real. The other picture still looks odd to me as though it were photoshopped.
It was beautifully clear and dramatic, and would have been taken moments after this one, when the police seized this young man and dragged him off, while he was upholding the Cross and the Rosary.
And when I saw it, it was captioned that the young man was doing this in honor of a named priest (I don't remember the name) who was apparently martyred for opposing Soviet Communist incursions into Poland in, IIRC, 1922?
This was in the aftermath of the 2-year Polish-Soviet War of 1919-2921, which inflicted 70,000 battlefield deaths upon the Polish --- a war I had never even heard of until about 20 minutes ago. A shocking admission of my own ignorance --- and/or the success of the cover-up of Soviet crimes by Western elites. The young man actually equated opposing the Soviet Communist invasion with opposing the LGBT invasion.
This was tweeted by one "Father V" @father_rmv with the following caption:
"A 15-year-old boy attempted to block yesterday's LGBT march in Płock, leading police to remove him. He says he was inspired by Father Ignacy Skorupka, the chaplain of the Polish army who died during the defense of Warsaw from Soviet Russia in 1920."
Matka Boska Częstochowska!
We need another Polish Pope....STAT!
Not if he’s a man of the Vatican II Council.
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