Leftist Austrian Catholics Call for ‘Fundamental Church Rights’

Church Militant ^ | 2/6/20 | Martina Moyski

[marshmallow]

Manifesto pushes 'diversity-friendly, gender-sensitive' Church

VIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) - Austrian Catholics issued a "charter of fundamental rights of the Church" on Feb. 2 in Vienna, seeking to fundamentally transform the concept of Catholicism inside and outside of Austria.

The charter was drawn up by various individual clergy and laypeople, as well as groups such as We Are Church, a movement that advocates changing the teachings and the structures of authority of the Catholic Church, and Priests without Office, which advocates for female priests and the abolition of priestly celibacy.

The principal point of the charter is "to raise up the talents of individual, baptized Christians in the Church and to give the Church a greater influence in the world," according to European journalist Klaus Prömpers in a DomRadio interview.

The 15 "rights" put forth in the charter include freedom of Catholics to exercise a well-formed conscience; the right to be treated as true equals regardless of gender, nationality, race, language, origin, sexual orientation, marital status, age, wealth, political or theological beliefs; and the right of the faithful to belong to and participate in a Church community.

The charter also recognizes the priesthood of all the faithful in accordance with their personal gifts and charisms; the freedom to speak and to dissent; the right to transparency on the part of Church leaders; and the claim of all believers on the sacraments, on the marital status they desire and on participation in Church decisions.

[Telepathic Intruder]

To make the focus of the church more about ourselves and our selfish interests than about God. Maybe even replace the old God with a newer, more understanding version.

[Albion Wilde]

You don’t have “rights” in a true church. You have grace; and grace is sufficient.

[Nothingburger]

It never ceases to astonish me how much the LGBTQwhatever population sucks all the air out of public discourse, on both sides of the Atlantic.

And this from maybe 3 percent of the population.

Back in the 1980s, we were hearing the line that all they wanted was tolerance. And as a conservative, I was cool with that — enforcing sodomy laws would be too big a drain on police resources anyway.

But it’s become more than clear that their desired endgame is something else entirely.

The problem is that even they don’t seem to know — although it certainly involves the pursuit of power, in large quantities.

Marginalization of the traditional family? Recruitment of the young into their perverted lifestyle?

The first gay president? Well, we’ll see how that works out.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The 15 “rights” put forth in the charter include freedom of Catholics to exercise a well-formed conscience; the right to be treated as true equals regardless of gender, nationality, race, language, origin, sexual orientation, marital status, age, wealth, political or theological beliefs; and the right of the faithful to belong to and participate in a Church community.

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They should change their name to “Catholics against Catholicism.”

[Petrosius]

Catholics have the right to a church that is Catholic. Those who reject Catholic teaching have the right to leave.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The devil and his followers do not wish to coexist peacefully, like leftist “Christians” assume. They only want to devour everything they see, corrupting and perverting everything in their path. The Bible warns us about them, that we are not to mix company with them except to compel them away from that path. If they won’t listen, then shake the dust from our shoes and move on. Don’t invite them into our churches, however, if they refuse to change their ways.

[shanover]

The left destroys everything. They are destroying Christianity.

[NRx]

I think it’s time to admit that the Catholic Church is on life support.