Posted on 05/29/2020 6:04:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Now more than ever, the Catholic Church has begun to address how to minister to members of the LGBT community, especially when it comes to spiritual guidance. Following in Pope Francis’ footsteps, an Italian archbishop invited Catholics to look at gays and lesbians “as God looks at them.”
“When communities will truly begin to look at people as God looks at them, then homosexual people — and everybody else — will begin to feel, naturally, a part of the ecclesial community,” said Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, the archbishop of the northern Italian town of Bologna, in the preface of a newly released book.
The book, “Church and Homosexuality: An Inquiry in Light of Pope Francis’ Magisterium,” was written by Luciano Moia, the chief editor at the monthly magazine on family published by the Italian Bishops’ Conference. The book is hitting the shelves this week in Italy.
The Catholic Church considers gay and lesbian relationships as “intrinsically disordered” and does not recognize marriage between two people of the same sex. But starting with his famous quote “Who am I to judge?” in 2013, Pope Francis has promoted a more inclusive stance toward homosexuality in the Catholic Church. In his 2016 document on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (the Joy of Love), Francis called for the need to come alongside members of the LGBT community, a position he has reiterated several times since.
In the preface of his book, Moia interviews the archbishop on how to best put in practice Pope Francis’ appeals to offer spiritual guidance and welcome members of the LGBT community.
“The Pope, and the Church with him, isn’t interested in leading people to follow external rules,” Zuppi said. “His interest is in helping people do the will of God; meaning to enter a personal relationship.......
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Why are these people so special? Is it their inherent ability to destroy Western civilization?
Someone chooses - usually voluntarily - the wrong knothole in the fence and God’s church wants to cater to him or her.
Spiritual guidance would be “repent”
So then I guess I get the A-OK stamp of approval to go sleeping around with every woman that invites me home.
heck, as long as I have a personal relationship with God, it’s ok.
YES, that was sarcasm.
And NO, I have not been an angel my whole life.
And it was rightly considered a sin by the church.
Now I don’t know what is considered a sin anymore.
I don’t know you but I would vote for you for senator anytime
Explaining to them what happened to the people of Sodom would be a good start.
And the first step would be to tell them to leave the LGBT "community" and return to the gospel.
LOL!!!
LOL!
How about leave your filthy lifestyles and fall on your knees in repentance to Almighty God?
Hell is F-O-R-E-V-E-R people!
This guy’s got the wrong idea about “how God looks at them”
And although Frankie might demand that Catholics “come along side members of the (homosexual) community”, God commands us to act quite differently towards them...
No doubt because there are so many of them within their ranks that they don’t know what else to do.
EXACTLY...DON’T SIN....There we have just helped every Catholic in the world.....Sooo,what extra do you gays need????
True but repentance is a journy of understanding. It starts with the acknowledgement that there is a God, that people have been given time here on earth as a gift from God, and most importantly, what you do with your time here on earth show whether you are going to do things God’s way, or your way.
If you acknowledge that God’s way is better, that is the first step of repentance.
If you believe that your way is better, they you will never reach repentance.
Go forth and sin no more
Such are called to chastity. That’s the best spiritual guidance.
Defrock active and unrepentant homosexual clergy!!!!
Italian Archbishop Writes Preface to Book on LGBT Issues in Catholic Church
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