Posted on 04/10/2021 6:42:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Bishop Paul Dempsey of Achonry called the ban a ‘hurtful response from the Church to people with same sex orientation.’
ACHONRY, Ireland, April 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The youngest Catholic bishop in Ireland has become the latest to join a number of church leaders who have openly distanced themselves from the Vatican’s ban on blessing homosexual couples.
Bishop Paul Dempsey of Achonry called the ban a “hurtful response from the Church to people with same sex orientation” in a March 26 reflection that appeared on the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference website.
Dempsey, who was appointed Bishop of Achonry in January 2020 by Pope Francis, expressed regret at the language used by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in teaching about why the Church cannot bless such unions.
The CDF announced on March 15 that the Church cannot bless homosexual relationships since God “does not and cannot bless sin.” A question to the CDF about whether or not the Church has the “power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex” was answered in the “negative” by the congregation’s prefect, Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer. The congregation’s statement was assented to by Pope Francis. The Congregation stated that it is “not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.”
Bishop Dempsey called the language used a “problem.”
“The deeper problem arises in the sphere of language, at best it is experienced as cold and distant, at worst hurtful and offensive,” he said.
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Obviously,these “liberal” Catholics have never heard of the words Jesus said...DENY YOURSELF..TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME....
Gonna need a new council and condemnations it seems, but not with this Pope.
Lots of Unitarian/Universalists masquerade as Christians.
Done
Rome will not be satisfied until there are two “Catholic” churches. One that supports a gay clergy, wishes to acknowledge, if not marry, same sex couples, supports abortion on demand and believes in open borders. The other Church, the one that I will attend, will follow traditional Catholic teachings.
When and where any clergical supporter of homo sexual activity appear they should be confronted by their parishioners present after showing their disgust leave the scene (church) emptying it.
You and me both, brother. I will NEVER accept a Catholic Church that condones abortion or sodomy. That we have priests and bishops and cardinals who DO condone those things is heart-breaking, but it does no good to be in denial about where we are. It hurts to say it, but where the Catholic Church is right now is approximately where the Anglicans/Episcopalians were 30-40 year ago. Unless there’s a miraculous course-correction in the next few years, we’re facing the sorry prospect of a Church that has gay weddings and gay-married clergy and has jettisoned its opposition to abortion. The only refuge will be centered around Latin Mass subculture which the “reformers” will do everything in their power to snuff out (again).
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