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Vatican Rejects Healing for Homosexuality
Church Militant ^ | 7/22/21 | Jules Gomes

Posted on 07/22/2021 6:12:15 PM PDT by marshmallow

Homosexuals do not need a cure, but accompaniment and discernment

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Rome is rejecting the use of "reparative" or "conversion" therapies by Catholic groups to heal homosexuals of same-sex attraction, a Spanish Catholic weekly is reporting.

But homosexuals who have benefited from therapy are urging Pope Francis to meet with those who have found healing from unwanted same-sex attraction.

The Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy (CC) instructed the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) in June to disavow the Granada-based Truth and Freedom (Verdad y Libertad) apostolate for its practice of reparative therapy, Vida Nueva reported last Thursday.

The bishops are asked "not to support, participate [in] or recommend treatments" implemented by Truth and Freedom or other Catholic groups offering healing to homosexuals because "the methodology and the objectives followed are wrong."

"We also invite those who consider themselves damaged to file a civil complaint, since, from the canonical point of view, we cannot intervene in what they do," the instruction urges.

Vida Nueva did not provide the primary document issued by CC to the CEE, even though it extensively reported on and commented on the Vatican's condemnation of reparative therapies.

(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: apostasy; celebratesin; cultureofcorruption; gaypriests; heresy; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; usurper
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1 posted on 07/22/2021 6:12:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Bergoglio and those who adhere to him are in schism.

The rest are the remnant of the Church.


2 posted on 07/22/2021 6:16:51 PM PDT by dsc (Abortion is the axe laid to the roots of the tree of human rights.)
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To: marshmallow

Homosexual behavior is defiance to Almighty God.

The Vatican creeps should know better than to undermine efforts to convert homosexuals away from their sins and toward Christianity.

This latest move from Rome is shameful, as it takes one step further away from Salvation for those who really need it.

Would Almighty God want us to try to convert homosexuals away from their dangerous and destructive behaviors? Yes, He would!

The Vatican has gone against what He would want us to do in effort to save them.


3 posted on 07/22/2021 6:19:37 PM PDT by Prole ( )
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To: marshmallow

Does the Pope also oppose treatment for the Biden types and their peeverse sexual predilections?


4 posted on 07/22/2021 6:24:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow; Al Hitan; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; ...

Pervert Pope Ping


5 posted on 07/22/2021 6:25:07 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

why would he want to change his brethren?

This is the church that he inherited and which he wishes to maintain.


6 posted on 07/22/2021 6:25:57 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: marshmallow
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

And as regards another example of such judgment, both the lost Catholic and liberal Protestant need to avoid the eternal damnation that the disobedient "disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water" (1 Peter 3:20) are suffering. And yet the prevailing Catholic scholarship and the present leader of them to whom Catholics are to look, denies the literal nature of the Flood, and makes Climate Change the object of fear:

New American Bible on Genesis Chapter 6:1-4: “This is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology.”

Pope Francis: The flood is the result of God's wrath , the Bible says. He is a figure of God's wrath, who according to the Bible has seen too many bad things and decides to obliterate humanity. The biblical one, according to experts, is a mythical tale. (Now I hope someone doesn't argue that the Pope said the Bible is a myth!) But myth is a form of knowledge. The flood is a historical tale, archaeologists say, because they found traces of a flood in their excavations.

A great deluge, perhaps due to a rise in temperature and the melting of glaciers: what will happen now if we continue on the same path. God unleashed his wrath, but he saw a righteous one, took him and saved him. The story of Noah demonstrates that God's wrath is also a savior. ( Corriere della Sera: https://www.corriere.it/cronache/21_febbraio_28/papa-francesco-libro-verra-nuovo-diluvio-se-non-cambiamo-strada-clima-ghiacciai-40967eb8-7959-11eb-bd61-f38514671054.shtml Bing translation./

7 posted on 07/22/2021 6:26:49 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Prole

GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED, no matter high up a person is on the Spiritual ladder.


8 posted on 07/22/2021 6:32:45 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: marshmallow

Satan agrees.


9 posted on 07/22/2021 6:32:49 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: marshmallow
Frankie the Pope Boy hasn't read Leviticus or St. Paul.

10 posted on 07/22/2021 6:35:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: All

WWJD - What Would Jesus Denounce


11 posted on 07/22/2021 6:39:42 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I decided to be a sheepdog after watching what happened to the sheep.)
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To: marshmallow

Bergoglio denies the delivering power of the Holy Spirit - or he opposes it. If the latter, he treads on blasphemous grounds.


12 posted on 07/22/2021 6:40:12 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Conservatives are the weak link in the great chain of socialism. We are all Uzbeks. )
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To: marshmallow

Sooooo … Paul was wrong and people cannot be, by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the such were some of you category?

Really?


13 posted on 07/22/2021 6:45:16 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

My prophesies are getting closer. Soon this pope will ordain same sex marriages and declare abortion good.


14 posted on 07/22/2021 6:57:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Once buzzards hung out in the Vatican, now there are lots of chickenhawks.


15 posted on 07/22/2021 6:59:54 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: marshmallow

You can come out and go from straight to gay and you’re the hero and everyone lauds you.

But be warned, with the left it’s a one way trip.

They will not allow for the same freedom to choose your own lifestyle when you go from gay to straight.


16 posted on 07/22/2021 7:13:05 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: marshmallow
Most homosexuals were sexually abused as children.

That is RAPE!

They are banning RAPE THERAPY!!!

17 posted on 07/22/2021 7:22:15 PM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: Al Hitan; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; markomalley; ...
Yet conscience can do more than recognize that a given situation does not correspond objectively to the overall demands of the Gospel. It can also recognize with sincerity and honesty what for now is the most generous response which can be given to God, and come to see with a certain moral security that it is what God himself is asking amid the concrete complexity of one’s limits, while yet not fully the objective ideal. Pope Francis, Amoris Latitia
18 posted on 07/22/2021 7:29:06 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

The left really hates rape victims.


19 posted on 07/22/2021 7:36:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: G Larry

Yep.

The Satanic creatures of the APA and other vile leftist organizations do NOT allow nor support the fact that homosexual behavior is dangerous and destructive on multiple levels.

1.). It alienates the individual from healthy behaviors and instead pushes them toward unhealthy behaviors. This continued push causes the person to be more susceptible to harmful (and often fatal) sexually transmitted diseases over normal people.

2.). It makes the person more susceptible to violent behavior, as homosexuals are much more likely to conduct acts of violence against others over normal people.

3.). Homosexual behavior is often connected to other mental and spiritual disorders involving alcohol, drugs, criminal conduct, and suicidal behavior. There is a distinct connection between homosexual behavior and these subsequent acts against oneself, society, and Almighty God.

All efforts must be made to turn these people away from this extremely destructive path, yet we now see Rome decidedly remove options available to save these folks.

The Vatican is on an express elevator to Hell, and this latest decision from them (against Almighty God’s Divine Plan for Salvation) is proof of this.


20 posted on 07/22/2021 7:44:04 PM PDT by Prole ( )
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