Posted on 01/31/2022 6:28:53 PM PST by marshmallow
The German cardinal’s views contradict the Catholic Church’s long-standing ban on the ordination of homosexual men.
MUNICH, Germany (LifeSiteNews) – The most senior German cardinal in the Catholic Church has expressed his support for ordaining homosexual men to the priesthood, in the latest attack on Magisterial teaching by the prelate.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx made the comments at a press conference yesterday in Munich where he was responding to a new report alleging he and several of his predecessors, including then-archbishop Josef Ratzinger (Pope emeritus Benedict XVI), mishandled multiple sexual abuse cases as archbishops of Munich and Freising.
After reading a prepared statement lamenting the abuse, Marx went on to tell reporters that synodality was “the basic requirement for a new church” and that homosexuality should not be a restriction on the “ability of becoming a priest.”
“How do we deal with the homosexuality of priests?” he asked. “Not everyone is forced to declare [to others] their own sexual inclination, whether he is heterosexual or homosexual. He must decide that [whether to declare it] for himself.”
“But if he does [declare it], then that is to be respected and then this is not a restriction on his ability of becoming a priest,” Marx continued. “That is my position and we have to stand up for it.”
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Their ranks have become infested with it. The only way to stop it is to absolutely bankrupt the RCC to the point it has to divest itself from its Vatican treasures just to pay the judgments its priests’ homosexual abuse has led to.
Duh...never has been
German Pope Benedict was clear that it was a bar to entering the seminary.
Maybe 10,000 victims later they’ll concur...
“God will not be mocked.”
But you mock handicapped people.
What was it gave it away, all the pederasty law suits?
Celibacy, whuch is simply the state of being single/unmarried, is a requirement with the possible exception of certain Anglican priests who choose to convert.
You may be referring to the general requirement of chastity according to one’s state in life, which in the case of single men rewuires total abstention from all secual activity.
Do you consider Jesus to have been the Messiah of prophesy, the Christ of the Father?
So tired of sloppy language among high ranking churchmen. What does “Homosexuality” mean? Is he practicing or is it the orientation? Men who are practicing or who have “deep seated tendencies”, in other words, who are on the precipice of falling into temptation, are not to be admitted to the seminary. Passing homosexual tendencies need to be overcome for at least three years before seminary admittance as the Vatican document states.
Reminds me of other sloppy teaching going up to even the pope himself. Saying the Eucharist isn’t a reward for the perfect but a medicine for the sick. Not for those sick with mortal sin but only venial sin. Receiving the Eucharist in mortal sin can even bring physical sickness upon a person. He also repeated the 70s liberal seminary canard that Jesus didn’t multiply the bread and fish but only got the masses to share what they had on them. This statement of his a few years back was followed a few hours later by an earthquake about 50 miles from Rome.
Well thank you for that clarification, Captain Obvious. The homos have been infesting the priesthood the whole time.
Actually, having a desire to sin is not a sin, but acting on it is. Especially with your altar boy./Just making educated guess.
What’s in a name? Karl or Groucho?
The only thing new in recent times is openly discussing it.
An older priest of my acquaintance some years ago opined that in the early 20th century, there arose a school of thought that homosexuals would find great solace in the priesthood, and a number of seminaries advanced that model. This elder priest blamed it on modernist-Jesuitical thinking. Was never able to verify it beyond that one priest, tho.
Yes, it’s the “acting on it” part that has become an epidemic of a problem in the church. These troglodytes are proud of their sins and sinning.
It’s nothing new. In Candide, Voltaire traces the “best of all possible venereal diseases” from Columbus through several sordid encounters, including, if I remember right, a priest and a choir boy. When you forbid very smart people such as priests from ever having sex, you have to look out for the cheaters and punish them when they’re caught. But the modern “troglodytes” want to make it an OK thing, no need for even a confessional after buggering an altar boy after mass. Full disclosure, not Catholic, so just making observation.
Well, I do believe the church has a right to demand chastity if it is the price to be a priest or nun. If they opt to alter that, so be it (I have no position on whether to keep or change it beyond stating they have a right to set the rules on that issue).
Of course, the issue here isn’t really one of marriage, but of allowing one of the most grievous sins as defined by God, to essentially be sanctified. Although I believe the rule on marriage (between man and woman, the only definition under God) could be changed, allowing and sanctifying mortal sin is unacceptable under any circumstances. These individuals want the “church” to become a Sodomite Sex Club and would cease to be Christian in any sense. But the church has both a homosexual problem, but also a Marxist problem. These two are both at odds with Christianity and must be summarily purged if the church (and all of its sects wishing to actually truly be Christian) is to survive.
You, of course, have the same problem within your Jewish faith and its subversive and degenerate interests looking to obliterate it. Of course, the source of both Jewish and Christian subversion comes straight from Satan and his adherents.
Morality is all relative, man.
Marx, you faggot.
Find another religion and leave ours alone.
What happened to the old one?
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