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German Bishops Back LGBT Campaign to Change Church Teaching on Homosexuality, Gender Identity
LifeSite News ^ | 2/2/22 | Emily Mangiarcina

Posted on 02/07/2022 5:32:21 PM PST by marshmallow

On behalf of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Helmut Dieser welcomed the recently launched German Catholic LGBT campaign, and declared a ‘new’ approach to sexuality.

BERLIN (LifeSiteNews) — The German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) has officially supported the #OutinChurch LGBT campaign publicly backed by 125 Catholic Church employees, including clergy.

On January 24, the LGBT campaign released their seven-point list of demands to the Catholic Church, including for a change in Church “doctrine” on sexuality, as well as a documentary entitled “How God Created Us,” which has been characterized as “the biggest coming out in the Catholic Church” by German Christian magazine PRO.

The #OutinChurch “For a Church without fear” campaign demands that “the Church must not withhold the blessing of God and access to the sacraments from LGBTIQ+ persons and couples,” and that the Church accept for employment those who live “an open life according to one’s sexual orientation and gender identity.”

It also calls upon the German bishops to “take responsibility” for the “suffering” supposedly caused to “LGBTIQ+ persons,” “address the institutional history of guilt,” and “advocate for the changes” called for by the campaign.

The same day the campaign was publicized, the Bishop of Aachen, Helmut Dieser, made an official statement “welcom[ing] the LGBT campaign on behalf of the German Bishops’ Conference as a sign that we are working so that this climate of fearlessness can and must develop in our Church.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: antipope; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; romancatholicism

1 posted on 02/07/2022 5:32:21 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow; Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; markomalley; miele man; ..

Frankenchurch Ping


2 posted on 02/07/2022 5:38:34 PM PST by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: ebb tide

“Frankenchurch Ping”
Indeed. Ve haff vays of making you a pretend Catholic.


3 posted on 02/07/2022 5:43:16 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: marshmallow
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4 posted on 02/07/2022 5:48:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: marshmallow

They just Ned to become Episcopalians. That denomination already believes in all the perversions.


5 posted on 02/07/2022 5:48:53 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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6 posted on 02/07/2022 6:03:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: marshmallow

The pending eternal suffering of the lost is precisely why you don’t abandon sound doctrine and abandon proclaiming the one and only Gospel.


7 posted on 02/07/2022 6:19:27 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ebb tide
Her we go again...as if it wasn't enough with the pedophile rings throughout the church....
8 posted on 02/07/2022 7:35:11 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: marshmallow

Ummm. Hey guys. Yes, you guys that are able to revise the Bible from time to time. While you’re at it, hows about reworking that part about adultry/fornication stuff. OK? I know you can do it. Yes, just take it out, ok? We don’t need sex being sinning and stuff. OK? Just write God wants more loving in the world.


9 posted on 02/07/2022 7:38:17 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: marshmallow
So if they get their way, the Roman Catholics are to become just like the Lutherans?

Or will there be yet another organizational (not just ideological) split?

10 posted on 02/08/2022 3:41:29 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: marshmallow
"For years, the German bishops as a whole have been notorious for defying Church teaching in various ways, such as by advocating for allowing sacrilege via Communion for those in adulterous relationships and permitting Protestants to receive Holy Communion under certain circumstances."

Here's a simple solution: EXCOMMUNICATION.

Do it, or get used to this heresy within your ranks.

11 posted on 02/08/2022 11:22:57 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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