Posted on 05/09/2022 4:56:44 PM PDT by ebb tide
By Linda Bordoni
“God’s style is closeness, mercy and tenderness” Pope Francis said answering three questions put to him by Jesuit Father James Martin who ministers to LGBT Catholics.
On 5 May Father Martin had written to the Pope in Spanish asking him to answer some questions that he is most commonly asked by LGBT Catholics and their families.
He received a hand-written response a couple of days afterward, that was published in the form of a short interview on Father Martin’s website “Outreach”.
“With respect to your questions,” the Pope wrote, “a very simple response occurs to me.”
Outreach: What would you say is the most important thing for LGBT people to know about God?
Pope Francis: God is Father and he does not disown any of his children. And “the style” of God is “closeness, mercy and tenderness.” Along this path you will find God.
Outreach: What would you like LGBT people to know about the Church?
Pope Francis: I would like for them to read the book of the Acts of the Apostles. There they will find the image of the living Church.
Outreach: What do you say to an LGBT Catholic who has experienced rejection from the Church?
Pope Francis: I would have them recognize it not as “the rejection of the church,” but instead of “people in the church.” The church is a mother and calls together all her children. Take for example the parable of those invited to the feast: “the just, the sinners, the rich and the poor, etc.” [Matthew 22:1-15; Luke 14:15-24]. A “selective” church, one of “pure blood,” is not Holy Mother Church, but rather a sect.
Last year in July Pope Francis had sent Father Martin a letter on the occasion of the webinar “Outreach 2021” in which he said that “God is close to and loves each and every one of his children. His heart is open to all. He is the Father.”
"Thinking about your pastoral work," the Pope wrote, "I see that you continually try to imitate this style of God. You are a priest for everyone, as God is Father of everyone. I pray for you that you may continue in this way, being close, compassionate and full tenderness."
"I pray for your faithful, your 'parishioners,'" the Pope had concluded, "for all those whom the Lord has placed beside you so that you may care for them, protect them and make them grow in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bergoglio’s Homos Barf Alert
So go ahead and sin all you want. God doesn’t care.
Does not disown? I don’t think that that quite true. God says He will turn away from the hellbound and determined.
Obviously God loves all his children and wants us to share eternal life with Him.
However, some of us reject God and die in mortal sin and will spend eternal life with Satan.
God does not reject us, yet some of us reject God by how we live our lives. Our choice to follow the ways of the world or to follow Jesus.
Obviously God loves all his children and wants us to share eternal life with Him.
However, some of us reject God and die in mortal sin and will spend eternal life with Satan.
God does not reject us, yet some of us reject God by how we live our lives. Our choice to follow the ways of the world or to follow Jesus.
God is also a God of judgement. Being a Christian means you reject all forms of sin. LGBTQ people are not living a life that rejects sin. Or, as my mom said when I was a teenager “I’ll always love you, but I dont like you very much right now”.
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Dear Pope: The folks in Saddam and Gomorrah thought the same thing.
If you are in mortal sin,YOU HAVE DISOWNED GOD
Why would God not to claim His creation? He made us all. God even loves all mankind. But knowing that is not going to determine where people will spend eternity.. even God doesn’t decide that, we do. Free choice.
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