[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy’s Attack on Church Teachings on Sexuality Is a Pastoral Disaster

National Catholic Register ^ | January 26, 2023 | Father Raymond J. de Souza

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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy’s Attack on Church Teachings on Sexuality Is a Pastoral Disaster

COMMENTARY: Jettisoning the distinction between ‘orientation and activity’ means the end of chastity as a virtue to be strived for — or implies that ‘the LBGT community’ is not capable of chastity and should therefore be preached a lesser gospel.

That a cardinal wishes to change the Church’s teaching on the morality of same-sex sexual acts is not new. But there is a new one advocating just that, and one of the newest in the college at that.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2019 and appointed relator general of the synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church, has been advocating for such a change because the “sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct.” 

Now Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego and created a cardinal by Pope Francis just last August, has joined Cardinal Hollerich with a wide-ranging essay in America magazine this week. Cardinal McElroy argues that the synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church is an opportune time to revisit — and revise — some doctrines of the Church. Among those are the question of priestly ordination for women, but his main focus was on “radical inclusion of L.G.B.T. people.”

There has been much reaction and more will certainly follow. Here I would just draw attention to one aspect of Cardinal McElroy’s pastoral approach: the abolition of chastity.

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Just this past year, Bergoglio promoted his boy, McElroy, to the college of cardinals.

In doing so, Bergoglo passed over McElroy's superior, Archbishop Cordileone, for the promotion. Cordileone is too rigid for Bergoglio since the good archbishop has banned the baby-butcher, Nancy Pelosi, from receiving Holy Communion in his archdiocese. McElroy subsequently blasted Archbishop Cordileone for doing so; and thus received his reward from the apostate pope.

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