Posted on 10/02/2023 1:13:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.
The Vatican on Monday published a letter Francis wrote to the cardinals on July 11 after receiving a list of five questions, or “dubia,” from them a day earlier. In it, Francis suggests that such blessings could be studied if they didn't confuse the blessing with sacramental marriage.
New Ways Ministry, which advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics, said the letter “significantly advances" efforts to make LGBTQ+ Catholics welcomed in the church and “one big straw towards breaking the camel’s back” in their marginalization.
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Outrageous reporting
The Bible is pretty clear on this sort of thing.
BLASPHEMY!!!
HERESY!!!
I think it’s time to teach The Word to the Pope from the very start.
* Davie & Golliath on Sunday mornings
A taste of:
Dr. Vernon McGee
Shepherds Chapel
Dr Gene Scott Reruns
and maybe a protestant exorcism should be a good start
Now what? Blessings on a sodomitical couple are a bridge way too far.
The Bible is pretty clear on this sort of thing
Unfortunately such a position of power can attract people who claim to be honorable and faithful to God actually are scam artists who a great actors and can play the part when in reality they do not believe a word of the Bible nor even tried to read it.
They play the part for selfish reasons
Hey, if a priest can forgive the sins of a “devout Catholic” that has committed many murders and sent them on their way to Heaven when they die, then blessing same sex unions is a drop in the bucket.
Oh it MUST be true is Francis said so.
Reminds me of when an acquaintance died and was brought back. And saw Heaven.
Supposedly Jesus is giving every new arrival a personal tour thru Heaven. It was beautiful. But there was a big building with no windows at all in the distance. Curious, he asked Jesus what the windowless building was for.
Jesus promptly held his finger to his lips and replied “Not so loud, my child. That building with no windows is where the Catholics stay. They think they’re the only ones here.
Oh my - yeah possible except for what Jesus taught and what scripture says everywhere.
The Church is not Disney Land, dear Pope.
Being nice to fruits isn’t going to bring in more people. People don’t go to Church to hear the same nonsense they get off of tv.
How can one bless what God has cursed?
will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest...
Hopefully the next Catholic Pope will be Catholic.
Thw communist pope...at it again.
He needs to be deposed.
The whore of Babylon
NOT the Pope. Evil cannot be the Pope.
How would that blessing go? I bless you to buttf-ers?
Is it possible that in some circumstances a pastor could bless unions between homosexual persons, thus suggesting that homosexual behavior as such would not be contrary to God’s law and the person’s journey toward God?
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Yes if you’re you’re own little god. Satan is pleased.
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