Posted on 10/08/2024 11:49:59 AM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A number of cardinals and other members of the Synod attended a pro-LGBT event hosted by Fr James Martin S.J. and his Outreach group in Rome today, during which a same-sex “married” man called for “love to be expressed.”
“Get to know the real people behind the ‘mask’ who are trying to live a Catholic life,” said Christopher Vella today. “Let’s allow love to be expressed,” he added.
Vella leads the Malta-based LGBT Catholic group Drachma, and spoke today in the hall of the General Curia House of the Jesuits in Rome, at an event held on the sidelines of the Synod on Synodality. He lives as a “bisexual Catholic married to another man.”
Organized by Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT group Outreach and the Jesuit-run America Magazine, the event saw cardinals and other members of the Synod gather together to hear the testimony of “LGBTQ Catholics.” It began with a welcome from Father Antoine Kerhuel, S.J., who serves as the secretary of the Jesuits.
Featuring a number of individuals who are “married” to members of the same-sex, the event was called “What is the experience of LGBTQ Catholics?”
Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J. – Synod member and bishop of Hong Kong – led a prayer during the event, while the second-youngest Synod member Julia Oseka led the closing prayer.
“Jesus our Lord, teach us to journey with each other with respect and gratitude. We do not take for granted this privilege to listen, to learn and to walk together as synodal companions,” Chow prayed, adding:
Oh, Holy Spirit, send us your guiding light of truth, so that our ignorance and prejudices can melt away through this synodal encounter, and a new morn marked by mutual respect and empathic understanding can take shape in our church for our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers, as well as for ourselves and our church as a whole
Joining Martin and Vella on the panel was Juan Carlos Cruz, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, whom Pope Francis is famously said to have told that “God made you gay.”
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Jesuits Ping
Yup, all Jesuits. I get the distinct feeling that the entire rest of the Church is about done with the Jesuits and their limp-wristed prancing pony-show.
Well, I’m done with it.
Time for a schism!
Anyone want to remind our dear Cardinals to read the Catechism:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
ALL THOSE CARDINALS ARE DANCING ON THE TRAPDOOR OF HELL! SO IS OUR POPE!
There is a schism. Why not say so?
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