Posted on 11/19/2024 2:48:53 PM PST by ebb tide
The Archdiocese of Atlanta has formed pastoral commission intended to “better listen to members” of the LGBTQ+ community, according to archdiocesan newspaper The Georgia Bulletin.
The archdiocese’s Restorative Justice Ministry will coordinate the LGBTQ+ Pastoral Affairs Commission, saying the advisory commission will be “dedicated to better understanding the realities and pastoral needs of LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.”
The Georgia Bulletin published articles about the initiative at the same time as the announcement, including an interview with the founder of a Catholic support group for the families of LGBTQ+ people.
Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., launched the LGBTQ+ pastoral commission with an announcement at the priests’ convocation earlier this fall. Hartmayer explained that he started the commission to “allow a broader and an ongoing dialogue” with members of the LGBTQ+ community, and to “better minister to those with same-sex attraction, as well as their families and friends, often referred to as allies.”
Hartmayer said that church documents consistently affirm the dignity of every individual, including LGBTQ+ people. He referenced the 1997 document “Always Our Children” from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, explaining the church’s mission to convey “words of faith, hope, and love.”
“I pray that through the creation of this commission we will all come to a better understanding of and respect for each other,” said the archbishop. “After all, we are all children of God, brothers and sisters on this journey.”
The group will concentrate on “synodal listening and restorative approaches” to cultivate a welcoming ministry. Its aim, according to the archdiocesan office, is to create “a stronger, more resilient community of faith where everyone feels they belong.”
Kathy Farrell, a co-founder of Fortunate & Faithful, a local network of parents with LGBTQ+ people, is one of the people interviewed by the archdiocesan newspaper. Farrell, who now serves as the group’s spiritual director, said she co-founded the ministry when her son came out as gay:
“‘Our agenda is to love our children, help them to know that they are loved by God and to keep families together and hopefully in the church.'”
Fortunate & Faithful is a lay-led ministry supporting families and the LGBTQ+ community by offering retreats, workshops, and guidance for parents who may feel uncertain after their children come out.
Farrell is “thrilled” about the recent formation of Hartmayer’s pastoral commission. She stated:
“‘[It is] a wise and compassionate response to the voices of LGBTQ persons and families during the synod listening process. Many have felt excluded and misunderstood, and restorative justice is such a positive position from which to rebuild bridges of respect, compassion and sensitivity.'”
Farrell sees no conflict between the sexual orientation of her children and her identity as a Catholic:
“‘I’ve said it to Archbishop Hartmayer, if I were given a choice of you’ve got to either love your church or love your child, but you can only love one, I would have to choose my child. If I don’t love my own child, am I following Jesus Christ?'”
Why not have commissions to support other sexual sins because, after all, weren’t all sexual sinners “born this way?” How about the following:
Commission on Adultery. Commission on Bestiality. Commission on Sexual Lusts. Commission on Pedophilia. Commission on the Benefits of Porn. Commission on Necrophilia. Commission on Polygamy.
It’s now axiomatic to say that the first stage of death spiral of any religion is embrace of LGBT. Faithful Catholics need to start pushing back much harder than we have thus far.
Time to call the pervert supremacists what they are... pervert supremacists.
They won’t stop until the Church accepts sodomy as normal and wonderful. Not until then.
Under Wilton Gregory, the Atlanta archdiocese was captured by the Alphabet Mafia. The unfortunately misnamed Fortunate Families (gay hook-up group) is headquartered right at the chancery. This particular committee was set up to head off an effort by faithful Catholics to call the archdiocese (now headed by Gregory’s chosen toady Gregory Hartmayer) back to actual Catholic teaching and practice. No sale! And we have THREE auxiliary bishops, not one of whom dares to say a public word in defense of truth and sanity.
Thanks for the inside info.
Good Question.
The abomination that the LGBTQ+ are needs no understatnding.
They will be judged, in time, and their sentence will be, “eternity in a very hot place!”
I think all of those are included in the Plus /S
Their pastoral need is to get them to understand that Homosexual acts are deadly sins that dam your soul to eternal punishment.
Their pastoral need is to get them to understand mutilating your body is a deadly sin that dams your soul to eternal punishment.
Their pastoral need is to get them to understand mutilating your body is a deadly sin that dams your soul to eternal punishment.
God does not make mistakes. If you have a mental illness get help talk to a priest. God forbid do not see a psychiatrist. If the priest tells you you are just fine as you are find a different priest.
WARNING........CANNIBUS INFO LINK.
NOT FOR ME.
Not an overly bright Archbishop ... obviously slept through a lot of his classes.
Meanwhile, back on the farm.
Cow manure fetishist jailed for five years for death threats to farm owners.
David Truscott threatened to kill a farming family after they tried to stop him from laying naked in cow slurry on their land.
Hartmayer was ordained a priest by Howard Hubbard in 1979 and consecrated a bishop by Wilton Gregory in 2011.
The homos promote from within.
I didn’t know about Hubbard’s involvement but I’m not at all surprised.
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