Posted on 08/31/2025 12:52:43 PM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Francesco Savino of Cassano all’Jonio, the vice president of the Italian Bishops' Conference, will preside over the Eucharist in the Jesuits’ church Il Gesù in Rome for the homosexual pilgrimage to St Peter’s basilica on September 6.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola is buried in this church. When asked about this event, Savino told Gionata.org on August 15 that no one is excluded from the Eucharist: "The bread broken on the altar knows no barriers of birth, language, social condition, or life path."
And: "The Eucharist is a welcoming womb, not a rejecting fence. It is a home with doors always open, where the cornerstone is unconditional love."
Bishop Savino believes that such a Eucharist is "not just a liturgical celebration, but a prophetic act; a sign announcing to the world that in the Kingdom of God, everyone is a son or daughter, gathered at the same table".
The Eucharist is "not a question of 'welcoming' someone into the house of the Lord, but of recognising that all are already its inhabitants by full right."
Monsignor Savino added that the Eucharist is "not a reward reserved for the few, but the bread of communion that restores the scattered human family."
Ping
But my disgust is real.
Regards,
The Gaydar is strong from this one.
This guy must hate homosexuals to want them all condemned.
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[Catholic Caucus] Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’
Catholic Culture ^ | March 26, 2024 | Catholic World News
The Vatican newspaper has published Bishop Francesco Savino’s preface to Via Crucis di un ragazzo gay [Via Crucis of a Gay Boy], a new book by Luigi Testa, an Italian law professor.
Appointed a bishop in 2015, Bishop Savino has been the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2022. Father Sergio Massironi, an official of the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development, contributed an afterword to the book.
In conjunction with Bishop Savino’s preface—which focused more on the prelate’s own reflections than on the book’s content—the Vatican newspaper’s website published a photograph of two shirtless men alongside another man in a T-shirt who is carrying a cross. A fuller version of the photograph was published in the print edition (p. 6). . .
Let’s start with Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, which say, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” and “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.”
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Eeeewwwwwww?
"The bread broken on the altar knows no barriers of birth, language, social condition, or life path."
eh? What part of Body and Blood of Christ do you not understand? Nobody has the "right" to receive it; people in a state of Grace have the privilege of receiving Him.
Sinners have every right but those publicly reveling in their sin and flaunting it I’d say not so much.
As long as he’s in a state of grace. But if he’s committed Sodomy on Saturday night, he can expect to receive the Eucharist on Sunday morning.
Receiving the Eucharist is understood as a privilege, not a right, as it is a sacred gift from God that requires spiritual preparation and adherence to the Catholic Church’s teachings for worthy reception. This means individuals must be in full communion with the Church, free from grave sin, and properly prepared to receive the Body and Blood of Christ.
According to Roman Catholic teaching, as per Google’s A.I. search.
Now it’s merely a “life path”, but the bishop seems to be using that term in a way that suggests human moral choices mean nothing to that “life path”, like it - the path they have been on - is “predestined” for them. It takes “born this way” to a new “spiritual” high.
Sure Bishop, they have the right to do as they please, but God knows their heart, whether it’s sincere and contrite or just eating a free wafer, or doing it for show.
No, they don't have that right. They are bound by canon laws.
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