[ebb tide]

“Many gay people aspire to a Christian lifestyle and to lifelong, faithful partnerships, but they cannot accept that the church requires them to remain celibate. More and more Catholics in city parishes no longer think that blessing gay partnerships would push Christian marriage into the closet, the statement said.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

These widely divergent statements from the Germans and Burke indicate the growing tension among church leaders on sexuality issues.

Good luck with changing Church Teaching regarding sodomy.

Anyway, there have been dissenting clergy at least since St. Nicolas punched out Arias.

[DuncanWaring]

... it is the murderer who can confess her sins and be re-admitted to communion...

True.

But said murderer is also expected to refrain from continuing to commit the sin of murder.

[EBH]

While it is easy, and admittedly quite tempting, to write off Cardinal Burke’s extremist rhetoric, we must remember he and those who follow his leadership are members of our church, too. If we pray that all may be truly welcome, our prayer must include Burke and his followers, even when they carry a damaging extremism. This does not excuse their prejudice, but rather, it should encourage us to re-double our efforts to educate those who are harmed and stunted by homophobia and other damaging prejudices.

Wow...just wow! The Bible is clear on this on so many fronts. Re-double their efforts, leaves me shaking my head! So now Burke is an extremist, those who follow the Bible are extremist.

[ebb tide]

No, Sir, I’m not.

I can just recognize bad popes and bad councils that are not in accord with Catholic Tradition. This is not the first time in the Church’s history that She has had bad popes. And VC II was purely a pastoral, not dogmatic, council.

“Unveiling a new work on the Second Vatican Council in Rome , Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, the retired president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, announced that Vatican II’s decrees on non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) and Religious Freedom (Dignitatas Humanae) “do not have a binding doctrinal content, so one can dialogue about them.””

[SpirituTuo]

More and more, those people are getting closer to going to Hell.

The Church requires celibacy of all non-married people. By that, married means one man and one woman.

We need to pray for these Germans, they really need it.

[Cheerio]

I believe the bible says "Love the sinner and HATE the sin" or in some such words. So the church should certainly welcome the sinner but they will never accept the SIN. Therein lies the rub - the Gay Mafia insists they be accepted equally with STRIAGHT married folk.

THAT AIN'T NEVER CHANGING AS LONG AS ONE REMAINS TRUE TO GOD'S WORD.

[Travis McGee]

[ebb tide]

[LadyDoc]

the PC took over the orders, and the devout left in droves because they could serve God better as laypeople than in convents where wicca and eastern meditation replaced prayer, lesbian relationships were rife, and running valuable institutions were abandoned for vague social work.

And I won’t even mention the reason the male “religious orders” are backing this. SNAP anyone?

[BlatherNaut]

While it is easy, and admittedly quite tempting, to write off Cardinal Burke’s extremist rhetoric, we must remember he and those who follow his leadership are members of our church, too.

Such sad delusions. Those who promote sodomy and refer to the Deposit of Faith as "extremist rhetoric" are not members of the Catholic Church -- they are apostates.