Posted on 08/04/2015 5:45:36 AM PDT by marshmallow
A Westminster diocesan initiative to extend a special welcome to lesbian and gay Catholics at a regular Mass has proved so successful that Cardinal Vincent Nichols would like it to be rolled out nationwide, his lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) liaison priest has said.
The Masses, at the Jesuit Farm Street Church in central London, replaced the more controversial, so-called “gay Masses” that were designated for LGBT Catholics at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Soho until 2013.
Key to the transition was that the Farm Street Masses are an extension of the diocese’s pastoral care for gay people. LGBT Catholics join the regular congregation at the 6.15 p.m. Mass on Sunday evenings twice a month and meet afterwards for a social gathering in the parish hall.
Fr Keith Barltrop, who was appointed chaplain to the LGBT community by Vincent Nichols earlier this year, said that the cardinal would like to see the Farm Street Masses as a model for other parishes in his archdiocese. He added that the idea could be taken up by parishes in other dioceses.
The Farm Street Masses are similar to those said for the LGBT community in Chicago and Los Angeles. Martin Pendergast of the LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council said that any move to expand the model would be dependent on interested parishioners taking the lead.
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Sickening to watch the corruption in my Church.
I wondered that also...except everything is about legitimizing...but where’s the mass for Prostitutes? Next up will be Pedophile mass?
No?
What makes sodomy so special, in the list of foul sins?
No?
What makes sodomy so special, in the list of foul sins?
It's worse. The contemporary apostate church says "Go ahead. It's really not sinful!"
True, they should not be allowed to receive communion until they have repented and forsaken their sins and turned to follow the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Good churches do not close their doors to those who need to hear the gospel; the good news of Jesus Christ.
Thanks. Since my retirement from the Navy, I’ve decided to become more politically active.
FR was suggested by a Tea Party friend.
I agree completely. Being gay—in that having that proclivity—is not a sin. Acting on it is a sin.
When the Church (or at least some clergy in this case) celebrates them in the name of tolerance, they are giving approval of the act and thus are approving of the sin and actually sinning themselves because according to Catholic doctrine supporting someone in their sin is a sin in and of itself.
“Enter into the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital for sinners and not a court of law.” +John Chrysostomos
>>To what end?
To Rome, to Egypt, to Babylon...
The Eunuchs have always longed for the day when they could openly rule the state-established pyramid/hive, again.
If only the Catholic Church had some sort of hierarchy
structure and maybe a top authority figure that could put a stop to this. Oh, wait.
What is a “bastardized ion”?
Mega-ditto!
When your churches are ‘full of gay priests’ that ‘prey on choir boys’ this should be no real surprise.
Please be so good as to cite your evidence backing the truth of the quoted segments of this statement...including citations regarding numbers of both priests and choirboys...
Still waiting for the “welcome” from the “liaison” to Catholics who prefer the TLM, traditional music, and orthodox teaching
One of the worst things a modern Catholic can do is express a preference for traditional models of worship...
Someone on this very forum referred to me as a heretic, since I spoke of the SSPX in a positive vein...brainwashing, such a wonderful thing...
What is a “bastardized ion”?
It is an atomic particle of uncertain patrimony...apparently Cann 915 contains such a example...
apparently Cann 915 contains such a example...
and apparently IrishBrigade has issues with correct grammar and spelling...
http://bishop-accountability.org/priestdb/PriestDBbylastName-A.html
Here we go again...
That’s all fine and dandy (and the fun thing is both Caths and Prots could play the internet gotcha game) but your original post states that the current RCC is infused with predator priests boinking choirboys (who knew there were anymore of them around?) This is what I’ve asked you to document; so have at it...
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