Posted on 06/14/2022 6:10:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
Brother Markus Fuhrmann opposes Catholic Church teaching not only on homosexuality, but on the issues of priestly celibacy and women’s ordination.
(LifeSiteNews) – German Franciscans have elected a provincial superior who publicly revealed that he is homosexual only weeks prior.
Brother Markus Fuhrmann, referred to as the first openly homosexual Franciscan in his office, said that he has received a “lot of encouragement” regarding his open homosexuality in his position as Provincial Minister, despite the condemnation of homosexuality by Scripture and Church teaching.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church declares that “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,’” and that “they are contrary to the natural law.” [2357]
The language of the Catechism signals that the Church’s condemnation of homosexual behavior is an infallible teaching of the ordinary universal magisterium, Fr. Philip Bochanski, executive director of Courage International, has noted.
In a June 10 interview with MK-Online, Fuhrmann clearly declared his opinion that Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality should change, claiming that “as this morality has been officially taught so far, it does not serve life. It must change or develop.”
Fuhrmann further explained why he “came out” as homosexual, saying that for him personally, it was a question of his own “truthfulness,” adding that he would “like to be able to make it clear who I am and what I stand for.”
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Probably a large homosexual vote to elect him.
The Church has been under assault from within by subversive forces for decades. The Infiltration of the church is many decades-long now.
They have reached the point where they have enough Perverts in Senior positions that they can now openly promote others of their ilk openly. Without any concern for repercussion.
It is now up to the Congregants to do something about this anti-Christian Perversion within the senior ranks of The Church.
The question is, will they? Do they have the will to do so? Or, have they been reduced to feeble, pathetic, rote followers of the leadership?
I’m surprised it’s taken this long for this kind of thing to begin. The Catholic priesthood head long been filled with homosexuals and now many are being emboldened by the Spirit of the Age, to borrow a phrase frommb Steve Deace.
Holy Spirit, please cleanse Your Church.
“The Church has been under assault from within by subversive forces for decades. The Infiltration of the church is many decades-long now.
They have reached the point where they have enough Perverts in Senior positions that they can now openly promote others of their ilk openly. Without any concern for repercussion.
It is now up to the Congregants to do something about this anti-Christian Perversion within the senior ranks of The Church.
The question is, will they? Do they have the will to do so? Or, have they been reduced to feeble, pathetic, rote followers of the leadership?”
Ditto for the steady infiltration of academe, in addition to schools of theology and the governing boards of clergy. Good people will need to restart their own schools and own governing boards from scratch.
From what I've read, they don't really need much "encouragement" to bugger one another.
Regards,
The most visible reaction to this is the empty seminaries; where this order staffs parishes, that would be the second visible response.
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