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Posted on 08/05/2024 9:27:03 AM PDT by ebb tide
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WASHINGTON D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Addressing participants of Father James Martin’s pro-LGBT “Outreach” conference, D.C.’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory said the heterodox event is aimed at “becoming a more inclusive family of faith.”
“In many respects you are engaging in an act of synodality – the vision and invitation proposed by Pope Francis that sincerely and openly speaking and listening to one another under the light and guidance of the Holy Spirit is the way that the Church grows in perfection,” said Gregory.
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The D.C. cardinal offered the conference Mass on Saturday, as over 300 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics and their allies” assembled at Georgetown University for the now annual Outreach conference.
Led by Fr. Martin S.J., the conference is a product of his LGBT activist group Outreach, which has repeatedly cast doubt on the Biblical condemnation of sodomy and promoted “Pride Month,” transgenderism, and pro-LGBT blasphemy, as LifeSiteNews has reported.
Outreach is described as “where church leaders, both clergy and lay, can encounter” the so-called “LGBTQ faithful.” The group’s executive director is openly homosexual Michael J. O’Loughlin, a writer for the Jesuits’ America magazine.
This year’s Outreach conference is sponsored in part by a man named Jim O’Connor on behalf of his deceased “husband.”
The Catholic Church teaches, in accordance with Sacred Scripture and the constant tradition of the Church, that homosexual activity is mortally sinful and a “sin that cries to heaven” and that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.” The Church also affirms the reality of the two sexes.
In his homily, Gregory quoted the Gospels to highlight “that unity – being joined with each other – is a goal to be achieved – and it remains a sign that Christ Himself is there in our midst.”
He lamented that “unity remains an elusive enterprise,” both in the political and ecclesial sphere. “Unity does not mean uniformity or sameness of opinion in heart and mind,” he remarked. “There is a word that we frequently use to describe the spiritual connectedness that must be the goal of our Catholic Church – Communion.”
But Gregory failed to note that Communion requires profession of the apostolic faith, which condemns homosexuality. (CCC 815)
Praising the attendees of the conference, Gregory opined that the “assembly is dedicated to the pursuit of our becoming a more inclusive family of faith.”
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He added that “[o]ccasionally, we may find it difficult as Catholics and as Americans to achieve such a state of being together harmoniously.” However, he called on the participants to prioritize “unity,” saying that “unity must remain a goal and a desire for both institutions – an aspiration that we must strive to achieve and to value.”
As has become customary, the conference received an endorsement from Pope Francis, as a handwritten letter from the Pope was publicized last Thursday.
“I am glad that Cardinal Gregory will celebrate the Mass; I will be spiritually with him and with all of you, united in prayer,” wrote Francis in the letter sent to Martin.
READ: Pope Francis tells pro-LGBT conference: ‘I will be spiritually with all of you’
While Gregory praised the conference for purportedly intending to assist the Church become “a more inclusive family of faith,” the keynote speakers are notable for controversy over LGBT issues and promoting a non-Catholic acceptance of homosexuality.
As reported by LifeSite on Friday, ex-Jesuit Father William Hart McNichols and Jewish Biblical professor Amy-Jill Levine were billed as the keynote speakers for the conference.
McNichols is an openly homosexual priest who has become known for his LGBT activism.
A longtime iconographer, McNichols’ works include a number of pro-LGBT, sacrilegious items, including the work from 1989 “The Stations of the Cross of a Person With AIDS.”
READ: Father James Martin’s conference, endorsed by Pope Francis, to host pro-LGBT speakers
Another work of his from that decade was his 1986 “AIDS Crucifixion,” a pro-homosexual image that blasphemes Christ.
Dr. Levine is a professor of New Testament and Jewish studies at the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Though speaking at an event billed for Catholics, Levine has stated that she is “not a believer in Jesus” as God.
Her Biblical interpretation includes falsely arguing that homosexual acts are permitted by certain Scriptural passages. However, Catholic moral teaching declares that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “[h]omosexual persons are called to chastity.”
In 1986, Pope John Paul II and the Vatican’s doctrinal office issued the document “On the pastoral care of homosexual persons,” which emphasizes how “special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not.”
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Nice picture you got there.
It broke my faggotometer.
With James Martin involved, the word “outreach” takes on a whole new disgusting meaning.
“Synodality” and “dialogue” apparently do not apply to Archbishop Vigano and supporters of the Latin mass, but it does extend to practicing homosexuals and other sex deviants.
In other news, the Catholic Church announces it has bought Epstein Island and will resume operations soon. All newcomers to the island will be able to do confession online prior to arrival.
All heretics, apostates and false teachers must be shunned!
Catholics are getting cornholed.
Father Martin’s smile says something like, “Little boy, I have some candy for you in this van. We won’t tell your mother, will we?””
Catholics, Protestants, and everybody else need to get the hedonists out of our organizations.
And Jesus wept!
A schism in the Church can’t be far off with these kinds of actions!
no surprises here. read in a book that many will fall away from sound doctrine and find bible teachers that will scratch their itching ears with what they WANT to hear. what is happening right now is a separation of the sheep from the goats. there is only one question to ask yourself...do you believe IN God or do You BELIEVE God? big big difference friends.
They are DANCING ON THE TRAPDOOR OF HELL!
" I (Jesus) came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: for there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law." - Luke 12:49-56
This is always one of the options.
I may be mistaken, but is the Bible (Hod’s Word) not quite clear on the status as abomination of homosexuality?. Far be it for me, a poor sinner, to pass judgement.
Oh boy, need to put autocorrect in it’s place. God is not the same as Hod.
Actually, the Gospel IS about unity. Jesus often prayed that his followers remain a united family. But this is NOT the same as welcoming people who reject basic doctrine and moral precepts.
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