Just to get everyone in the mode, from the official Diocese of Cleveland website (not a joke):
See it here:
http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/gayandlesbianfamilyministry/mission/index.htm
Just to get everyone in the mode, from the official Diocese of Cleveland website (not a joke):
See it here:
http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/gayandlesbianfamilyministry/mission/index.htm
From Bishop Pilla's website:
A quote from the USCCB's pastoral letter Always Our Children, which is on the Dignity USA website: Christ summons all his followers—whether they are married or living a single celibate life—to a higher standard of loving. This includes not only fidelity, forgiveness, hope, perseverance, and sacrifice, but also chastity...Physician, heal thyself! What part of the statement above can Dignity and its allies not understand? I mean, it's on their own freaking website!To live and love chastely is to understand that "only within marriage does sexual intercourse fully symbolize the Creator's dual design, as an act of covenant love, with the potential of co-creating new human life"... This is a fundamental teaching of our Church about sexuality, rooted in the biblical account of man and woman created in the image of God and made for union with one another...
Two conclusions follow. First, it is God's plan that sexual intercourse occur only within marriage between a man and a woman. Second, every act of intercourse must be open to the possible creation of human life. Homosexual intercourse cannot fulfill these two conditions. Therefore, the Church teaches that homogenital behavior is objectively immoral, while making the important distinction between this behavior and a homosexual orientation, which is not immoral in itself.
"All support should be withdrawn from any organizations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely. Such support, or even the semblance of such support, can be gravely misinterpreted. Special attention should be given to the practice of scheduling religious services and to the use of Church buildings by these groups, including the facilities of Catholic schools and colleges. To some, such permission to use Church property may seem only just and charitable; but in reality it is contradictory to the purpose for which these institutions were founded, it is misleading and often scandalous." -- ["Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons", Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1986].
If the blind lead the blind...
Yours in Christian Fraternity,