Cardinal Hollerich feels bad that women can’t be ordained priests. Thus feeling bad is the hallmark for changing doctrines and dogmas.
I feel bad that the LGBTQ+++ can’t love and fornicate with whomever they wish and wherever, thus we need to change the Church’s teaching on disordered affections and relationships.
I feel bad that those who can’t live monogamy can’t have multiple spouses or at least have multple partners apart from their spouses. Thus the Church needs to change her teachings to make these people feel innocent and welcomed in the Church as they are.
I feel bad that kleptomaniacs feel unwelcome at Church and counting the collection. We must include them in all the security needs of the Church and not make them feel guilty for stealing as they were born that way.
I feel bad for sexual predators. They’re human too and must be welcomed in our homes, schools and religious education programs as well as our other ministries to shut-ins and vulnerables at home. The Church must allow these people, born this way, to live a guilt free life with acceptance of all they are and do.
Fr. James Martin, SJ is thrilled that the Vatican published a summary of discussions from the last synod. This summary quoted someone with a same-sex attraction as feeling exluded by the Church and that he and his husband have a great marriage and are fulfilled and active members of the Church. Fr.Martin, gushing, that a Vatican summary included their testimony is a sign that the synodal Church will accept persons, once considered to be living in sin, as saints and praise what was once considered a mortal sin no longer is. Fr. Martin no longer feels bad but good about this. The Church is correcting their course.
I am happy for those persons and I am glad the synodal Church can change Divine teachings to make people feel less excluded and more included.
The above is a script for a Twilight Zone episode.
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Father McDonald,
You will find this interesting then:
https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/has-the-vaticans-synod-office-become
Good Morning Dear Father! To paraphrase that delightful statement made by Professor Higgins in the musical film “ My Fair Lady”! “…. I think she’s got it ! By George she’s got it” ! I think you have got it! The extreme fruits of Modernism/ Relativism are increasingly being nakedly/ brazenly promulgated and executed!!!
"Fr.Martin, gushing, that a Vatican summary included their testimony is a sign that the synodal Church will accept persons, once considered to be living in sin, as saints and praise what was once considered a mortal sin no longer is. Fr. Martin no longer feels bad but good about this. The Church is correcting their course."
But Father, lest you forget, Fr. James Martin is in full communion with his bishop, so all is well and good with him in the Universal Church. (sarc/)
How are we to reconcile that those who want to maintain the 2000 years of Church teaching are threatened with excommunication while those actively promoting heresy and immorality are in full communion?
Father Anthony, it's a "miracle!"
All is well and good, and don't you know, the pope has been nice to him, and that means no one can criticize him and be a good Catholic!
Nick
Makes it clear who is really in charge. The Lavender Boys are at it again.
I imagine that many in the Church think those who promote acceptance of homosexual acts ought to get the death-penalty treatment. That is, the death penalty was never considered by the church to be morally wrong in all cases. In fact, it was thought of as salutary for the one to receive it because it concentrated his mind on penitence and salvation. In recent years, Church leaders have edged toward a view that its application is morally wrong in all cases, perhaps with limited exceptions. But declaring the death penalty always to be morally wrong would constitute a complete reversal of Church teaching. Such complete reversals are not possible. Nevertheless, the view against the death penalty has become so extreme that dioceses in the United States now lobby governments in States that have it to outlaw it as if the church had changed its teaching. Proponents of same-sex relations must be counting on a similar slow erosion of teaching with regard to homosexual relations. They know they can't hope for a complete reversal of teaching but perhaps hope that the teaching will be diminished to the point that what was formerly a sin that cried out to heaven will be considered in practice merely a venial sin, or perhaps even praised if committed with the "right intention," such as to promote the unitive aspect of a committed and loving same-sex relationship.
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