The following comes from a July 1 story on Reuters.
Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no-one pressured him to resign but alleges that a “gay lobby” in the Vatican had tried to influence decisions, a leading Italian newspaper reported on Friday.
The book, called The Last Conversations, is the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is over. It is due to be published on Sept. 9.
Citing health reasons, Benedict in 2013 became the first pope in six centuries to resign. He promised to remain “hidden to the world” and has been living in a former convent in the Vatican gardens.
Italy’s Corriere della Sera daily, which has acquired the Italian newspaper rights for excerpts and has access to the book, ran a long article on Friday summarizing its key points.
In the book, Benedict says that he came to know of the presence of a “gay lobby” made up of four or five people who were seeking to influence Vatican decisions. The article says Benedict says he managed to “break up this power group”.
Benedict resigned following a turbulent papacy that included the so-call “Vatileaks” case, in which his butler leaked some of his personal letters and other documents that alleged corruption and a power struggle in the Vatican.
Italian media at the time reported that a faction of prelates who wanted to discredit Benedict and pressure him to resign was behind the leaks.
The Church has maintained its centuries-long opposition to homosexual acts.
But rights campaigners have long said many gay people work for the Vatican and Church sources have said they suspect that some have banded together to support each other’s careers and influence decisions in the bureaucracy.
The “Gay Lobby” sounds like they advocate for gay Catholics like myself. Better call it the “Gay Guild” they’re gay and they look out for each other. As Pope Francis said, there shouldn’t be ANY lobbies.
C&H, the italians have adopted the word ‘lobby’ from english, but use it in their own way , usually to mean ‘pressure group’ , very often with a negative slant suggesting secrecy and blackmail. our lobbies in the US, seen as a necessary part of political representation, are registered and cannot legally blackmail. a lobby in the italian adaptation denotes and connotes surreptitious actors . benedict tells us he ‘discovered’ a lobby. they had been wielding power anonymously but effectively. like a spy ring.
CH, The Pope has changed his mind. He moves forward with a gay lobby, mafia, ‘whatever’. Here is what the people @ catholic family news are saying about the appointment of AB Cupich from Chicago. Found @ https://www.cfn.org/page88/files/ “Pope Taps Pro-Homosexual Cupich for Key Bishop-Making Panel” CFN intro: Leftist Cupich is notoriously pro-homosexual. He is now positioned by Francis to recommend men of his ilk to become bishops in the USA. The Francis disaster continues full throttle & will further poison the Church in America & worldwide. Oremus – jv
A shot across the bow of the good ship Catholic. May God help & deliver His church in His mercy.
It is risky to ordain homosexuals to the priesthood. Many of the problems that the Church is experiencing today: the sexual abuse crisis, the reluctance to preach on matters of sexual morality and especially the reluctance to be clear about the totality of the Church’s doctrine concerning homosexuality and homosexual acts, the tolerance of dissent in chancery personnel and in school teachers and administrators, the feminization of the Mass and Christian discipleship that drives so many lay men away from lives of greater holiness and service to the Church; they all derive in part from homosexuals in the priesthood and in the episcopate.
Homosexuals should never be priests. It is good that a homosexual sexualist decides to confess his sins and receive the sacraments, but the tendency to recommit to that heinous crime against nature is always present. The harm done to the Church by homosexuals is incalculable. Not worth the risk. A homosexual person, however, can certainly live a holy life and be very devout, but they cannot be an ordained cleric.
Having same sex attractions, ssa, is not a defining feature of a human being. It is an iniquity, a tendency to sin that imputes no guilt. “Gay” is a label adopted or imposed on people, usually by practicing homosexuals, to unite those who practice and push for acceptance of the behavior as normal. Undoubtedly there may be people with ssa employed in many holy places, working out their salvation in chastity. The “gay” identified need to be called to this same healing power of Christ if they are to work in holy places.
Well put, Fr. Richard. SSA is a tendency, perhaps affecting some more than others, perhaps others not at all, in effect a mysterious mark of original sin and its variegated tendencies inclining one toward sin.
In Umberto Eco’s historical-fiction novel, “The Name of the Rose”, Fr. William of Baskerville is trying to unravel the motive for a series of crimes regarding which he has been asked to investigate at a monastery. Br. Severinus, the herbalist, circumspectly points Fr. William in the right direction, at a point when Fr. William is utterly baffled: “Frater William, one may be inclined to sin ACCORDING to nature, or one may be inclined to sin CONTRARY to nature” (verbatim), and sends Fr. William a sharp glance
Or: The well-known exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriel Amorth, has been allowed to review the personal notes and diaries of Padre Pio.
According to Fr. Amorth, up to the last day of his life what concerned P. Pio most? Two things, says Fr. Amorth: “Committing a mortal sin, and losing his Faith.” That’s it: the famed stigmatist, visionary, clairvoyant P.Pio was afraid of 1) committing a mortal sin, and 2) losing his Faith. Everyone has an inborn inclination toward sin, even P. Pio.
If anyone trying to live the spiritual life doesn’t find that chilling, they need to check if they have a pulse.
Fr. Richard, In describing my romantic inclinations I usually use “gay” or “lesbian” which you have to admit is easier than “A woman with same sex attraction” Still, that’s a lot nicer than “Sodomite” which is sometimes used here. What really concerns me the most is that some Catholics, here and elsewhere, even otherwise knowledgible ones, refer to the “Sin of homosexuality.” That clearly isn’t the teaching of our Church, yet it goes unchallenged more often than not.
Pure Cane Sugar, “the sin of homosexuality” is just as much a shorthand expression as your use of “gay”. You stated that “gay” is less cumbersome than “a woman with same-sex attraction”. Similarly, “the sin of homosexuality” is less cumbersome than “the intrinsic evil and disorder of same-sex genital activity”.
Just as you admit “gay” is easier than what you substitute it for, you have to admit that “the sin of homosexuality” is also easier than what it is substituted for. Just as your favored term lacks precision, so too with the other.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Don’t criticize one but not the other.
Context often reveals what is meant by a shorthand expression.
Not a fair comparison at all, Sawyer. Although I prefer “gay” to “SSA”, they pretty much mean the same thing. “intrinsic disorder” and “sin” do NOT mean the same thing. You can keep you goose.
Your Fellow Catholic, you unfairly (deliberately?) omitted the term “intrinsic evil” that I used in my definition. So of course you don’t see its necessary connection to sin, and like all homosexual apologists you resort to obfuscation.
Intrinsic evil does mean sin, because no circumstance can remove the evil in the act. To choose an intrinsic evil is to choose sin, although it may be venial rather than mortal. The “sin of homosexuality” is a shorthand for that fact: that homosexual acts are intrinsically evil.
The CCC states that under no circumstances may homosexual acts be approved; they are acts of grave depravity.
How does that sauce taste now, YFPC?
Homosexuality as a sexual orientation has never been held to be intrinsically evil. You made that up. The Church teaches that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered.
YFC, you distort my position again — as you do with everyone else whom you oppose.
I never stated that homosexuality is intrinsically evil. My statement clearly expressed that homosexual genital activity is intrinsically evil: “the intrinsic evil and disorder of same-sex genital activity.”
Your attempts at obfuscation, distraction and the use of red herrings will not fool me.
You argue against straw men, which is understandable because you have no chance at winning against the formidable arguments and evidence that I and other ardent and knowledgeable Catholics are able to marshal against you.
Either you deliberately obfuscate or you’re not very good at reading comprehension and logic. Which is it?
I disagree, homosexuality is evil, period. Men can and do love one another without running around acting as if they never grew up and still need mommy. So how I see it, its all about sex for sodomites.
Sin has 3 levels. First is iniquity, a desire toward something that is not good. The desire shows the power of sin IN a person, but imputes not guilt if not acted upon. Second is sin in the classic biblical sense, to try to live rightly, but to fail and imputing guilt. Third is transgression, a willful disobedience, imputing severe guilt. We are in agreement that other descriptions are more cumbersome than gay, but just as African Americans never should be called the N word by themselves or others, neither should people with SSA ever be identified by the G word. You become what that by which you identify or are identified.
That’s silly. The N word was turned into an epithet. Gay is not an epithet. It’s no more an epithet than calling someone “left handed”, “blue eyed”, or “blond”. None of those are average, but none are epithets. At least, no one should USE them as an epithet.
Another difference: being left-handed, blue-eyed and blonde are not disorders; same-sex attraction is.
Related to Father’s point is that “gay” (and I would add “LGBT”) is identified with a well-defined, powerful and influential political and social ideology whose aim is to supplant traditional, Judeo-Christian norms for marriage and sexual morality with a view that obliterates the natural, real, fixed distinctions between male and female and does not consider heterosexuality to be normative. To identify as “gay” is to align oneself with that evil ideology. That is why no Christian or person of good will should identify as gay nor be called “gay”. That is also why parishes and dioceses should not have gay or LGBT ministries.
People apply the term gay to describe their sexual orientation, not necessarily their sexual practice. Thus you find many a married man and adolescents, who come to realize they are gay long before they ever have a sexual encounter with another person of the same sex. A gay person who remains or becomes celibate is still just as gay as the person who never maintained celibacy. What astonishes me is that people who are not gay are the ones who use the term SSA as though they have a right to use terms to describe other people that they would not use themselves.
Same-sex attraction is a legitimate term to describe the disordered condition to which it refers.
I have a right and duty to use the terms that most accurately describe that to which I am referring. I also have a right not to let the gay lobby dictate the terms of the discussion about same-sex attraction in their attempt to brainwash the public.
Gay means joyful, and most people who suffer from same-sex attraction are anything but joyful, although superficially they attempt to present themselves that way publicly. Gay is thus a sinister euphemism for a disordered condition, but the gay lobby chose that term precisely because it obfuscates what homosexuality is and makes it sound pleasant.
What you think, you think, YFC. What you DO, you become. So please stop pretending that those who are beset with sinful inclinations are exactly the same in truth as those who indulge in and actually celebrate that which is sinful and spiritually/physically damaging.
Translation: You may have had a passing thought to steal something, to harm someone, or to do worse. But that doesn’t make you a thief, a murderer, etc.
What astonishes me is that you continue the pretense of calling yourself, “Your Fellow Catholic”. That’s presumption in the extreme considering what you pump out on a regular basis.
“The article says Benedict says he managed to “break up this power group”
That statement is very odd. It almost sounds as if Pope Benedict XVI was somehow forced to write those particular words in order to remove the glaring spotlight off of the realities that Sawyer so eloquently and truthfully posted. This sounds similar to Obama’s unbelievable claim to have managed containing ISIS aka The JV Team. God is still in charge and “In The End My Immaculate heart Will Triumph” but as Father Dariusz Oko wrote, the worldwide “homolobby network'” is still powerfully controlling many a diocese. Pray the rosary to defeat all sinful scourges.
Fr, Richard – Don’t let anonymous (Paid?) Trolls with SSAD (same sex attraction disorder) bully you in to PC Obfuscation. There is no romance in STD Spread:
https://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/STD.htm
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been rising among gay and bisexual men, with increases in syphilis being seen across the country…men who have sex with men often get other STDs, including chlamydia and gonorrhea infections…
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who do not have HIV to get anal cancer.
They are also more likely to suffer from depression and attempt suicide. The gay lobby would have you believe that’s because of oppression from society, but it’s rather because homosexuals know that there is something wrong with them, even if they try to deny it. You can’t flout the law of gravity without serious consequences, nor can you flout the natural order of male/female sexuality without serious consequences.
If the gay lobby weren’t so powerful in this country, the government would be warning the public about the dangers of homosexual sex as much as it warns about the dangers of smoking. But the gay lobby is powerful and thus the government is silent about the destructive consequences of homosexual behavior. How can the gays…
Our government has given up & ‘given them up’ to their destructive ways? Must find it is much easier & cheaper in the long run. Easier meaning: controlling them by pretending to be their friend (promoting their parades, titles, etc). Cheaper means: VS mental health counseling which could be costly. The government & UN (their agenda is the same as POTUS) have secretly ditched them BY their support. While they use the GBLTs against the rest of humanity (potty laws) which is the real reason & underlaying theme, control……….
Continued…….The governments & UN (most are one & the same) just want to get closer to One World Government (OWG). And they will use anything they can get us to believe (climate change, GBLT ‘needs’) toward that goal. Does anyone truly believe the UN wants to GROW the world population? So the GBLTs are perfect for population controls too. BRILLIANT HUH? My premise: The muslims openly attack & kill their own BLGT folks all the time (+ Orlando Fl.) & our government tries to mask it as a ‘hate’ crime that just needs love, while sneaking more muslims here thru the back door! If that isn’t ‘double speak’ I don’t know what is. It is so obvious & sad for everybody in so many ways…….
The appropriate Catholic response when you find a group of people suffering from disease and depression is compassion, not berating.
Compassion doesn’t equal negating the reality of brokenness. To ignore the reality and encourage the delusion – that sinful behavior and dysfunction are not exactly that – is to do harm.
That is why it is said that the Truth will set you free. Not the pretense that the unnatural and unhealthy is magically healthy.
And it is necessary to be truthful when being compassionate. Purported compassion without truth is false compassion; it is indifference or — worse — complicity.
A doctor who, out of a false sense of compassion, didn’t advise patients with heart disease to improve their diets and exercise regimens, would not be a good doctor, nor a compassionate person, nor a truthful person.
Oh, but those patients with heart disease just have a different “cardial orientation”, you might say. There’s nothing wrong with them. Out of compassion we should affirm them and support their lifestyle choices. We shouldn’t judge.
Nonsense. True compassion wants to truly help people, not pretend to help them.
“YFC”: the issue here is not compassion, but response to a vocal, demanding, and blindly sinful person that refuses to see what he does as wrong and demands that you do too. Today’s homosexual is more likely to sue you than seek compassion or consolation from a straight man.
The Church’s problem on this issue are several: 1) too many clerics are themselves homosexual; 2) they see nothing wrong with acting on any sexual impulse; and 3) the Church fails to teach and to act on its teaching regarding the absolute sinfulness of homosexual sex.
YFC, Compassion vs truth (you say berating, I say truth) = Giving a starving person a fish (compassion) is good but also needs teaching them to fish (truth). Both are required if the person is going to live a full, healthy life.
There is no such thing as “same sex attraction.” Satan invents those words and phrases to confuse and pull the satanic wool over the eyes of Catholics, such as “Gay,” “Same sex attraction,” “LGBT,” etc. A homosexual is a homosexual, is a homosexual, is a homosexual, whether Catholic or not. In San francisco, Homosexuals and their priests have taken over two parishes: Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro District of San Francisco and also St. Agnes which is run by homosexual Jesuits. They were great family neighborhoods at one time. Now,…
I have never heard about St. Agnes, although I was acquainted with the travesty of Most Holy Redeemer Parish.
Maybe California Catholic Daily will print some stories about St. Agnes so we all can learn about it.
Sawyer, St. Agnes is located in the Haight-Ashbury area, not too far from St. Ignatius (at USF) and Most Holy Redeemer (in the Castro area). Both St. Agnes and St. Ignatius churches are run by very wayward, liberal, immoral, “hippie-style” Jesuits.
Actually conservative Churchmen invented the term same sex attraction because they don’t like the terms gay or homosexual.
Actually, the term “same-sex attraction” isn’t a synonym for “homosexual”. The former refers to a disorder; the latter refers to an individual afflicted with the disorder. “Same-sex attraction” might be a synonym for “homosexuality”, however.
Furthermore, homosexuals co-opted the word “gay” because they didn’t like the word “homosexual”. “Homosexual” makes same-sex attraction sound icky, which it is, whereas “gay” makes it sound acceptable and fun, which it isn’t.
Indeed Sawyer – who would want to be labeled as “Straight” (narrow, linear, unbending) when they can call themselves lighthearted and gaily happy…
STD & Ephebophile Epidemics notwithstanding. Ahem
https://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/std.htm
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been rising among gay and bisexual men, with increases in syphilis being seen across the country…
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men.
Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who do not have HIV to get anal cancer.
A most interesting article at the “Remnant Newspaper’ website how the left-wing modernist Cardinal Daneels who destroyed the once strong Roman Catholic Church in Belgium was part of a lobby bishops called the St. Gallen mafia who were trying in vain to “install” Cardinal Bergoglio to reform and destroy The Roman Catholic Church, they failed in the first attempt because Benedict was elected, but succeded when their “man” Bergoglio was elected Pope, ALL VERY SINISTER INDEED, and now the Church withers in its final death blows.
J, More ‘death blow’ material…..Have you seen? The catholic family news site is saying, about the recent Papal appointment of AB Cupich from Chicago, “Pope Taps Pro-Homosexual Cupich for Key Bishop-Making Panel” CFN intro: Leftist Cupich is notoriously pro-homosexual. He is now positioned by Francis to recommend men of his ilk to become bishops in the USA. The Francis disaster continues full throttle & will further poison the Church in America & worldwide. Oremus – jv Found @ https://www.cfn.org/page88/files/
May God deliver His church in His mercy from all destroyers.
Now, these neighborhoods are dominated by degenerate perverts. Remember those words invented by Satan: “orientation,” “inclination.” All nonsense. Attend Mass at St. Agnes and you will find homosexuals, Catholic or not, French Kissing each other with prolonged kisses to demonstrate their normal behavior. The Pastor of St. Agnes, Fr. Cameron Ayers, a Jesuit priest who ran the Homosexual outreach at St. Ignatius High School of San Francisco was himself a homosexual and encouraged Homosexual activity at the parish. He finally ran off with his homosexual partner. They married. He is now a priest in another non-Catholic church.
Sorry to say, you are spot on, Innominato, regarding the chaos at St. Agnes—a place to avoid, and also once-proud nearby St. Ignatius Church on US campus, staffed by the same order.
Fr. Ayers is a sad state of affairs—now an “assistant priest” @ Episcopal Holy Innocents Church here in SF: if any of you are familiar with the US Episcopal Church, that is like being a hired hand on the ranch–you are last-hired, first to be fired—and whatever the Catholic Church’s problems, the rector and the lay board run everything, so the first time you preach something “wrong” (=politically undesirable ), you are gone. The infighting is atrocious. They also pay very little, so an acquaintance informed me he us also teaching on the…
..side at St. Andrews Episcopal School (k-8), in Saratoga, to try to make up the shortfall in this pricey area. But many years ago, I met Fr. Ayers while working on a social welfare work and got to know him a bit— he used to be a great devotee—at least in theory, at least then — of the traditional Latin Mass, was a Latin scholar, loved reading Aquinas, and was a personal friend of the late quite trad Bp. John Ward of LA arch.
To me, where he is now is an “honest” reflection of where the Jesuit order has gone. And their suppression by the next pope, as intended by JP1, should be the very first order of business…If we have a Church left by then, if we have another pope.
Steve Phoenix– I have noticed over the years, that many young homosexual Catholic boys who love art, music, literature, and beautiful things, and who are talented intellectually– also love the traditional Latin Mass, are attracted to the priesthood and religious orders. When I was young, prior to Vatican II–Catholic morality was very strong and accurate, and so homosexuals felt compelled to keep their SSA conditions private, and obey Church teachings.
Well, you are right again, Linda M. At USF in the 70’s there were a few Jesuit priests, all older fellows, perhaps as you describe, but among us very alert students we never saw any behavior that could be reproached: very dedicated priests — they were “old school,” tho.
But with regard to Fr. Ayers, it is also sad because he very sincerely converted to the Catholic faith when he was 16–he used to talk about it—while going to Loyola High in LA, and Bishop John Ward also had a big influence in that development. All for what. So, now, like Nostra Aetate(1965) suggests, he has moved on because all faiths are alike, right?
With reference to Most Holy Redeemenr of San Francisco, this parish was allowed to remain a Homosexual parish by San Francisco’s Archbishop Quinn. He sanctioned the parish while he was living with a parterned homosexual at the Chancery. He resigned under the false pretense of a nervous breakdown. See how the evil and devious Satan works. Of course, Archbishop Quinn was discovered living in pari delicto; sent to St. Patrick’s Seminary where his living with his homsexual partner became such a scandal that he and his partner were kicked out.
Innominato– Please provide a reliable source, for your information on Abp. Quinn! I thought he at first tried to uphold the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, in the Archdiocese, but found a great deal of resistance– and he received death threats, from a gay lobby! Next, I thought he had a nervous breakdown, because of the scary death threats– and went to an East Coast sanitarium, to recover! I did not know he himself was not only a homosexual– but also had a gay lover! Please provide for us a good and reliable source, to read the correct information! He also is not a good, traditional Catholic, and I never agreed with his beliefs on the Papacy, which he wrote in his book.
Cannot reveal the names of my sources with first han knowledge! By the way they are faithful priests. “Scarry death threats,” Satan at work again.
That Archbishop Quinn is gay is something every priest ordained over a dozen years in Northern California knows. That Msgr. M was his gay lover I consider an unsubstantiated rumor. It is almost too grotesque to think about!
That Archbishop Quinn is gay is precisely why those priests within his diocese who were abusing children were not removed, punished, defrocked, etc.
And, yes, grotesque is the word. One reason why many young people who would otherwise have spoken up kept their mouths shut. Parents would be too horrified to believe it possible.
If Archbishop Quinn is gay, it would not be is not a big surprise. That he has/had a lover is not really believable. Back when he was the ordinary, I had my own sources who I’m pretty sure would have known.
Two things make your story ring not true: One: the Archbishops’s residence is not the chancery. The chancery are Archdiocesan offices. Secondly, the Archbishop took a leave of absence for undisclosed reasons – but a nervous breakdown might have been the cause. He did not, however, resign at that time.
Well, what do you think Homosexuals do to each other? The Center for Disease Control states that 80% to 83% of the following cases reported in the U.S. occur in homosexuals: bacterial meningitis transmitted by oral fluids; ocular syphylis (figure that one out); gonorrehea, syphylis, chlamydia cancer of the oral cavity, penis, rectum; etc. Just to name a few. In order to defeat Satan, one must expose the evil of Homosexuality supported by Catholics or non-Catholics. There is no such thing as “I am a Gay Catholic.”
Is this why Good Pope Benedict (living saint) said (paraphrasing) , ‘Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves”?
I doubt good Pope Benedict is so naive. Supposedly there have been gays in the Vatican since the place opened. I’m confident der Panzer Kardinal knew who was who.
i believe that good pope benedict is telling the truth and is not naive . the judas factor always lurks close at hand in christianity. as a holy man, pope benedict lived and breathed theology, study and prayer. part of his ‘downfall’, it seems, is that he was not attuned to the machinations that swirled around him.
Ladies and Gentleman, our world is at breaking point, please take a look over at Breitbart.com and see for yourselves what ISLAM is doing this Ramadan in Raqqa their capital in Syria, please take note these are VERY VERY GRAPHIC but to see them you will understand what ISLAM is and what were are up against. The man in the White House is a TRAITOR and must be prosecuted.
The pictures are graphic and disturbing, Janek. We are indeed in a world of mess. For some prospective, however, remember the work of the Knights of Malta when they went into Jerusalem and killed all the Moors and Jews. All in the name of religion. Remember the Inquisition and the torture of non-believers. No excuse for that behavior then or the behavior of today, but remember it was and is all in the name of God and religion. We, us, our leaders, have got to find a way to broker peace in the world. Killing everyone can’t be the only solution.
For some perspective, Bob One, you should read the Koran and then read the Gospel. There are those who act falsely in the name of religion to kill. And there are those who follow what their holy book says and DO kill as it directs.
Blanketing history in some politically correct stew pot of “all for God and religion” being bad is not accurate and not helpful to anyone. Least of all those Catholics who stand in need of truthful education about what the Gospel calls for, what Church history really is, and what the Koran teaches its adherents.
And while we pray for peace. Killing the Truth is not the solution.
Thank you, Janek, for your attempts to educate people to the truth. The graphic truth about that which they would shun, much like many were likely turned off by a scourged and bloody Christ. They want a clean and antiseptic Utopia that doesn’t exist – anywhere.
Pray God, those of the Left who actually have some shred of love for their children will engage the senses God gave them instead of perpetually looking to others to tell them it’s all okay when it isn’t.
It’s no proof of Faith to cancel one’s flood insurance when folks are jet skiing down the street.
J, Yet another article this week, re: the Muslim & problems BUT these are here in the USA. Have you seen this? Article @ http://www.wnd.com titled: WND EXCLUSIVE: MUSLIM ‘REFUGEES’ THREATEN MINNESOTA COMMUNITY WITH RAPE Local media ignore incident or leave out vital details…..TROUBLING!
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2016/07/muslim-refugees-threaten-minnesota-community-with-rape/#kidffgdX4rWtr0Wu.99
Janek, I did see the pictures over at Breitbart.com and my shock was to say the least overwhelming. Everybody at this site must go to Breitbart.com and see for yourselves what Islam is about what it has in store for ALL unbelievers, yet I still know that the LEFT will call Islam a religion of PEACE, they will never get it until SHARIA takes hold in America and then they will beg for help. Gays, feminists, actors, musicians, atheists, environmentalists, Democrats, please wake up and see who your REAL enemy is, it’s not Christianity.
Jesus does not see anyone as a “label.” He sees their soul, which is made in the Image of God– and that is all! All mankind has fallen into sin, and Christ died on His Cross, to free us all from sin. When He saw the poor sinner caught in adultery, and the people stoning her, He said, “Whoever is without sin, may cast the first stone.” He then set the woman free, telling her to “go and sin no more.” Jesus wants to show us how to get our lives right with God, so we can go to Heaven! That includes those suffering with SSA. In Heaven, there will be no illnesses, no disorders, no disabilities, no problems– only eternal Love and Joy! This Vatican “gay lobby” is wasting their time on earth! They need CHRIST!!
I once knew of a successful man, who had a heart attack, and went to the hospital. The doctor told him, he must change his life, or risk death! He now must start a near-vegetarian diet, no smoking or drinking, and an exercise and relaxation regimen. The man replied, “Impossible!” But his wife immediately told the doctor, she would help him “follow doctor’s orders.” And she did! That is just what the people afflicted with SSA, in the “Vatican Gay Lobby” need– an “Rx” from the Church to “follow Christ’s orders,” and the help to do so– they need a “Courage” chapter, in the Vatican! So, where is it??
Linda, your sound advice for this Rx is not the politically correct solution in todays’s church wounded by political correctness. Peter was not politically correct and was crucified upside down. Neither was Paul who as beheaded, etc., nor the early martyrs. Too many of us Catholics wish to be praised and liked to the detriment of souls which stay wounded instead of being healed by Jesus. Pray for our leaders and for the whole church, and speak the truth of Jesus in kindness for healing for everyone with any tendency to sin.
Courage chapters are very very secretive. It is probably the only group in the parish that doesn’t publicise when and where it meets. Why are they in the closet?
Need a Catholic resource? A wonderful site for all things truly Catholic is: https://www.magiscenter.com Just watched ‘Fr. Robert Spitzer’s Universe’ on EWTN. It is on every Wednesday @ 11am PT. You may remember Fr. Spitzer from Gonzoga University where he used to be president. He has been afflicted with blindness but boy that has not stopped him. He is determined to bring souls to God. He explains the miracle of God’s universe in easy to understand terms. He has books re: secret of happiness. You will not regret visiting this site or watching him on EWTN. He is an inspiration & a good priest. Praise God for all his work. Let’s all pray for a miracle healing for Fr. Spitzer, should it be God’s holy will.
A good Catholic prelate speaking the truth. Article dated July 6th, 2016: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput issued a new set of pastoral guidelines on Friday in which he says that Catholics who are divorced and remarried, cohabitating and unmarried, or in a same-sex partnership must “refrain from sexual intimacy” to participate in Holy Communion. @ https://www.pennlive.com/news/ by Lizzy Hardison. GOD BLESS Archbishop Chaput for being such a good shepherd & so concerned (to issue a pastoral guideline) and for clarity. (Looks like he isn’t willing to go to hell for anyone.)