As an alcoholic in recovery (36 years sober) I know that there are sins that exclude us from Communion with the Church. The problem isn’t the Church’s teaching, it’s the “self will run riot” that excludes us when we choose our problem over the solution. I know of two gay folks who come to Mass in our parish. There are probably more, but that’s none of my business unless they are sinning and letting people know that they support sin. Most people in the parish know I am a recovering alcoholic but also know I am not receiving Holy Communion drunk or even with one drink.
Fr. John Higgins 2023/10/06
I too know some good Jesuits. When they are good, they tend to be great.
Dan 2023/10/06
Dylan Mulvaney is an attention-seeking whore. There is a video of him when he was a contestant on the Price is Right show. He was obviously playing gay to the camera.
narcissist 2023/10/06
The author of that book is George Weigel. In his introduction, there is a letter that Mankowski wrote to a young person inquiring about joining the Jesuits in 2004. That is where that quote comes from.
Mankowski letter 2023/10/07
Gays are welcome in the Catholic Church, as you said.
If you feel insecure, just keep going, pray the prayers and if you are baptized, have had your first Communion and are in a state of grace, go to Communion.
welcome 2023/10/07
I lived in the Diocese of San Bernardino for 17-1/2 years. The chancellery was totally closed minded about starting Courage/EnCourage or Eden Invitation in any of the parishes. One time the MFGLC group showed up at our parish, and I took the time to try to promote these faithful Apostolates to them. You could hear a pin drop with their silence.
JS 2023/10/07
Bishop O’Dowd is in Oakland, where it isn’t safe to walk around and businesses have to have generators to provide electricity when PG&E cuts the power. Want to see what “social justice” gets you? Visit Oakland.
Visit Oakland 2023/10/08
This isn’t about crime. And, the penalty is clearly disproportionate. Can you name one CBS or other reporter ever fined for an undercover story? 60 Minutes and Dateline NBC correspondents and Gloria Steinem were praised for their undercover work. Steinem exposed exploitative working conditions in New York’s Playboy Club. She applied for a position at the club under an assumed name, got the job, and spent 11 days as a Playboy Bunny. Her article made her a celebrity and she faced no adverse financial consequences. This is about the abortion industry, not crime. Sandra Merritt and David Daleiden were simply courageous enough to reveal some of the abortion giant’s dirty secrets.
Deacon Craig Anderson 2023/10/09
“Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer” Health? I’ve seen healthier looking cadavers!
Frank N. Stein 2023/10/10
Consider having blood storage on site.
Ambulances do not carry blood.
Children can bleed out in minutes.
blood storage 2023/10/11
Chapp was doing just fine till he blows it invoking Dorothy Day.
Hymie 2023/10/11
How about stopping Hamas and other terrorists at the southern border of the diocese?
Sam Diego 2023/10/11 at 8:07 pm
I’m in favor of banning almost all OCP and GIA music from Mass.
OCP-GIA 2023/10/11 at 9:43 pm
God bless the Ordinariate, and all its faithful. They are one of the greatest legacies of the Pontificate of Benedict XVI. St. John Henry Newman, ora pro nobis. Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear), ora pro nobis.
Pope Adrian IV 2023/10/12
Just this week, border patrol has apprehended two young males from Lebanon trying to enter the US in Texas, and one Egyptian male. Confirmed reports of Syrians attempting to enter as well. Those are the few who were caught. Many more entered undetected.
Jihad in America 2023/10/13
May I ask Fr. Higgins if he is allowed to substitue grape juice for Communion wine? By the way, well done in your 36-years of sobriety.
Actually, there are brands of Altar wine that are approved for use by alcoholics,
It can be purchased at “Monk’s Church Supply”.
Here’s a link to the Dylan Mulvaney Price is Right video. Fair warning. It’s disturbing to anyone who has a correct sense of masculinity and femininity.
https://youtu.be/2tAntcKymE4?si=DHG5fOuWm0r9R075
This was before transitioning. Mulvaney is an actor.
I amend that. Mulvaney is an entertainer.
Does anyone still watch those game shows? I am sure it was set up so he could win and do his “thing”. These shows are as phony as so-called professional wrestling.
I just heard that Dylan Mulvaney (is he going to change to a woman’s name?) is still capable of fathering a child, but Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner is not. What on earth did the doctors do, to mutilate Olympic athlete, Jenner? That’s sick. Guess Mulvaney is next, on the “chopping block.” Do they really chop — everything? Awful. I also heard that Jenner is close to another man who is a transgender “woman,” and the two hope to pay a surrogate mother to give them a child, so they can pretend to be (lesbian-transgenders?) “mothers” together. I think that garbage should all be totally illegal. A child deserves a real woman, a real mother. No lesbian perverts, no sick, delusional, mentally ill people. No sick lesbian sex perversions in the home, with children. Does this mean that the two men, trying to pretend they are women– are actually two gay men, trying to be two lesbian women, together? I think that all of these crazy men need psychiatric help. Castration– and much, much more “chop-chop”– is a horrific thing, for a man– who on earth would ever want such a thing? All of those hormones, drugs, and that “chop-chop” surgery should all be illegal– unless you are dying of a rare disease, and the doctors are trying desperately to save your life! What a horror. Long ago, my paternal grandpa had prostate cancer, as well as another type of cancer– prostate cancer is common in older men. The day the doctors had to emasculate him, at about age 60, to save his life– everyone in my family cried over it, especially my dad– and mourned greatly for him. He only lived a year or so longer, and they had a huge funeral at the church for him, when he died. He was greatly loved.
Francis Cardinal George, of Chicago, a good, well-respected prelate, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006, and doctors had to remove his bladder and prostate, to save his life—- bless him! It must have hurt him greatly, to be emasculated! And he lost two important organs! But his life was saved. Then his cancer returned in 2012, in his liver, and a kidney. He finally died in 2015, after a long struggle with cancer. Catholic teaching is correct. Doctors should only remove bodily parts, if absolutely necessary, to save a patient’s life.
My grandpa died in 1956, before they had a lot of modern medical developments. My dad, when much older, towards life’s end, also got prostate cancer, as well as another type of cancer. But it was all quickly and effectively treated. He finally died after being sick with the flu and respiratory issues, at age 89. And one of his sisters– one of my aunts– lived to almost the date of her 100th birthday! It is possible that many today, may live longer than their predecessors, due to medical progress, as well as wholesome, holistic, dietary and fitness methods.
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In a culture paradoxically suffering from anonymity and at the same time obsessed with the details of other people’s lives, shamelessly given over to morbid curiosity, the Church must look more closely and sympathetically at others whenever necessary. In our world, ordained ministers and other pastoral workers can make present the fragrance of Christ’s closeness and his personal gaze. The Church will have to initiate everyone – priests, religious and laity – into this “art of accompaniment” which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex 3:5). The pace of this accompaniment must be steady and reassuring, reflecting our closeness and our compassionate gaze which also heals, liberates and encourages growth in the Christian life.
Evangelii guadium 169
“The Church will have to initiate everyone – priests, religious and laity – into this “art of accompaniment” which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex 3:5).” I have studied this matter carefully and have determined that Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner is not God.
All the baptized are members of the Mystical Body of Christ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/06/04/i-went-to-church-with-bruce-jenner-heres-what-caitlyn-jenner-taught-me-about-jesus/
Not going to subscribe to read it.
https://www.tumblr.com/jcobia/120611530946/i-went-to-church-with-bruce-jenner-and-heres-what
Same story.
It is horrific that not one of you had the compassion or courage to tell Bruce Jenner that all he was doing was destroying his body, trying to be something he could never be – a woman – even if he really has completed the mutilation. And evidently not one at your “church” members ever heard about the Jesus who flipped over the tables of the moneychangers when they were defrauding the people. Telling others, and especially children, that doctors can actually turn them into the opposite sex is a horrendous table toppling crime.