….The Final Report of Study Group 9 announces that it has deliberately replaced the term “controversial issues” with “emerging issues.” The justification offered is telling: “controversial issues” implies the need for “problem-solving,” while “emerging issues” supposedly honors “the holistic nature of the commitment concerning the whole of the ecclesial community.” What this reformulation actually accomplishes is the removal of the word “controversial,” and its replacement with a term that frames received moral teaching as merely one moment in an “emerging” process whose terminus has not yet been identified….
The importation of the acronym “LGBTQ” into the Report’s framing (appearing in the Report’s analysis of the testimonies) is another instance of this newspeak. This is not merely a shorthand; it is a category drawn wholesale from secular activist discourse, carrying within it a set of anthropological assumptions about the nature and fixity of sexual identity that are foreign to Catholic moral anthropology….
Its use of T-“transgender” imports a contested theory of the relationship between bodily sex and personal identity that the Church has explicitly addressed and declined to endorse….
Both of the testimonies included as Annexes, the sole human voices on which the analysis of homosexuality is built, come from men currently living in same-sex civil marriages. The Report describes their testimony as evidence of “experiences of goodness” and a “journey of faith.”
Nowhere in the document is there a testimony from one of the many Catholics who have lived chastely with same-sex attraction and found therein fulfillment, spiritual depth, and peace. Nowhere is there a voice from the thousands of men and women who have participated in Courage and its affiliated apostolates and discovered that the Church’s teaching, far from being a death sentence, opened onto a freedom and an intimacy with Christ that they had not previously known. Nowhere is there a witness from someone who tried the path of acting on same-sex attraction, found it spiritually costly, and turned back. The “listening” the Report performs is attuned only to one particular register of human “lived experience….”
From a member of Courage writing in Catholic World Report
Our Lady of Fatima quite strongly stated that more
people go to Hell for sins of the flesh than any other sin. If this is not controversial I don’t what is. These woke Bishops are responsible for telling their flock the truth of the Gospel not just a lot more goobilly gook! Our Lady of Fatima pray for these Bishops and the Church.
Reply to Restrainer: Rome caves to China from The Catholic Thing: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/07/24/rome-caves-to-china-cardinal-warns-of-apocalyptic-beasts-rupnik-off-the-hook/?utm_source=The+Catholic+Thing+Daily&utm_campaign=ab9b976233-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_07_01_02_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_769a14e16a-ab9b976233-619807517&mc_cid=ab9b976233&mc_eid=2304581108
I’m almost at the point where I’ve given up on present church leadership. That means, in clearer terms, I don’t trust the pope or the bishops. I fulfill my Sunday obligation. That’s about all I can stand in my diocese right now. Even that involves a lot of suffering and eye rolling. I’m glad when Mass is over.
Those people look like cardboard cutouts that were placed in front of a background.
“Those people look like cardboard cutouts
that were placed in front of a background.”
That’s because the picture was taken at the
back lot of Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank.
No it wasn’t lying is a sin
If an issue is emerging, normal parlance implies the issue represents a scratch that must be itched, that is, an important matter requiring attention by duly constituted authority. There is no requirement for the issue to be in any way controversial–only that it represent a growing concern that must be addressed. In an incredible sleight of hand the authors have turned Catholic moral discussion 180 degrees around to attempt to affirm the most basic negations of the Natural/Moral Law. The gift of the Francis pontificate keeps on giving.
Yes, now let’s see what Leo’s gift will be.
Be sure to click on the link to the full article on CWR. There’s 10 more short paragraphs that aren’t shown here.