The following comes from a January 11 Catholic Education Daily article by Kimberly Scharfenberger:
Catholic schools have “an obligation” to terminate employees who actively oppose Church teaching and whose conduct “undermines the Church’s ability to fulfill her mission,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., recently wrote in a blog post addressing the firing of a Church employee found to be in a same-sex marriage.
“The purpose of our parishes, schools, ministries and other Catholic entities — ‘and the task of those who work for them — is to lead people to Jesus,’” explained Cardinal Wuerl, citing his May 2015 pastoral letter Being Catholic Today: Catholic Identity in an Age of Challenge.
In his blog post, Cardinal Wuerl responded to a recent employment issue at a parish in Germantown, Maryland, where a music minister was terminated after his same-sex marriage was discovered by the pastor. The termination prompted an organized protest from Dignity USA, a dissident group of LGBT Catholics, which cited the incident as a form of discrimination.
However, Cardinal Wuerl noted that the parish’s decision is not discrimination, but is an example of safeguarding the Catholic mission of religious institutions.
“[I]f one persists or effectively insists that they are right and the Church is wrong, in the face of such irreconcilable differences it is not discrimination or punishment to say that continued ministerial service is not possible,” he wrote. “When there is the potential for scandal that might lead people astray regarding the Catholic faith, continued service becomes untenable.”
Cardinal Wuerl emphasized in his recent blog post that when the words or public conduct of a Church employee has “an adverse effect on our mission” the Church “must be free to then take corrective steps,” and “has an obligation in charity and truth to do so.”
Sewage sex is NOT holy. Sewage sex is an affront to God. Sewage sex brought God’s punishment upon Sodom. Under NO circumstances may sewage sex unions be approved. Sewage sex unions should NOT be promoted on Catholic websites. Sewage sex unions should NOT be promoted by Catholic institutions. Churches should NOT be forced to bless sewage sex unions. Businesses should NOT be forced to celebrate sewage sex unions. Keep your sewage sex to YOURSELVES. Leave us alone.
No one is having sex either at the workplace or in the sewage.
YFC… as much as your side denies it…the entire purpose of being gay is gay sex… that is what you people promote and demand.. there are so many perverted gay subcultures that they probably is one that has sex in sewers… if you oppose Church teaching you have no business working for it.. End of Story…
Sewage sex. Do you say that with a lisp too?
Sewage sex refers to people having sex with their partner’s source of sewage emissions, thereby contaminating themselves with untreated sewage. The imbibers in sewage sex are not satisfied with containing their sickening behavior to the privacy of their bedrooms. They push for legal recognition of unions that are consummated with sewage sex, thereby making their sewage sex other people’s business. They use lawsuits and anti-discrimination laws to force others to bake wedding cakes to celebrate their sewage sex unions and to force churches to bless their septic unions. They are not willing to leave other people alone and keep their sewage sex to themselves. They try to drag as many people as they can into the sewer with them.
“an obligation in charity and truth to do so.”
We’ll Said – and Echoing Arch Bishop Cordileone, who has taken little save flack from the Gaystapo Thought Police (in and out of the Church) who want to enforce their pander or perish pogrom BAMN – By Any Means Necessary.
It is also known as ‘sneaking the camel’s nose under the tent” – which is a small step, but leads inevitably with a big tent – where Anti-Catholic ‘professional camels / bureaucrats’ become the ones in charge; living off the Church payroll while simultaneously trashing the same Church and Parishioners who support their wages…
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and the attendant ‘benefits’ to the Catholic culture are obtained without even asking for them – let alone needing them.
Well, Duh. Seems silly that the bishops should have to spell this out.
Pander or Perish – Says the ‘tolerance’ Gaystapo:
“New York court rules farm owners broke law when they refused to host lesbian wedding
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/15/new-york-court-rules-farm-owners-broke-law-when-refused-to-host-lesbian-wedding.html?intcmp=hplnws
Robert and Cynthia Gifford cited their conservative Christian beliefs in refusing to hose the 2013 wedding of Melisa and Jennie McCarthy at Liberty Ridge Farm, north of Albany.
They appealed a ruling from the state’s Division of Human Rights, asserting their rights to free speech and religious exerices, but the appealed failed and they were fined $13,000.
The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court said the Giffords are free to express their religious…
When one enters the secular marketplace, i believe they implicitly agree to serve ALL the others in the marketplace. Otherwise, I’m sure there are still a few who would refuse service based on race, ethnic origin, or other reasons.
On the other hand, I wonder why the customer doesn’t go down the street to another service provider.
“Sewage Sex.” Now, there’s a new one. I just gotta work that expression into my conversations. I’ll be a real hit at cocktail parties. Maybe it will be included in the next edition of “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”
No doubt everyone will think very highly of you . . . .
MM – You are incorrect. The ‘Marketplace’ does not require Bakers to put Swastikas or other Hate Symbols on their wares.
This is About Making Certain kinds of ‘free speech’ – Mandatory, and prohibiting Opposing Views.
These people Sell Food – Not Ideology, and when the ‘customer’ isn’t interested in the Food but rather Forcing Mandatory Pandering to a Hateful and Depraved Political Agenda, then the Citizen has a Right Not to Speak.
Unless of course Any Business (like Apple of Paypal, run by Homosex Activists) can be Forced to Endorse Any Viewpoints- even those they find unacceptable, if not illegal.
Why does Cardinal Wuerl feel obligated to explain anything here, particularly in so blatant a case?
He should take the advice of Tuco (Eli Wallach) in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: “When you have to shoot, shoot! Don’t talk.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cu8iwru-Q4
Shorter version:
When I was growing up, the virtue of chastity was an absolute! Chastity is a very important virtue, for all who follow Christ! The Church must teach the Faith and Morals of Christ to all, and re-establish a very excellent Catechism program, worldwide! Everyone in the Church should know, and practice, the Catholic Faith well! It is a great gift, and our pathway to Heaven, for which Christ came to Earth, taught us all, and gave His life for! All Church employees should be good, devout, practicing Catholics, or else they are NOT ELIGIBLE, for employment!
When someone finds the term sewage sex to be revolting, that can be the first step towards recognizing that what society is being asked to formally endorse is revolting. I find it to be misleading to use nice and pretty language to describe something that is stinky and yucky and that sane people are disgusted by. So perhaps if the term sewage sex is not something that should be mentioned at cocktail parties, acceptance of the disgusting reality that the term represents should not be mandated by a civilized society and people should not be coerced into producing speech that promotes that disgusting reality.
Then don’t do it.
I am more than happy to refuse to participate in the celebration of sewage sex unions. The promoters of sewage sex unions are not willing to live and let live and go shop at another store. Against the First Amendment and with government backing, they retaliate against businesses that refuse to produce the speech that they mandate. In a country that has freedom of speech, people are not forced to speak in a manner that goes against their beliefs. Apparently, we don’t have freedom of speech anymore. We are being governed by homo-nazis. ( No offense to Nazis. )
Anon… you and your perverted crowd demand us normal people to accept it… where ever gays go they undermine and destroy the culture….
Canisius, I don’t have a perverted crowd.
I ain’t gay and I don’t undermine and destroy the culture..unless it is the culture of indecency, the culture of death or the culture of modernism.
Then quit defending them Anon….
I din’t.
Anonymous, you is to.
SkiVen, you do not have the power to make me gay. Nor do I care if your pride needs to think I am gay. maybe you should get your mind off these things that are beneath the calling of a Christian.
Are you saying that I should not be opposed to the toiletization of marriage by a powerful political lobby?
YFC’s cultural and historical revisionism implies that Michaelangelo was homosexual when there is no proof of it… sorry YFC…your crowd corrupts
Ski Ven, no, I am saying that you bore false witness against me. I assume you did it because you think too much about certain sins. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Same sex marriages, whether they involve anal sex or not, are not recognized by the Church, although they are now recognized by the US government and the states in the US. If you want to be opposed to that, it’s fine. But the terms you use seem immature and ignorant. Anal sex is not the reason the Church opposes same sex marriage.
Thinking about certain sins is a process that begins with others making demands upon society to glamorize those sins. Therefore, the thought process does not begin with me. The thought process begins with others who will not leave the rest of us alone. I am not the one who is causing the problem. Stop trying to pin the blame on me. If you are so worried about bearing false witness, then take a look in the mirror. By the way, God is opposed to sewage sex. It is in the Bible. It is reasonable to oppose something that is so nasty. It is reasonable to oppose unions that can only be consummated with sewage sex. Sewage sex is so disgusting that many people don’t want to talk about it. Why should we support those kinds of unions?
I am sorry If I bore false witness. You can let me know how.
Well, gays make the culture better, if that’s what you’re trying
to say . . .
Not at all gays corrupt ever culture that they have been “liberated” in… your crowd reduces culture to a perverted sexual act…
Sorry Canisius, Who did you say painted the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel?
Canisius say: “Not at all gays corrupt ever culture that they have been “liberated” in… your crowd reduces culture to a perverted sexual act…”
Many altar boys have first hand experience with the way homosexuals corrupted the Priesthood.
The Catholic Church NEVER “discriminated” against homosexuals. The Lavender Mafia within the Church used/uses this strategically tactical word ploy to undermine Church teaching and the world simply followed/follows suit. The original Jon Jay report and Father Dariusz Oko’s report on the “Dark side of the homolobby within the Church’ confirms this cancerous network that still seeks to liberate evil acts by calling them “gifts’. Shame on any Church leader who fell into the jaws of these clever language traps that erroneously gave such a great foothold to the diabolical notion of same sex marriage. Instead of TRUTH, our lead shepherds still use language that placates men. As the compromised Church leaders go..the world goes.
“However, Cardinal Wuerl noted that the parish’s decision is not discrimination, but is an example of “safeguarding” the Catholic mission of “religious institutions”.
Consistency in words and actions were hallmark traits of the saints. Father Guarnizo was unjustly discriminated against by the Archdiocese of Washington simply for being completely faithful by “safeguarding the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament”. Mixed messages cause confusion. Many of our shepherds only fear the loss of respect from fellow men rather than show a consistency in their love for Christ’s Real Presence. Like Peter, who denied knowing Christ, a day will come where these shepherds will weep at their lack of courage.
The American Spectator: CARDINAL WUERL.S DERELICTION OF DUTY continues……….
https://spectator.org/articles/35857/cardinal-wuerls-dereliction-duty
“The notion that bishops aren’t gatekeepers would come as a surprise to the Church’s first ones. The apostles were told by Jesus Christ that the good shepherd watches the gate, lest his flock be eaten. “Do not give what is holy to dogs,” Jesus warned them.”