This was unworthy of journalism...
It's been a few weeks since I did this...
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a policy that persists even though the representation of gay men in the priesthood is higher, probably far higher, than in the general population.
Anonymous statistica.. Always fun...
Certain parties no doubt enjoy the insinuation..
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The relevant catechism about sexuality does not condemn people with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies,” just those who act on those tendencies.
This will be important in a minute...
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But I wondered how the church’s policy on homosexuality affects men and women, as well as boys and girls, who are not priests.
The same way it affects anyone who is not a priest...
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The gay priest is required, generally, to uphold the official teaching of his church and of his superiors, making him a collaborator in the suppression of his gay brothers and sisters outside the clergy.
As are straight priests...
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In this way, without intending to, the victimized become victimizers.
How is making a decision of one's own free will equatable to being victimized?
Or victimizing others?
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If a penitent confesses homosexual activity to a gay priest, does the priest channel God’s forgiveness of a sin that he does not himself consider a sin?
The priest does consider it a sin...
How else could he become a priest?
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This is just one of the many ways in which we Catholics, if we refrain from criticizing this particular stance of our church, contribute to the persecution of the L***Q community.
The free will of priests contributes to the persecution of the L***Q community how?
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The deepest irony is that a priest who is required to go against his nature is told that he must do this because of “natural law.” The church’s quaint theory of natural law is that the first biological use of an activity is the only permissible use of that activity. If the biological use of sex is for procreation, any other use is “against nature.”
Would that include Communion?
Strange premise...
Doubt it is true...
The elderly are still encouraged to enjoy marital congress...
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If every other use of nutrition is against nature, then any diet beyond what is consumed for life-maintenance is a sin — in other words, no wedding cakes, no champagne toasts.
I***tic premise... Christ attended weddings and gave toasts...
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Given the stakes in these and other matters, the ban on gay sex involves a larger “church teaching” than the single matter of homosexuality.
Priests and bishops who cover up male homosexuality are prone to a mutual blackmail with those who commit and conceal heterosexual acts by the clergy
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What? The statement makes no sense..The Times’s portrait of gay priests was followed by a powerful Feb. 18 article revealing that the church has internal policies for dealing with priests who father children. The Vatican confirmed, apparently for the first time, that a priest with progeny is encouraged to ask for release from his ministry “to assume his responsibilities as a parent by dev****g himself exclusively to the child”
Those bastards...
Suggesting a man set aside the cloth and behave as a father to his child...
If there is one thing we need in society it is fewer Fathers interfering in their chold's life..
Bastards...
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If there are gay nuns — and why would there not be? — that adds another strand to the interweavings of concealment.
Treating men and women as equals Despite their sexual preferences... D********g...
I am really starting to h**e these guys..
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That is the real problem faced this week by Pope Francis and the church leaders he has summoned from around the world for a conference at the Vatican to consider the labyrinthine and long-standing scandals of clerical sex abuse.
No.... The issue is not priests who don't act on their sexual urges... It's priests who betray their calling and victimize their parishioners... And the Church leaders who turn a blind eye to it...
Truly not one of your better posts Bob...