A Catholic priest in Minnesota announced that he’s ready to bless homosexual partners and repudiated the Church for its teaching of sexual oppression. We all know that chastity is the same as oppression. The two words are practically interchangeable.
It will be interesting to see what the bishop does. I hope we don’t have to wait long.
This from Lifesite.net
St. Francis Cabrini church, of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, has announced on their website that they are ready to “bless” homosexual partners.
The parish has published a “Statement of Reconciliation” repudiating the Church for its teaching on sexual purity and married chastity and misrepresenting these teachings as a form of “oppression.” The statement said the parish will “Publicly bless the relationships of a same sex couple after the couple completes a process of discernment similar to that completed by heterosexual couples before marriage.”
The parish statement goes on to pledge that it will publish in the homosexual press their commitment to the homosexual activist agenda and to including “a gay/lesbian perspective in catechesis at all levels, including elementary school age.” The parish currently runs catechesis programmes for children from ages three and up.
November 29, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I considered emailing the bishop on this, and I’m glad that the article listed the name/address/email of the Bishop to do so.
But, I didn’t think I had the lucidity to craft soemthing non-caustic. I hope other readers do.
This is one of the great thing about the Catholic blogosphere. It reminds me of ten years ago in the secular world when sites like Drudgereport, et.al. came out and stories that would have been “spiked” (a’la Clinton/Lewinsky), or stories that were untrue (a’la Dan Rather/George Bush National Guard) came to a grinding hault.
So too, I see with Catholic Blogging the same thing. There is an old Siberian saying …”God is high above, and the Czar is far away. I don’t think this is true anymore.
No more can clerics (and others) apostasize in their remote little backwaters with impunity. The web has made the world a very small place indeed.
If there only was a Web in 1517, perhaps an obsscure Augustinian Monk in Saxony could have been nipped in the bud…