Wow.

The Pope needs to do something about this guy, pronto.

Rorate Caeli has a translation of an interview with Portuguese Bishop Januário Torgal Ferreira.

He makes many outrageous statements in this interview, but none more so than his endorsement of gay sex referring to it as the “psychic-affective fusion of mysterious unity.”

The Church welcomes homosexuals, in fact. As long as they do not practice their homosexuality…

It is certain that a homosexual couple is not theoretical, isn’t it? And affections are translated through this practice, through this psychic-affective fusion of mysterious unity that is the human being.

The Church must understand this?

Understand it must. But not sanctify it – because love is, for the Church, a sacrament, matrimony. This is a very complex matter, which must be very well understood. And no institution may say that it accepts it or does not accept it. Each case is a [particular] case.

He then goes on to defend contraception.

And from within the Church?

I have been warned once or twice.

Regarding what?

Family planning, for instance. But I still keep thinking what I thought before, and to say what I said before. Which proves that, from my part, that is not any hostility at all. There is a great communion, and love for the Church, and I am convinced, by my pastoral experience, that that which I defend will soon be a reality. I do not accept the dogmatism of natural methods. People often do not wish to be realistic. But what matters most is that there continues to be a great dialogue, because truth is never possessed in full.

Calling the CDF, Calling the CDF…. Come in CDF….