Kudos to the priest for not letting them get away with politicizing communion. Kudos to the other parishioners for having enough restraint not to beat the crap out of them during the service either.
Why? To make them "feel good" about their immoral lifestyle choice? They are under the curse of God. Maybe if this Archbishop really cared about them he would make sure they understood that.
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homosexuality has to be kept out of the church...
about time...
too bad the Bishops didn't do this years ago - for if they had - all this homosexual stuff in the catholic church would not be happening...
In a survey by a priest of 50 Homosexual Priests, Sipe states "that only 4 were celebate, 10% had more than 10 sexual Partners and 22% had 500 Sexual Partners or more".
Are We to presume that it is OK for these Homosexual priests to be on the Alter celebrating Mass with all that is implied.
Our whole idea of right and wrong is upside down.
No one Knows who of these people are celebate and who are not, unless major changes are made, the Church is in for a long Dark period.
How can any Homosexuals be allowed to be Priests much less 50% of the total.
Hypocrisy at it's finest.The Church has active homosexuals and child abusers not only taking communion but "consecrating "the common wafer....and those Bishops know it..
The perverts can consecrate it but unless they are ordained they can not take it...unbelievable
They need to deal honestly with the issue within the ranks of priests before they can honestly make a public statement like above...IMHO
Since the top of the Church's org. chart is G-d, I don't think there is any confusion in the hierarchy. There may be confusion in the ranks, but it would be a good idea if the ranks would get it straight, as the CEO has a habit of being very harsh with those who are supposed to know better.
I'm not a Catholic theologan, but I would be very, very, very careful before giving any holy sacrament to anyone who had openly rejected a relationship with G-d. I don't think G-d would punish the petitioner, but the giver of the sacrament might want to be standing near a lightning rod.
Shalom.
He charged that the current child-sex abuse scandal in the church in the U.S. and elsewhere was the result of the church hierarchy's refusal to bring matters of sexuality out into the open.
The RSM would continue to campaign to be allowed to participate fully and openly in the life of the church, Kelly said. Homosexuals had been involved in the church for centuries, he added, but their participation had taken place under a "code of silence and invisibility."
This is funny, pathetic and tragic.
There is nothing sacred about their "DEPRAVED SEX ACTS". Their behavior is contrary to the natural law. If you refuse to accept Roman Catholic moral theology then go to the Episcopal church. They are embracing all of you. And take all our liberal priests and bishops with you.
I really wish he'd come to America -- and stay.
Now, let's get some of these type of priests on the U.S., particularly in the dioceses of Kennedy, Daschle, Leahy, and the rest of the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite legislators.
"Although human weakness is universal and God's mercy infinite, the path to happiness and heaven for a Catholic does not lie in seeking to re-interpret what is right and wrong," [Archbishop George Pell] said. "Rather, one should commit oneself, in good faith, to the church and its teachings and work towards following these teachings as closely as possible."Major bump for the Aussie bishop!!! God bless you, Archbishop Pell!
This last part should have read, "...that we've chosen to impose on ourselves by rejecting the teachings of the Church."
..the group had donned their sashes during the introductory hymn, as a symbol of their desire to "embrace our sexuality as a sacred gift."
Sacred gift? You mean the one that God called an abomination?
The bishop had not offered them a blessing either. If he had done so, it would have been seen as a "token gesture," Kelly said, but nonetheless one that would have said to the group: "We don't completely reject you."
He clearly said that it was their sin, the very one they were choosing to celebrate, that he was rejecting.
Any Catholic who publicly defined himself as "supporting or practicing activities contrary to church teaching in a serious matter is not entitled to receive Holy Communion." The same would apply to a married person living in adultery, [Bishop Pell] added.
The church could use about a thousand more like Bishop Pell.