Posted on 05/19/2012 6:41:37 AM PDT by cleghornboy
Apostasy
The school officials are as insane as the general queer population.
I checked both the Wiki and the school’s own website. Despite being originally founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the has (apparently) been no ordered faculty since 1990.
All principals and assistants listed since that time are lay people.
It states exactly what is the teaching of the Church on matters, such as homosexuality.
Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
Catechism of The Catholic Church 2357-2359 (Emphasis Added)
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So as Catholics we are called to recognize that homosexuality is a grave depravity, but we must treat those that are afflicted with homosexuality with respect, compassion and sensitivity.
The call to treat all peoples "with the dignity and respect deserving of all God's people." is absolutely correct. It is certainly not a call to apostasy, heresy or making Christ to be some sort of "Moronic Hippy".
I would argue that in his zeal to advance a point, the author fails to include the full position of the Church.
Finally someone who has their head screwed on right. This is pervasive in all churches.
I do not see a call to chastity from St. Mary’s High School. Only a call to “Gay Pride.”
False compassion is not a virtue.
Pope Saint Pius X, in his 1910 Catechism, teaches us that sodomy ranks second in gravity to voluntary homicide, among the sins that “cry out to God for vengeance.” According to this Catechism, these sins “are said to cry out to God because the Holy Spirit says so and because their iniquity is so grave and manifest that it provokes God to punish with more severe chastisements.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church published by the Vatican in 1994 teaches clearly that homosexuality is contrary to nature and that homosexual acts are among the “sins gravely contrary to chastity.” (CCC, 2396). This Catechism teaches that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered,” “contrary to the natural law,” and that “under no circumstances can they be approved.” (CCC, 2357).
St. Mary’s High School is attempting to convince others that Christian “compassion” for homosexual persons should leave such individuals comfortable in their sin.
Now while it is true that everything must be done to help sinners, this cannot include helping them to sin or to remain in sin. Because of human frailty, every sinner deserves both pity and compassion. However, vice and sin must be excluded from this compassion. This because sin can never be the proper object of compassion. (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 30, a.1, ad 1).
It is a false compassion which supplies the sinner with the means to remain attached to sin. Such “compassion” provides an assistance (whether material or moral) which actually enables the sinner to remain firmly attached to his evil ways. By contrast, true compassion leads the sinner away from vice and back to virtue. As Thomas Aquinas explains:
“We love sinners out of charity, not so as to will what they will, or to rejoice in what gives them joy, but so as to make them will what we will, and rejoice in what rejoices us. Hence it is written: ‘They shall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.’” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 25, a.6, ad 4, citing Jeremiah 15:19).
St. Thomas Aquinas teaches us that the sentiment of compassion only becomes a virtue when it is guided by reason, since “it is essential to human virtue that the movements of the soul should be regulated by reason.” (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 30, c.3). Without such regulation, compassion is merely a passion. A false compassion is a compassion not regulated and tempered by reason and is, therefore, a potentially dangerous inclination. This because it is subject to favoring not only that which is good but also that which is evil (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 30, a.1, ad 3).
An authentic compassion always stems from charity. True compassion is an effect of charity (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 30, a.3, ad 3). But it must be remembered that the object of this virtue is God, whose love extends to His creatures. (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 25, a.3). Therefore, the virtue of compassion seeks to bring God to the one who suffers so that he may thereby participate in the infinite love of God. As St. Augustine explains:
“’Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’ Now, you love yourself suitably when you love God better than yourself. What, then, you aim at in yourself you must aim at in your neighbor, namely, that he may love God with a perfect affection.” (St. Augustine, Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, No. 49, which may be found here: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1401.htm).
"A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospels call...A preaching that awakens, a preaching that enlightens - as when a light turned on awakens and of course annoys a sleeper - that is the preaching of Christ, calling: Wake up! Be converted! That is the Church's authentic preaching."
The man who said that, Oscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, is almost universally admired on the Left. Good. His words should be particularly hard for them to ignore.
Pride and Respect? I thought they would have preferred Joy.
Did they forget the story from the Gospel of John?
Christ is saying “You must eat my flesh and drink my blood, or you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
And some followers said, “This is a hard saying,” and they left.
Christ let them leave. He did not chase after them and say I was only speaking symbolically. Jesus meant what he said — eat his flesh and drink his blood in the Eucharist. He let theym go.
All the stories of him talking with the Pharisees about their laws also prove that Christ was not inclusive. He tried to explain, but their hearts were heardened — he let them go.
• “And then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Messiah’; or, ‘Behold, He is there’; do not believe him; for false Messiahs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect. “But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.” (Mark 13:21-23)
The “Jesus” they serve is one they made up and not the one found in sacred scripture. In other words, it’s called idolatry.
Your header is a tad deceptive IMHO.
One of the best lines in the bible.
“But take ye heed; behold, I have foretold you all things.” (Mark 13:23)
I don’t think translation was necessary.
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica
.it/articolo/1350247?eng=y
Are you the Paul Melanson who authored this piece?
I visited your home page.
“Born in Bitburg, Germany, Paul Melanson is a Catholic lay-philosopher and apologist whose work has appeared in many publications and websites including The Union Leader, The Wanderer, Seattle Catholic, Newsblaze, Helium, and Amazines. He has been interviewed by The National Catholic Register, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the television newsmagazine Chronicle.”
So...you are a Catholic lay-philosopher and apologist? An apologist for the Catholic church?
That group of publications is not conservative and, in fact, might be subversive, especially the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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