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Posted on 03/13/2014 12:18:19 PM PDT by ebb tide
Yesterday, the Archbishop of Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) received a group of religion journalists for his annual chat, and the talk was moderated by a famous Vaticanist in Italian public television and radio network RAI, Raffaele Luise.
The evening concluded with a debate in depth on the matter of homosexuality. Both Luise and the archbishop praise, in substance, the opening of the Church regarding gays and de facto couples. Particularly for Luise, it is necessary on this theme, "a cultural revolution, that contemplates the fact that homosexuality is not a deviancy, but a human attitude, and not just that, considering that almost 500 natural species display homosexuality." "The new paradigm - says bishop Castellani - is that every diversity is richness. In my life as a parish priest, I saw and lived so many situations [and he describes a few]; and I am convinced that the time has come for Christians to open up to diversity."
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I love how these guys bastardize the Catholic Faith. We can’t excommunicate the whole lot of them and start fresh, but I have no doubt that eventually God will clean house.
What continues to happen to the Church is disgusting.
And hamsters eat their young. What's his point?
Yep. It certainly looks the other way when prominent members of it espouse abortion and homosexual "marriage."
You mean “coming out”. heh
Bravo!
About 56 of the Old World species and 3 of the New World species (Pheasant, Pavonine, and Striped) are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.[14] These species are obligate brood parasites, meaning that they only reproduce in this fashion. In addition to the above noted species, yet others sometimes engage in non-obligate brood parasitism, laying their eggs in the nests of members of their own species in addition to raising their own young. The best-known example is the European Common Cuckoo. The shells of the eggs of brood-parasites are usually thick.[16] They have two distinct layers with an outer chalky layer that is believed to provide resistance to cracking when the eggs are dropped in the host nest.[17] The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host's, and the cuckoo chick grows faster; in most cases the chick evicts the eggs or young of the host species. The chick has no time to learn this behavior, so it must be an instinct passed on genetically. The chick encourages the host to keep pace with its high growth rate with its rapid begging call[18] and the chick's open mouth which serves as a sign stimulus.[19] Cuckoos have evolved various strategies for getting their egg into a host nest. Different species use different strategies based on host defensive strategies. Female cuckoos have evolved secretive and fast laying behaviors, but in some cases, males have been shown to lure host adults away from their nests so that the female can lay her egg in the nest.[20] Some host species may try to directly prevent cuckoos laying eggs in their nest in the first place – birds whose nests are at high risk of cuckoo-contamination are known to mob cuckoos to drive them out of the area.[21] Parasitic cuckoos are grouped into gentes, with each gens specializing in a particular host. There is some evidence that the gentes are genetically different from one another.
And the cuckoos have been laying eggs in the Catholic Church for hundreds of years. But when Pope John XXIII opened the windows, thousands of more cuckoos flew in to open arms at St Peter's.
Here’s an alternative plan. Create a cloistered religious order specifically for homosexuals. When not sodomizing each other, they can seek spiritual guidance in prayer to overcome their earthly compulsions, without annoying everybody else.
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But they could be excommunicated in an instant; if we had an orthodox Pope.
“...considering that almost 500 natural species display homosexuality.”
And not one of them has an immortal soul other than man. Somebody better re-catechize this priest because the alternative is pretty scary.
How many more are infected.
A hybrid has apparently evolved - the Common-Cuckoo-Parrot. A specimen recently spotted in NY has been overheard emoting a variant of the "who am I to judge" bird call.
OK, you guys cut it out. I’m LMAO over here and I cant get my work done.
Mario Palmaro (R.I.P.)
Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis:
Requiescant in pace.
Amen
He's not only a priest, he's an archbishop and the scariest thing is that he won't be reprimanded.
But, “who are we to judge?”
Exactly. The exact opposite position was stated in Italian. /sarc
Last I checked, the Lord placed humans on this earth to exercise dominion over the other species, not emulate them.
Indeed, while due to the Fall, "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." (Romans 8:22)
Perhaps man should imitate species which sometimes consume their mate or offspring. Or be like bedbugs, in which the male sometimes hypodermically copulates with both females and males, and lives on blood.
Proud students in a geography class at a Catholic school. Francis should be proud of both them and the faculty.
Another egg of the Cuckoo Bird has hatched!
Francis needs to slap adherents to this tripe so hard that their teeth fall out...and soon, too, before his silence convinces everyone that he agrees.
The Catholic clergy is starting to come out of the closet...
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