Pontifical Family Council President: "World Family Meeting in Philly open to homosexual couples."

Rorate Caeli ^ | 07-02-2015 | Rorate Caeli

[markomalley]

And as for the rainbow flag --- Archbishop Chaput would tear it doen personally.

Morning!

Archbishop Chaput's statement was:

"We don't want to provide a platform at the meeting for people to lobby for positions contrary to the life of our Church,"

Perhaps that "would" should be changed to "will."

The meeting is having a session on homosexuality:

Ron Belgau, a professor at Notre Dame University, and his mother, Beverley Belgau, will present a session titled "Always Consider the Person: Homosexuality in the Family," in which Ron Belgau will speak about being gay and Catholic.

More on that:

McIntyre said Belgau, who has described himself as gay and celibate, will discuss "coming to terms with his sexual orientation and the manner in which he embraced the teaching of Christ in the church."

So the session is intended to do the right thing (if you have same sex attraction, you can't act on it: you have to remain celibate). But it gives the devil some space. And at THIS time in the USA, that is, IMHO, a bad, bad mistake.

And with that little opening and at THIS time in the USA, it virually guarantees that some "lobbying group" some equivalent to "Act Up" will guaranteed show up to this meeting and will do their business. This "Act Up" group will have the full backing of the media. And any effort to either remove them or to make them act with even a slight amount of decorum will be met with catcalls of "homophobia" throughout the media.

The devil is currently confident enough to roar. It appears that they are setting things up to feed a kitten some milk when what is needed is a liontamer to get him back in his cage.

[piusv]

Sorry, as long as the Orthodox Church continues to refuse papal supremacy and infallibility and stops allowing divorce and re-marriage, there is no way that’s the Catholic Church.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Amen to that.

I need to go to the Adoration Chapel and pray about this.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You apparently have inside information. You seem to be certain of a “collection of perverts” involved in the World Family Meeting in Philly. An extremely damaging accusation, if true. An extremely malicious piece of defamation, if not true. Want to name one?

[Farmer Dean]

They apparently welcome the presence of homosexuals.Who does that?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good Shepherds who are going after the Lost Sheep.

Good Rabbis who associate with sinners.

[Leep]

No speakers for gay marriage, gay fornication, straight fornication, contraception, divorce/remarriage without annulment, polygamy, etc.

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They probably have their lawyers working on it. Figuring out how they can sue their way to get on stage or at least get some kind of cash settlement out of it.

[marshmallow]

There is a time and place for discussing the issues of homosexuality and homosexual "couples" but a meeting on the family is not that place unless it's under the heading of "Threats to the Family".

Whatever the intention, the outcome will simply be a further blurring of the lines which is the last thing we need at the moment. Homosexual "couples are in no sense "family". Their situation is certainly deserving of discussion and ministry but not in the context of the traditional family. The latter is an image of God's relationship with his Church, the latter is an ongoing and gravely sinful situation.

The juxtaposition of these two diametrically opposed models of "family" in a public meeting will simply cause further confusion and scandalize to those whose faith is already weak. Is the sin of scandal even considered these days in the promotion of the all encompassing "new mercy"? There's a lot of talk about "the poor" and "the weak". How about an occasional thought for those struggling with their faith and who desperately need the positive witness of a Church which is heroically confronting the zeitgeist and the world.