---sounds like ghetto politics to me!
You may not realize that that's the Gospel:
Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free."
Luke 7:22
And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them."
And as for the rainbow flag --- Archbishop Chaput would tear it doen personally.
Yes I do realize that theres SOME Gospel “In there”
the full QUOTE reads thusly:
We want to work towards this. We want the Gospel of mercy proclaimed in the great cities of the world, most of all in the poorest and most marginalized quarters.”
That however is not —strictly— Gospel, and carries with it a “social gospel” message and one that’s not terribly well masked.
everything is in some sort of context and the context in which that message is set is that the most marginalized of the GREAT CITIES are more important that the black hole of clacutta for example
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.