Posted on 09/12/2015 4:27:22 PM PDT by ebb tide
A notorious dissenting priest in the archdiocese of Boston, Msgr. Paul Garrity, is advocating for heretical changes at the upcoming Ordinary Synod on the Family — and he's doing so with the help of the archdiocese of Boston's official newspaper, The Pilot.
In an article published earlier today, Msgr. Garrity, pastor of Sacred Heart and St. Brigid parishes in Lexington, addressing the "hopes and fears" surrounding this fall's synod, effectively smears proponents of orthodoxy while promoting blatant heresy. In his article, pitting "history and experience against dogmatism and unchanging truths," he takes up Cdl. Walter Kasper's scandalous proposal for finding a way to let civilly divorced and "remarried" adulterers receive Holy Communion.
The monsignor, in favor of such a path, then proceeds to dismiss defenders of traditional Church doctrine as if they're simply too fear-bound and pharisaical to appreciate the "love" and "truth" of the heterodox "Kasper proposal." Traditional, faithful Catholics, says Msgr. Garrity, merely "fear that the teachings of the Church will fall like a house of cards if we begin to tinker with something like allowing divorced people to receive Holy Communion."
That's when the outlandish repudiation of binding Catholic doctrine begins.
Though they [traditionalists] don't say so in so many words, they effectively believe that divorced and remarried Catholics should be punished for their failed marriages and for seeking happiness with a new spouse. They cling to the notion that all second marriages (without the benefits of annulments) result in adulterous unions which makes the reception of Holy Communion sacrilegious in total disregard of the many years of marital faithfulness that husbands and wives in second marriages may have experienced. (emphasis added)
In other words, Msgr. Garrity reduces the infallible teaching of the Church to a mere mistaken notion that fails to see some alleged goodness in what he assumes isn't adultery.
He continues, asserting, "It is ludicrous to assert that divorced couples who have found love and fidelity with new spouses are still recognized by the Church as being married to their former spouses after the passage of many years."
This despite the Catechism of the Catholic Church's stating: "The love of the spouses requires, of its very nature, the unity and indissolubility of the spouses' community of persons."
Apparently rejecting the first spiritual work of mercy and the fact that true pastoral charity is rooted in truth, he calls it "untenable (and disrespectful)" to alert people living in adulterous unions of the gravely sinful nature of their situation.
"Moreover," he states, "the Church's current prohibition regarding the reception of Holy Communion by divorced and remarried couples would seem to be at odds with the consistent teaching of the Gospel about love, forgiveness and mercy."
Image Cardinal Sean O'Malley with Msgr. Garrity Monsignor Garrity then laments that some people opt to leave the Church, according to him, "because the official teaching of the Church makes them feel unwelcome."
Next, presuming the agreement of the Holy Father, he writes:
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Pope Francis finds enough support at the Synod to do something dramatic about these difficult situations! Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could welcome people in second or third marriages to join us at the eucharistic table, if they so desire! Isn't this what real evangelization needs to be about in the 21st century!
Concluding the piece, he ends with a prayer in which he asks the Holy Spirit to help "Synod bishops to put aside their fears about change and respond with common sense to the plight of our brothers and sisters who long to nourish their faith on the Bread of Life, the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus!"
This is not the first offense against the Church's Magisterium for which Msgr. Garrity is guilty. He's already been featured for rebuke by Michael Voris' Vortex, after he wrote a letter in his parish bulletin last year where he placed homosexual "families" on the same level as the Holy Family. Drawing such a blasphemous parallel garnered the objections of many faithful Catholics, reportedly leading to his having to issue a follow-up correction.
ChurchMilitant.com reached out to the archdiocese of Boston for a statement on the matter but did not receive a reply in time for publication.
I’d be fine with letting divorced folks remarry in the Church, except that Jesus said it’s adultery.
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful” (as Cardinal Sean likes to say) if Cardinal Sean actually supported the Church’s teachings?
It would be wonderful. It would also be wonderful if Francis did the same.
How did Boston get a pro-sodomy Monsignor? Okay, now I’ve got to look up what a Monsignor is.
No surprise there. The girly-men clerics seem to be running the show in the AoB (with the Cardinal's apparent blessing).
Well...THAT picture sure sets off my GAYDAR.
Where’s Arlington, and 30-50% of priests are homosexual? Up to 60%? OMG! I’d never leave my son alone with a priest. No wonder people are doubting Pope Francis. NOW I believe the only reason sodomites targeted marriage is because of G-d. OMG, OMG!!
Is Arlington in DC?
I’m having trouble reading the article, because ads keep popping up, and covering the words, but I thought it said Father Haley wrote a book. Did he?
If bishops should be disciplined for failing to move against sexually abusive priests (which BCI agrees with), what should happen to bishops for failing to move against “out” gay priests or those in a “gay network” whose public actions can lead the faithful to sin (and to think those sins are permissible and worthy of public blessing)–and lead souls away from salvation? Is that not a form of spiritual abuse that needs to be disciplined and corrected?..."
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That is Father Haley’s number (60% in Arlington VA). Also, Father Cozzens (who wrote “The Changing Face of the Priesthood” and other books, and who has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, CNN, Fox News, etc) has documented the 50% figure in his books.
My wife has stopped donating to her local parish for that reason.
The third sex scandal in as many years (for a smaller diocese) convinced her that it wasn’t a good place for our money.
And I get blasted for saying that there is either going to be an open schism, or gay marriage in the Catholic church.
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