Posted on 03/27/2022 6:47:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church of St. Francis Xavier’s community group is a part of a collective endeavor to foster an unapologetically LGBTQ-affirming, woman-friendly Catholicism.
When Stephanie Samoy first entered the Church of St. Francis Xavier in 2000, she sensed it was a rare community. The smell of chicken noodle soup — fed to impoverished believers during the parish’s weekly food drive — wafted into the church pews. Feeling what she attributed to love or the Holy Spirit, Samoy wept. Samoy moved up to New York City after she graduated college at the University of Arizona, craving distance from her parents after coming out as lesbian three years prior. Raised in the church, coming to terms with her sexuality was a “horrible time.”
But this congregation was unique. St. Francis Xavier, which hosts a 300-member community group of Catholic lesbians, allowed Samoy to maintain both of her identities as Christian and as LGBTQ. St. Xavier’s walls are sprinkled with signs stating, in all capital letters “ALL ARE WELCOME.” But outside this Flatiron basilica, the leaders of the Catholic Church maintain that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and instruct gay Catholics to abstain from sex, according to the Catechism. Yet, the Catechism, which outlines the main beliefs of the church, calls on all believers to treat LGBTQ community members with compassion and sensitivity.
The self-titled Catholic Lesbians, comprised of Catholic women ages 22 to 80, meet on the second Friday of every month to discuss spiritual topics, often challenging the use of male-centric language in the church and advocating for female priests. Members said the group represents a microcosm of hope, pushing a conversation about the leadership of the Catholic church accepting women from all walks of life. On March 19, Pope Francis instituted a new constitution allowing baptized women to head Vatican departments.
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oh dear God.......
Next they’ll say it’s how Mary stayed a virgin.
The Jesuits order has devolved into an unspeakable cabal and is doing real harm to the Catholic Church. Try asking Cardinal Dolan why he allows a church in his archdiocese to become a center of heresy and hedonism. Very much doubt Dolan could answer that question.
Bernard Law moved faggot predators into all other parishes throughout the world and his reward was a cush job at the VATICAN....so PLEASE someone explain to me why I should respect catholic teaching or its group in any way shape or form? I am a bible reading God fearing Christian...nothing more and it is not in glee that I point this out...but Satan is and has been within the upper management of Catholic’s system for decade upon decade.
Because of crap like this, my Catholic faith and the Catholic church are now separate. I can no longer support Bergoglio and his church.
The faggots have destroyed the brand.
“...craving distance from her parents after coming out as lesbian.”
Proof that people suffering from same sex attraction are mentally handicapped, since people with ssa reject traditional families and accept the darkness of vice. Sad. Just get over the ssa attraction and start living a happy life.
I don’t know about “Catholic” Lesbians, but I know there is no such thing as “Christian” Lesbians.
It doesn’t have to be truth, it just protects the church narrative for power.
Always been the same since Rome slithered in..
They got buzzard breath..free video stream by me..lol
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Sadly from the beginning, the jews are still God’s people, in Christ we become jewish..catholicism has its good, but since they decided to slap fake signs on His cross they developed the buzzard breath..and lying to preserve a fake appearance of holiness when only God is good leads all astray..
Buzzard breath,,free prog rock video
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And this is how it goes—a church opens itself to unrepentant sinners, and they reciprocate with calls for revolution. Because the church is enabling the unrepentance, not counseling it.
"Spiritual topics?" They couldn't be studying the scriptures and yet have this seditious agenda.
I could make a joke about fish here, but I'll refrain.
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For [humans] will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.—2 Timothy 3:1-7
Not exactly. In Christ we become chosen.
Disagree
Hitler once referred to Heinrich Himmler as “Our own Ignatius Loyola’’.
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