Posted on 10/21/2014 5:46:55 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
50. Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community: are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities? Often they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home. Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?
Language from the Relatio rejected by the Synod.
Over at the blog That the Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill, that is a mouthful, brings news of this latest development:
London’s Catholic Churches are already undergoing a revolutionary change in the life of the Church in the era of Pope Francis. The long awaited message of mercy has filtered from Rome down to the pews.
Anti-gay security guards – a hitherto common sight outside Catholic Churches in London have today been told that their services will no longer be needed, as the Church in England and Wales takes on the new message of ‘welcoming’ and accepting people with same-sex attraction.
For the past two thousand years, anti-gay security guards have been employed by the Church in order to filter out from congregations anyone who may have homosexual tendencies or inclinations. In a revolutionary move, today Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Peter Smith made it known that henceforth, the security guards will be placed inside the Churches in order to defend homosexuals from the lethal and unpredictable stoning and/or beating that has often taken place against homosexuals during Mass and times of quiet prayer and reflection.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-american-catholic.com ...
What’s to value? This is sacrilege.
I had to read the whole linked article to verify this is satire.
Now that’s funny...
Anti gay security guards? Are you freaking kidding me? The churches in London, I have heard, are empty. Certainly in the US, there are no security guards whatsoever. This article is a tool of the devil to make even more trouble for the second to the last holdout devout to God’s word, the last holdout being the Orthodox Jewish faith.
“Anti-gay security guards...”
This is some seriously delusional stuff...
People need to use the sarc signal, I thought the mods just gave us a lecture on that.
Perhaps “anti-gay” guards have been place at the church doors because of the antics a couple of years back when homosexual activists disrupted some services with outrageous displays.
The church accepts all sinners to hear the gospel. But if they continue to practice sin or, even worse, deny that it is sin, they are to be removed from the church.
i.e. a “homosexual” that is not practicing it and wants to be saved from that sin is just like the rest of us who struggle with one temptation or another. But one that preaches that it is not a sin and/or practices it is not welcome.
I didn’t see anything in the article or the site to indicate it was satire. What did I miss?
Yes, yes, of course, I too am a member of the Catholic Church and attend the Latin Mass.
Along with less than 50 others.
No gays that would be noticeable from outward appearance. And we don’t have security guards.
It’s satire, showing just how ignorant people are of Catholicism.
Read the comments at the article at thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com. This appears to have been a slap at Cardinal Nichols statement about the Church needing to be "more welcoming" to gay people.
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