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At World Youth Day, Pope’s leading Italian bishop suggests Sodom wasn’t destroyed
Life Site News ^ | 9 August 2016 | Patrick B. Craine

Posted on 08/10/2016 1:58:53 PM PDT by redleghunter

August 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Italian Bishop Nunzio Galantino, a personal appointee of the pope and a prelate who has been extolled as the “prototypical ‘Pope Francis bishop,’” is coming under criticism after delivering a homily to young people at World Youth Day in which he rewrote the story of God’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

While the clear meaning of the text is to emphasize God’s hatred of sin, in the bishop’s telling the message of the story is about Abraham’s willingness to emphasize “positive possibilities” and "signs of hope" despite the “misdeeds” of the people of Sodom.

It’s an interpretation that fits less with Catholic tradition than with the grievous admonition from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family that the Church should emphasize the “positive aspects” of mortally sinful lifestyles.

Here is what Bishop Galantino said, according to a translation provided by author and commentator Rod Dreher:

The intense dialogue between God and Abraham in the first reading tell us about prayer. And it’s about prayer that Jesus is asked in the Gospel. A prayer which is not an escape from troubles and responsibility, but a live experience made of listening and answering, through which God creates an authentic relationship and pushes us to be daring. As daring as Abraham’s intercession prayer in favor of Sodom. A city upon which nobody would have bet a dime. His intercession prayer and his will to dare save Sodom. The city is saved because some righteous ones are there, even though a few of them. But the city is saved above all because Abraham, a man of prayer, is not a relentless accuser, he doesn’t speak against but in favor. Abraham, man of prayer, doesn’t point to the misdeeds, but he announces the possibility for something new. Abraham, man of prayer, announces and invites to look at the positive possibilities. Abraham, man of prayer, is a tireless searcher for sign of hopes to present to the Lord for Him to give them value.


TOPICS: Theology
KEYWORDS: genesis; popefrances; religiousleft; scripture; sodom
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1 posted on 08/10/2016 1:58:53 PM PDT by redleghunter
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To: redleghunter
"in which he rewrote the story of God’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah."

Doesn't everyone find it refreshing when somebody rewrites the Bible?

/s

2 posted on 08/10/2016 2:03:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (#WhiteTrashLivesMatters)
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To: redleghunter

Sodom was destroyed, and the ruins are still there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xv3XwOVaQ


3 posted on 08/10/2016 2:12:43 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Broom Hillary MUST be stopped.)
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To: redleghunter

So, if God didn’t destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, who did?

Aliens?


4 posted on 08/10/2016 2:16:24 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: redleghunter

Breaking News:

“...just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.”

Jude 1:7


5 posted on 08/10/2016 2:18:51 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: redleghunter

“At World Youth Day, Pope’s leading Italian bishop suggests Sodom wasn’t destroyed”

True. It simply relocated to a place along the Via Gregorio VII in Rome.


6 posted on 08/10/2016 2:30:18 PM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: redleghunter

The Roman Catholic Leadership is only defending Sodomy because they continue to cause this abomination in their priestly ranks by not allowing priestly marriage. They could easily repeal the unnatural regulations against priestly marriage. For crying out loud...Peter, their first Pope, was Married!


7 posted on 08/10/2016 2:52:30 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: avenir

I’ll believe the Word of God, referenced to by Christ’s half-brother Jude before a backslid, unbelieving Right Reverend Glockenspiel, or whatever his name is.

And I think this word from Jude begs the question as to what it might have been like around the supper table when Jesus occasionally popped in to visit His Mom and Joseph. I know it says his brothers didn’t believe on Him until after the resurrection. But I’m guessing the convers-ations were verrry interesting, to say the least.


8 posted on 08/10/2016 2:54:12 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: redleghunter
Bishop Nunzio Galantino claims "The city is saved because..." and "But the city is saved above all because..." Bishop Nunzio Galantino is a liar. However, I do not expect that the Pope will be admonishing or dismissing him any time soon.

Gen_19:24-25 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Deu_29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

9 posted on 08/10/2016 2:58:26 PM PDT by protest1
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Oh, yeah, all those gays allowed in the seminary are actually just frustrated they can’t marry Gina Lollobrigida! How could I not have picked up on that?!


10 posted on 08/10/2016 2:59:35 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

You do Realize the Vow of Celibacy means NO SEX PERIOD. Any Priest breaking that vow is commenting a direct Sin against God and his own words, Not to mention the Abomination of homosexuality, oh which is equivalent to Adultery and other sins of the Flesh. Note even if a man thinks(lusts) in his mind he sins... I know for my part I have sinned and had to go to confession for this how about you?

God Bless


11 posted on 08/10/2016 3:14:18 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Christendom, A Moral People, and Return to a Nation/s UNDER God!)
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To: redleghunter

I’ve often had the feeling that many of my Catholic and Episcopalian friends and relatives were not particularly familiar with the Old Testament. This could be another example of that.


12 posted on 08/10/2016 3:14:58 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Tucker39

You’re probably right. Maybe they even felt like Joseph’s brothers at times.


13 posted on 08/10/2016 3:16:28 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Tucker39

I meant Joseph from Old Testament.


14 posted on 08/10/2016 3:19:24 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

Excellent point. Thanks. I’d forgotten those guys.


15 posted on 08/10/2016 3:34:59 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: avenir

Yep. I got your point instantly. I replied as much. Thanks.


16 posted on 08/10/2016 3:36:12 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Re : post #7 ~ The Roman Catholic Leadership is only defending Sodomy ~

“because they continue to cause this abomination” BS X2

“in their priestly ranks by not allowing priestly marriage. BS X3

“They could easily repeal” BS X4

“the unnatural regulations” BS X5

I know I’m wasting my time, and so I won’t even get into the subject of Saint Peter; but I suggest you don’t embarrass yourself further by posting your agenda-driven BS and try to post opinions based on facts.

Have a delightful day.


17 posted on 08/10/2016 3:50:34 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson))
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To: jafojeffsurf

The problem is twofold. Jobs whichninvolve access to children attract predators. When you demand celibacy you take away a good screening process, that of looking at men’s family life. Second many men turn to unnatural things when they are celibate, or away from women. Many men in prison turn gay, classically it also occurred in armies where they were away from women for months or years at a time.


18 posted on 08/10/2016 3:53:14 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Tucker39

Post #8 ~ Omniscient Tucker39 apparently is NOT omniscient. here was no word in the language for ‘cousins’ hence it was translated as ‘brother’...


19 posted on 08/10/2016 3:58:45 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson))
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To: redleghunter
Odd.

I'm familiar with the position that it's all made up stories, but not that it really all happened except for the last bit.

20 posted on 08/10/2016 4:23:26 PM PDT by Salman
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