Posted on 09/20/2016 7:52:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
One of the most prominent and well-known Jesuits in America is slated to accept an award from New Ways Ministry, a pro-homosexual group that rejects moral teachings of the Catholic Church, on October 30.
New Ways Ministry will honor Father James Martin, the editor at large of America magazine and the author of numerous books, with its Bridge Building Award, which “honors those individuals who by their scholarship, leadership, or witness have promoted discussion, understanding, and reconciliation between the LGBT community and the Catholic Church.”
The group chose Martin “as a recipient of our Bridge Building Award for his strong promotion of LGBT acceptance through his communication ministry.”
“With his hundreds of thousands of social media followers and as Editor at Large for ‘America’ magazine, Fr. Martin has initiated a dialogue on LGBT issues with Catholics across the political spectrum, opening minds and hearts to greater acceptance,” the award’s Facebook event page says.
In addition to promoting the “coming out” of “LGBT Catholics” for “the way God created them,” Martin supports a number of progressive political causes.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican have denounced New Ways Ministry for its opposition to Church teaching. The group has been banned from speaking in Catholic dioceses across the country but it maintains that it is a “Catholic” group.
New Ways Ministry describes itself as “a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.”
Part of its mission is to “identify and combat personal and structural homophobia,” and “work for changes in attitudes and promote the acceptance of LGBT people as full and equal members of church and society.”
The group has published a number of materials attempting to reconcile Catholic moral teaching with same-sex “marriage” and sodomy.
“In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty,” the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith’s document Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons instructs. “One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that sexual activity between people of the same sex is “intrinsically disordered,” but that the attraction itself is not necessarily a sin. Those who experience same-sex attraction should be treated with “respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” and “every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided,” the Catechism says (CCC 2357 – 2358).
“I wish to make it clear that, like other groups that claim to be Catholic but deny central aspects of Church teaching, New Ways Ministry has no approval or recognition from the Catholic Church and that they cannot speak on behalf of the Catholic faithful in the United States,” Cardinal Francis George wrote when he was the head of the U.S. bishops’ conference. “Their claim to be Catholic only confuses the faithful regarding the authentic teaching and ministry of the Church with respect to persons with a homosexual inclination."
Some of New Ways Ministry’s most recent causes include the promotion of same-sex parenting rather than “outdated family models” that include a mother and father, supporting a New Jersey high school student whose Catholic school wouldn’t let her dress as a boy, and “heartily” thanking Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine for suggesting that the Catholic Church will eventually accept same-sex “marriage.”
“Church history has shown time and again that important changes in the Church have always arisen from the bottom to the top, and not the other way around,” New Ways Ministry executive director Francis DeBernardo wrote after Kaine’s controversial statement. “So, it is only a matter of time before the church hierarchy begins to accept and affirm what Catholics like Tim Kaine already know: that love is love, and that all love is holy, for God is love … Catholic bishops and other church leaders need to follow Kaine’s example by opening their eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the experiences of lesbian and gay couples and their families. Instead of being locked in an ivory tower, Catholic bishops need to do what the rest of the country and the world has been doing for decades: dialogue with lesbian and gay people so they can see they are not an enemy to be fought, but children of God, as are all human beings.”
In 1999, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith permanently banned New Ways Ministry co-founders Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent from any pastoral work involving people who experience same-sex attraction.
Martin’s Facebook fan page has nearly half a million “likes.” He frequently comments on church issues for secular media.
Prominent Jesuit will accept award from pro-homosexual group condemned by Vatican, US bishops
Life is short. Eternity is long.
I could count the number of gay Jesuits at Fordham in the 60s on my fingers and toes.
“Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we shall be held to a stricter judgment.”
James 3:1
Catholic Orthodox, Protestant ... if someone truly serves one master they will in the end strive to submit all others to that master.
A “Christian” is to have that status as the fundamental basis for their very identity. The Holy Spirit being present, if indeed He is present, WILL push all other rivals aside for the glory of God and thus the sanctification and perfection of the saint.
But if someone makes some OTHER identity the center of their very concept of themself, as homosexuals are wont to do these days, they bear witness that they serve a different master than Christ for they make that, and not being in Christ, out as the core of their being.
This is a serving two masters thing.
Those who are “in Christ” have the hope of glory, and indeed per Scripture up it is Christ in us, the hope of glory. And once again I state, just to be clear, this goes to the very core of how we should see ourselves for it is our ultimate reality in time and into eternity.
But if someone is not in Christ because they still serve another master then they have no hope unless they repent and recieve the Holy Spirit; and, having no hope they have nothing.
Should blood bought saints step aside from the truth of Scripture and the Gospel for dogs that dogs be made happy?
Or, as Paul inquired, should we sin that grace may abound?
No!
This is not some hard thing, some confusing doctrine: it is clear as clear can be!
No one can be unrepentant and actually be “in Christ”, a Christian.
... though they can warm a pew with their butts even as, being awash in the knowledge of the Gospel that could save them, rejecting it still, they earn a greater condemnation for themselves.
Maybe there’s another reason why Boston College is going O-fer in ACC football and Basketball.
Coincidentally Boston was one of the colleges that recruited me out of high school football. Not sure how they even knew I existed down here in Texas though. Even the local newspaper could hardly remember that I existed even though, IIRC, I was the only guy in my class to sign with a division 1 team.
... of course I’ve never had much interest in living north east of Mason Dixon....
New Ways Ministry is an anti-Catholic hate group.
He's the current AmChurch poster boy and his effeminate, girly-boy smile, creeps me out.
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