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  • Vatican Cardinal says Active Homosexuals Can't Go to Heaven

    12/03/2009 3:56:20 PM PST · by wagglebee · 60 replies · 1,530+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/3/09 | Hilary White
    ROME, December 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leading Vatican cardinal caused a flutter in the secular press yesterday by stating that homosexuals who act on their sexual impulses cannot go to heaven.  "Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven and it is not me who says this, but Saint Paul," said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, a Mexican and the former head of the Vatican's Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. The cardinal was reiterating the Catholic teaching that states that any sexual activity outside of marriage that is not repented of before death is a...