Posted on 12/03/2018 12:29:25 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that “there is no place” in the clergy for gay people...
Italian news outlets have published excerpts from a four-hour interview between Pope Francis and Spanish Missionary Fernando Prado, published as a book titled "The strength of vocation"...
Avvenire published on November 29 the full excerpt in which Prado asks the Pontiff specifically about the inclusion of “people with homosexual tendencies.” Francis admits that this is “something that worries me..."
He calls homosexuality “a very serious matter, which must be discerned adequately from the beginning” with those who seek to become clergy.
“We must be demanding. In our societies it even seems that homosexuality is fashionable and this mentality also affects the life of the Church,” Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis Upholds traditional teachings on homosexuality
The official teaching of the Catholic Church reject homosexuality as an “objective disorder” and “intrinsically disordered.”
The pontiff recently suggested that LGBT+ children should be taken to see a psychiatrist.
He recalled a religious leader telling him that, in his congregation, there were “good young students and even some already professed clergymen” who were gay.
“He himself had doubts about the thing and asked me if there was anything wrong with this,” Francis recalled, saying the religious leader told him that perhaps it wasn’t a serious issue and that ultimately it was only “an expression of affection.”
But the pontiff disagreed...
“It is not just an expression of affection. In the consecrated life and in the priestly life there is no place for this kind of affection,” Pope Francis said: “For this reason, the Church recommends that people with this rooted tendency are not accepted in the ministry or in the consecrated life. The ministry or the consecrated life are not their place.” [snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“I thought thats what the nuns were for”
I thought of that right after sending the post.
We still have my original question: why does an insistence on celibacy by male priests lead to homo behavior?
The Muslims say that insistence on monogamy leads to homo hehavior. Because monogamy can be as hard to live as celibacy,
Yes, they could, but what better place than a Church or Monastery with other homosexual males? No one asks why they aren’t married at the age of 40, and if their “bent” is pedophilia, they have access to children. I imagine the pedophiles there feel like they inhabit a candy store.
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