Fr. James Martin: Pope Appoints ‘Gay-Friendly’ Bishops, Cardinals to Change Church on LGBT

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Vatican consultant and homosexual activist priest Fr. James Martin stated at a recent conference that Pope Francis has gone out of his way to appoint “gay-friendly” bishops and cardinals in the Catholic Church.

Speaking at the Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice 2018 in Washington D.C. on Saturday evening, the Jesuit priest and America magazine editor-at-large told students that “things are changing” in the Church regarding homosexuality under Francis’ watch.

“...Just look at what has happened in the last five years--since Pope Francis has been elected,” he said.

“First of all, Pope Francis’s comments about LGBT people like ‘Who am I to judge’. His five most famous words were in response to questions about gay people, right? He’s the first pope to use the word ‘gay’, you know, in a sentence,” Martin continued.

Martin emphasized Pope Francis’s relationships with people who identify as LGBT. He pointed out how the Pope has appointed bishops and cardinals who support the homosexual agenda.

“He has gay friends. He’s talked about wanting gay people to feel welcome in the Church. That’s a big deal. He has also appointed gay-friendly bishops and archbishops and cardinals, like Cardinal Tobin, the archbishop of Newark who, for example, held a ‘Welcome Mass’ for LGBT people in his Cathedral… So that’s one trend,’ Martin said.

Wylie knows better.

Rome didn't "keep the Bible" from anybody.

There were no printing presses until the 1500's and the handwritten Bibles were rare and prized.

Further, most of the population was illiterate and only knew scripture from hearing it.

As for the Latin, that was an integral part of maintaining the authenticity of the content and the meaning, as was proved following the so-called Reformation, when variation and heresy spread due to the liberties taken in the translations.

"above your head"....stand by for an education...

The OT in use at the time of Christ was the Septuagint (Greek) because the Jews had been so dispersed over such a period that they assimilated the Greek language.

Further, the Jews didn't canonize the OT until 130 at the earliest, and more likely 430. So your notion that the 7 books that Luther excised are invalid because they weren't written in Hebrew, doesn't hold much water.

Many of your bogus objections to Catholic teaching are found in those 7 books, and in fact those objections are the real reason Luther relegated them to their own section between the OT and the NT labeling them apocrypha.

Hard to tell where you got the notion that there was some "Protestant Bible" around before the Catholic Bible which had its canon established at the Council of Carthage in 397. (yes, I know somebody lied to you and told you that didn't happen until the Council of Trent, but all they did was reaffirm the canon from 397).

And, yes those books you pretend were "added" are in the original canon from 397.

Perhaps you have a copy of one of them there "Protestant Bibles" from 400 AD that don't contain those 7 books you claim Catholics added?

Those 'Messianic Jews' you refer to were indeed Catholic and were very clear about the Sacraments you either misunderstand or reject. Try reading John 6:50-71 and tell me what is reveals regarding the Eucharist.

I've read the 1st and 2nd Century writings of Polycarp, Ignatius, Clement, Martyr, Irenaeus, etc. and they reinforce the foundation of the Catholic Church.

Why don't you tell us about those "errors" Mr. Magoo?

We have no "changes to dogma". Only affirmations to rebut heresy.

Apples didn't fall UP before Newton expressed his theory on gravity. Gravity always worked, he simply documented its principles.

It seems you have an odd definition of "dogma". Unmarried clergy was a practice established in the Western Church in the 300s and in the Eastern Church in the 600s. It is a practice and a discipline, but it is NOT "dogma".

You also misunderstand infallibility. It has to do with declarations "from the chair of Peter, regarding faith and morals. It does't address math problems or spelling.

Or do you suppose Christ was wasting his breath or lying when he told Peter, "Whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatsoever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."?

Your list of 26 items is pitiful and uninformed. Please refer to my Newton reference. These things were always believed and true, they were only pronounced later to address heresy and error being promulgated at the time.

Your citation of "worshiping" things other than God is simply more uninformed anti-Catholic bigotry.

As for your issue regarding Mary as "Mother of God", it was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431, in response to the heresy of Nestorianism.

Perhaps you don't believe that Christ is fully Human and fully Divine?

While Christ's Divinity always was, His Divinity in not something that was added to the infant Jesus after His human birth!

In fact the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word united to Himself according to the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, was born from her, the Word was born according to the flesh. (Second letter of Cyril of Alexandria to Nestorius)

Your attempt to dispute my commentary on the writing of Scripture is pitiful.

First, I didn't comment on the writings of the OT, as God frequently instructed those writings.

I didn't say that Christ didn't want his teachings written, I said he never gave that instruction in the Gospels, as he told his disciples to preach and teach "all that I have taught you."

The point you missed, is that the Gospels were taught orally via TRADITION, long before they were reduced to writing.

Later, in Revelation, Christ told John (not His Apostles, plural) to write many things, but most of the other authors of Scripture had been martyred by then.

I don't need any lessons on the OT and am not confused about the traditions they practiced, while they forgot to LIVE the commandments they were given. THAT is the admonition regarding tradition. They kept going through the motions without understanding the meaning and how to apply it in their daily lives.

I've already explained how your accusations of worshiping other than God are WRONG, we don't.

I've already given the reference to the Eucharist explained in John 6:50-71, so you can see that IS Christ, and that it is NOT "re-crucifixion".

Once you've digested that, I'll explain the rest.

“Rome didn’t “keep the Bible” from anybody.”

COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D, Canon 14 forbid the layity from having a Bible
I would also suggest you read the Council of Trent Session IV
The rcc did withhold the Scriptures from the laity your very own website confirms it.

“There were no printing presses until the 1500’s and the handwritten Bibles were rare and prized.”

Yes they were especially since they were forbidden.

“Further, most of the population was illiterate and only knew scripture from hearing it.”

So the rcc kept the only Bibles in the dead language of Latin and wouldn’t allow any Bibles let alone in their native tongue. How would you be able to read a Bible in say Mandarin? Sounds just like Islam to me.

“As for the Latin, that was an integral part of maintaining the authenticity of the content and the meaning, as was proved following the so-called Reformation, when variation and heresy spread due to the liberties taken in the translations.”

The Scriptures wasn’t written or copied in Latin they were in Greek and Aramaic, so your authenticity story is BS.

“The OT in use at the time of Christ was the Septuagint (Greek) because the Jews had been so dispersed over such a period that they assimilated the Greek language.”

That wasn’t discussed, so I guess your in fantasy land, but I’ll say NO Kidding Sherlock...

Further, the Jews didn’t canonize the OT until 130 at the earliest, and more likely 430. So your notion that the 7 books that Luther excised are invalid because they weren’t written in Hebrew, doesn’t hold much water.”

I never mentioned Luther or any books he excised, so there you again living in fantasy land again.
Jesus told us what the Hebrew canon consisted of in His time. From Genesis to the Hebrew last book of Zechariah.

Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

“Many of your bogus objections to Catholic teaching are found in those 7 books,”

You didn’t list a one, so put up or shut up and lets debate the Holy Scriptures.

“Hard to tell where you got the notion that there was some “Protestant Bible” around before the Catholic Bible which had its canon established at the Council of Carthage in 397. (yes, I know somebody lied to you and told you that didn’t happen until the Council of Trent, but all they did was reaffirm the canon from 397).”

It doesn’t take a council to make a Bible it takes a believer filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Councils are for rcc’s so they can twist and insert Satan’s words.

Marcion is the first person known to have published a fixed collection of what we should call the New Testament books in approx. 140a.d. I won’t debate his beliefs, but his collection of the Pauline letters and other books he changed the names of is very close to today’s Bible.

Eusebius quoting Irenaeus’s remarks on the gospels and the writers Peter, Paul, Mark, Luke, and John talks about the books that we today call a Bible.

In Tertullian’s writings in or about the year of 206 we see the designation “New Testament” for the second part of the Christian Bible.

“Perhaps you have a copy of one of them there “Protestant Bibles” from 400 AD that don’t contain those 7 books you claim Catholics added?”

I don’t, but the Chester Beatty collection does and it’s before 400ad! Oh by the way your codex vaticanus doesn’t contain those extra books either.

I do have writings and history that says that the apocryphal wasn’t originally accepted as canon or inspired. Lets look at a few.

Jerome originally separated the apocryphal from the real Bible. It was Augustine that accepted the fake story of seventy wise men getting together to write the NT part of the Septuagint and thus he accepted the apocryphal as inspired. It was for that very reason that the council of Hippo, 393 accepted the apocryphal as canonical even though it hadn’t been before that.

Since you brought up Luther I’ll run with it. Did you know that Luther agreed with Jerome that Maccabees didn’t belong to the books to be used for the establishing the authority of ecclesiastical dogmas such as purgatory

Then we have Clementine Vulgate of 1592. In this edition 3 & 4 Esdras and the prayer of Manasseh were added as an appendix even though it wasn’t part of the canon of Trent or Sixtine Vulgate.

Just like everything else in the rcc they keep adding stuff and claiming that it’s always been that way.

“Those ‘Messianic Jews’ you refer to were indeed Catholic and were very clear about the Sacraments you either misunderstand or reject. Try reading John 6:50-71 and tell me what is reveals regarding the Eucharist.”

Explain those sacraments per Scripture because I don’t see them according to you so explain.

“I’ve read the 1st and 2nd Century writings of Polycarp, Ignatius, Clement, Martyr, Irenaeus, etc. and they reinforce the foundation of the Catholic Church.”

The wolves were creeping in during the times of Jesus, so go ahead and believe them if you so desire, but I disagree that they were in all agreement. The rcc cherry picked them just like they do Scriptures.

“Why don’t you tell us about those “errors” Mr. Magoo?”

I did read my post again...

“We have no “changes to dogma”. Only affirmations to rebut heresy.”

Again I listed them, but you refuse to see them re-read my post.

“Or do you suppose Christ was wasting his breath or lying when he told Peter, “Whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatsoever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”? “

If you read and understood that Scripture you would realize that it’s in a PAST TENSE indicating that the Lord God had already decided what was bound or loosed NOT Peter. In other words Peter was just relaying was the Lord had already decreed before the earth was formed.

“As for your issue regarding Mary as “Mother of God”, it was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431, in response to the heresy of Nestorianism.”

Satan declared that Eve would not die for eating the fruit, but it wasn’t true. Councils don’t equal right. Your own people claim that VAT II is wrong, so someone is wrong within your own religion.

The rest of your writing is just circular reasoning, but not addressing anything according to Scripture.

If you want to debate Scripture then lets do it, but just talking to talk is not edifying.

Back up your claims with Scripture not talking points.

“All Catholic Doctrine is found in Scripture.”

Well then give me that scriptural proof, chap and verse please.

1 . Prayers for the dead . …………-—————————……300 A.D.
2. Making the sign of the cross ………………………… …300 A.D.
3. Veneration of angels & dead saints …………-————…….375 A.D.
4. Use of images in worship………………………………… . 375 A.D.
5. The Mass as a daily celebration……………………………… 394 A.D.
6 Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term, “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus……………. ——————————— 431 A.D.
7 Extreme Unction (Last Rites)……………………………… ..526 A.D.
8. Doctrine of Purgatory-Gregory 1…………………………… .593 A.D..
9. Prayers to Mary & dead saints ……………………………… .600 A.D.
10. Worship of cross, images & relics ……………………… … 786 A.D.
11 Canonization of dead saints ………………………………… ..995 A.D.
12. Celibacy of priesthood …………………………………… …1079 A.D.
13. The Rosary ……………………………………………… … 1090 A.D.
14. Indulgences ……………………………………………… …..1190 A.D.
15. Transubstantiation-Innocent III …………………………… 1215 A.D.
16. Auricular Confession of sins to a priest …………… 1215 A.D.
17. Adoration of the wafer (Host)…………………………… .. 1220 A.D.
18. Cup forbidden to the people at communion …………..1414 A.D.
19. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma……………………………..1439 A.D.
20. The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed …………….1439 A.D.
21 Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent………………………………………… 1545 A.D.
22. Apocryphal books added to Bible ………….1546 A.D.
23. Immaculate Conception of Mary……………………………….1854 A.D.
24, Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals, proclaimed by the Vatican Council ……………… 1870 A.D.
25. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death) —————————————————……1950 A.D.

Nowhere in the Gospels does Christ tell his disciples to “write” anything.

Doesn't matter if He didn't do it in the gospels.

He did it and unless you are trying to tell us that it's not the same Jesus Christ, then you have no case.

Revelation 1:9-11 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying,

“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:17-19 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying,

“Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.

Revelation 2:1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:

Revelation 2:8 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:

Revelation 2:12 “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

Revelation 2:18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

Revelation 3:1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write:

Revelation 3:7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

Revelation 3:14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write:

“I’ve read the 1st and 2nd Century writings of Polycarp, Ignatius, Clement, Martyr, Irenaeus, etc. and they reinforce the foundation of the Catholic Church.”

You must have missed these...

Athanasius writes that the Apocryphal is the invention of heretics, who write according to their own will, and gratuitously assign and add to them dates so that, offering them as ancient writings, they may have an excuse for leading the simple astray.

Origen stigmatizes as false

Eusebius rejects as heterodox

Rufinus of Aquileria 345-410, uses “apocrypha” of heretical works

Cyril of Jerusalem died 386
Learn diligently from the church what are the books of the OT, and what are those of the NT, but read none of the Apocryphal writings. Of the NT there are only four Gospels: the others are pseud epigraphical and harmful (the Manichaeans indeed have written a Gospel according to Thomas, which by the fragrance of its evangelical title corrupts the souls of the more simple sort). As for the books which may not be read in churches, do not even read them by yourself, as you have heard me say.

Even your rcc made a distinction between the Apocrypha and the other books of the Bible prior to the Reformation. For example, Cardinal Cajetan, who opposed Luther at Augsburg, in 1518 published A Commentary on all the Authentic Historical Books of the Old Testament. His commentary, however, did not include the Apocrypha.

The first official council of the rcc to ratify all the books that you claim has been since the 4th century was at the Council of Trent in 1546.

Bottom line your history isn’t even consistent with your own religion let alone the history according to the rest of the world.

A BIBLICAL Message to LGBT folks EVERYWHERE!

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

Romans 1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite.

2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

The Health Risks of gay sex.

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