BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Gomorrah by St. Peter Damian (still relevant!)

OnePeterFive ^ | December 19, 2015 | Elliot Bougis

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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Gomorrah by St. Peter Damian (still relevant!)
12 quotes from St. Peter Damian(1000 years ago, on homosexuality amongst the clergy)
Saint Peter Damian, "Gomorrah", and Today's Moral Crisis
St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian's Time
St Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian : The Book of Gomorrah (Part 2)
St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah

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LifeSite delivers petition to Vatican signed by 13,000 asking for stop to gay networks in Church

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Catholic laity urge Pope Francis to address homosexuality at abuse summit

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Tell us, then, whom of us Catholics on FR are disobeying

The Holy Spirit to be exact as He told the church to purge the evil from among them.

Still waiting to see the Vatican purge anything besides conservative Catholics.

and who was it who fixed Sodom and Gomorrha?

Sodom and Gomorrah were not the NT church to whom God gave instructions to on how to live holy lives.

But it is interesting that you chose those two cities to compare to Catholicism......

Is it not a fact that we Catholic laypersons are very vocal about the rot in our Church and publicly demanding the hierarchy address it?

Some are.

So you're vocal. How's the purging going?

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Why do you keep refuting things that no Catholic in this forum has ever said?

Oh, the *hey they're just sinners like the rest of us, there's sin everywhere, yada, yada, yada, continue excuse making sure sounds like a lackadaisical attitude to me.

Catholics are the ones claiming that God promised he would never leave the church and he would protect it.

That is not Scriptural as evidenced by the letters to the seven churches in the book of Revelation.

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Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious.--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1972

Total and reprehensible abdication of responsibility by the church hierarchy.

That is an absolutely disgusting display of blame shifting.

It is NOT the responsibility of the laity to keep the church leadership in line any more than the sheep are required to keep the shepherd in line and making sure he does his job right.

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Sodom and Gomorrah were not the NT church to whom God gave instructions to on how to live holy lives.

That's horse-hockey. God has been giving instructions since Adam and Eve. He even gave Sodom and Gomorrah ample warning. And what do you think the Ten Commandments were, if not instructions?

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He even gave Sodom and Gomorrah ample warning.

Oh really? Chapter and verse???

And what do you think the Ten Commandments were, if not instructions?

Sodom and Gomorrah pre-date the Ten Commandments.

In simpler words, that happened BEFORE God gave the Ten Commandments.

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It is NOT the responsibility of the laity to keep the church leadership in line any more than the sheep are required to keep the shepherd in line and making sure he does his job right.

So who is your "leadership"? Who is your "shepherd"?

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Sodom and Gomorrah pre-date the Ten Commandments.

Both were in the Old Testament. And the Old Testament pre-dates the New Testament.

So what's you point? That God changes his mind?

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Oh really? Chapter and verse???

"And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous."
[Genesis 18:20]

"And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
[Genesis 18:26]

Any more questions?

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Jesus Christ.

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In no way is that an answer to the question to show where God warned Sodom and Gomorrah “ample warning” before He toasted them.