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German bishops proclaim homosexuality ‘normal,’ adultery ‘not grave’
LifeSite News ^ | December 9, 2019 | Dorothy Cummings McLean

Posted on 12/10/2019 1:48:45 PM PST by ebb tide

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To: ebb tide

I’m sure this will play well with their muslim overlords.


21 posted on 12/10/2019 2:55:02 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: ebb tide; Ad Orientam; alex; antonius; aposiopetic; arielguard; bad company; blinachka; bob808; ...
Note the irony of the pairing of this proclamation with today's Epistle Lesson from 1 Timothy as read in the Orthodox Church:

Timothy, my son, we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

22 posted on 12/10/2019 3:04:21 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: ebb tide

Abortion was a step to the decline, when murder was allowed and sanctioned by the Church, Divorce is another, and adultery is another. Now homosexuality. The question is, why bother with Church at all? since you disagree with the Old and New Testament, why even use the bible at all? It doesn’t make any sense


23 posted on 12/10/2019 3:13:47 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: realcleanguy

That’s why the mainline protestant groups are basically dead in America.


24 posted on 12/10/2019 3:16:33 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: lightman

I like that!


25 posted on 12/10/2019 3:37:29 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ebb tide
adultery ‘not grave’

One of the spouses might argue with this. Someone is hurt by someone.

26 posted on 12/10/2019 3:44:50 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Right Wing Assault
One of the spouses might argue with this. Someone is hurt by someone.

Bishops don't even get married in the first place, so how would they know?

27 posted on 12/10/2019 3:46:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ebb tide

The church is the church no more. It is over and done for.


28 posted on 12/10/2019 4:02:06 PM PST by Wuli
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To: ebb tide

“”teaches that sexual relationships formed after a divorce are neither gravely sinful nor a bar to the reception of Holy Communion.””

At least that’s in accordance with the definition of adultery in the Ten Commandments but the other - tell me where I’ll find that!


29 posted on 12/10/2019 4:50:53 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: ebb tide
Liberals In a couple of decades, if left alone, will have destroyed themselves mentally, physically, DNA wise and soul wise. Now the Catholic leadership blesses homosexuality.

Another Darwin Award Winner!


30 posted on 12/10/2019 5:16:33 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: dangus

Sleeping around on your first an only, sacramental spouse is adultery.

“Second marriages”, without a declaration of anullment of the first marriage are not marriages, they a license to sin.


31 posted on 12/10/2019 5:35:51 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

When you read through Genesis, one of the striking issues is how absolutely seriously adultery was taken. Before the written Word was available, before the 10 Commandments were engraved, it was apparently quite well known that adultery is a grave sin.

In Genesis 20, when Abraham tried to pass Sarah off as his sister Abimelech took her into his harem (at age 90!). The Lord prevented the commission of adultery. Abimelech was horrified that he might have committed adultery, condemning his entire nation, and told Abraham so. Contrast today, where adultery is the most meh of sins.


32 posted on 12/10/2019 7:38:39 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: teeman8r

The whole Church is collapsing faster than the American Republic.


33 posted on 12/10/2019 7:42:30 PM PST by arthurus (-co0|O-0*)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; ebb tide; teeman8r; karnage
Not to be too pedantic, but this was not the whole bleedin' Catholic Church in Germany, it was the Commission for Marriage and Family of the German Bishops' Conference, and in particular two evil prelates, Koch and Bode.

They may well be getting a majority of moral midgets to sign on at some point, but it is not yet a done deal.

IT may well precipitate schism *among* them, as well as schism between them and Rome.

I can't even think my own goose of a Bishop could think himself to be "in communion with" these arrogant apostates,who propose "normalizing" divorce/remarriage basically on the same morally degraded terms as the Protestant churches in Germany (and here.)

34 posted on 12/10/2019 7:56:33 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." - 1 Peter 4:17)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
They may well be getting a majority of moral midgets to sign on at some point, but it is not yet a done deal.

I would venture to say those moral midgets include one Jorge Bergoglio, who has not raised his voice to stop this train wreck.

35 posted on 12/10/2019 8:00:23 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Before he became Pope Benedict, Ratzinger wrote a book in which he projected that the Church would shrink drastically in the future, as unfit shepherds were removed — but that the remnant would be much more faithful.


36 posted on 12/11/2019 8:15:35 AM PST by karnage
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To: NorthMountain

Amen!


37 posted on 12/11/2019 4:34:36 PM PST by Grey182 (A Catholic Bishop Emeritus is still a Bishop, a Pope Emeritus... 209.157.64.200)
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To: lightman

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
(Matthew 7:15)


38 posted on 12/11/2019 10:54:18 PM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: ebb tide

On that dismal road to hell.


39 posted on 12/18/2019 5:49:02 PM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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