Posted on 01/31/2022 6:28:53 PM PST by marshmallow
The German cardinal’s views contradict the Catholic Church’s long-standing ban on the ordination of homosexual men.
MUNICH, Germany (LifeSiteNews) – The most senior German cardinal in the Catholic Church has expressed his support for ordaining homosexual men to the priesthood, in the latest attack on Magisterial teaching by the prelate.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx made the comments at a press conference yesterday in Munich where he was responding to a new report alleging he and several of his predecessors, including then-archbishop Josef Ratzinger (Pope emeritus Benedict XVI), mishandled multiple sexual abuse cases as archbishops of Munich and Freising.
After reading a prepared statement lamenting the abuse, Marx went on to tell reporters that synodality was “the basic requirement for a new church” and that homosexuality should not be a restriction on the “ability of becoming a priest.”
“How do we deal with the homosexuality of priests?” he asked. “Not everyone is forced to declare [to others] their own sexual inclination, whether he is heterosexual or homosexual. He must decide that [whether to declare it] for himself.”
“But if he does [declare it], then that is to be respected and then this is not a restriction on his ability of becoming a priest,” Marx continued. “That is my position and we have to stand up for it.”
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yer wrong fritz
The great apostasy.
To quote one of the great American presidents.
“Wrong!”
The homosexuals purposely go into the church to destroy it from within.
No, “we” don’t. That is not the Church’s position. Never has been, and never will be.
Apparently not.
Are not priests supposed to be celibate?
So why not do the other side an equal favor and allow hetro men to get married (to women) while remaining a priest?
It’s only fair, right?
“Are not priests supposed to be celibate?”
I think that’s part of their dodge. You see, the gay priests don’t do the gay stuff, they are just drawn to it, so it’s no worse than heterosexual lust, as long as they remain celibate. That’s the theory. In the age of “just like us” and “ I don’t care what they’re a doin’ so long as they ain’t a doin’ it in muh face,” nobody has the sense to point out what these perverts are about.
Yep. Destroy everything good.
Marx? MARX?
I’m sure it’s just a co-incidence.
Days of Noah. How much further the slide, before correction?
One might note that the church of Rome has a thing against hetero priests, not man fondlers.
Pope Francis rejects Cardinal Marx' resignation: 'Continue as Archbishop of Munich'
This is what happens when you drift away from the Torah. Eventually you end up 180 degrees in opposition to the Word of God. You will descend into idolatry. It’s automatic; something will fill the vacuum. Over time it will spiral downward into depravity. But if you can manage to present the exterior form of the earlier, more righteous culture, you can fool the masses into thinking that nothing has changed. At a certain point you can simply drop the veneer and most of the sheep will resign themselves to live with the ugliness.
why is this heretic not excommunicated?
Nice to see the poofs turning the church into a Sodomite Sex Club.
God will not be mocked.
Cardinal Marx, how appropriate in the era of Pope Che.
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