Posted on 02/09/2023 3:20:58 PM PST by ebb tide
SAN DIEGO (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego has again invoked the “process of renewal” of the Synod on Synodality to justify greater inclusion in the Catholic Church of those who live homosexual lifestyles.
Speaking on January 28 at the closing plenary session of a two-day conference titled “Re-Imagining the World: Saint Francis and Pope Francis,” hosted by the Franciscan School of Theology at the ardently pro-LGBT University of San Diego, McElroy said: “Pope Francis has called the whole of the church to a profound process of renewal through a synodal process that seeks to touch and transform every element of our ecclesial life and our outreach to the world.”
McElroy argued that the Synod on Synodality was about “an ongoing process of reform and renewal that constantly enhances ecclesial life from the parish to the diocese to the world church.” He noted that the desired outcome of the multi-year synod goes “far beyond the issuance of new documents” or merely a “moment of change.”
READ: US cardinal demands homosexuals in mortal sin be given Communion, women be ‘ordained’ deacons
Indeed, McElroy revealed the extent of change which he favors in the Church in a public essay published by the pro-LGBT, Jesuit-run America Magazine, in which he called for the admittance of those who are actively homosexual to the reception of Holy Communion.
Within the essay the cardinal declared that the distinction between inclination and act was neither morally helpful nor pastorally sensitive – a position that either makes mere inclinations to be actual sins or denies the sinfulness of acts explicitly contrary to the revealed law of God and the natural moral law.
Advocating for the latter through the admittance of active homosexuals to the reception of the Eucharist, McElroy also took a swipe at the whole of the Church’s teaching on sexual morality, criticizing the definitive and constant moral doctrine of the Church that all sexual sins are grave matter in their very object.
READ: Cdl. McElroy again spreads confusion about mortal sin and Communion
In his university remarks, while not as explicit as his published rejection of Catholic sexual morality, McElroy veiled his denial of the same revealed truths under the guise of “welcome” and the pastoral need for the Church to “transform its outreach to LGBT+ persons” in order to be effective in engaging modern society.
“We believe we are approaching a real crisis in how to minister to the LGBT+ community,” the cardinal claimed. “It is clear that the church in the U.S. must transform its outreach to LGBT+ persons if it seeks to be a truly welcoming presence in the world.”
“We all tend to become set in our ways in a manner that limits our ability to authentically grow as disciples of Jesus Christ,” the cardinal continued. “Synodality calls us to overcome our complacency and remain actively engaged in the process of lifelong change that lies at the heart of discipleship for us as individuals and as participants in the life of the Church.”
The cardinal’s unashamed and heretical rejection of clearly defined Catholic moral teaching on sexuality earned him a public rebuke from the Archbishop of Denver, Samuel Aquila, who published a letter in response to McElroy’s attack on the faith. Aquila took issue with the cardinal’s politically correct posture of “inclusion” and “welcome” in justification of accepting homosexual acts and other sexual perversions as morally legitimate.
READ: Denver archbishop refutes Cdl. McElroy’s call for ‘radical inclusion’ of homosexuals, adulterers
“Inclusiveness does not and cannot mean that we remain in our sins,” Aquila declared. The archbishop said that Jesus’ call to the woman caught in adultery to “sin no more” “is the same call Jesus makes to each of us. We are included in his company, but we are also called to turn from sin.”
“The Church needs the courage, and love, to be clear in inviting people to leave their sin,” Aquila insisted. “What Jesus offers is better than what the world offers the person in sin, and his grace and power is sufficient to free anyone from the slavery to sin.”
Slamming prelates such as McElroy, who attempt to utilize the “inclusion” of all persons while ignoring (or denying) the call to repent from sin, Aquila remarked, “Those Christian communities who have tried inclusion to the exclusion of sin only divide more and their pews are still empty.”
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Yes ... we must clearly and unequivocally call them to repentance.
Generally, it seems anyone saying we need to reimagine something , means that they want to push liberal views of that subject on everyone.
I did not leave the Catholic Church , it left me when they turned the alters around and abandoned the Latin mass.
I fundamentally believe in the theology I was taught in Grammar school. This church has become the tool of Satin, pure and simple.
The end times are near.
Don’t think so?
Research the presence of a Green Comet.
There’s one in the heavens tonight!
“ardently pro-LGBT University of San Diego“
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I’m a discouraged alumna of this University. But not surprised. I learned some important aspects of faith there, but also things that went the other way. But even back in the 80s it was perfectly possible to go there for four years without growing in faith, for those who were not interested. And there was a group on campus called Dignity, I think, that was a support group for Catholic gays.
this guy should be next pope
bkmk
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done. 29 They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die—yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.
WTF happened to my Former Home Town??
I KNEW IT!!!
Satanism is spreading like gangrene in religious institutions in this nation.
It certainly appears that in all Western European and European-derived settler societies, the Catholic Church has an outsized, verging on unhealthy, interest in this particular group - which certainly seems to be over-represented among its bishops, archbishops, and so on.
McElroy is not confused - not in the least.
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
So your OK with Pedophile priests, LGBTQxyz acceptance in the Church?... your part of the problem
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