The Catholic Church’s Cold War Over Sexual Truth

The Stream ^ | April 4, 2023 | Joseph D'Hippolito

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The Catholic Church’s Cold War Over Sexual Truth

n the aftermath of a transgender perpetrator murdering three adults and three children at a Christian school in Nashville, the Catholic Church continues to flutter like a headless chicken when it comes to gender ideology.

On March 20, a week before the murders, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a “doctrinal note” condemning sex-change surgery and medication, especially for minors, as “not morally justified.” Immediately, two of the priesthood’s most well-known personalities criticized that document.

The Rev. Daniel Horan, an award-winning theology professor, called the document “nothing short of a disaster: theologically, scientifically and pastorally.” The bishops “not only deny the reality of transgender, nonbinary and intersex persons, but they also compound the harm experienced by already very vulnerable people,” he wrote for the National Catholic Reporter.

The Rev. James Martin, a papal advisor whom The Stream discussed, retweeted a link to the bishop’s document and Horan’s criticism without comment, which is Martin’s subtle way of expressing his own opposition.

(Interestingly, Martin, a dedicated LGBTQ activist, never tweeted support for the murder victims’ loved ones. He never asked his followers to pray for them. Instead, he tweeted an article advocating more stringent gun control.)

These events form the latest episode in the church’s ongoing Cold War in the United States over gender ideology. In January, San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy called for “radical inclusion” of LGBTQ Catholics regardless of whether they believe church teaching on homosexuality or engage in sexual activity, as The Stream reported.

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Pope Waldo

So where’s Pope Francis? As The Stream has repeatedly documented, Francis says one thing but does or fails to do another, thereby setting the stage to change doctrine subtly and gradually. But the pope really is setting the stage for the Catholic Church’s ultimate demise.

Catholics are starting to realize that.

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[NorthMountain]

Jimmy Martin is a fag, and his moral judgment is hopelessly compromised. I’ve never heard of the other fellow.

[Tell It Right]

I don't judge the RCC over one or two rogue teachers within their midst teaching hedonism.

I judge Catholics if they let these people keep teaching it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten plus years in Catholic schools in the 50s and 60s allow me to clearly understand that God frowns upon “sex change”,homosexual “marriage”...as well as a number of other things.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

The only "sexual truth" that is needed. Men and women. Not ambiguous or interchangeable genders.

[irishjuggler]

Regarding “Rev” Dan Horan... this creep was attacking the pro-life kids from Kentucky at the March for Life a few years back.
I dare y’all to review some of his videos and tell me that he’s not one of faggiest priests you’ve ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/user/DanHoranOFM

[nicollo]

"award winning theology professor"... Here's the list from its Wikipedia page. Makes for a good reference of people, organizations, and places to avoid:

Honours
* 2011 Catholic Press Association First-Place Award for the article "Digital Natives and Franciscan Spirituality" published in the journal Spiritual Life.
* 2014 Catholic Press Association Third-Place Award for the book Naked, and You Clothed Me (Contributor).
* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Felician University (2015)
* 2020 Association of Catholic Publishers First-Place Award for Best Theology Book Catholicity and Emerging Personhood: A Contemporary Theological Anthropology (Orbis Books, 2019)
* 2020 Catholic Press Association First-Place Award for the book Reading, Praying, Living Pope Francis's Rejoice and Be Glad (Liturgical Press, 2019)
* 2021 Mackey Award for Catholic Thought, Chaminade University of Honolulu