[ebb tide]

Ping

[Jyotishi]

The preservation of societal norms and moral standards is important.

[Dr. Sivana]

My position has simply been this: LGBT people may not be criminalized because they’ve committed no crime, but neither should this position also become something to be imposed on cultures which are not yet ready to accept stuff like that,”

That is not Catholic theology. It sounds more like the Star Trek “Prime Directive”. Very condescending.

[PAR35]

Does this mean the “Pope” won’t be visiting Ghana?

[Salman]

Defying Rome? Is it a schism yet?

[Campion]

Pope Francis says Church must fight anti-sodomy laws and bishops who support them need conversion

1. Catholic teaching is that sodomy is contrary to the natural law
2. The civil law should reflect and reinforce the natural law wherever it is possible and reasonable to do so

Which of (1) or (2) does +Francis reject?

[I-ambush]

When I first read that Francis said the bishops from Ghana were wrong, and that there was a needs for a “conversion process,” I thought he meant that the harsh laws would discourage the conversion of the homosexual sinners. Not at all, apparently. It is the good bishops that must “convert” to modernism.

[NKP_Vet]

Turkson is probably a fag.