Cardinal hopes "gay Masses" can be rolled out throughout Church in England and Wales
The Masses, at the Jesuit Farm Street Church in central London, replaced the more controversial, so-called “gay Masses” that were designated for LGBT Catholics at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Soho until 2013.
Key to the transition was that the Farm Street Masses are an extension of the diocese’s pastoral care for gay people. LGBT Catholics join the regular congregation at the 6.15 p.m. Mass on Sunday evenings twice a month and meet afterwards for a social gathering in the parish hall.
Fr Keith Barltrop, who was appointed chaplain to the LGBT community by Vincent Nichols earlier this year, said that the cardinal would like to see the Farm Street Masses as a model for other parishes in his archdiocese. He added that the idea could be taken up by parishes in other dioceses.
The Farm Street Masses are similar to those said for the LGBT community in Chicago and Los Angeles. Martin Pendergast of the LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council said that any move to expand the model would be dependent on interested parishioners taking the lead.
Looking ahead to the October synod on the family in Rome, Mr Pendergast said his group was currently drawing up a briefing paper which it hoped Cardinal Nichols and Bishop Peter Doyle of Northampton, the delegates to the synod from England and Wales, would take with them and feed into the debate. A major line of argument in the paper, he said, would be a move to encourage the Vatican to undertake a “serious review” of the vocabulary it used in relation to homosexuality.
“Two terms which have been used by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in regard to homosexuality are ‘objective disorder’ and ‘intrinsic moral disorder’,” he said.
“But these are inaccurate and theologically quite inappropriate – and the people who are most hurt by this sort of language are the parents of children who come out as gay. What does it mean to them to hear their children described in those terms?” he added.
Meanwhile the head of Stonewall, Ruth Hunt, a cradle Catholic, said she did not see her being gay “as in any way contradictory with my faith, which was an integral part of my life – of who I am.”
In an interview with The Tablet, Ms Hunt, who attends Mass in Brixton, south London, said she was “bemused” by Catholics who insist there is no room for gay people and their relationships in the Church.
“This leads to an ever-widening chasm for some people between a strongly held [Catholic] belief in God and a very real sense of rejection from our Church,” she said.
‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx’s diocese
[“Coming to America”?]
‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx’s diocese
John-Henry Westen and Maike Hickson
www.lifesitenews.com/news/married-lesbian-approved-as-head-of-catholic-day-care-in-cardinal-marxs-dio
July 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The website of the German Bishops’ Conference, katholisch.de, reported yesterday on the first case of a practicing homosexual permitted to remain in a position at a Catholic Church institution despite a flagrant and public violation of the Church’s moral law.
The woman who heads a Caritas Day Care Center in Bavaria, had been asked in April to leave her position due to her announcement that she was going to “marry” a woman. The decision has now been rescinded, according to Fr. Hans Lindenberger, head of the Caritas in Munich, Germany.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who is the Archbishop of the Diocese of Munich, has agreed to implement the Church’s new Labor Law on August 1. The new Church Labor Law, approved by the German Bishops’ Conference at the end of April 2015, drastically liberalized the Catholic Church’s disciplinary rules in Germany. In the past, employees who did not live according to the Church’s moral teaching might have been asked to leave their position in institutions of the Church.
Three German bishops, Bishops Stefan Oster, Rudolf Vorderholzer, and Gregor Hanke, have decided not to implement the new Church law in their own dioceses.
Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau explained his stance in a recent Facebook post. He asked rhetorically whether the Church’s institutions would not lose their Catholicity even more than they already have with the new regulations. Would the service institutions which say “Catholic” on the outside have any faith on the inside, he asked. Are people working there from Christian conviction or only on the basis of what is professionally and economically viable? He warned that it was a self-imposed secularization of the Church.
Bishop Oster is under pressure from the priests of his diocese to give in to the new law. Twenty liberal priests in the diocese have issued a public letter asking the bishop to relent.
When
the Supreme Court ruling came down in late June, extending the right to
marriage to members of the same sex in all 50 states, some observers
felt that the Catholic Church was fairly immune to any requirements that
it would have to allow same-sex weddings before her altars.
“What hurts Catholic homosexuals’ sensitivity - Butler said to Archbishop Martin - is above all the “Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual person” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1986, “which describes sexual orientation as an objective disorder that leads to an intrinsically bad moral behaviour”. The LGBT organisations claim that “the failure” of the Church’s behaviour towards homosexual people helps increase the suicide rate. Archbishop Martin committed to keep on talking and taking care, above all, of the pastoral care of gay people. Just after the result of the Irish referendum, it was the archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, who spoke of a “social revolution” that was taking place, admitting “that the Church needs to have a reality check and look at the things it is doing and the segments that have drifted away completely from young people".
‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx’s diocese
John-Henry Westen and Maike Hickson
www.lifesitenews.com/news/married-lesbian-approved-as-head-of-catholic-day-care-in-cardinal-marxs-dio
July 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The website of the German Bishops’ Conference, katholisch.de, reported yesterday on the first case of a practicing homosexual permitted to remain in a position at a Catholic Church institution despite a flagrant and public violation of the Church’s moral law.
The woman who heads a Caritas Day Care Center in Bavaria, had been asked in April to leave her position due to her announcement that she was going to “marry” a woman. The decision has now been rescinded, according to Fr. Hans Lindenberger, head of the Caritas in Munich, Germany.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who is the Archbishop of the Diocese of Munich, has agreed to implement the Church’s new Labor Law on August 1. The new Church Labor Law, approved by the German Bishops’ Conference at the end of April 2015, drastically liberalized the Catholic Church’s disciplinary rules in Germany. In the past, employees who did not live according to the Church’s moral teaching might have been asked to leave their position in institutions of the Church.
Three German bishops, Bishops Stefan Oster, Rudolf Vorderholzer, and Gregor Hanke, have decided not to implement the new Church law in their own dioceses.
Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau explained his stance in a recent Facebook post. He asked rhetorically whether the Church’s institutions would not lose their Catholicity even more than they already have with the new regulations. Would the service institutions which say “Catholic” on the outside have any faith on the inside, he asked. Are people working there from Christian conviction or only on the basis of what is professionally and economically viable? He warned that it was a self-imposed secularization of the Church.
Bishop Oster is under pressure from the priests of his diocese to give in to the new law. Twenty liberal priests in the diocese have issued a public letter asking the bishop to relent.
Gay and Transgender Catholics Urge "Pope" Francis to Take a Stand
Lui
Akira Francesco Matsuo said he was standing in line for communion one
Sunday at his Roman Catholic church in Detroit when a fellow parishioner
pulled him aside: Didn’t he know that the archbishop had just urged
supporters of same-sex marriage not to take communion?
Mr.
Matsuo, who is transgender, left and never returned to his parish. Now,
two years later, he is among a large group of gay and transgender
Catholics who are seeking a meeting with Pope Francis during his first visit to the United States, in September, pushing him to take a stand on the issues of sexuality and gender that are increasingly dividing Catholics.
“I want him to extend his hand openly, especially to the transgender community,” said Mr. Matsuo,
who is 28 and said he has identified as male ever since he was a
toddler. “I am a practicing Catholic. I just don’t have a parish I can
call home.”
The
pressure from gay Catholics and their families poses a unique challenge
for the pope as he tries to connect with an American church in flux.
The hallmark of his papacy has been his pastoral approach to those
living at the margins — especially the poor, immigrants and prisoners.
But it is unclear whether he includes sexual minorities among those in
need of justice, and Catholic groups of all kinds are demanding answers,
and discussion.
Gay "Catholics" Push for Church Weddings
When
the Supreme Court ruling came down in late June, extending the right to
marriage to members of the same sex in all 50 states, some observers
felt that the Catholic Church was fairly immune to any requirements that
it would have to allow same-sex weddings before her altars.
Now, though, calls for the Church to allow such nuptials are bubbling up. How far they will get is another question.
The issue was raised Tuesday by a report in the New York Times
that featured “gay and transgender Catholics” who are making noises
with the approaching visit to these shores of Pope Francis. And the
noises are not exactly joyful.
“While
some American conservatives are eager to see Pope Francis make use of
his popularity on this trip to advance the fight against abortion and
same-sex marriage, gay Catholics want him to acknowledge their rejection
by the Church, and to welcome them as full members with equal access to
sacraments like baptism and marriage,” the report said.
The
article’s lede focused on an incident in which a young transgendered
Catholic was put off by another member of the congregation who, perhaps
indiscreetly, suggested that the person not go up to receive Communion.
While
such an incident cannot be taken as emblematic of an entire Church’s
collective treatment of “sexual minorities,” as some like to call
homosexuals and persons who believe they were born with a body of the
wrong sex, the Times found several people who believe otherwise. In
fact, the paper said, “a large group of gay and transgender
Catholics...are seeking a meeting with the Pope during his first visit
to the United States, in September, pushing him to take a stand on the
issues of sexuality and gender that are increasingly dividing Catholics
and causing rancor in the Church.”
Marianne
Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, said that many
homosexual Catholics face constant torture in the Church, in situations
ranging from denial for a child’s baptism or hearing something offensive
in a homily. She wants to meet with Pope Francis when he comes, to
share such “stories of pain and alienation,” which “do real harm to
people.”
“It needs to end,” she said.
A
July 5 press release issued by Dignity, which has been denied Catholic
status by the Church because it advances viewpoints contrary to
doctrine, said that members meeting for the organization’s national
convention voted to begin advocating for “equal access to all of the
sacraments of the Catholic Church for LGBT people and their families.”
“We
can’t be fully equal if we are barred from any of our Church’s
sacraments,” said Duddy-Burke. “Right now, we are officially banned from
marriage and ordination, and often denied other sacraments, as well."
Earlier this month, the Episcopal Church in the United States voted to
allow sacramental wedding ceremonies of same-sex couples.
Dignity’s convention took place in the bright afterglow of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges
decision, which said any remaining state laws banning same-sex
“marriage” are unconstitutional. At the same time, the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed support for a congressional
bill that would help protect the Church and other religious institutions
under the new “law of the land.” The First Amendment Defense Act,
introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, and Rep. Raul Labrador, R-ID, would
prohibit the federal government from discriminating against individuals
and organizations based upon their religious beliefs or moral
convictions that marriage is the union of one man and one woman or that
sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage. For such
individuals and organizations, the Act provides broad protections,
including in the areas of federal contracts, grants, employment, and
tax-exempt status.
Ireland’s Archbishop Martin meets Catholic LGBT groups to discuss Church’s approach to gay people
The spokesman of the Communication Office of the Irish Catholic Church, Martin Long, confirmed this to SIR, the news agency of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Catholic homosexuals find one letter published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith particularly hurtful
“Last week, the archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland, Eamon Martin, met the leaders of the Catholic and ecumenical organisations that support LGBT people in Ireland, to discuss the Catholic Church’s approach to homosexuals," SIR informs."The meeting was confirmed to SIR by the spokesman of the Communication Office of the Irish Catholic Church, Martin Long, who pointed out it reflected the result of last May’s referendum, which opened the Irish Constitution to the legalisation of gay marriage with 62.1% of votes “for”. At their request, the archbishop met the delegations of "Faith in Marriage Equality” (Fime), an ecumenical organisation, and "We Are Church Ireland”, which brings together Irish Catholics instead. The members of the two delegations could share their stories, their experiences and their expectations with the archbishop. Brendan Butler of “We are Church Ireland” asked that the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality be changed in the run-up - as written on the organisation’s website - to archbishop Martin’s attending the Synod on Family Life next October.”“What hurts Catholic homosexuals’ sensitivity - Butler said to Archbishop Martin - is above all the “Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual person” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1986, “which describes sexual orientation as an objective disorder that leads to an intrinsically bad moral behaviour”. The LGBT organisations claim that “the failure” of the Church’s behaviour towards homosexual people helps increase the suicide rate. Archbishop Martin committed to keep on talking and taking care, above all, of the pastoral care of gay people. Just after the result of the Irish referendum, it was the archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, who spoke of a “social revolution” that was taking place, admitting “that the Church needs to have a reality check and look at the things it is doing and the segments that have drifted away completely from young people".
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