LGBT GROUP ON STEROIDS: "Catholics" Respond Strongly Against Vatican’s Ban on Gay Priests
There is nothing Catholic about those heretical groups trying to support the sodomite agenda.
"Equality"= Marxist/Masonic
To add your own voice to protest the Vatican’s ban, please sign New Ways Ministry’s statement “The Gift of Gay Priests’ Vocations.”
In addition to New Ways Ministry’s response to the Vatican’s document, other Catholic organizations concerned with LGBT and sexuality issues have also strongly critiqued the ban on gay priests. The following are excerpts from some of the statements, with links to the full statements:
Call To Action:
” ‘Call To Action remains deeply
disappointed in the Vatican’s on-going rejection of the LGBT community,’
said David Saavedra, Transitional Co-Director of Call To Action, an
organization of Catholics working for justice in the Church.
”
‘This document not only reaffirms old Vatican policies, it reaffirms
the harmful rhetoric against seminarians and priests who are gay and
already successfully serving the Church. Moreover, the document’s
language and implications harm the entire Church that is denied the gift
of ministry from the good and holy service of gay men who may be turned
away,’ said Saavedra.”
For full text of Call To Action’s statement, click here
DignityUSA:
” ‘This document is extremely
disappointing in its approach to gay men called to be priests,’ said
Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director of DignityUSA, an organization
of Catholics committed to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people in the Church and society. ‘It is not at all what
anyone expected from the “Who am I to judge?” Pope.’ “
”
‘These guidelines are a tremendous insult to the thousands of gay men
who have served and continue to serve the Church with honor and
dedication. They undermine decades of commitment by these men, and they
fail to acknowledge that God calls a great variety of people to the
priesthood,’ said Duddy-Burke.”
For full text of DignityUSA’s statement, click here.
Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC):
“We, the GNRC, stand for inclusion and
justice for LGBTI lay people and their families in the Church. We also
declare that all religious men and women that followed God’s call to
dedicate their life for the construction of the Church deserve the same
treatment. ‘There have been tragic instances within our GNRC family
where some members who had previously been in seminaries, sadly had to
give up on their chosen vocation after their sexual orientation was
discovered. And in a few cases, they were very publicly exposed,’ states
Ruby Almeida Co-chair of the GNRC and Chair of Quest (England).”
Pushing
LGBTI people out of the Church, rather than them being treated with
respect and dignity whilst on their vocational calling, has set a dark
and reactionary tone. ‘The Church states in many documents that LGBT
should live in celibacy, without needing to express their sexuality, yet
later says that priesthood is not an alternative. This double-bind
message distorts the credibility of the church. And we should not miss
the language of a subtle homoerotic seduction into an intimate and
exclusive relationship between the priest and Christ that the
Congregation for the Clergy uses several times in the document,’
explains Dr. Michael Brinkschroeder Co-chair of the GNRC and
project-manager of Homosexuelle und Kirche (Germany).
The Global Network of Rainbow
Catholics (GNRC) brings together organizations and individuals who work
for pastoral care and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI) people and their families
For full text of GNRC’s statement, click here.
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests director David Clohessy (SNAP):
“Scapegoating some adults protects no children. Behavior, not orientation, is what matters.
“Half
of our 20,000 plus members are women who were sexually assaulted as
kids by priests, nuns, bishops and seminarians. It’s just wrong to
assume or claim that most victims of child molesting clerics are boys.
“This will almost certainly have no impact
whatsoever on the church’s continuing child sex abuse and cover up
crisis. Those who hope this will make kids safer will be disappointed.”
Bondings 2.0 will report on other significant reactions to the Vatican document as they become available.–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry, December 10, 2016
TCK: Please pray for these poor lost souls....
