More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed. Rourc were srce for a man stgglg wh homosexualy and tryg to rema fahful to the Church’s teachg.
Contents:
- THE POPE SAYS GAY CATHOLICS ARE BORN THIS WAY
- WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
- WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
- PRO-GAY US PRIT H OVER FENSE OF LGBTQ CATHOLICS LATT BOOK
- EXPLORG PRO-GAY TEXTS THE BIBLE
- LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
THE POPE SAYS GAY CATHOLICS ARE BORN THIS WAY
Pope Francis reportedly reassured a Chilean man durg an timate meetg that he was born gay and that God loved him unndnally. * pro gay catholics *
” g om queer Catholics worldwi who are creasgly feelg seen by their Church’s lear, pecially after his latt ments support of the LGBTQ+ what is wily nsired to be his most acceptg statement to date, Pope Francis reportedly reassured a Chilean man durg an timate meetg that he was born gay and that God loved him unndnally. Not only has he prevly lled on Christians to apologize to gay people for their historic opprsn, but he’s also said fively that “God lov all his creatur, ” cludg queer folks, and that “we are sted to receive his fe love. ” rponse om 2013 wh regards to gay when the Vir of Christ tells someone of fah that he personally don’t re about their sexualy, and even go so far as to say that ’s herent and God-given, that gture alone is absolutely revolutnary, particularly for those of who have spent years lookg for validatn wh the Church and have stead enuntered closed doors wh signs that effectively read, “Knock and shall be opened to you.
We’ve had the Book of Levic thrown at ; we’ve heard that Adam and Eve (not Steve) are prent Genis; we’ve been told repeatedly that we’ll never be able to get married or possibly even adopt children om fah-based agenci bee of this notn that homosexualy, specifilly, is mak Pope Francis’ latt pro-gay pot that much more signifint, even if ’s the kd of sentiment that isn’t reciproted by tradnalists both the pews and at the altar. For stance, a handful of Amerin Cardals were clud promotnal materials last summer for ‘Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay, ’ a book wrten by a man renouncg his homosexualy to supposedly better follow J.
If that’s not bad enough, Pope Francis jt appoted homosexualy-promotg Newark Cardal Joseph Tob to oversee a very troublg suatn where a Catholic bishop was unrmed by the Vatin unr Pope Francis for standg up for Catholic valu. Jam Mart and has removed a prit his archdce om his parish apparent retaliatn for his cisn to burn a “rabow pri flag” prevly ed by the parish to promote the homosexual agenda.
WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
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Jam Mart to speak his archdce and has signated a pro-gay prit who heads a homosexual-affirmg parish as the “Spirual Director for Victims” of sex abe for the Atlanta archdce. Jam Mart, has lled the Church’s teachgs on homosexualy “ unfortunate” and “hurtful”and he has weled homosexuals to the Cathedral Basili Newark as a part of an LGBT pilgrimage where Catholics “married to same-sex spo” were ved to participate the Sacrament of Holy Communn. Bishop McElroy has said that labelg homosexual acts as “trsilly disorred, ” as the Catechism scrib them, is “very stctive language that I thk we should not e pastorally.
Bishop Steven Biegler has, alongsi a rdal and 10 bishops, teamed up wh a pro-homosexual advocy group to release a statement affirmg youths who intify as LGBT, statg, ”God is on your si. Bishop Edward Weisenburger has jt signed a statement partnership wh a pro-homosexual advocy group support of young people who intify as LGBT, tellg them that “God is on your si. Kopacz has, alongsi Cardal Joseph Tob and 10 bishops, teamed up wh a pro-homosexual advocy group to release their statement affirmg youths who intify as LGBT, statg, “God is on your si.
The blog is about what 's like to be a gay Catholic – a gay Catholic who is of urse, celibate – and I say 'of urse' bee that seems to me like the only optn if you're gog to be both gay and Catholic. My iends and I joke that there's a gay Catholic renaissance on, or actually a gay Christian renaissance on, and we're proud to be at the foreont of – or at least we tell ourselv that we're at the foreont.
WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
Here s a real pastoral qutn to nsir What place nbsp is there for nbsp the gay person the Catholic church nbsp Wh the warng om the archdce of Washgton D C that would pull out of social servic the cy rather than acce to a bill that would afford benefs to same * pro gay catholics *
It was hard the sense that I'd actually always said that people shouldn't be public about beg gay, bee was not anybody's bs and I felt that would lend legimacy to this ia that beg gay is a sort of a sgle way to intify yourself: I actually still sort of hold that posn – kd of. ' I ed to joke that the only reason I ed the word 'gay' was so that I would tend to show up more on Google, which is only partially a joke, bee you know if you're gog to e the tools of technology to evangelize, then you have to be savvy about what Google is gog to fd and what isn't. But I gus the shift maly happened as I began to approach beg more public about , bee as I beme more public I also me to ntact more openly wh people who intified as gay or who stggled wh same-sex attractn, or whatever.
It's the sort of thg where people feel, and I thk rightly, that they have been nstraed to keep silent for most of their liv – and a lot of people have, whether 's nstraed by actual explic homophobia among the people that they love and/or are related to, or whether 's jt sort of a general culture unrstandg that you don't talk about this sort of thg. ' This is tratg and across as very patronizg bee the are people who don't have any sight to the experience of what is to be gay tellg you what is or is not ok to talk about, and what is and is not ok to ll yourself. Now I thk that one reason Christians tend to dislike the word 'gay' is bee if somebody says that they are gay, then they are ually implyg that is an unchangeable aspect of their personaly.
I'll start first by sayg that I'm extremely grateful for the anizatn People Can Change, which is an anizatn found precisely on the ia that radil change wh rpect to homosexualy is possible. I'm grateful for them not bee they 'ma me straight' or somethg, but bee they gave me a space which to work out some of my issu, many of which turned out not to be related precisely to homosexualy particular, but were jt sort of emotnal issu that need alg wh. But on the other hand, this is dangero bee you have a lot of Christian people already assumg om the get-go that if somebody is homosexual, then they mt have var and many emotnal issu that need workg on, and that's not necsarily the se.
PRO-GAY US PRIT H OVER FENSE OF LGBTQ CATHOLICS LATT BOOK
Our hope is that, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church. * pro gay catholics *
If the unrstandg the Christian world is that homosexualy is a "disorr, " and homosexual activy is a s, then logilly would seem like as Christians, we would want to help our fellow Christians who are "dis-orred" to be "orred. C., that would pull out of social servic the cy rather than acce to a bill that would afford benefs to same-sex spo, a qutn, too long neglected, aris for the whole church: What is a gay Catholic supposed to do life?
A gay layman I know who serv an important role a dce (and even wr some of his bishop's statements on social jtice) has a solid theologil tn and sir to serve the church, but fds impossible to be open the face of the bishop's repeated disparagg remarks about gays.
CV NEWS FEED // A growg number of pro-LGBT Catholic clergy are publicly nouncg the Vatin for upholdg Catholic teachg on homosexualy, wh some openly vowg to disobey Pope Francis by officially blsg “gay unns.
EXPLORG PRO-GAY TEXTS THE BIBLE
My belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person. * pro gay catholics *
”A former high school teacher, Archbishop Wter said bullyg n be pecially toxic for young people who are tryg to e to terms wh their sexual orientatn, pecially when eher they or others misterpret church teachg on homosexualy to nvey the notn that beg gay self is Catholic Church teach that homosexualy is “objectively disorred” and nmns sexual acts between people of the same sex as sful. Catholics who gathered at Newark’s Cathedral Basili of the Sacred Heart, and 2019, he told NBC News that he found the church’s language around homosexualy to be “very unfortunate” and “hurtful.
LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
Jam Mart, one of Catholicism’s most well-known advot for legimizg homosexual activy, h the shelv, immediately ed an uproar wh the Catholic Church, settg prit agast prit and even bishop agast “Buildg a Bridge, ” published June by HarperColls Publishers, the Ju prit lls on Catholics to embrace the LGBTQ muny and treat people wh “rpect, passn and sensivy. ” While long known for his support of the LGBTQ muny, his book tensified an creasgly ranro bate wh the Catholic Church over whether s lennia-old proscriptn agast homosexual activy should be changed. “He [Mart] repeats the mon cricism that Catholics have been harshly cril of homosexualy, while neglectg the importance of sexual tegry among all of s followers, ” Sarah wr.
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Likewise, Thomas Paprocki, bishop of Sprgfield, Ill., has cricized Mart’s views and reaffirmed the Church’s long-standg ban agast givg Communn and funeral r to those whose sexual activy is emed sful – cludg active homosexuals.
Father Jam Mart, SJ (HarperColls Publishers)Dpe such cricism, Mart’s views are beg echoed more and more by the Church’s the summer, Cardal Joseph Tob, the lear of the Archdce of Newark, weled around 100 gay and lbian Catholics and their fai to a Mass at the Cathedral Basili of the Sacred Heart Newark, N. ”The views g om the Vatin regardg the LGBTQ muny, however, have been more Francis ma headl 2013 when he told reporters Rome that “if someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?