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Contents:
- 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
- LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
- GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
Monsignor Jefey Burrill stepped down om his admistrative posn at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuday amid allegatns that he repeatedly ed LGBTQ datg app Grdr and equented gay bars. * catholic gay bishop *
”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.
But at the same time, says that gay people “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy. People may sometim misterpret church teachg about homosexualy and rrectly thk they are somehow cut off om God’s love as a rult. “Sometim people n make equivotns, ‘Well if ’s a s to engage a homosexual act, then I mt be terrible person.
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. Acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, lbian, gay and bisexual youth are bullied and attempt suici at higher rat than their heterosexual peers.
LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
A proment liberal rdal who leads a body reprentg European bishops has lled for "fundamental revisn" Catholic teachg on homosexualy, and said is wrong to fire Church workers for beg gay. * catholic gay bishop *
One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian. ) The publitn and subsequent trial led to a spike of anti-gay rts. The bishops and prits who are examg the semari wh a mandate to elimate homosexually oriented ndidat om semari have a rponsibily: In fairns the examers mt reveal their orientatn to those examed.
Catholic sats have monstrated for centuri that homosexual orientatn is not an impediment to service, hols, or love. Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual. The New Ways Mistry is a gay-posive mistry of advocy, jtice and renciliatn for lbian and gay Catholics, fai and iends.
Sce 1977 they have worked for jtice and on behalf of lbian and gay Catholics and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni. Likewise, DignyUSA is the Uned Stat’ largt and most progrsive anizatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Catholics. They make great efforts to unter the dishont, hate-filled, anti-gay rhetoric so prevalent si and outsi the Catholic Church.
GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
This is clear s Instctn on the Visatn of Semari where talks about “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and “transnal homosexualy” and s equatn of sexual orientatn wh behavr. Cardal Levada, now head of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah (formerly the Office of the Inquisn) on Febary 26, 2006 asked homosexually oriented prits to rema closeted.
This suggtn is a travty and only creas the opportuny and danger for good prits—heterosexual and homosexual—to rry on secret, non-celibate liv. The Roman Catholic Church nnot re-tablish s tegry or s credibily until is clear about the distctn between sexual orientatn and behavr; between homosexualy and pedophilia; and the real meang of celibate practice.