Does Cardinal Dew of New Zealand, whom Father Rosica calls "a very wise shepherd" want to change the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
Here are Dew's words which can be found at this CNS interview:
Such people need to be respected, not condemned, this is their sexual orientation, we must try somehow to include them in the life of the Church. ... When we have documents that talk about intrinsically disordered or being evil it's not going to help people...not putting it in ways that people are being branded or told that they are bad or evil. ... Scripture was written for a particular time, Paul was writing about particular issues and so for people to just pick up something or Church authorities to quote something without putting it in context is not helpful for people.
On the sin of sodomy and homosexual desires the Catechism of the Catholic Church states the following:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or
between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction
toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through
the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains
largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents
homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared
that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are
contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life.
They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under
no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated
homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively
disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with
respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in
their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfil God's will
in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the
Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the
virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support
of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and
should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
CAUTION, DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE
The Catechism refers to the acts undertaken by those suffering from same-sex attraction as being of "grave depravity." Cardinal Dew, speaks of language in the interview and Father Rosica states in his Tweet, that the Church's "language on sexuality must change." It seems then that one of the words to be changed must be "depravity." Well, what else does one call fisting, slurping, analingus, coprophilia, felching, along with the more routine acts of sucking and anal insertion if not actions of great depravity which can result in serious medical conditions including early death in this life and eternal damnation in the next.
These are not only "depraved" but the acts are "intrinsically disordered" and changing language does not change the facts. The inclination to perform these acts is "objectively disordered. They are called, as we all are, to live lives of chastity based upon our station in life.
Dew is literally demanding the undermining the Catechism of the Catholic Church and he cannot deny it. To do so violates noncontradiction.
Dew wishes to go even further wherein he states that, "Scripture was written for a particular time, (Saint) Paul was writing about particular issues." Dew demands that we ignore St. Paul; should we ignore what the rest of Scripture states?
Genesis 19:4-8: " But before they lay down, the men
of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last
man, surrounded the house; and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came
to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.” Lot went out
of the door to the men, shut the door after him, and said, “I beg you, my
brothers, do not act so wickedly. Look, I have two daughters who have not known
a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do
nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
Judges 19:22-24: " While they were enjoying
themselves, the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house, and
started pounding on the door. They said to the old man, the master of the
house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse
with him. And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to
them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Since this man is my guest, do
not do this vile thing. Here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me
bring them out now. Ravish them and do whatever you want to them; but against
this man do not do such a vile thing.”
Leviticus 18:22-25: "You shall not lie with a male
as with a woman; it is an abomination. You shall not have sexual relations with
any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an
animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion. Do not defile
yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am
casting out before you have defiled themselves. Thus the land became defiled;
and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11: "Do you not know that wrongdoers
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators,
idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy,
drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. And
this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified,
you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of
our God."
1 Timothy 1:10: "Now we know that the law is good,
if one uses it legitimately. 9 This means understanding that the law is laid
down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless
and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or
mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers,
and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the
glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me."
Romans 1:24-27: " Therefore God gave them up in the
lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among
themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed
forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their
women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the
men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for
one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own
persons the due penalty for their error. "
Jude 1:5-7: "Now I desire to remind you, though you
are fully informed, that the Lord, who once for all saved a people out of the
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels
who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has
kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day. Likewise,
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as
they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an
example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire."
Would this Francis appointed Cardinal, a man who clearly spouts heresy, change the rest of the Holy Scriptures?
Let's not forget what the disgraced sodomite wrongfully ordained to the Catholic priesthood, Charamsa had to say:
"We demand that the Catholic Church divest itself of
activities, the mentality and language of homophobia, hate speech, humiliation
and depreciating, marginalization, stigmatization and rejection of LGBT people.
We demand the cessation of the Church of discrimination and soft persecution of
these people so within it as well as beyond its borders."
Again, remember what Rosica said on the second day of the
Synod:
'There must be an end to exclusionary language and a
strong emphasis on embracing reality as it is. We should not be afraid of new
and complex situations. ... the importance of changing language used to address
certain difficult situations, ... the
language must be renewed."
The heretical Dew stated about putting Scripture in "context." We've heard about "contexts" before, from Thomas J. Rosica.
"Will this Pope re-write controversial Church
doctrines? No. But that isn't how doctrine changes. Doctrine changes when
pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particularly
doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's
transforming love. Doctrine changes when the Church has leaders and teachers
who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights. It
changes when the Church has pastors who do what Francis has been insisting:
leave the securities of your chanceries, of your rectories, of your safe
places, of your episcopal residences go set aside the small minded rules that
often keep you locked up and shielded from the world."
This friends, is why we must not cease in raising the alarm as to what these men in Rome are doing. That is why you must understand clearly what is at stake and that you do not fear from raising these issues with your Catholic friends and families.
We are facing the worst crisis of the Church since the Protestant revolution and the Arian heresy. What a time we have been given in which to live. What disturbs me the most, is that this is all being done under the eye of the Bishop of Rome himself and seemingly with his approval, this speaking heresy and fomenting dissent from the Catholic faith as handed on to us, seems to be at the behest of the Pope of Rome, himself.
Let that sink in a moment.
Don't let them make you feel guilty when they tell you that you must be "respectful." I respected the "gay" cashier at the market and did not call him a sodomite or damn him to Hell because it is not my place. Nor is it yours, in that "context."
But when these homosexualists try to attack my Mother and undermine the Faith handed on to me by my late earthly mother, you're damn right I will call them exactly what they are.
For more on this Dew character, check out Father Z.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/01/observations-about-remarks-by-cardinal-elect-john-a-dew/
Since the synod fathers have begun to discuss the third part of the basic document, the one with the most controversial points, the weekday Mass is being read every day a passage of the Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul's theological masterpiece.
