Quite the headline. Yet to be sure, one must ask the question?
Robert Cardinal Sarah has been, what can only be described as, abused, by Pope Francis and his minions such as Robert Micken, Massimo Faggioli and others when it comes to Cardinal Sarah. First, it was the Cardinal's comments a year ago about "ad orientem," now, he has been pubicly dressed down by Bergoglio to the cheering mobs of minions
Pure Alinsky tactics to discredit and malign. We also well remember Cardinal Kasper's comments about Africans, that "they should not tell us too much what to do."
Is racism an issue here? It's a fair question, because Caucasian European and American bishops and cardinals are making continuous statements that go against the faith. Yet, here we have this African who upholds the faith and the treatment is different.
My view?
The Holy Spirit is at work allowing complete freedom by withdrawing grace from the enemies to show themselves. At the same time, he is pouring out grace upon Cardinal Sarah to refine him from an dross as in a refiner's fire.
There is a reason why Bergoglio, Kasper, Faggioli, Micken and the rest or doing this.
They can see it as clearly as you and I.
The only question is, what name will he take?
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Sunday 22 October 2017
Has Francis dressed down Cardinal Sarah over issue of translations of the liturgy?
On a Sunday, (October 15) of all days, Pope Bergoglio issued a letter to Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments on the matter of translations.
Father Zuhsdorf has his take on it; particularly on the scumbags known as Massimo Faggioli, James Martin and Robert Mickens.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/10/i-learned-that-when-a-person-has-decided-to-destroy-you-he-has-no-lack-of-words-spite-and-hypocrisy/
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/10/what-does-pope-francis-letter-to-card-sarah-really-say/
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/10/22/pope-tells-sarah-power-indeed-shifting-rome-bishops/
Father Zuhsdorf has his take on it; particularly on the scumbags known as Massimo Faggioli, James Martin and Robert Mickens.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/10/i-learned-that-when-a-person-has-decided-to-destroy-you-he-has-no-lack-of-words-spite-and-hypocrisy/
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/10/what-does-pope-francis-letter-to-card-sarah-really-say/
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/10/22/pope-tells-sarah-power-indeed-shifting-rome-bishops/
Pope tells Sarah power is indeed shifting from Rome to the bishops
- Crux StaffOctober 22, 2017
Not all is OK in Oklahoma
Since the retirement of Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa and his replacement with David Konderla, there has been some controversy. First, there was the departure of exorcist Father Chad Rippenger and then that of the removal of a fledgling group of nuns, the Daughter of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope.
The article below is a guest post by Laramie Hirch of The Hirsch Files.
I'm doing my best to try to
not post much about the local Tulsa Catholic ordeal. I never set out to
be a reporter or any such thing. Yet, if I don't document what has been
happening in this particular diocese, I don't think anyone will. And
recently, something so beautiful--and, perhaps, even sad--has been occurring
over the past month, and I think I would be neglectful to not share it.
But first, a few things. I want to thank my online colleague, Vox Cantoris, for allowing me to share this information with you. My blog, The Hirsch Files, is still currently down for various reasons, and I would otherwise have no way of sharing this story. (Anyone who wishes to still view my blog and its archives can obtain an invitation by mailing me at nobious1 at gmail dot com.)
The article below is a guest post by Laramie Hirch of The Hirsch Files.
TULSA TLM UNDER SIEGE
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of Sts. Peter and Paul. Bare bones,
vacuous, empty...modern.
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But first, a few things. I want to thank my online colleague, Vox Cantoris, for allowing me to share this information with you. My blog, The Hirsch Files, is still currently down for various reasons, and I would otherwise have no way of sharing this story. (Anyone who wishes to still view my blog and its archives can obtain an invitation by mailing me at nobious1 at gmail dot com.)
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Next, some background.
Since September of last year (2016), I have been covering the incremental
dismantling of the Traditional Catholic network in the Tulsa diocese.
This has been ongoing ever since the pro-Traditionalist Catholic Bishop
Slattery went into retirement under Pope Francis, and was replaced with the
young Bishop Konderla--a former college chaplain for Texas A&M
University. Since then, under this new bishop, Tulsa has witnessed the
ouster of famed exorcist, Fr. Paul
Ripperger, as well as the ouster of an order of nuns called the Daughters of Mary, led by
Mother Miriam, host of Heart to
Heart With Mother Miriam. A wave of subtle and not-so-subtle
changes against Tradition has been sweeping across the diocese. For
example, Vespers and ad orientum have been cancelled at the
downtown Cathedral, much to the delight of the modernist priests in the
diocese.
Another recent piece of sad
news was the sabbatical of Fr. Timothy Davidson from Sts. Peter and Paul, the
location of Tulsa's diocesan Latin Mass. At this parish, Fr. Davidson
oversaw Mass for the Novus Ordo English and Spanish communities, as well as the
Tridentine Latin Mass. Not only was Fr. Davidson loved by the community
he worked for, but the conversion of his heart towards Tradition became known
even to The
Remnant. It has been stated that Fr. Davidson left to take care of
family out of state; however, one wonders if that is common practice for
priests, and if perhaps something else is going on. Fr. Davidson's
absence has left the future of the diocesan TLM hanging on life support.
Which brings us to the recent
phenomenon.
Legacy
Before Fr. Davidson left Sts.
Peter and Paul, he made sure to have a legacy plan in place. Out of love
for the communities that have formed around the parish, including the Latin
community, Fr. Davidson made plans to perpetuate what he tried to build up for
the glory of God.
Now, in order to perpetuate
the TLM, Fr. Davidson made sure to teach another parish priest how to say the
Latin Mass. However, there was a problem. This second priest did
not speak English. Therefore, an English-speaking deacon would
give the homily. This arrangement certainly has felt a bit dicey for that
parish, and understandably, a few families have left the parish for the
seemingly more secure FSSP parish across the Arkansas River.
The Latin community's
continuation is also dubious because the Bishop of Tulsa has placed a priest in
charge of the parish who is not, exactly, friendly to Tradition. His
approach, it has been said, has been rough around the edges, and it appears the
new pastor has a hesitation to accept the new parish, being averse to
Tradition.
Why do I say this about the
new priest, and what has happened?
One of the first things that
occurred with the arrival of the new priest was that ad orientum was
abolished in the English and Spanish Masses. The altar is a modernist
"supper table" once more. Furthermore, the new priest has
insisted that it's okay for the laity to stand to receive communion
irreverently in the hand. And, I could be wrong, but I think the new
priest intentionally does not help the Spanish-speaking priest with the TLM
during communion--though he will dart in and give a homily now and then,
darting out again when he's finished.
Beauty Under Siege
There is still a
Spanish-speaking priest officiating the Universal Mass of the Ages at Sts.
Peter and Paul. The Anglos at the TLM don't understand him much, but
they do understand his intentions--and struggles--to keep
Traditional Catholicism alive. The pressure upon the Spanish-speaking
priest must be great, as he has not only the weight of the official parish
priest to bear, but also the weight of Bishop Konderla's disdain for the TLM
and the Traditionalist community.
Consequently, as a result of
the undoing of the loving work of the former pastor, some families from the
Spanish community have come over to the Latin Mass. These families are
tired of the modernist subversion tactics, and they seem to be going against
the New Order that is being forced upon them by the new parish priest.
They are retreating towards Universalism. They are escaping to the true
Catholicism that once united the entire world. And, I say again, these
families are Spanish-speaking parishioners. They have replenished the
numbers of the Latin community.
For years, I can tell you, Fr.
Davidson sought to do his best to merge the English-speakers and the
Spanish-speakers into one community that would be universal. That is the
reason why the Mass was always in Latin. Because it was a universal
language that people of different cultures and languages could mutually
understand together. Yet, Fr. Davidson just couldn't pull it off during
his tenure. There were hang-ups in the past, for whatever reason.
Perhaps the Hispanic community was hesitant about the idea of the TLM, which
was something they didn't understand. Perhaps they were too comfortable
with Mass being said in the vernacular. Perhaps they took Fr. Davidson
for granted when he was still in the parish.
However, now it is being
demonstrated that a Spanish-speaking priest is trying to carry out the universal
mission of the Catholic Church with the TLM. And the Hispanic community
at Sts. Peter and Paul are beginning to see that this priest--who can speak
their language and understand their culture--is under a sort of attack.
And so they come to his aid with their numbers. Are they acting out of
love for true Catholicism, which they are beginning to understand now under the
duress of struggle? Is this merely a tribal reaction to show support for
the Spanish-speaking priest? I cannot tell which is the case, but this
phenomenon is happening, and there is much potential for friendship
and solidarity between the Hispanic and Anglo community.
This little event at Sts.
Peter and Paul is a microcosm of what the Universal Church is all about.
It is sad that it takes soft persecution, veiled threats, and struggle in order
to come to something like this. But it's one of the most beautiful things
I've ever seen in a church community in my entire life.
Conclusion
At long last, the Anglo and
Hispanic communities at Sts. Peter and Paul are finding a place to have common
ground. They are uniting under the Latin Mass.
Will Sts. Peter and Paul return to its spartan, blank style? |
I pray that Bishop Konderla,
the new priest at Sts. Peter and Paul, and all modernist priests in the Diocese
of Tulsa consider this wonderful thing that has happened in the diocesan TLM
community. It is said that Bishop Slattery was once a sort of Baby Boomer
bishop whose heart converted. Dear Lord, please let it be the same with
this parish's new priest and bishop.
There is more to the Catholic
Faith than just liberal novelties stemming from the late 1960s. The Faith
can be as deep as the ocean if you allow it to be. There is no end to the
number of profound things that can occur in a Tradition that has been built up
for 2,000 years. Catholicism holds a vast arsenal of incredible truths
and much potential beyond our imaginations--if only our modern pastors would
stop fighting against it.
There is nothing wrong with a
Renaissance.
Friday 20 October 2017
Francis Bergoglio corrects Jesus Christ and manipulates the words of Holy Scripture
Greg Burke, the Bishop of Rome's spokesman, owes it to the Catholic faithful to state whether Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica is telling the truth in his statement of what Jorge Bergoglio said:
This is heresy. The heresy of "Annihilationism." It denies the eternal soul and the eternity of Hell.
The second heresy is "Universalism." This is the heresy that everyone is saved.
Sandro Magister has written this morning about the various times Jorge Bergoglio has either "corrected" Our Lord Jesus Christ or the Holy Apostles, or he has manipulated the words of Our Lord and Holy Scripture by not finishing the sentence.
It is a revealing and damning indictment of Bergoglio and the lapdog minions like Greg Burke who help him sell his snake oil.
What follows below are the highlights of the Gospel According to Bergoglio, the rest of this indictment can be read at:
http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2017/10/20/worlds-end-update-the-last-things-according-to-francis/
“Pope Francis has abolished the places where souls were supposed to go after death: hell, purgatory, heaven. The idea he holds is that souls dominated by evil and unrepentant cease to exist, while those that have been redeemed from evil will be taken up into beatitude, contemplating God.”
The second heresy is "Universalism." This is the heresy that everyone is saved.
Sandro Magister has written this morning about the various times Jorge Bergoglio has either "corrected" Our Lord Jesus Christ or the Holy Apostles, or he has manipulated the words of Our Lord and Holy Scripture by not finishing the sentence.
It is a revealing and damning indictment of Bergoglio and the lapdog minions like Greg Burke who help him sell his snake oil.
What follows below are the highlights of the Gospel According to Bergoglio, the rest of this indictment can be read at:
http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2017/10/20/worlds-end-update-the-last-things-according-to-francis/
On Wednesday, October 11, at the general audience in Saint
Peter’s Square, Francis said that such a judgment is not to be feared, because
“at the end of our history there is the merciful Jesus,” and therefore
“everything will be saved. Everything.”
In the text distributed to the journalists accredited to the
Holy See, this last word, “everything,” was emphasized in boldface.
*
At another general audience a few months ago, on Wednesday,
August 23, Francis gave for the end of history an image that is entirely and
only comforting: that of “an immense tent, where God will welcome all mankind
so as to dwell with them definitively.”
An image that is not his own but is taken from chapter 21 of
Revelation, but from which Francis was careful not to cite the following words
of Jesus:
“The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his
God, and he will be my son. But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved,
murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every
sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second
death.”
*
And again, in commenting during the Angelus of Sunday,
October 15 on the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 22: 1-14) that was
read at all the Masses on that day, Francis carefully avoided citing the most unsettling
parts.
Both that in which “the king became indignant, sent his
troops, had those murderers killed and their city burned.”
And that in which, having seen “one man who was not wearing
the wedding garment,” the king ordered his servants: “Bind him hand and foot
and throw him out into the darkness; there shall be weeping there, and gnashing
of teeth.”
*
On the previous Sunday, October 8, another parable, that of
the murderous vine dressers (Matthew 21:33-43), had undergone the same
selective treatment.
In commenting on the parable during the Angelus, the pope
left out what the owner of the vineyard does to those farmers who killed the
servants and finally the son: “He will put those wretches to a miserable
death.” Much less did he cite the concluding words of Jesus, referring to
himself as the “cornerstone”: “He who falls on this stone will be broken to
pieces; but when it falls on any one, it will crush him.”
Thursday 19 October 2017
Gregory Baum is dead
Gregory Baum is dead at 94.
Canada's peritus at the Second Vatican Council, theologian, priest, betrayer of his call, husband, sodomite, Protestant, father of the Winnipeg Statement, heretic, -- has gone to his judgement.
Steve Jalsevac of LifeSiteNews has written:
I don't think there is any doubt that if Bella Dodd was telling the truth, this man was one of their "better" plants.
Steve Jalsevac of LifeSiteNews has written:
"Msgr. Foy, whom I personally knew very well, possessed documents which claimed that Gregory Baum was a Marxist spy sent to Canada to infiltrate and corrupt the Catholic Church. That cannot be verified, but it is not beyond reason to consider the claim could be true, given the devastation that Baum caused in the Church."
I don't think there is any doubt that if Bella Dodd was telling the truth, this man was one of their "better" plants.
Whatever prayer can do him good at this time, - "may God have mercy upon his soul," for now, Gregory knows the terrible truth.
For more on Baum.
For more on Baum.
Labels:
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Wednesday 18 October 2017
Well then George, if the Church must listen and respond to questions, then answer the Dubia!
Better to say nothing that I am thinking.
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Replying to questions and giving interviews are a “pastoral risk” Pope Francis said he is prepared to take, because it is the best way to know and respond to people’s real concerns.
“I know this can make me vulnerable, but it is a risk I want to take,” the pope wrote in the introduction to a new book collecting transcripts of question-and-answer sessions he has held all over the world.
The collection in Italian, “Adesso Fate le Vostre Domande” (“Now, Ask Your Questions”), was edited by Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and scheduled for release Oct. 19. The pope’s introduction was published Oct. 17 in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
“I want a church that knows how to enter into people’s conversations, that knows how to dialogue,” Pope Francis wrote.
The model is the Gospel account of the risen Lord’s meeting with the disciples on the road to Emmaus. “The Lord ‘interviews’ the disciples who are walking discouraged,” he said. “For me, the interview is part of this conversation the church is having with men and women today.”
The interviews and Q&A sessions “always have a pastoral value,” Pope Francis said, and are an important part of his ministry, just like inviting a small group of people to his early morning Mass each day.
The chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives, “is, let’s say, my parish. I need that communication with people.”
And, in interviews, the journalists often ask the questions that are on the minds of the faithful, he said.
The most regular appointment he has for responding to questions is on the flights back to Rome from his foreign trips when he holds a news conference with the journalists who travel with him.
“There, too, on those trips, I like to look people in the eye and respond to their questions sincerely,” he wrote. “I know that I have to be prudent, and I hope I am. I always pray to the Holy Spirit before I start listening to the questions and responding.”
His favorite interviews, he said, are with small, neighborhood newspapers and magazines. “There I feel even more at ease,” the pope said. “In fact, in those cases I really am listening to the questions and concerns of common people. I try to respond spontaneously, in a conversation I hope is understandable, and not with rigid formulas.”
“For me,” he said, “interviews are a dialogue, not a lesson.”
Even when the questions are submitted in advance, the pope said he does not prepare his answers. Watching the person ask the question and responding directly is important.
“Yes, I am afraid of being misinterpreted,” he said. “But, I repeat, I want to run this pastoral risk.
By Cindy Wooden
Pope on interviews: Church must listen, respond to people’s questions
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Replying to questions and giving interviews are a “pastoral risk” Pope Francis said he is prepared to take, because it is the best way to know and respond to people’s real concerns.
“I know this can make me vulnerable, but it is a risk I want to take,” the pope wrote in the introduction to a new book collecting transcripts of question-and-answer sessions he has held all over the world.
The collection in Italian, “Adesso Fate le Vostre Domande” (“Now, Ask Your Questions”), was edited by Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and scheduled for release Oct. 19. The pope’s introduction was published Oct. 17 in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
“I want a church that knows how to enter into people’s conversations, that knows how to dialogue,” Pope Francis wrote.
The model is the Gospel account of the risen Lord’s meeting with the disciples on the road to Emmaus. “The Lord ‘interviews’ the disciples who are walking discouraged,” he said. “For me, the interview is part of this conversation the church is having with men and women today.”
The interviews and Q&A sessions “always have a pastoral value,” Pope Francis said, and are an important part of his ministry, just like inviting a small group of people to his early morning Mass each day.
The chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives, “is, let’s say, my parish. I need that communication with people.”
And, in interviews, the journalists often ask the questions that are on the minds of the faithful, he said.
The most regular appointment he has for responding to questions is on the flights back to Rome from his foreign trips when he holds a news conference with the journalists who travel with him.
“There, too, on those trips, I like to look people in the eye and respond to their questions sincerely,” he wrote. “I know that I have to be prudent, and I hope I am. I always pray to the Holy Spirit before I start listening to the questions and responding.”
His favorite interviews, he said, are with small, neighborhood newspapers and magazines. “There I feel even more at ease,” the pope said. “In fact, in those cases I really am listening to the questions and concerns of common people. I try to respond spontaneously, in a conversation I hope is understandable, and not with rigid formulas.”
“For me,” he said, “interviews are a dialogue, not a lesson.”
Even when the questions are submitted in advance, the pope said he does not prepare his answers. Watching the person ask the question and responding directly is important.
“Yes, I am afraid of being misinterpreted,” he said. “But, I repeat, I want to run this pastoral risk.
Labels:
Answer the Dubia,
The Bergoglian Heresy
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Divine Worship at St. Thomas More Ordinariate Parish in Toronto
The Anglican Ordinariate of St. Thomas More Parish is home at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church on Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto. Divine Worship is Sunday at 12:30.
Sunday 15 October 2017
The SSPX: "But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it."
This writer does not attend the Society of St. Pius X chapel in Toronto. On Sundays, Vox and Fox drive two hours and two dioceses away to assist in developing the community there in a properly offered traditional Latin liturgy, with Gregorian chant and organ. Our choir is growing, mostly young women, our organist, at 13, can perform on the organ, and the community can sing, Mass I, II, III, IV, VI, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XV, XVII and Credo I-VI plus the Marian antiphons and sprinkling rites. That is the labour that this writer attends to on Sundays, it is tiring and it is greatly rewarding to see how the community is growing. It is a humble group of faith. No rancour. No polemics. Only the gift by God to allow me to see where the future will be as we pass on to others what we have been given.
In full disclosure, in the past, between other cantor appointments and at other times on special request when their regular director was not available, I have assisted at the Toronto Chapel of The Transfiguration. I have great respect for what they have accomplished across southern Ontario from the St. Michael's Priory. I was a great honour to have been part of the Schola that sang the requiems for Father Nicholas Gruner and Father Stephen Somerville. I have great respect for the Society of St. Pius X and its priests and bishops. Without them, there would be on traditional Mass. The slander that they continue to put up with by people within the novus ordo culture is regrettable. When it comes by those lay pretenders to tradition, it is even more deplorable.
One day when the Church emerges from this darkness, She will acknowledge before God and man the error that overwhelmed Her. She will condemn these and declare them anathema. Then, She will acknowledge the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and "restore all things in Christ."
When one views the pictures below and at the link, I defy anyone to state that this is not the work of God. This would not be happening if the Holy Spirit were not directing it. To fail to see this is to be blind. This is not to say that the SSPX is the "Church," but that the SSPX is within the "Church."
Those who deride them are wrong and do not know scripture.
We only need to look at the Book of Acts and the very words of Holy Gamaliel himself:
http://fsspx.news/fr/news-events/news/argentine-ordinations-au-seminaire-de-la-reja-32656
In full disclosure, in the past, between other cantor appointments and at other times on special request when their regular director was not available, I have assisted at the Toronto Chapel of The Transfiguration. I have great respect for what they have accomplished across southern Ontario from the St. Michael's Priory. I was a great honour to have been part of the Schola that sang the requiems for Father Nicholas Gruner and Father Stephen Somerville. I have great respect for the Society of St. Pius X and its priests and bishops. Without them, there would be on traditional Mass. The slander that they continue to put up with by people within the novus ordo culture is regrettable. When it comes by those lay pretenders to tradition, it is even more deplorable.
One day when the Church emerges from this darkness, She will acknowledge before God and man the error that overwhelmed Her. She will condemn these and declare them anathema. Then, She will acknowledge the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and "restore all things in Christ."
When one views the pictures below and at the link, I defy anyone to state that this is not the work of God. This would not be happening if the Holy Spirit were not directing it. To fail to see this is to be blind. This is not to say that the SSPX is the "Church," but that the SSPX is within the "Church."
Those who deride them are wrong and do not know scripture.
We only need to look at the Book of Acts and the very words of Holy Gamaliel himself:
ACTS 5: 38. And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought; 39. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.
http://fsspx.news/fr/news-events/news/argentine-ordinations-au-seminaire-de-la-reja-32656
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Saturday 14 October 2017
Confirmed that the masturbating Monsignor Carlo Capella is in Vatican City - extradition to Canada has not been requested
We have reported previously on Monsignor Masturbator and the preference of Carlo Capella for the naked imagery of children as slaves for his sexual gratification.
The Catholic Herald reports that Vatican spokesman Greg Burke has said that "No requests for extradition have come from Canada and no trial has been set by the Vatican," though it does appear that they are "investigating." Protected no doubt in Vatican City. Does this masturbating monsignor still have access to a computer?
http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/10/14/vatican-canada-did-not-seek-extradition-for-diplomat-wanted-on-child-pornography-charges/
Bishop of Rome Bergoglio has spoken much about child exploitation and slavery and sexual abuse. Let's see what he does with this filthy pervert.
My guess?
Nothing.
The Church of Christ has been taken over and infiltrated by filthy perverts, sodomites and satanists.
There is simply no other explanation.
Friday 13 October 2017
Irish Bishop of Limerck Brendan Leahy - a corrupted, episcopal promoter of sodomy
There once was a bishop from Limerick,
Whose faith was not apostolic.
He welcomed all gays
in so many ways
From Catholicism, he's really schismatic.
Gay couples must be made welcome at World Meeting of Families, insists bishop
Sarah MacDonald
Gay couples must be made welcome at next year's World Meeting of Families in Ireland, the Catholic Bishop of Limerick has said.
Bishop Brendan Leahy is the first Catholic bishop to publicly reach out to families of all hues, including those of same-sex couples.
The Catholic Church condemns homosexual acts as gravely immoral, but it also says LGBT people must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity and that any discrimination must be condemned.
However, it teaches marriage can only be between a man and a woman and believes same-sex unions are an unfavourable environment for the bringing-up of children.
However, it teaches marriage can only be between a man and a woman and believes same-sex unions are an unfavourable environment for the bringing-up of children.
The Church argues the legalisation of such unions is harmful to society. In 2015, the Irish hierarchy opposed the referendum on the legalisation same-sex marriage.
However, speaking after his diocese launched its preparation programme for WMF2018, an international event which promotes traditional Catholic teaching on marriage, Dr. Leahy said the event in August 2018 in Dublin would be a missed opportunity if the Church did not embrace family in all its variety.
However, speaking after his diocese launched its preparation programme for WMF2018, an international event which promotes traditional Catholic teaching on marriage, Dr. Leahy said the event in August 2018 in Dublin would be a missed opportunity if the Church did not embrace family in all its variety.
"We are living in changing times and family too is changing," he said.
"We've had the referendum in favour of same-sex marriage and a lot of people voted in that referendum and all are equally welcome to join in this celebration of family.
"We've had the referendum in favour of same-sex marriage and a lot of people voted in that referendum and all are equally welcome to join in this celebration of family.
"Everyone must be made feel welcome next year. We all want to build a good family network of support in Ireland at all levels."
Describing the World Meeting of Families as the most important gathering in Ireland for decades, he said: "It's an international event but it will have special meaning for us as Irish people because family means so much here."
Describing the World Meeting of Families as the most important gathering in Ireland for decades, he said: "It's an international event but it will have special meaning for us as Irish people because family means so much here."
Stating that the family is at Irish people's very core, he added: "It anchors us in life, defines us. It's comfort when we are in difficulty and the first place to go to celebrate.
"The World Meeting of Family is a major celebration of this."
Bishop Leahy said he was delighted by "the coming together of the full diversity of family".
"My hope for next year's event is that it will be for all families; for the traditional family, single parents, people in second relationships, people divorced and remarried, people of great faith and no faith, people of other faiths, people who agree with the Church and those who disagree."
"My hope for next year's event is that it will be for all families; for the traditional family, single parents, people in second relationships, people divorced and remarried, people of great faith and no faith, people of other faiths, people who agree with the Church and those who disagree."
The World Meeting of Families is held every three years by the Catholic Church at different international locations and Dublin was specifically chosen by Pope Francis for the event from August 21-26 2018.
Thousands of families from all over the world are expected to descend on Ireland for the gathering, which has been themed 'The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World' and will focus on the Pope's document on family and marriage, 'Amoris Laetitia'.
Thousands of families from all over the world are expected to descend on Ireland for the gathering, which has been themed 'The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World' and will focus on the Pope's document on family and marriage, 'Amoris Laetitia'.
WMF2018 will incorporate a three-day congress of keynote speakers and workshops on the challenges and contribution of families.
It will culminate in a Festival of Families on Saturday, August 25.
It will culminate in a Festival of Families on Saturday, August 25.
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