That joking retort we
heard as children, "Is the pope Catholic?" is starting to look like a
serious question.
Asked five years ago about a "gay
lobby" in the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, "If a person is gay
and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?"
As judgment was thought to be part of the papal
job description, traditional Catholics were startled at what the new pope had
volunteered.
Now the Holy Father has apparently fleshed out
what he meant.
According to a childhood victim of a pedophile
priest in Chile, Juan Carlos Cruz, a homosexual to whom the pope apologized,
Francis said: "God made you like this and loves you like this and I don't
care. The pope does love you like this. You have to be happy with who you
are."
The Vatican has not denied what Cruz relates.
What makes this remarkable is that the catechism of the Catholic Church, based on the Old and New
Testament and tradition,
has always taught that homosexuality is a moral disorder, a proclivity toward
sexual relations that are unnatural and immoral. (Watchman comment the claim that Yeshua’s mother, Mary was
sinless is not in the Bible and neither is her so-called Ascension into heaven.
In short the RC catechism is not based on the Bible. Ask yourself this
question, why do we need a catechism if we already have the Bible?)
The idea that God is responsible for homosexual
orientations, that the pope and the Catholic Church are fine with men being
attracted to one another, and that those so oriented should be happy with it,
appears, on its face, to be heresy.
It implies
that what Catholics regarded for centuries as moral truth was wrong, or that
moral truth has evolved and must be made to conform to modernity. This is moral
relativism: Truth changes with the times.
Up until December 1973, homosexuality itself was
listed as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association.
The new
morality we hear from the pope reflects a
historic change in the moral thinking of the West. For the belief that
homosexuality is normal and natural, and not only acceptable but even
praiseworthy, has carried the day.
Legislatures and courts have written this
"truth" into law. It has been discovered by the Supreme Court to be
lurking in that Constitution whose authors regarded and treated homosexuality
as a grave crime.
And, yet, from this historic change, questions
naturally arise:
On the
issue of homosexuality, have we ascended to a higher moral plateau? Or has
America jettisoned the truths we believed and replaced them with the tenets of
an ideology that may be politically and culturally ascendant but is rooted in
nothing but baseless assertions and lies?
Consider the views of Cardinal Gerhard Muller,
lately removed as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as
to what is behind the
drive to have "homophobia" regarded as a mental disorder.
"Homophobia
(is) an invention and an instrument of the totalitarian dominance over the
thoughts of others. The homo-movement is lacking scientific arguments, which is
why it created an ideology which wants to dominate by creating its own reality."
In short,
cultural Marxists and their progressive allies have taken an ideological
assertion — homosexuality is normal, natural and moral — without any
historical, biological or scientific basis, and asserted it as truth,
established it as law, and demanded that we accept and act upon this truth, or
face the wrath of the regime. Hmmm, seems
like the blood ideology of the Nazis.
Said Muller: "It is the Marxist pattern
according to which reality does not create thinking, but thinking creates its
own reality. He who does
not accept this created reality is to be considered as being sick.
"It is as if one could influence an illness
with the help of the police or with the help of courts. In the Soviet Union, Christians were put into
psychiatric clinics. These are the methods of totalitarian regimes, of National
Socialism and of Communism."
As
Russell Kirk wrote, ideology is political religion. And the dogmas of the
political religion by which we are increasingly ruled have displaced the
teachings of Christianity.
Since the Stonewall Riot of 1969, homosexual
relationships have gone from being seen as indecent and immoral, to being
tolerated, to being accepted, to being on the same plane as traditional
marriage, to being a constitutional right.
And if
you do not accept the new morality, you are a deplorable bigot. And if you act
on your disbelief in the equality of homosexuality, you will be ostracized and
punished.
The truths being jettisoned built the greatest
civilization known to man. Will the invented truths of our new egalitarianism
survive the arrival of the new barbarians? It's not looking all that good right
now.
Part
2
POPE
Francis has told a gay man that God loves him during a private meeting, it has
been claimed.
In a private dialogue, the Pontiff is understood to
have told Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic
priests, that God loves gay people and it is fine to be homosexual.
The
comments are the most striking public acceptance about homosexuality ever made
by a head of the Roman Catholic Church.
The remarks were made during a private meeting at
the Vatican between the pair, in which the Pope offered
a heartfelt apology. Perhaps one the motivations of the Jesuit Pope was that he
is tired of all the law suits against the RC Church for pedophilia.
Cruz was a victim of Chile’s most notorious
pedophile priest Fernando Karadima.
Father Karadima, now aged 87, was found guilty of
sexual abuse by the Vatican in 2011.
Cruz
claims that his suffering was ignored by a number of Latin American bishops who
used his homosexuality to brand him a liar when he spoke out.
Cruz said: “He [the Pope] told me, ‘Juan Carlos,
that you are gay does not matter.
“God made you like this and loves you like this and
I don’t care.
“The pope loves you like this. You have to be happy
with who you are.”
The Pope’s words signal a much more open and
inclusive approach by the often restrictive faith – a move which will likely
upset many conservative Catholics. Dah!!!!
This is not the first time Pope
Francis’ comments have suggested a more open and tolerant attitude toward
homosexuality.
The Catholic Church teaches that gay
sex – and all sex outside of heterosexual marriage – is a sin.
This is not the first time Pope Francis’
comments have suggested a more open and tolerant attitude toward homosexuality.
In July 2013, when responding to a reporter’s
question about the existence of an alleged “gay lobby” within the Vatican, Pope
Francis said: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?"
Well, aren’t you supposedly the bridge or mediator between RC laymen and Jesus
Christ? Or have you abrogated that role? This is like a legal jury telling the judge who are we to judge?
The Pontiff’s most recent remarks come as several
high profile members of the clergy have sought to publicly make amends with gay
Catholics, many of whom say they feel shunned an d unwelcome in the church.
It is the most striking public
acceptance about homosexuality ever made by a Pontiff.
Juan Carlos Cruz was one of three former sex abuse
victims from Chile who were summoned to Rome to receive an apology from the
Pontiff for years of abuse endured by them as children.
The victims described clerical sexual abuse as “an
epidemic that has destroyed thousands of lives.”
Initially, the Pope had been slow to realize the
gravity of the crisis in Chile, at one point even coming to the defense of a
controversial bishop linked to Father Karadima.
However, he swiftly changed his stance after
Vatican investigators presented him with a 2,300-page dossier documenting the sexual abuse of
minors that had been covered up in Chile for decades. Unlike the Trump dossier,
the Chilean dossier was not fake.
Last week, Chile’s 34 bishops offered to resign enmasse over the abuse scandal, in an unprecedented move in the history of the
Catholic Church.
Friends, what is happening here is that the Pope is
the foreshadowing of the “False Prophet” spreading errors and false doctrine to
the world. Naming a Jesuit to be Pope was a major mistake by the RC hierarchy.