You Can’t Be Catholic!

By on 23 February 2010 in Featured Political Blogs with 0 Comments.

You can’t be a considered a good catholic if you support gay marriage, or you support equality, according to a top Italian cardinal. “It’s impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right,” says Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna.

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, printed part of a doctrinal note the cardinal released   on 14 February entitled  ”Marriage and Homosexual Unions.”   the report  which appears in full on the archdiocese’s website, is aimed at helping enlighten Catholics in public office so that “they would not make choices that would publicly contradict their affiliation with the church,”

He states that catholic politicians must promote the church and the common good “(They) have a serious duty to make sure their beliefs, thoughts and proposals concerning the common good are consistent.    It’s impossible for the Catholic faith and support for putting homosexual unions on equal footing with marriage to coexist in one’s conscience — the two contradict each other,” said the cardinal in the special note.

According to the cardinal,  it would be far more serious if  a catholic  politician  who  votes in favor of a law that supports gay marriage, he said. “This is a publicly and gravely immoral act,”

If a Catholic official were to ever implement or enforce such a law, “God forbid, we will, at the proper moment, give the necessary directives,”   one wonders what such directives would be?.

Cardinal Caffarra, holds a number of positions of power within the church, including  being a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Vatican’s highest tribunal, known as the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.   He believes  the consequences of same-sex marriage would be “devastating.”   adding in the report  ”One of the pillars of our legal order — marriage as a public good — would crumble,”

“The state’s legal order must not be neutral on marriage and homosexual unions just as it can’t be (neutral) on the common good: society owes its survival to families founded on marriage, not homosexual unions”



Jason Shaw,  Brighton, England.


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