You Can’t Be Catholic!

Jason Shaw — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:00:33 +0000

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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Vatican Test for Priesthood

James — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:00:19 +0000

Surely all this makes Pope Benedict himself a prime candidate for psychological testing and exclusion? After all, he wears a dress, loads of jewelery, Prada shoes.He also has a penchant for high church, high camp ritual and theatrics. While I don’t want to indulge in stereotypes, Benedict is not exactly macho. In fact, he’s quite effeminate. He is also surrounded exclusively by men, has an unusually young and handsome male private secretary and has no known close friendships with women.

He would not be the first gay pope. There have been several others, most scandalously Pope Julius III (1487 to 1555), who was more a pederast than a homosexual. He took a 15-year-old boy as his lover and made him a cardinal at the age of 17, showering him with such wealth that he became one of the richest men in Europe.

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