U.S. Cardinal: Calling gays out of sin ‘sounds a little backhanded to me’
CLUELESS PRIESTS Cardinal Joseph Tobin told the New York Times that it would have been “backhanded” of him to mention anything about sin to the “ LGBT pilgrims” who he personally welcomed to a Cathedral Mass last month. On Sunday, May 21, the Cardinal was on hand at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart to personally welcome homosexuals on a so-called “LGBT Pilgrimage.” When asked by the New York Times if he should have used the event to call the “LGBT pilgrims” out of sin, Cardinal Tobin replied: “That sounds a little backhanded to me.” “It was appropriate to welcome people to come and pray and call them who they were. And later on, we can talk,” he said. The Cardinal said that to “combine his welcome with a criticism would not have been a full welcome at all.” Cardinal Tobin is one of a growing number of priests and prelates who now challenge the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching on the meaning and purpose of human sexuality. Tobin’s words