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Evangelical Bible and homosexuality scholar   Robert Gagnon   adds his voice to the widespread Catholic criticism of Vatican communications consultant Fr. James Martin over Martin's pro-LGBT advocacy. In April,   Pope Francis appointed   the socially “progressive” priest consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication​. Gagnon, author of " The Bible and Homosexual Practice : Texts and Hermeneutics," said   Martin , editor-at-large at   America   magazine, “has no business being in a position of responsibility in the Catholic Church .” He was reacting to Martin’s interview last week with a   San Francisco “gay” newspaper,   Bay Area Reporter , in which he claimed that among the reasons that people have reacted “viciously” to his   “bridge-building” efforts   toward homosexuals is that they have “visceral disgust at same-sex relations” or “hatred of LGBT people .” The most important reason, Martin said, is that his opponents potentially have “discomfort

Pope Francis pulled a surprise on reporters when he walked back to the press section of his Alitalia papal flight from Brazil and entered into an open press conference that lasted more than an hour. The Pope gave the press what Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton offered as presidents—a casual question and answer session that was on the record. The biggest headline from the Pope’s remarks was not what he had to say about the scandals at the Vatican Bank , but what he said about homosexuality and, in particular, homosexuals in the priesthood. The key sentence in the Pope’s remarks is this: “If a person is gay and seeks the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge that person?” The papal remarks put the international press into a frenzy. Headlines across the world announced a revolution in Roman Catholic moral teaching, a changed position on homosexuality, or at least an historic “new openness” on the issue of homosexuality. Predictably, a closer look reveals a more complicated and

The Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri , is opening a can of worms that  contradicts Church teaching  and sends the wrong message with its  proposed policy  encouraging enrollment of “ transgender ” students at its schools, one of its priests said. The diocese ’s  Pastoral Process of Accompaniment and Dialogue invites people who actively promote gender confusion or the homosexual lifestyle to test the policy, the priest said, and gives undue credence to those living in objectively sinful or disordered situations. The policy also demonstrates an allegiance to political correctness and liberal ideology, he continued, and also shows there is too much homosexuality in Church leadership today, whether it’s bishops who are gay-friendly or who themselves are homosexual. “I think the whole gender ideology and transgender issue is false,” Father Richard Frank said. “It’s falsehood. And it really contradicts what the Church teaches. It’s kind of like opening the door to t

The recent revelations of homoerotic, blasphemous art in the Cathedral of Terni, commissioned by Archbishop Paglia, now the head of the Vatican office that oversees the St. John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family worldwide, raise several vital issues that need to be urgently addressed.  The protection of Catholic marriages, families, youth and the Church depend upon a correct resolution of this scandal. To begin with, the exposition of homoerotic art in Archbishop Paglia’s Cathedral from 2007 raises the important question of how he could ever have been chosen to lead the Pontifical Council for the Family and later the Pontifical Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family. It is now clear that he opposes the Church’s teaching on sexual morality. This question in itself requires an inquiry as to the intentions and criteria used within the Vatican for appointments under Pope Francis. Archbishop Paglia’s use of homoero

The Vatican Congregation for Clergy 's release of a new document reiterating the Catholic Church's teaching that men with "deep-seated" homosexual inclinations may not become seminarians or be ordained priests has outraged organizations that dissent from the Church's teaching on human sexuality, particularly because Pope Francis approved the document. "This document is extremely disappointing in its approach to gay men called to be priests," said Marianne Duddy-Burke of DignityUSA , an organization that rejects fundamental Catholic moral teachings. "It is not at all what anyone expected from the ‘Who am I to judge?’ Pope ." Duddy-Burke said the document, The Gift of the Priestly Vocation , is "a tremendous insult to the thousands of gay men who have served and continue to serve the Church with honor and dedication." "Without gay men, the Church would not be able to operate," New Ways Ministry executive director Francis

Pro Familia, a Belgian association of Catholic lay people, has decided to act against the public stance made by Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny , who suggests in a new book published Friday that homosexual pairs, divorced, remarried and cohabiting couples   should receive a Church blessing   as part of a “diversity of rituals” that would recognize the “exclusiveness and stability” of their unions. “The question of Communion for the divorced and remarried should be carefully weighed," he writes. "It is not a question of a general ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ but of an evaluation. You have to judge on the basis of the individual situation of the persons involved. Or, better said, they can and must participate in that judging in the light of certain criteria.” In a press release published last week on its blog and picked up by the Flemish media, Pro Familia   announced its intent to file a complaint in Rome with Cardinal Beniamino Stella , the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clerg