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A Catholic priest has made the case that the “homosexualization of the Catholic priesthood” is at the heart of the “malaise” that has enveloped Western civilization. In his lecture “Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiae: The Transformation Wrought by the Cross of Christ,” Fr. Kevin O'Reilly, O.P., a professor of moral theology at the Angelicum University in Rome, argued earlier this month at the Rome Life Forum that the undervaluing of the nuptial symbolism of the priesthood, with its dimension of sacrifice for the Bride of Christ, is not just part of the culture of death, but at its heart. A Catholic priest has made the case that the “homosexualization of the Catholic priesthood” is at the heart of the “malaise” that has enveloped Western civilization. In his lecture “Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiae: The Transformation Wrought by the Cross of Christ,” Fr. Kevin O'Reilly, O.P., a professor of moral theology at the Angelicum University in Rome, argued earlier this month at the ...

Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes criticized fellow German Cardinal Reinhard Marx ’s suggestion that Catholic priests should consider “blessing” same-sex relationships liturgically. Marx’s idea “truly seems sacrilegious” and “ignores the clear Revelation of God,” Cordes wrote in a response on kath.net. Dr. Maike Hickson translated it at  One Peter Five . “The Church is in its pastoral care bound to Holy Scripture and to its interpretation through the Church’s Magisterium,” wrote Cordes. “Marx does not even mention that homosexuality always contradicts the Will of God,” citing church teaching through the centuries. Rather than being about receiving “God’s assistance for themselves,” those engaging in sodomy and wishing to have it “blessed” by the Church “aim with their request at the recognition and acceptance of their homosexual way of life and its ecclesial valorization.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “under no circumstances” can homosexua...

The director of the young adult ministry at a parish San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy recently praised for its "welcoming" attitude toward " LGBT worshippers" is an openly gay man who works for an organization that supports same-sex "marriage" and women's ordination. The   San Diego Union Tribune   reported that McElroy cited St. John the Evangelist in Hillcrest as an example of a parish where "LGBT worshippers 'feel particularly welcome.'" "That’s a very good thing," he said. McElroy was commenting on the Diocese of San Diego's recent synod on the family, after which he   encouraged priests to give Holy Communion to the divorced and "remarried" and embrace "LGBT families." St. John the Evangelist advertises on its Twitter page: "In worship and in sacrament, our Catholic parish is called to extend God's kingdom to young and old, gay and straight, single, married or divorced....

Canada's Anglican Church has provisionally voted to amend its rules to allow clergy to celebrate same-sex marriages, a day after it narrowly defeated the measure. The General Synod will hold a second reading on the measure in 2019. If it passes, the Canadian church will join the Episcopal Church, which formally approved marriage ceremonies regardless of gender in 2015. As a consequence, the Anglican Communion placed temporary restrictions on the Episcopal Church. On Monday (July 11), more than 200 delegates attending the Canadian church's General Synod north of Toronto voted to reject same-sex marriage by a single vote after an emotional and divisive debate. Some bishops, including Toronto Archbishop Colin Johnson, declared they would perform same-sex marriages despite the outcome. Thus repudiating scripture and God's clear and direct teaching on the sin of homosexuality. This church is a church in name but is now liberal and abandoned by God according to Romans 1.  ...

The Bible says nothing specifically about the homosexual condition (despite the rather misleading RSV translation of 1 Cor. 6:9), but its condemnations of homosexual conduct are explicit. The scope of these strictures must, however, be carefully determined. Too often they have been used as tools of a homophobic polemic which has claimed too much. The exegesis of the Sodom and Gibeah stories (Gn. 19:1–25; Jdg. 19:13–20:48) is a good case in point. We must resist D. S. Bailey’s widely-quoted claim (quoted by Freedom2B, Metropolitan Community Church and others)  that the sin God punished on these occasions was a breach of hospitality etiquette without sexual overtones (it fails to explain adequately both the double usage of the word ‘know’ (yāḏa‘) and the reason behind the substitutionary offer of Lot’s daughters and the Levite’s concubine); but neither account amounts to a wholesale condemnation of all homosexual acts. On both occasions the sin condemned was attempted homosexual r...