“If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Celibacy is always, shall we say, an affront to what man normally thinks. It is something that can be done, and is only credible, if there is a God and if celibacy is my doorway into the kingdom of God.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
Assuredly, the word of truth can be painful and uncomfortable. But it is the way to holiness, to peace, and to inner freedom. A pastoral approach which truly wants to help the people concerned must always be grounded in the truth. In the end, only the truth can be pastoral.
In proclaiming the faith and in administering the sacraments every priest speaks on behalf of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ.
It has been a bad week for Christianity - make that a bad day - in these pitiful Bergoglian times.
In "New Coke: If Today’s Catholics Were In Charge", we have a very humourous take on the collapse of the Catholic Church under the Novus Ordo regime.
Distinctions Matter
Distinctions Matter Forward
Missale Romanum
Pre-1951 Calendar