Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
One can readily admit that the Magisterium's manner of expression does not seem very easy to understand at times. It needs to be translated by preachers and catechists into a language which relates to people and to their respective cultural environments. The essential content of the Church's teaching, however, must be upheld in this process. It must not be watered down on allegedly pastoral grounds, because it communicates the revealed truth.
A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
It is sad that there are what you might call professional Catholics who make a living on their Catholicism, but in whom the spring of faith flows only faintly, in a few scattered drops. We must really make an effort to change this.
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.
Papal delusion at it's finest is on fine display in this general audience by Pope Paul VI, just a week or so before the Novus Ordo Missae was introduced.
"Give us our religion back!" That is the tone taken by Michael Matt and Christopher Ferrara in the The Remnant's episode titled "Give Us Back Our Catholic Church!"
As always, the villain is Pope Francis the hopeless, and rightly so.
I have run into a rather decent blog recently. Here is what he has to say about Pope Francis' clearly modernist stance on the Church:
Distinctions Matter
Distinctions Matter Forward
Missale Romanum
Pre-1951 Calendar