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From the Eternal City

I have been receiving numerous posts to the effect that Christians should comply with the SCOTUS decision, as the Bible used to tolerate polygamy, Jesus said nothing on "same-sex marriage," the usual blather. Lets their be no doubt for Catholics:    CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS INTRODUCTION 1. In recent years, various questions relating to homosexuality have been addressed with some frequency by Pope John Paul II and by the relevant Dicasteries of the Holy See. ( 1 ) Homosexuality is a troubling moral and social phenomenon, even in those countries where it does not present significant legal issues. It gives rise to greater concern in those countries that have granted or intend to grant – legal recognition to homosexual unions, which may include the possibility of adopting children. The present Considerations do not contain new doctrinal ...

Straight from a Gay

I n my life I have counted among friends and family, students and acquaintances heterosexual people who never married, people who are happily married, divorced people, people with annulments, homosexuals who are celibate, and those who now rush to be "married." It is with gtreat happiness that I have found a piece on recent events following the SCOTUS decision which perfectly expresses a Catholic view, and thus my own .

Good Timing! On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

St. Paul writing on same-sex relations in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans: St. Paul: ‘God Gave Them Over to a Debased Mind, to Do Those Things Which Are Not Fitting’ | CNS News : 'via Blog this'

Marriage has had its day at Court, but religious freedom could soon follow :: EWTN News

Marriage has had its day at Court, but religious freedom could soon follow :: EWTN News : 'via Blog this'

Next on the Docket: Trans Jennerism

Obergefell and trans rights: the Supreme Court’s endorsement of identity-expression could help trans activism. : Justice Kennedy: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm,  to define and express their identity .” (Emphasis added. 'via Blog this'

Bishops Bishoping: What did YOUR Bishop Say?

  USCCB president, Archbishop  Joseph Kurtz  of Louisville.  has issued the following response in the name of the US bishops: Regardless of what a narrow majority of the Supreme Court may declare at this moment in history, the nature of the human person and marriage remains unchanged and unchangeable. Just as Roe v. Wade did not settle the question of abortion over forty years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges does not settle the question of marriage today. Neither decision is rooted in the truth, and as a result, both will eventually fail. Today the Court is wrong again. It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage. The unique meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman is inscribed in our bodies as male and female. The protection of this meaning is a critical dimension of the “integral ecology” that Pope Francis has called us to promote. Mandating marriage redefinition acr...

What to Do Part Two!

Now that SCOTUS has opined  (creating a mess) , friends of traditional marriage will need to defend it in the culture war, The best way to do this is to get a copy of Bill May’s booklet,  Getting the Marriage Conversation Right , which has the best strategies for defending the nature of marriage. I have it already, and will no doubt need it soon. May’s thesis, absolutely correct from the point of both history and social science, is that marriage is the only institution in existence that guarantees the rights of children to be united with their mother and father.   Period.  Pope Francis has said as much too many times to count. For the 4000 years marriage has existed as a social and legal institution marriage has been understood as  the  institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and any children born from their union .  No other social structure does that. Furthermore, the reason heterosexual mar...

Smoke penetrates the Supreme Court

Pope Francis, who says homosexual marriage is an "attempt to destroy God's plan" and comes from "the father of lies," Satan.   I have written about bishops who actually know how to bishop , to shepherd their flocks. Bishop Tom Tobin, head of the Catholic diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, is mist definitely one such shepherd. In reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling today that homosexual marriage is a right, Bishop Tobin said "a thousand courts" may rule what they want but gay marriage "is morally wrong" and a "rejection of God's plan for the human family." Quoting Pope Francis, whose teaching has appeared here many times , Bishop Tobin further said that homosexual marriage comes from "the father of lies," Satan, "who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God." "A thousand courts may rule otherwise, but the very notion of 'same-sex marriage' is morally wr...

On Human Life

I wrote my entire third chapter around the prophetic wisdom of Paul VI in this encyclical. According to the Papal Nuncio to USA Archbishop Carlo Vegano two years before he became Pope, Cardinal Wojtyla said to the American Bishops: We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realise this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church... must take up. Nowhere is this confrontation now more marked than in the culture war of the anti-church against the family, most specially on the primary right of parents to educate their children. This sinister culture is being subtly imposed on our families in the West and brutally enforced upon families in poor coun...

The American People Do Not Want Marriage Between People Who Want to Have Sex With members of the Same Sex

AS WE AWAIT THE SUPREMES' RULING  Don't Buy the Same-Sex Marriage Tidal Wave Illusion | The Stream : 'via Blog this'

BE NOT AFRAID. (Don't read if not suffering)

Boy, at this moment in my life is the following ever music to my ears: EXTRAORDINARY FORM, HOMILIES 4TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST JUNE 21, 2015 FATHER ACERVO Although the readings in the Ordinary Form and Extraordinary Form this Sunday are different from each other, they both touch on a similar theme: Jesus scolds His followers for being afraid and for not trusting in His Power. Jesus says, “cast your nets”, but Peter protests. We’ve labored all night. We did this and we did that and nothing has happened. It was only when they did as the Lord had commanded them to do that they made their catch. The problem with us is that we always think we know better than God. If things don’t go the way that we think they should go, God is obviously making a mistake or He’s powerless. This can especially be a temptation for us whenever we think about all of the suffering and evil that happens in the world. We know that there are a lot of bad things going on in the world today. ...