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"Jesuit Priest Urges Greater Openness To Gays At World Family Meeting"
breitbart.com
"Jesuit Father James Martin addressed the World Meeting of Families in Dublin on Thursday, urging greater 'openness and respect' toward gays.
The newspaper of the Italian bishops conference, Avvenire, published an interview with Father Martin Wednesday, touting the work of the priest in building bridges between the Catholic Church and the 'LGBT community.'
'Unfortunately, there is still a lot of homophobia in our Church,' Father Martin said. 'Some far-right Catholics in particular are not even willing to listen to LGBT people. It is a sad consequence of the desire to demonize people for their diversity and otherness, the exact opposite of how Jesus behaved with people considered different.'
For Father Martin, LGBT Catholics are not so much following an immoral lifestyle as being 'different' and living on the 'margins.'...
When asked what LGBT Catholics need to do to improve their relationship with the Church, Father Martin said they need 'respect, compassion and sensitivity,'...
Curiously, he did not say that LGBT Catholics need conversion, chastity, or repentance from a sinful lifestyle...
Last Saturday, a Wisconsin bishop wrote a sharply worded letter stating it is high time 'to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord.'
To be clear, in the specific situations at hand, he wrote, 'We are talking about deviant sexual — almost exclusively homosexual — acts by clerics,' referring to a recent report from a Pennsylvania grand jury as well as scandals involving a Honduran seminary, Chilean clergy and bishops, and a prominent U.S. cardinal.
'We’re also talking about homosexual propositions and abuses against seminarians and young priests by powerful priests, bishops, and cardinals,' Bishop Morlino wrote in the Catholic Herald...
'To call it anything else would be deceitful and would only ignore the problem further,' he writes.
The bishop criticized deceitful attempts by LGBT activists as well as mainstream media to diminish the homosexual nature of the vast majority of clerical sex abuse.
'There has been a great deal of effort to keep separate acts which fall under the category of now-culturally-acceptable acts of homosexuality from the publically-deplorable acts of pedophilia,' he said."
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