Is there still some sanity in the Catholic Church? Apparently there still are some bishops who do not accept homosexuals in the church who do not repent of their perversion. Something that really shouldn't be news, and only is because of how much compromise and apostasy has been allowed already, and how correspondingly powerful the Lavender Lobby has become:
Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families.
The bishops failed to approve even a watered-down section on ministering to homosexuals that stripped away the welcoming tone of acceptance contained in a draft document earlier in the week.
Nomenclature trouble. I'm not Catholic, but evangelical, so when Catholics talk about "ministering," it means something other than what the Bible refers to. Of course, homosexuals should be ministered to, as in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them, praying for them, helping them to escape the "lifestyle" deception to which they've fallen prey. Homosexuality is but one sin amongst many, and we are all sinners, who can be saved by grace. Catholics, by contrast, consider "ministering" something that is done once someone is already "officially" in the church, and thus that over which the bishops were beating themselves was whether to call unrepentant, and therefore unsaved, homosexuals "Christian".
If the bishops would actually read their Bibles for a change, take the Scriptures at face value, and apply them logically, they would have no need for this foolishness. Seriously, is this really that complicated?
It is when a growing number of bishops are flaming apostates:
It wasn’t clear, though, if the 118-62 vote on the gay section was more a protest by [apostate] bishops who refused to back the watered-down wording. The revised paragraph had deleted the words of acceptance of gays’ sexual orientation and acknowledgement that gay unions can provide “precious support” to partners that had been contained in the draft.
Trust me, it was clear. For all that the LL snarlingly demands "tolerance" of their retrograde proclivities, they seem remarkably dismissive of the notion now that they're, as it were, "on top".
As to clergy taking votes on what will and will not be left in, and, um, "inserted" into, God's Holy Word, I didn't say Roman Catholicism wasn't on its death bed, just that they were not entirely dead yet.
Case in point:
Francis insisted in the name of transparency that the full document — including the paragraphs that failed to pass — be published along with the voting tally. The document will serve as the basis for future debate leading up to another meeting of bishops next October. [emphasis added]
So all the bishops who voted against the "national sodomists" will be subjected to harassment and vilification and death threats and probably a few representative mob-esque "hits," enough to bring at least twenty-nine bishops into line to vote the "right" way a year from now. It's only a matter of time.
Funny, I had no idea that genuine martyrdom had gone that far out of style. But it'll be making a comeback in the very near future, mark my words.
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