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John Brophy's avatar

Ah, ok, so the SG9 output was really a gay manifesto commissioned by James Martin, and not the whispering of the Holy Spirit as we were led to believe. Got it. Thanks.

CHARLES's avatar

The same can be said for the election of the current pope and his predecessor! Neither election was inspired by the Holy Ghost, just sinful desires of corrupt clergy!!!

Ad Iesum per Mariam

deanne fernandes's avatar

Good fruit cannot come from an evil source. Bergoglio has many names - the Disastrous Pope, the Communist Pose and, Is the Pope Catholic - Leo follows in his footsteps. Our thanks to Diane Montagna for exposing the crisis in the Church. May more Catholics wake up and pray.

Rusty Creel's avatar

Hard to believe, ain’t it?

Stewart Davies's avatar

No, to say that it is now what we must expect is not cynical, but totally realistic.

Alphonse Cetenz's avatar

Let us come together to be church and move synodalistically to defenestrate Fr. James Frotchagin SJ and his promoters.

Don Tullio's avatar

Chi te lo aveva fatto credere? ... te lo dico io: non Dio ma il suo avversario!

Página Católica's avatar

Do you believe the Holy Spirit whisper the sodomy?

deanne fernandes's avatar

No, it's the voice of Satan who hates Our Lady.

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.'s avatar

The elephant in the room is the “born gay” myth that this document tacitly assumes. Let me assure you. The best of scientific evidence does not support the claim that people at born gay.

Sasha's avatar

Born gay is an easier perspective to manage than the much thornier, and factual, “made gay by parents.”

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.'s avatar

Yep. Not only do the same sex attracted individuals like this line, so do THEIR PARENTS.

Roseanne T. Sullivan's avatar

How about, “Made gay by disordered attraction?”

Sasha's avatar

Whose disordered attraction!?

Roseanne T. Sullivan's avatar

The unnatural desire for members of one’s own sex.

Sasha's avatar

Actually the disordered attraction that makes someone gay is parent-child.

Stephen's avatar

Never mind Scientific literature, that's subject as much as any area to wokery.

All we need is Holy Scripture to tell us who God created.

Marcel A Wid's avatar

The Vatican is quite literally giving new life to the phrase “fake and gay.”

Crusader's avatar

It has been almost a week since SG9 was released. A long ago president said that, "The buck stops here." I haven't heard anything from Pope Leo on this. It is not the kind of issue that takes weeks of pondering before making a statement.

Pope Leo spoke rather quickly when President Trump said something he did not agree with.

Stephen's avatar

They lie about everything. From the fakery to create Traditiones Custodes, to the actual documents they wondered up from nowhere which hijacked Vatican II, you can only be sure of one thing in the Church leadership today and that is manipulation and deception.

Michael's avatar

Whatever happened to the commandment 'thou shalt not bear false witness '?

Stephen's avatar

The Laity have an obligation to speak out in defence of the faith when objectively speaking the Bishops of the Church have abandoned the defence of doctrine.

Judy Williford's avatar

Thank you, Diane, for being a voice of clarity and sanity.

Rachmael's avatar

The man entrusted by Pope Leo with the selection of bishops in and for the universal Church is one of the authors of the report. What are the implications and when will they become manifest?

Judy Williford's avatar

That is very scary.

Michael Pakaluk's avatar

I have always assumed that this type of dissent was downstream from dissent over HV. But is that really true? Maybe this kind was prior, and from the point of view of some clerics, it was fueling dissent over HV, falsely presenting it as mainly “lay” dissent. At least, we seem to be looking at the same phenomenon, now spread out over 60+ years.

Stewart Davies's avatar

You make a very sound point. It has always been the assumption that Humane Vitae was the defining moment that started to slide, but we have probably been putting the proverbial cart before the horse. Given that those who demonstrated a vehement rejection of Humane Vitae were supposed to be celibate males, it is worth considering that the rebels had their own deep-seated personal motives.

Anthony G's avatar

The dissent over HV has its roots in the same desire to divorce sex from its procreative aspect (or at least the possibility of life under ideal circumstances and within a sacramental marriage).

The Canadian bishops conference made this dissent official in the disastrous “Winnipeg statement” which pretty much set in stone the concept that one’s individual conscience (educated or not by authoritative teaching) is the final arbiter between all moral/immoral acts.

Francis took this concept further than any other Pope and Leo appears to be following his lead.

This is not to say that JPII played no part in the development of confusion. We got a bit of a break in the progression with Benedict but he was fighting too many wolves that had grown too big over 60 years; he was also somewhat of a theological liberal at the time of the council. But at least he was willing to revisit his perspective and amend opinions he later realized had sowed some doubt and confusion.

Gail Finke's avatar

Humanae Vitae, the document on contraception.

Mary Noppenberger's avatar

What a bunch of ambiguous statements,basically a word salad. Do they really think we will buy it? Its insulting. Synodality is a dead language.

Margaret's avatar

Can there be any doubt now that the Church hierarchy--all the way to the very top--is overrun with and controlled by practicing homosexuals with an arrogance unmatched in the history of the Church!?

Ana S's avatar

Perfect example of why you should not create the “God” you want. The fires of hell await. On the same topic, I’ve never understood the concept of accepting your gayness in chastity. That’s like loving your fatness on a diet. Never works. REJECT it. That’s the truth of Jesus Christ.

Stewart Davies's avatar

Loving one's fatness while dieting to combat it! An excellent analogy!

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.'s avatar

Diane thank you for your reporting. Is there a published list of the participants in the working group? If these people are supposed to be "listening" and to be "representative," I'd like to at least know who they are.

Dr. Timothy J. Williams's avatar

But... but... but... the SSPX !

Roxanne Sukhan's avatar

I read something yesterday written by an Anglican priest about ACNA and the “dear gay Anglicans” letter. This priest who is a theology professor said the pastoral and the theological cannot be separated. Indeed. Our identity must be in Christ and not our sexual desire or our sexual orientation.

Sin alienates us from G-d, so the pastoral focus ought not to be on the feeling of exclusion as a result of sexual identity, nor to adopt the therapeutic approach of affirmation, rather, the pastoral focus must be on biblical witness, and on leading persons to repentance and Christ.

So the solution to people living in sin feeling alienated isn’t to change doctrine to affirm the sin! That’s what SG9 seems to advocate. “Paradigm shift” and all.

Not to mention that for 1 in 5 Catholics worldwide, homosexuality is illegal. Yes, in 32 out of 54 African countries homosexuality is illegal. So the Wokerati “gift from G-d” can get people imprisoned or even killed in some parts of the world.

ALYOSHKA's avatar

In holier times, the Church would have ordered the execution of such a heretic.