In his Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), Pope Benedict XVI writes, "It is characteristic of mature love that it calls into play all man's potentialities; it engages the whole man, so to speak. Contact with the visible manifestations of God's love can awaken within us a feeling of joy born of the experience of being loved. But this encounter also engages our will and our intellect. Acknowledgment of the living God is one path towards love, and the 'yes' of our will to his will unites our intellect, will and sentiments in the all- embracing act of love. But this process is always open-ended; love is never 'finished' and complete; throughout life, it changes and matures, and thus remains faithful to itself. Idem velle atque idem nolle —to want the same thing, and to reject the same thing—was recognized by antiquity as the authentic content of love: the one becomes similar to the other, and this leads to a community of will and thought. The love-story between God and man consists in the very fact that this communion of will increases in a communion of thought and sentiment, and thus our will and God's will increasingly coincide: God's will is no longer for me an alien will, something imposed on me from without by the commandments, but it is now my own will, based on the realization that God is in fact more deeply present to me than I am to myself. Then self- abandonment to God increases and God becomes our joy (cf. Ps 73 [72]:23-28)." (No. 17).
Jesus gave us this new Law of Love. He said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." (John 14:15). And through the centuries many have demonstrated their love for Him by obeying His commands, even unto martyrdom. Others have followed Him indifferently or have turned away from Him entirely, abandoning that faith which is the pearl of great price.
Those Catholics who are agitating for "gay pride" and even same-sex "marriage" have embraced a false notion of "freedom." For such people, there can only be true freedom if they are permitted to engage in homosexual acts or marry a member of the same-sex. And anyone who resists this immoral agenda which embraces a counterfeit notion of freedom is denounced as a "hater" and a "bigot" or as one who fosters "prejudice."
Clearly Deacon Duns has set himself in opposition to the Church's authentic teaching regarding homosexual acts and has little interest in the truth that the Eucharist is properly the Sacrament of those who are in full communion with the Church (CCC, 1395).
Should this confused individual, who has shown contempt for Church teaching and a faithful Bishop of Christ's Church, be ordained to the priesthood?
Is this What passes for a sound candidate today?
Paul - thanks for that. I live in Boston. I read the Deacon's blog - I will pray for him and for us - should he ever be ordained a priest. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI noticed one of his recent posts extos the Pope's choice of pectoral crosses - one that does NOT show Chirst crucified. The Pope is wearing a "crucifixionless" crucifix. That is sad too.
This seminarian wants to "correct" the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Archbishop John Nienstedt and 2,000 years of Tradition not to mention Sacred Scripture!
ReplyDeleteWhat this seminarian needs, in my opinion, is an exorcism.
According to a well-known madras, after God created the universe in six days, He has been arranging marriages ever since; and according to the Talmud, 40 days before a male child is conceived a voice from Heaven announces whose daughter he is to marry (in Yiddish, such a "heavenly match" is called "bashert". a word meaning "destiny". The Bible says God created "EVE for ADAM" where does it say : He created STEVE for ADAM ????
ReplyDeleteEve, Chava in Hebrew meaning "life giver", Adam comes from "adama" meaning earth and also from "adom" meaning red referring to the color of the earth.
So God created the woman (isha) for the man (ish).
When empires became decadent, sodomy was always committed, as it is now also a sign of decadence..
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/homomarr.htm
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ReplyDelete"The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical changes in religious beliefs throughout the modern world. The time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes. Science and economic change have disrupted the old beliefs. Religions the world over are under the necessity of coming to terms with new conditions created by a vastly increased knowledge and experience. In every field of human activity, the vital movement is now in the direction of a candid and explicit humanism. In order that religious humanism may be better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain affirmations which we believe the facts of our contemporary life demonstrate.
There is great danger of a final, and we believe fatal, identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods which have lost their significance and which are powerless to solve the problem of human living in the Twentieth Century. Religions have always been means for realizing the highest values of life. Their end has been accomplished through the interpretation of the total environing situation (theology or world view), the sense of values resulting therefrom (goal or ideal), and the technique (cult), established for realizing the satisfactory life. A change in any of these factors results in alteration of the outward forms of religion. This fact explains the changefulness of religions through the centuries. But through all changes religion itself remains constant in its quest for abiding values, an inseparable feature of human life.
Today man's larger understanding of the universe, his scientific achievements, and deeper appreciation of brotherhood, have created a situation which requires a new statement of the means and purposes of religion. Such a vital, fearless, and frank religion capable of furnishing adequate social goals and personal satisfactions may appear to many people as a complete break with the past. While this age does owe a vast debt to the traditional religions, it is none the less obvious that any religion that can hope to be a synthesizing and dynamic force for today must be shaped for the needs of this age. To establish such a religion is a major necessity of the present. It is a responsibility which rests upon this generation."
Paul, a "rhetorical" answer to your queston: See http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/Images/096_Dancing01.jpgis for what passes for a "sound" Jesuit priest today: Fr. Saju George dancing the Bharatanatyam, which he learned from Hindu swamis and is performed in Hindu temples to worship their false gods (actually demons)]
ReplyDeleteOur sad time Tom. Things are going from bad to worse.
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