tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post3602000032720522368..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: Boston Archdiocese decides it has no objection to a "gay pride" prayer service as Father John Unni implies in a homily that God made people homosexualPaul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-3781567224868950142011-06-16T11:44:17.609-07:002011-06-16T11:44:17.609-07:00Not true anonymous. But I will delete comments wh...Not true anonymous. But I will delete comments which are disrespectful. Please keep that in mind in the future.Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-50853577023500881672011-06-16T07:58:28.855-07:002011-06-16T07:58:28.855-07:00Paul, you seem overly selective about what you wil...Paul, you seem overly selective about what you will allow on your comments section. I beg you to consider posting all comments that are respectful so that we have a more meaningful discussion.<br /><br />I can understand moderating disrespectful comments, but not ones that offer dissenting points of view; that's simply not American.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-43681161960970427752011-06-15T11:26:26.558-07:002011-06-15T11:26:26.558-07:00The only people who seem to be behaving in a disre...The only people who seem to be behaving in a disrespectful manner are those who have been critical of Catholics faithful to the Magisterium, referring to us as "haters" and "bigots."<br /><br />No one at this Blog has been disrespectful toward homosexual persons anonymous. It has been the other way around.Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-89052928608608868912011-06-15T11:14:47.530-07:002011-06-15T11:14:47.530-07:00There is more to our Catholic obligation than reci...There is more to our Catholic obligation than reciting church position on homosexuality. We need to keep the door open and our hearts open as well to the possibility that through our love they will find the way to God. This requires us to treat even those we disagree with in a respectful manner, which some of you don't practice here.<br /><br />Thanks for staying on this important issue Paul. I know you have been criticized in the past but this is too important to be silent about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-72486106881661520792011-06-14T16:00:37.138-07:002011-06-14T16:00:37.138-07:00The Catholic League is weighing in on this controv...The Catholic League is weighing in on this controversy and The Boston Globe article:<br /><br /><br />BOSTON GLOBE LECTURES ARCHDIOCESE <br /><br />Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Boston Globe's response to Cardinal Sean O'Malley's decision to halt a Mass at St. Cecilia's in honor of Gay Pride Month:<br /><br /><br />In today's editorial, the Boston Globe pretends that "No one would have had the misimpression that the church was endorsing gay sex" by allowing the Mass to be said. Columnist Kevin Cullen also plays the role of virgin, wondering why anyone would think that such a Mass might turn the church "into an outpost of Sodom." The front-page news story goes one better, maintaining that the Boston archdiocese "gave the impression that St. Cecilia's supported the annual Gay Pride Celebration." The priest behind the Mass, Rev. John Unni, also feigns ignorance, saying of the Gay Pride agenda, "I don't know what that is." <br /><br /><br />Sounds like they all need a reality check. In the June 5 weekly bulletin of St. Cecilia's, it says quite plainly, "The Rainbow Ministry of Saint Cecilia Parish invites all friends and supporters of the LGBT community to a Mass in celebration of Boston's Pride Month." (My italics.) So there is no need to lie about the purpose of the event. <br /><br /><br />Gay Pride Month, for the uninitiated, is not exactly like Black History Month: the latter commemorates the achievements of African Americans, while the former celebrates libertinism. That's why African Americans do not appear naked on their floats. Nor do they engage in simulated sex. While evidently the marchers managed to keep their shorts on this year, they've had difficulty doing so in the past. In the late 1990s, naked women fondled each other on a mattress, and a man on stilts exposed himself, and yet the same Boston Globe that likes to lecture the Catholic Church said absolutely nothing about it. <br /><br /><br />At last Saturday's Gay Pride Parade, men dressed in leather—along with their trusty harnesses—marched alongside the drag queens and dancing go-go guys, while the boys from MassEquality "gyrated on a flatbed." As usual, organized homosexuals mocked nuns. But none of this disturbs the Boston Globe. Indeed, it pretends not to know what's going on! <br /><br /><br />Contact editorial page editor Peter Canellos: canellos@globe.comPaul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-10445520970406910922011-06-14T15:21:51.209-07:002011-06-14T15:21:51.209-07:00The only hate is yours Phil as you seek to thrust ...The only hate is yours Phil as you seek to thrust your immorality on those who accept God's plan. I always find it ironic that the same people who have a problem with the Magisterium's infallibility nevertheless believe themselves to be infallible.Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-40434337014825848262011-06-14T14:02:39.143-07:002011-06-14T14:02:39.143-07:00God made everyone...there is a larger world than t...God made everyone...there is a larger world than the myopic kingdom of the Roman Catholic Church. If homosexuality is an abomination, then it legitimates the RC's ability to justify their hate...look to history the "magisterium" has a lineage of being simply wrong.Phil Dzialohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150881545903849250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-2676573285140892822011-06-14T10:42:27.206-07:002011-06-14T10:42:27.206-07:00Daniel, this may come as a shock to you, but not e...Daniel, this may come as a shock to you, but not even a Cardinal has the right to contradict the mind of Christ as made known through the authoritative teaching of the Magisterium. And that authority teaches us with absolute certainty that, "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.' They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine and affective sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."<br /><br />Under no circumstances may homosexual acts be approved. This is the mind of Christ, and He trumps a Cardinal. And faithful Catholics will not contradict God's holy will.<br /><br />For those interested in what the confused Cardinal had to say:<br /><br />http://news.change.org/stories<br />/a-catholic-bishop-in-favor<br />-of-gay-relationships<br /><br />Daniel, thank you for showing us where Father Unni stands. You write, " A doctrine that leaves a trail of blood in its path, proves its own error.<br /><br /><br />Fr. Unni is absolutely correct."<br /><br />What you are saying is that Father Unni asserts that the teaching of the Magisterium with regard to homosexuality and homosexual acts has left a trail of violence and bloodshed.<br /><br />I'm sure Rome will find this of interest.Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-62230872285740515102011-06-14T09:05:21.865-07:002011-06-14T09:05:21.865-07:00Faithful Catholics should give their tithes to fai...Faithful Catholics should give their tithes to faithful parishes or else to the traditional orders which are in communion with the Holy See, such as ICKSP or the FSSP. I certainly wouldn't give any money to a liberal parish or diocese.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-24884772313474926572011-06-14T09:03:46.877-07:002011-06-14T09:03:46.877-07:00One of the authors of the Catechism and Archbishop...One of the authors of the Catechism and Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, has called on the Church to re-evaluate the moral quality of committed same gender relationships. This is because you are simply wrong; no amount of theology, tradition, or Scripture can make you right. A doctrine that leaves a trail of blood in its path, proves its own error.<br /><br /><br />Fr. Unni is absolutely correct.<br /><br />http://www.glaaforum.org/glaa_forum/2010/05/cardinal-sch%C3%B6nborn-church-should-respect-longterm-gay-relationships.htmlDoc Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626504908993853673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-61750737310286336102011-06-14T08:32:16.559-07:002011-06-14T08:32:16.559-07:00Fr. Unni is calling Catholics who accept the Churc...Fr. Unni is calling Catholics who accept the Church's teaching on homosexuality "haters." I agree with you totally. This is absolutely demonic. The faith is in eclipse in Boston. How much longer before homilies actually encourage homosexual sex and other expressions of sexual activity outside of marriage?<br /><br />Will pedophilia now be encouraged under the pretext that certain people cannot help but have sex with minors because they were "born that way"? Bestiality perhaps?Ellen Wironkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15037753678014941848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-37780857405832567612011-06-14T08:13:48.134-07:002011-06-14T08:13:48.134-07:00I'm done. From this point on I withhold my ti...I'm done. From this point on I withhold my tithe and I will encourage others to do the same. The Church in Boston is in a state of moral collapse.BostonCatholic2011noreply@blogger.com