Pontifical Household Announces Pope Not Having Official Meeting With Gay Group Today

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The Pontifical Household announced that the Pope isn’t having a meeting with a ‘c’atholic pro-Gay group today after Mass to screen a video.

Vatican City, Mar 16, 2015 / 05:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Vatican official says there will be no papal endorsement for an LGBT activist video whose backers want it to reach Pope Francis.

Father Gil Martinez, C.S.P., a member of the development team for the video “LGBT Catholics: Owning our Faith,” intended to present the video to Pope Francis in a private audience after morning Mass on March 17, according to the website of the St. Philip Neri Parish and Northwest Paulist Center in the Portland, Ore.

The video contains the personal reflections from self-identified LGBT Catholics, several of whom reject Church teaching.

An official with the Holy See Press Office told CNA March 16 that the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household had not announced any public events for Pope Francis on March 17. This means that “no public or official meetings are scheduled.”

“The Pope can, however, meet whomever he wants, but this cannot mean in any sense an official endorsement, since every audience is intended to be kept private,” the official said. Such meetings are made public “only if some of the people involved speak out about it.”

Well, we can anticipate that someone just might speak out then.  It happens quite a bit these days.

The press release for the video said it is dedicated to “achieving the full acceptance of LGBT persons in the Catholic Church.” It said that the video evokes “the need for change” and will “reach thousands, including Pope Francis, many bishops and other prominent Vatican clergy.”

The St. Philip Neri Parish website said that Fr. Mark-David Janus, C.S.P., would also present Cardinal Walter Kasper’s newest book from Paulist Press, “Pope Francis’ Revolution of Tenderness and Love.”

The “Owning our Faith” video is produced and directed by Michael Tomae, a parishioner of New York City’s St. Paul the Apostle Church. Fr. Martinez is pastor of the parish, which shares a mailing address with the “Owning our Faith” project. Tomae is part of the parish’s Out@StPaul LGBT ministry, which is promoting the video on its website.

The “Owning our Faith” video includes interviewees who reject Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage.

Matt Putorti, a lawyer from New York City, criticized Catholic teaching in the video, claiming that the Church is telling gay people that “they need to be celibate” and “cannot live fully.”

Putorti said it is “inherently” discriminatory to say, “You can be gay, but you can’t live that life.”

Interviewee Matt Vidal, a lawyer from New York City in a same-sex civil marriage, said that leaving the Church would mean that “it’s never going to change.”

“So we have to continue living here, being an example and encouraging other people to be that example because that’s what’s going to change the Church.”

Another interviewee, Matteo Williamson, co-chairs the transgender caucus of the dissenting Catholic group Dignity USA, which aims to change Catholic teaching on homosexuality.

The “Owning Our Faith” website recommends a list of parishes on the website of New Ways Ministry, another Catholic dissenting group. In 2011, the U.S. Catholic bishops reiterated that the organization is not allowed to identify as Catholic and said that it puts forward positions that do not conform to Catholic teaching.

‘c’atholic group, Dignity USA just invited the vile, pornographic, and decidedly undignified Dan Savage as a speaker.  Why are these groups having non-meetings with Pope Francis to promote gay sex?

 

Al Gore Evangelized at the Periphery

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Al Gore was in the news again Friday at the South by Southwest Conference pushing the cause for which he’s become synonymous: mankind is killing the weather.

“We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore said, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”

The Climate Change movement is only about one thing; force.  It’s a worldwide protection racket and the new FrancisVatican is 100% in compliance.  What’s more edifying than the most trusted name in religion selling an Al Gore-sized scam?

I’ll never forget the 2000 election.  Gore got all pumped up with muscles, then leaned all over George Bush during the debates, huffing and puffing and making quite the oaf of himself.  He couldn’t stand at the podium and be silent like a gentleman while his opponent responded.  He didn’t have it in him.

Next he threw a nationwide fit over the inability to inject quite enough fraud into the election to grab it.

Gore, who has made climate change an overriding theme since he lost to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, made no mention of his political future. He took several questions from Twitter after his talk. None asked whether he was considering another run for the White House.

He said he hoped his third SXSW appearance would help promote the fight against climate change and to help put pressure on those who say it’s not a problem.

“We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”

It’s really quite astounding how ever more preposterous things become doctrine in our television era.  Gay people are parents, gender is chosen, ISIS isn’t Islamic, climate change causes a crisis of inequality…and now it also causes terrorism.

He led a presentation on major weather events that he said could be attributed to human activity. He linked troubles in the Middle East at least partially to climate change, saying that drought drove more than a million Syrian refugees into cities already crowded with refugees from the Iraq war.

At one point, Gore’s presentation showed a slide of Pope Francis. “How about this Pope?” Gore said.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, a Vatican official who helped draft the Pope’s anticipated encyclical on the environment, said recently that the planet was getting warmer and that Christians needed to address the problem. Gore said he looks forward to release of the Pope’s document, expected in June or July.

“I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”

Great.  That must be the New Evangelization.  Talk about hitting a periphery!

Now let’s see if it can get him to bend and kneel for something that’s not money.

 

Sins and Heresies are Just Rejections

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So many sins and heresies today are framed as an acceptance of something.  People will say, “I accept” a certain faith or I accept a scientific theory. But heresies and other fundamental falsehoods are really just rejections.  We should always see them for what they are and never let enemies of truth control our language.

Every false faith or corridor of thinking is founded upon a rejection.  Look for example:

Satan

Satan rejects God.

Jews

Jews reject Christ.  Many, particularly in our Church today give the impression that Jews of today simply practice the old faith of King David and the prophets, but those men are Catholic saints today.  The Church is the faith of Abraham regardless of whether many Jews rejected it.  Not only is the modern Jewish faith something quite different than in Jesus’ day but it is set against the Messiah himself.

Modern Catholics must learn to understand and integrate the more ancient parts of Faith and not lose what Our Lord Himself honored and embraced, nor must we equate it with modern Talmudic Judaism.

Muslims

Islam reject Christ’s divinity. It is the unfortunate child of ancient Gnosticism which used to plague the Christian lands now destroyed by terrorism.

Protestants

Protestants reject Christ’s Church. They deny her authority and because of this they have no unity or firm doctrines with each person believing differently.  To the extent that they believe in the truth it is consistent with the Church and through the grace of God.  Since they reject the Church, they also reject her saving graces and Sacraments, and the mystical union of Christ’s Church in Heaven.

Vatican II Catholics

Vatican II Catholics reject the past.  A Vatican II Catholic is someone who lets a contemporary idea or teaching trump some true teaching from before our era.  The Vatican II event is a good milestone since it ushered in a wave of heresies in the minds of Catholics, essentially cutting off the branch from the root so the leaves withered and fell.  Vatican II era Catholics make up a new church of their own which is essentially morbid, like the other Protestant professions, to the extent that it rejects the Church of the past; the living root.

Gay Lifestyle People

Gay people reject sexes.  Men and women who live and identify as gay reject the opposite sex and in so doing reject their own.  A gay man rejects loving a woman and by doing so rejects his own manhood.  A gay woman rejects loving a man and that way also rejects who she is as a woman.  Sexes truly are complimentary.  We bring things and see things differently from each other. Together we are much more than just two.

For gay identity people it’s about more than acting on an inclination, and it’s not about loving acceptance, affection, devotion or friendship either because all those things are part of marriage too.  It’s what’s omitted that matters.

The gay lifestyle requires a kind of contempt or indifference for your own sex as well as the opposite.  That’s why so many gay people awkwardly assume the mannerisms of the opposite sex, consciously suppressing their own.  Not only do they reject loving the opposite sex, but they are uncomfortable being the sex that they are.

Divorcing/Remarried People

People who divorce spouses or remarry reject their family.  A family is a structure cemented by fidelity of spouses.  This is a human type for the Holy Trinity.  It’s essential to our highest natures to have a permanent family.  Rejection of family through rejection of fidelity to one’s spouse deprives the family of it’s access, understanding of God’s love and Heaven.

Communists/Statists

Statists reject God’s commands.  The statist world is like ancient Egypt.  A free world is where Moses led.  Can you think of one of the Ten Commandments which isn’t rejected by the atheist, Leftist machine?  Do they honor God or the Church? Do they believe in family? Are they truthful about their agenda?  Do they believe in property rights or in stealing?  Are they content to let people achieve and own their accomplishments or do they cultivate envy and resentment?  Do they regulate what you do with what’s yours, what you say, who you hire, what you buy? Do they honor chastity?  Do they respect life?

Statists reject the Ten Commandments, the natural law.  To lend power or credibility to statists you must first produce an excuse because to support them is to help sin itself.

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In the end to accept or honor what’s false or wrong is to lose ground.  It’s not about judging or being unmerciful.  It’s about going backwards as a group.  To follow Christ we must also lead others in the right direction. If they won’t follow Christ, perhaps they’ll follow you in His direction.  That will never happen if you just keep chasing them, hoping they’ll turn around when they see how much you ‘care.’

To stray from the Faith is always a rejection.  There’s nothing to accept about it.