{"id":655,"date":"2015-03-17T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=655"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:45:33","slug":"pontifical-household-announces-pope-not-having-official-meeting-with-gay-group-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Pontifical Household Announces Pope Not Having Official Meeting With Gay Group Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

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

Father Gil Martinez, C.S.P., a member of the development team for the video \u201cLGBT Catholics: Owning our Faith,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

The video contains the personal reflections from self-identified LGBT Catholics, several of whom reject Church teaching.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cno public or official meetings are scheduled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d the official said. Such meetings are made public \u201conly if some of the people involved speak out about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, we can anticipate that someone just might speak out then.\u00a0 It happens quite a bit these days.<\/p>\n

The press release for the video said it is dedicated to \u201cachieving the full acceptance of LGBT persons in the Catholic Church.\u201d It said that the video evokes \u201cthe need for change\u201d and will \u201creach thousands, including Pope Francis, many bishops and other prominent Vatican clergy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The St. Philip Neri Parish website said that Fr. Mark-David Janus, C.S.P., would also present Cardinal Walter Kasper\u2019s newest book from Paulist Press, \u201cPope Francis\u2019 Revolution of Tenderness and Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cOwning our Faith\u201d video is produced and directed by Michael Tomae, a parishioner of New York City\u2019s St. Paul the Apostle Church. Fr. Martinez is pastor of the parish, which shares a mailing address with the \u201cOwning our Faith\u201d project. Tomae is part of the parish\u2019s Out@StPaul LGBT ministry, which is promoting the video on its website.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOwning our Faith\u201d video includes interviewees who reject Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage.<\/p>\n

Matt Putorti, a lawyer from New York City, criticized Catholic teaching in the video, claiming that the Church is telling gay people that \u201cthey need to be celibate\u201d and \u201ccannot live fully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putorti said it is \u201cinherently\u201d discriminatory to say, \u201cYou can be gay, but you can’t live that life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interviewee Matt Vidal, a lawyer from New York City in a same-sex civil marriage, said that leaving the Church would mean that \u201cit’s never going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

The \u201cOwning Our Faith\u201d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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‘c’atholic group, Dignity USA just invited the vile, pornographic, and decidedly undignified Dan Savage as a speaker<\/a>.\u00a0 Why are these groups having non-meetings with Pope Francis to promote gay sex?<\/p>\n

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