tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post7859487903069435487..comments2023-10-16T06:03:52.653-04:00Comments on Causa Nostrae Laetitiae: Purging homosexuality from the Church is the only way to true reformLeticiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-46201758973343969842010-04-07T19:04:20.555-04:002010-04-07T19:04:20.555-04:00If you sincerely believe that the Church ever had ...If you sincerely believe that the Church ever had a "practice of ordaining only chaste heterosexual men," you are truly naive. Ever read the prologue to the Canterbury Tales?<br /><br />Father Maricel's scandal involves the three children he fathered with his mistress. Sounds heterosexual to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-4473311320957266292010-04-06T19:41:58.869-04:002010-04-06T19:41:58.869-04:00Patty, I am not saying that homosexually oriented ...Patty, I am not saying that homosexually oriented priests are not validly ordained, I am just reminding my readers that it was deemed, way back in the early 60's when these things began to be discussed, that it was unwise to ordain such men who would live with men, and encounter such temptation. <br />To any homosexuallly oriented priests who are fighting their disorder and living their vowes of chastity, God bless them.Leticiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-74984409944302300022010-04-06T15:54:09.684-04:002010-04-06T15:54:09.684-04:00I argued about this in our Diocesan Newspaper once...I argued about this in our Diocesan Newspaper once. I was livid that one would throw homosexual activity and pedophilia in the same pot. I still tend to think that there is a vast difference in both, and the similarity is glaring: they are both disordered sexual natures.<br />But what's to be done? It's only been in the last decade that the Vatican released their statement on homosexuality in the Priesthood, and that Homosexual men were not allowed to take the cloth. Having understood more fully the relationship between Christ, His Church, and His disciples, I understand this construct. But what's to be done for the men already in the Church? Homosexual Priests? Can we deny the validity of their Holy Orders based on their sexual orientation?<br />It's a tough time!PattyinCThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286757995048861826noreply@blogger.com