I am delighted that +Nichols has at last brought an end to the long-running scandal of the Soho Masses (about which I have blogged on more than one occasion, most recently here)
I assume that the original intention of this pastoral provision was to reach out to those experiencing same-sex attraction and other difficulties with their sexual and social life, and better incorporate them into the Church, to help them to face the difficulties they encounter in a truly Christian way: that is, in conformity with the Gospel and the teaching of the Church.
However, in practice, they have deviated far from that ideal. Terence Weldon, one of the prime movers of the whole set up, runs the blog Queering the Church which gives you some idea of their (or at least his) agenda, and perverted theology. It is clearly a long way from anything that could be recognisable as according with Catholic teaching.
It is also interesting that he is seeing the move to Farm Street as an opportunity for what he calls 'Catholic LGBT ministry' to be 'strengthened, and expanded.'
However, as his blog reveals, his idea of Catholic LGBT ministry is a long way from Catholic.
So whilst I welcome the end of this particular source of scandal, I will watch what happens at Farm Street with great interest - as will, I am sure, +Nichols, and of course our excellent Nuncio.
To the bones of St Peter
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Exactly one month ago, on Monday 22nd April, we were privileged to visit
the "Scavi"- the archaeologically excavated area under St Peter's Basilica-
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2 comments:
Catholic males such as yourself and unfortunately those in authority such as Archbishop Nichols are reducing sexuality to a ' faculty'... This is nothing but an ignorant, dualistic and androcentric understanding of sexuality, which in truth actually encompasses the entire person, and is not merely a 'faculty'. All we have had over the years of biblical hermeneutics and doctrine formation in the Church, is an androcentric perspective, and more often than not, it is one of a reductionist, physical understanding of sexuality, isolating it to a 'faculty', and entirely ignoring the wider frame work of sexuality, in that it is about relationship, friendship, solidarity, companionship, agape love and mutual understanding and affection... Not just 'a faculty' for genitality and procreation. May God help this man and all those including yourself who so ignorantly oppose God's wonderful creation of gay people, who are just as capable of loving in as pure and holy a manner as the worshiped heterosexuals in this hetero supremist world of ignorant, male minds who reduce sexuality to geniality and marriage to requiring particular biological functions below the waist. We are being taken back to the dark days of slavery and the subjugation of women, by continuing the ostracization of gay people, and stripping them of their dignity by condemning their God given sexuality. May Jesus Christ show you the truth.
rcjoy7
On the contrary, I would maintain it is those who assert a 'gay identity' who reduce the complexity of the human person to a single dimension.
I am more than happy for men to enjoy 'relationship, friendship, solidarity, companionship, agape love and mutual understanding and affection' amongst themselves. It is specifically the sexual expression of intimacy between people of the same sex that is proscribed, and the sexual desire for someone of the same sex that is rightly designated a disorder.
I quite agree that men who experience same sex attraction can love in a pure and holy manner: that is one manifestation of the virtue called chastity, and I know men who exercise that with heroic virtue.
It is clear from Scripture, tradition, the magisterium and biology that sexual congress is designed as a heterosexual and procreative action; all your long words and prejudicial language notwithstanding.
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