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In reply to the discussion: Cait Jenner is an entitled Republican jerk. She's no ally, at this point anyway. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)not cool what you are doing. At all. You need to check yourself.
You keep pushing the same old lies about Francis. 'Who am I to judge'. Such bullshit. That quote is not talking about LGBT people with lives and relationships but about sexless priests.
Here is what he actually said:
"If a person, whether it be a lay person, a priest or a religious sister, commits a sin and then converts, the Lord forgives, and when the Lord forgives, the Lord forgets and this is very important for our lives. When we confess our sins and we truly say, I have sinned in this, the Lord forgets, and so we have no right not to forget, because otherwise we would run the risk of the Lord not forgetting our sins. That is a danger. This is important: a theology of sin. Many times I think of Saint Peter. He committed one of the worst sins, that is he denied Christ, and even with this sin they made him Pope. We have to think a great deal about that. . . . I believe that when you are dealing with such a person, you must distinguish between the fact of a person being gay and the fact of someone forming a lobby, because not all lobbies are good. This one is not good. If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this in a beautiful way, saying . . . wait a moment, how does it say it . . . it says: No one should marginalize these people for this, they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another, and there is this one and there is that one."
He cites the Catechism which says:
"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.
Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection."
Why that one phrase is edited out of that long winded speech is obvious. It is a mendacious editing.