Saturday, October 18, 2014

Breaking news: Majority of bishops reject "Welcome gays!" document

From the Vatican, AP reports that Catholic bishops have, by a majority vote, scrapped the "openness to gays and their gifts and qualities" set out in an interim report of the Synod on the Family.

The bishops failed to approve even a watered-down version of the section on ministering to gays, which stripped away the welcoming tone contained in a draft document published by the pro-LGBT Vatican Press Office earlier in the week.

Two other paragraphs concerning the other hot-button issue at the synod -- whether divorced and civilly remarried Catholics can receive communion -- also failed to pass.

BBC News calls the vote against the proposals a setback for Pope Francis. In spite of the vote against the revised sections, the Pope said the full draft document should be published. Walt guesses that's so the world can see how homophobic and reactionary are the bishops outside of the Vatican's gay mafia.

Stay tuned for great fits of pissing and moaning from not just the BBC but every "progressive" secular humanist commentator in the world. Walt will post some commentary from the other side -- the traditional Catholic side -- as it becomes available.

And here's the first one, the report of an interview Cardinal Robert Sarah gave to Catholic World News. Key quotes:
- The Church has never judged homosexual persons, but homosexual behavior and homosexual unions are grave deviations of sexuality.
- Let us pray for those pastors who leave the Lord’s sheep to the wolves of decadent and secularized society, far from God and nature.

In case you missed them, here are links this week's posts on the Synod:
Oct. 14: Catholic bishops say "interim report" asking Church to welcome homosexuals grossly misrepresented by pro-LGBT media
Oct. 16: Even a liberal Cardinal calls pro-LGBT Synod report "worthless"

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