Church cardinals urge end of 'homosexual agenda'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Church cardinals urge end of 'homosexual agenda'

20 February 2019

Two prominent Roman Catholic Church cardinals have called for an end of the "plague of the homosexual agenda", urging bishops to end their complicity and silence over cases of sexual abuse.

Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller say the Church has wrongly blamed the abuse of power by priests as the main cause of the scandals, its most pressing crisis.

In an open letter, they also issue a rare open criticism of the Pope.

It comes on the eve of a summit of bishops in Rome to discuss the cases.

The extraordinary summit has been called by the Pope as an effort to deal with the sex scandals rocking the Church.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47302817

[uriel1972]

1. I wish this was "The Onion"

[Voltaire2]

2. Working with Bannon on his Nazi revival.

Perhaps he will be pope pius xiii.

[Cartoonist]

3. The Catholic Agenda

That's the problem.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Oddly, I feel as an atheist I understand the gospels better than these 2 cardinals

"Sexual abuse is blamed on clericalism. But the first and primary fault of the clergy does not rest in the abuse of power but in having gone away from the truth of the Gospel."

I know that the gospels do not mention homosexuality in any way. But they do talk extensively about the abuse of power, and about clerics who hold themselves as better than the common people.

[MineralMan]

5. As usual, those Cardinals are approaching this from the wrong direction.

They're looking for external causes for an internal problem. That trick never works.

[Major Nikon]

6. Here's what "love thy neighbor" really means to them

What we frequently see is allegations (almost always by religionists) that such Christians aren't "true Christians" because they don't embrace the biblical principle of "love thy neighbor". After all, that was Jesus' "Great Commandment". The problem is there's a very convenient out of those who want to justify their hate. What Jesus was really talking about was Mosaic law, which you can find in Leviticus 19:17-18:

17 “‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.

18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

In other words, "love thy neighbor" doesn't apply to those who don't embrace Judo-Christian beliefs.