Pope Benedict, speaking a day after a California court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage, firmly restated on Friday the Roman Catholic Church’s position that only unions between a man and a woman are moral.
Benedict made no mention of the California decision in his speech to family groups from throughout Europe, but stressed the Church’s position several times.
“The union of love, based on matrimony between a man and a woman, which makes up the family, represents a good for all society that can not be substituted by, confused with, or compared to other types of unions,” he said.
The pope also spoke of the inalienable rights of the traditional family, “founded on matrimony between a man and a woman, to be the natural cradle of human life”.
Just in case any gay California Catholics got any ideas….see.
Perhaps the gay Catholics lining up for marriage licenses can caucus in the same corner as the women being ordained as Roman Catholic priests.
And expect news reports any moment that some “Catholic priest” has married two men or two women.
Pope Benedict speaks for the Christian community, the whole Christian community, inside or outside the Church. When the disorder takes place within the Roman Church, there will be discipline and order will be restored. Not so within TEC that now goes deeper into the substitution and confusion taged SSM. SSM is an immoral act, a presumptous sin, but not irredemable. My prayer is for our secular and spiritual communities to give up the confusion and return to sound mind and order. It is going to require much prayer and no little fasting.
Here is leadership over libertinism.
Praise the Lord for The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt. Rev Michael Nazir-Ali and Pope Benedict for pronouncing the Truth found in Church teaching for two thousand years and speaking forcefully against new rounds of attacks on Scripture. They stand for the unadulterated Faith, unlike our own PB (and HOB) and the Archbishop of Canterbury who cower before those pronouncing “this new thing.â€
I believe the comment made by #2 refers to the fact that a reporter in the media will find someone who claims to be a Catholic priest … even though he (or even she) has no standing with the RCC. It happens all the time because it suits the purpose of the media for a certain kind of headline.
How can the Pope ban something that is theologically and Christologically impossible?
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Roman Catholic, and yet he has commented that he supports gay “marriage.” I wonder what his reaction will be when his bishop has a friendly “chat” with him? Will he recant for the sake of his mortal soul, or will he cave in to the gay activists like the state Supreme Court did?
Ooops! He already caved in, didn’t he?