Comments on: Pope Criticizes Marriage Equality and Transgender Identity; Equally Blessed Responds

By: His Holiness « Clare Flourish

His Holiness « Clare Flourish — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:06:32 +0000

[...] On 21 December, he attacked trans people. People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given by their bodily identity, which serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves. According to the biblical creation account, being created by God as male and female pertains to the essence of the human creature. This duality is an essential aspect of what being human is all about, as ordained by God. Full text here, thanks to New Ways Ministry. [...]

By: ‘De-baptism’ Is the Latest Dutch Trend « Bondings 2.0

‘De-baptism’ Is the Latest Dutch Trend « Bondings 2.0 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:00:56 +0000

[...] 2.0 previously covered the Pope’s address which included a statement that same-gender marriages manipulate nature and destroy the ‘essence [...]

By: Hoping in Christ Amid Troubling Times « Bondings 2.0

Hoping in Christ Amid Troubling Times « Bondings 2.0 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:00:38 +0000

[...] calls us to. On Catholic LGBT issues, the news this week reveals an undercurrent of strengthened anti-equality messaging from the Vatican and the rejection of LGBT students at Catholic schools. Travesties such as the [...]

By: Noei in Ireland

Noei in Ireland — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:20:54 +0000

How utterly SAD and UNCHRISTLIKE the noises from the Vatican sound to followers of Jesus in their daily struggles, involving relationships,work and religious/moral lives! They, who live in glasshouses of luxury and status are sooooo out of touch with reality.

By: Anton

Anton — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:45:41 +0000

Can the pope please explain the platypus???
The platypus is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.
Looks as though even God couldn’t make up the divine mind as to a category, label, for these animals. Too bad God didn’t give them a brain to think and decide.

By: Charles Bolser

Charles Bolser — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:19:47 +0000

It is well beyond the proper time for the Vatican to convoke a study of human sexuality in all of it’s diversity. As long as we live in a Church that is dependent on philosophy/dogma only and refuses to listen to a world open to psychology, anthropology, genetics, etc., we will continue to speak without hearing; assuming that we already know all of the answers, without really knowing the questions. Jesus spoke often of hearing – translated – understanding. As long as we are convinced that we can see/hear and have no need of looking/listening, then we are truly deaf and blind. It is only when we realize that we are blind and deaf (fail to understand) that we begin to see through the glass darkly. In the meantime, the Pharisees and Scribes continue to argue the law without understanding the truth that comes from the heart as well as the mind.

By: Pope Criticizes Marriage Equality and Transgender Identity; Equally Blessed Responds « My Little Posterous (ScIeNtIfIc DiSsEmInAtIoN)

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:22:52 +0000

[...] See on newwaysministryblog.wordpress.com [...]

By: Paul Halsall

Paul Halsall — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:44:21 +0000

It’s harder and harder not to seek refuge in the Anglican Church in then US and UK.

By: Toni Winters

Toni Winters — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:24:36 +0000

What does this remind you of, folks? 2000 years ago, lepers were shunned by society because they were different and feared because of their difference. Are we regressing, or what? Has The Pope read the Gospel? Who are the people that Jesus sought out to hang out with? God bless that man (and God help that man). To have such a high position in the Church and yet to have so much hatred and intolerance. Merry Christmas, Pope Benedict, from all of us Catholics who were born “different” and yet remain Catholic because we love to worship our God, even though the people in the Church continue to be so hateful.
How many of those parishioners are living with a lover that they are not married to? How many couples, married or not take birth control? How many of them have had abortions? How many of them tithe?
Give me a break! Take the log out your eyes and leave us and our splinters alone.

By: pjnugent

pjnugent — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:21:02 +0000

A gentle, generous, loving, Christlike response, Francis, more than they deserve. I’m sure the Lord is smiling on you, and hitting his forehead with the butt of his hand when she hears the knownothings in Rome. Thank you.