To say that I hold the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in contempt is an understatement. For an institution rife with corruption, sexual predators and any number of other scandals, one would think that the Vatican would mind its own business and do some horrifically need housecleaning of its own. But no. Now the Vatican is interferring with the Anglican Communion and pushing its anti-gay and anti-woman message to the participants at the Lambeth Conference. Why any Anglicans would give a twit about the Vatican's views is unclear given the Vatican's history of excommunicating, bad mouthing and ordering the execution of Anglicans in prior centuries. Here are some highlights from the Guardian (Note how gays are described as disordered even though medical and mental health experts do not support that view):*
Homosexuality is a disordered behaviour that must be condemned, a Vatican official said yesterday. Walter Cardinal Kasper made the remarks during an address at the Lambeth conference, the once-a-decade gathering of the world's Anglican bishops in Canterbury.
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Quoting from a key document on Anglican and Catholic relations he said: "Homosexuality is a disordered behaviour. The activity must be condemned; the traditional approach to homosexuality is comprehensive ... A clear declaration about this theme must come from the Anglican Communion."
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Kasper was saddened that dialogue between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church had been seriously compromised over the issues of women's ordination and homosexuality. These developments had also caused the Communion to enter into a period of dispute, he observed.
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The decision to allow the ordination of women in 28 Anglican provinces implied a turning away from the common position of all churches of the first millennium, he said. . . . Kasper's comments are one in a series of Catholic carefully worded expressions of dismay to have been aired at the conference. Yesterday's address was well attended, with more than 150 bishops squeezing into a room designed to hold 50 people.
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I have watched scenes of the Pope's visit to Australia on youtube & in everyone opposes or other marches were drowned out with inaudible chants.
The Catholic schools did not mind taking very young children to their boarding schools where they could only turn to each other for comfort or a mere cuddle. They were punished for mastabation if caught.
On Parenting, well join the club.
I was born a girl, abused by so called friends and when I fell pregnant as a single person, Church & State saw to it I signed my right to be a parent, even had me 'watched,' by minders or stalkers.
Homosexuality is disordered huh? What about taking young men and making them repress/suppress themselves so some eventually go on to abuse children and those that don't are left not knowing who or what they are? That surely is disordered, not the legitimate love one human being has for another.
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