Italian Catholic Bishop: Gays Shouldn’t be Given Funerals

One has to wonder whether the Catholic Church hierarchy can get any more tone deaf - particularly with the exploding sex abuse scandal in Europe increasingly directly implicating Pap Ratzi more with each passing day. About the only things that has not happened - at least not yet - is for allegations to arise that Ratzinger was a predator himself. But that did not stop Italian Bishop Francesco Nolè from the city of Tursi (pictured at left) from further underscoring the Church's hypocrisy by stating that homosexuals should not receive communion or be given funerals. My question for the gay hating bishop is this: then what is the Church going to do with bishops, cardinals and Popes that enabled and covered up the sexual abuse of thousands and thousands of children and youths? No communion for them and no funerals? It would seem a fitting punishment, would it not (excluding extended jail time, of course)? Nolè's statement shows that the Church hierarchy is utterly obsessed with things sexual and gay sex in particular. As experience has shown, typically its the self-hating closet cases that make such remarks, so one cannot help but wonder about the good bishop's own sexual identity issues. Here are highlights from Pink Paper.com:
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The bishop of the city of Tursi has declared homosexuals should not receive communion or be given funerals.
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In an interview published last Friday on pontifex.roma.it, a website created to ‘prove and defend Christianity’, Bishop Francesco Nolè declared that ‘irregulars’ such as criminals and homosexuals should not be given communions or funerals. This, he said, is not to be seen as discrimination, but rather as ‘healthy medicine’ for those close to the person: “Our behaviour, which could be perceived as mean or cruel, in the long-run often heals and evangelises.”
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He added: “We must have the courage and tact, perhaps first informing the individual, or the families if he has passed, that it’s not possible to administer a communion or funeral. We would perhaps pray for his soul, which must be done.”
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He went on to say: “The church, with its eternal obsession with compassion, is or has already succumbed. Homosexual couples or those who are divorced and re-married are being called ‘irregulars’ instead of ‘public sinners’, and so the concept of sin itself goes down the drain.
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“Nothing surprises me anymore. Homosexuality, which is a disease, has become something normal. They sprout like poisonous mushrooms, and instead of feeling shame they celebrate this plague and the church itself minimalises these sins. Homosexuality itself is not a sin, you can’t punish a sufferer. But it becomes one when the abomination is practised. It’s disgraceful.”
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No sir, what's disgraceful is hypocrites like yourself and the damage you do to others as a result of your own f*cked up psychological problems.