I take umbrage to “gays are born with faulty sex traits like lameness, blindness and cleft lips”.
That is: Homophobia, albeit possibly unintentional. Faulty according to whom? Does it mean individuals without those traits are perfect or faultless? Smacks of religious brainwashing. Roland. Toronto. > On May 12, 2022, at 5:47 AM, Adolfo Mascarenhas <[email protected]> wrote: > > The All Knowing Pope Francis > > Eddie I was very pleased that the Pope Francis on was not judgemetal on > The Gay Community but compassionate .....Gays are born with .faulty sex > traits just like lameness, blindness or cleft lips. Hitler had a solution > KILL THEM Is that what you wanted the Pope to be Monster like Hitler, > Stalin and Idi Amin etc. Really pathetic > It is better to be understanding....I shudder to think of all the great > outstanding scientists(one who could not even feed himself ). writers and > poets even Nobel Prize Winners whom we would have lost ..if we left it to > tyrants > Grandolfo > >> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 7:42 PM Eddie D'Sa <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is is interesting to read what some of the popes have to say on assorted >> issues. >> >> Pope Francis for example is Italian but went to settle in Latin America >> (Argentina), a region grabbed by the marauding Euro migrants in the 19th & >> 20th centuries. Many were pleased with the new lands and decided to settle >> there. They never asked the permission of the Natives but just slaughtered >> them in the hundreds of thousands. That was the Euro Christian way of doing >> things. >> >> >> >> Popes feel they have to comment on various issues. Pope Francis, for >> example, decided to speak on gay Catholics and seems to know the mind of God >> when he dishes out his platitudes. >> >> >> >> >> >> He said that "God is Father and he does not disown any of his children, and >> the style of God is 'closeness, mercy and tenderness.' Along this path you >> will find God." >> >> "The church is a mother and calls together all her children," he continued. >> >> He then went off script to tell parents not to condemn children with >> different sexual orientations. >> "Never condemn your children," said Francis, >> >> On another occasion, Francis said the study and celebration of the liturgy >> should lead to a sense of awe before God, a commitment to mission and a >> growing unity within the church. >> >> However, the pope said, people must be aware of "the temptation of >> liturgical formalism: to focus on forms, formalities rather than reality, as >> we see today in those movements that try to go backwards and deny the Second >> Vatican Council. " >> >> The teaching of every church council has taken time to be accepted fully, he >> said, and it is no different with Vatican II, especially with its reform of >> the liturgy. >> >> Celebrating the liturgy must increase communion within the church and unity >> with others, he said, because "the liturgical life opens us to each other, >> to those closest and furthest from the church, in our common belonging to >> Christ." >> >> "Giving glory to God in the liturgy finds its counterpart in love of >> neighbor, in the commitment to live as brothers and sisters in daily life, >> in the community in which I find myself, with its merits and its >> limitations," Pope Francis said. >> >> ========================= >> >> Eddie
