Catholic Church Unfairly Maligned!
The Da Vinci Code opens today—and, gee whiz, the Catholic Church is feeling unfairly maligned. Gosh, I wonder what that feels like?
“Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
Under the new instruction, the Church said it cannot admit to the seminary and to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called “gay culture.”
“Church teachings describe homosexual orientation as ‘objectively disordered’ and loving intimate acts as ‘intrinsically evil.’ In the last few weeks the Pope himself declared that same sex marriage is ‘a deplorable distortion’ and adoption by gay or lesbian parents ‘a grave danger.’â€
Church Cannot Baptize Babies of Same-Sex Couples Says Quebec Cardinal
And on and on. In other Catholic news…
Spokane Diocese Sex Abuse Deal Rejected A federal judge rejected a $45.7-million settlement Thursday for 75 people who have filed sex abuse claims against the bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane…. The judge, noting that bankruptcy law calls for settlements to be “fair and equitable” to all parties, decided the deal favored the 75 people over other alleged victims, lawyers for both sides said.Spokane Bishop William Skylstad, president of U.S. Catholic bishops, is among the clerics accused of abuse in the bankruptcy claims.
In a decision approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican has said the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, accused of sexually abusing minors, should not exercise his priestly ministry publicly…. Nine former Legionaries, one of whom is now dead, publicly accused Father Maciel of sexually abusing them when they were teenage seminarians in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
Short beady eyed pope Benedictus
Would sneer at an altar boy’s rictus
As he wetted his bum
With his white papal cum
I’m the pope, not a court will convict us.