tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post4272463682899903175..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: A Pastural Statement To Gays From Cardinal Mahonycolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-89791981289042355322008-12-19T09:08:00.000-07:002008-12-19T09:08:00.000-07:00Dear annonymous:The use of the word pastural is ex...Dear annonymous:<BR/><BR/>The use of the word pastural is exactly what I meant to use. I always use spell check because I never remember "I before E except after C".<BR/><BR/>This statement from Cardinal Mahoney is bs. You find a lot of BS in pastures.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-8917489331437077612008-12-16T18:45:00.000-07:002008-12-16T18:45:00.000-07:00Plese run a spel-checker on your comentery. (It's...Plese run a spel-checker on your comentery. (It's pastoral, not pastural.) It makes your blogg look rathor unsofisticated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-83969971960636499502008-12-08T11:42:00.000-07:002008-12-08T11:42:00.000-07:00If every single gay priest, nun, and pastoral work...If every single gay priest, nun, and pastoral worker came out and left the Church, the institutional church would be flat on it's back, not on it's knees.<BR/><BR/>My anger with this issue, and it's extensive, is two fold. The homophobic messages are brutal on gay children and the children of gay parents, and the Church itself is functioning on the backs of silent fearful gay employees.<BR/><BR/>The whole thing is despicable.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-27996844920404329092008-12-08T10:22:00.000-07:002008-12-08T10:22:00.000-07:00Colleen- I've struggled with this for years... and...Colleen- I've struggled with this for years... and I'm done. I've been studying about Lutheranism ELCA, specifically... its too good to be true... but it is. Here's the itty bitty Church I attend in Buda TX. out in the Hill Country- beautiful scenery and the Charism absolutely prophetic!!! Our Pastor Lori Ruge-Jones ROCKS! Her congregation is filling up with bisexuals and gays... because we feel WELCOMED... no longer, will I live in the shadows or religious fringe... I say all gay nuns and gay priests should come out! And the catholic church would then fall to its knees... SILENCE never freed any oppressed people...<BR/><BR/>Delizza D. no longer catholic<BR/>http://www.livwd.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-48377345956765485362008-12-08T09:57:00.000-07:002008-12-08T09:57:00.000-07:00Antonia, as to your point about discrediting scien...Antonia, as to your point about discrediting science when it is at odds with doctrine, the science they quote on the gay issue is typical.<BR/><BR/>I've noted that in all their statistics about gay conversion, they never seem to know just how many of their 'converted' are bi sexual. In fact they don't mention this at all.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-21329112560757755732008-12-06T15:03:00.000-07:002008-12-06T15:03:00.000-07:00Or attempting to discredit science when it is at o...Or attempting to discredit science when it is at odds with doctrine.Antonio Manettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00487502995709519940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-53445497273177221652008-12-06T12:22:00.000-07:002008-12-06T12:22:00.000-07:00Agreed Antonio. I find the repeated references to...Agreed Antonio. I find the repeated references to Natural Law completely worthless, in as much as most of the defense of the Church's concept of Natural law necessitates inventing their own science to support it.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-9258676202806326742008-12-06T12:12:00.000-07:002008-12-06T12:12:00.000-07:00The Catholic Church has historically opposed attem...<I>The Catholic Church has historically opposed attempts to deny or to limit the exercise of the basic rights which are known through the natural law</I><BR/><BR/>References to the natural law are spurious attempts to provide a non-sectarian rationale in defense of a particular cultural mileu or sectarian belief.<BR/><BR/>In my opinion, the determination of natural law is best left to the scientists.Antonio Manettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00487502995709519940noreply@blogger.com