{"id":131285,"date":"2022-03-16T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=131285"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:45:31","slug":"cardinal-george-pell-stands-against-pro-gay-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/cardinal-george-pell-stands-against-pro-gay-bishops","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal George Pell stands against pro-gay bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cardinal Pell, in a statement from his office released on Tuesday, condemned the stances of Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the European Bishops\u2019 Conferences (COMECE), and Bishop Georg B\u00e4tzing, president of the German Bishops\u2019 Conference, on whether or not the Catholic Church should accept the secular view of homosexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-bishops-secular-ideas-promote-homosexuality-at-all-levels-of-the-church\"><strong>The bishops secular ideas promote homosexuality at all levels of the Church<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Both bishops have promoted a change in the Church&#8217;s teachings on homosexuality. \u201cI believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct,\u201d Hollerich stated, adding, \u201cI have homosexuals among my priests.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that we have to assess homosexuality and lived partnerships outside of marriage differently,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnd.de\/politik\/bischof-batzing-zur-segnung-homosexueller-paare-es-steht-veranderung-an-6YW74SLZHRESXFFNVF763CUMLA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0B\u00e4tzing. He continues, \u201cWe can no longer proceed solely from natural law, but have to think much more in terms of care and personal responsibility for one another.\u201d \u201cIn this regard, I would like to see a further development of Catholic teaching on sexual ethics.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-traditional-teachings-of-the-church-leave-no-room-for-homosexuality\"><strong>The traditional teachings of the Church leave no room for homosexuality<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catholic Church has always taught that homosexual acts are perverse and the attraction itself &#8220;is objectively disordered. \u201cBasing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that \u2018homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,\u2019\u201d\u00a0states\u00a0the Catholic Catechism, adding that under no circumstances \u201ccan they be approved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal Bell vehemently protests the erroneous beliefs of these two bishops. \u201cNot one of the Ten Commandments is optional; all are there to be followed, and by sinners,\u201d Cardinal Pell said in his\u00a0statement. \u201cWe cannot have a special Australian or German version of the Ten Commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position taken by Cardinal Hollerich and Bishop B\u00e4tzing represents a \u201cwholesale and explicit rejection of the Catholic Church\u2019s teaching on sexual ethics,\u201d Pell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Cardinal Pell, the stance taken by Hollerich and B\u00e4tzing \u201cis a rupture, not compatible with the ancient teaching of Scripture and the Magisterium, not compatible with any legitimate doctrinal developments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pell added that the only acceptable response is &#8220;a clear Roman reprimand&#8221; from the Vatican&#8217;s doctrinal office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Pell, in a statement from his office released on Tuesday, condemned the stances of Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the European Bishops\u2019 Conferences (COMECE), and Bishop Georg B\u00e4tzing, president of the German Bishops\u2019 Conference, on whether or not the Catholic Church should accept the secular view of homosexuality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":103647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"511"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,805],"tags":[6512,720,1730],"class_list":["post-131285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-foreground","tag-bishops","tag-catholic-church","tag-homosexuality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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