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Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
« on: June 25, 2017, 11:12:07 PM »
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    Illinois Bishop Decrees: No Communion and No Funeral Rites for Same-Sex Couples





    (CNSNews.com) - Before LGBT Pride celebrations begin in Chicago this weekend, Bishop of Springfield Thomas Paprocki [1] issued a formal decree [2] calling on all members of the Catholic faith to enforce the Church’s longstanding policies on the issue of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity.
    These policies include no same-sex marriages, no Communion for people in a same-sex union, and no funeral rites for unrepentant ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, among other teachings.
    “Jesus Christ himself affirmed the privileged place of marriage in human and Christian society by raising it to the dignity of a sacrament,” stated the Bishop in his decree [3]. “Consequently, the Church has not only the authority, but the serious obligation, to affirm its authentic teaching on marriage and to preserve and foster the sacred value of the married state…”
    Rev. Paprocki’s decree [3] gave instructions regarding five specific practices.
    First, the bishop stated that no member of the clergy are to participate or in any manner be involved in a same-sex marriage ceremony. This includes abstaining from “providing services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges” for the purpose of a gαy marriage.
    The bishop also decreed that people involved in ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ relationships are not to be given Holy Communion or funeral rites without first repenting.
    He also added that people in same-sex relationships are not permitted to “serve in a public liturgical ministry.”
    Rev. Paprocki said that children of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ parents may still be baptized, go through the process of Confirmation, and attend Catholic schools.
    The bishop concluded his decree by writing, “I remind all who exercise ministry within the Church that while being clear and direct about what the Church teaches, our pastoral ministry must always be respectful, compassionate, and sensitive to all our brothers and sisters in faith…”
    Following Rev. Paprocki’s statement, DignityUSA, an organization representing LGBT Catholics, put out a statement [4]decrying the bishop’s decree, calling it “mean-spirited and un-Christian in the extreme.”
    “Bishop Paprocki’s Decree makes it very clear why so many LGBTQI people and their families feel unwelcome in the Catholic Church and why so many leave it,” said Christopher Pett, who is the incoming president of DignityUSA [5].
    “Although some other bishops and dioceses have instituted similar policies in part, this docuмent is mean-spirited and hurtful in the extreme,” he said.  “It systematically and disdainfully disparages us and our relationships. It denies us the full participation in the life of our Church to which we are entitled by our baptism and our creation in God’s image.”
    “We note, by contrast, that Pope Francis has issued no such decree for the Catholic Church, and has in fact called for a much more pastoral and respectful approach to LGBTQI people, our families, and our relationships,” Pett said
    DignityUSA’s executive director, Marianne Duddy-Burke, took a similar position.
    “Along with many other Catholic leaders, members, and theologians, DignityUSA strongly opposes withholding our Church’s sacraments from anyone as punishment,” she said.  “It is simply cruel and shameful to refuse burial or Communion to those who seek the grace and comfort that our Church offers at some of the most difficult moments of life.”
    While Pope Francis has affirmed that same-sex relationships fall outside a biblical definition of marriage, he has urged the Catholic Church to be more accepting of gαys and lesbians.
    The Pope wrote in a paper last year that there mustn't be “unjust discrimination” against LGBT individuals, writing [6] that “a pastor cannot feel that it is enough simply to apply moral laws ... as if they were stones to throw at people's lives.”
    "In order to avoid all misunderstanding, I would point out that in no way must the Church desist from proposing the full idea of marriage,” affirmed Pope Francis.
    The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which details the faith and morals every Catholic must accept, says of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity [7], “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ acts are intrinsically disordered.’
    "They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sɛҳuąƖ act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sɛҳuąƖ complementarity. Under no circuмstances can they be approved.” (2357) 
    Following the Supreme Court decision to legalize gαy marriage, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said [8], “Regardless of what a narrow majority of the Supreme Court may declare at this moment in history, the nature of the human person and marriage remains unchanged and unchangeable.
    "Just as Roe v. Wade did not settle the question of abortion over forty years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges does not settle the question of marriage today. Neither decision is rooted in the truth, and as a result, both will eventually fail. Today the Court is wrong again.”
    “Mandating marriage redefinition across the country is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us, especially children,” said the U.S. bishops [8].  “The law has a duty to support every child’s basic right to be raised, where possible, by his or her married mother and father in a stable home. 

    “Jesus Christ, with great love, taught unambiguously that from the beginning marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. As Catholic bishops, we follow our Lord and will continue to teach and to act according to this truth.”




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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #1 on: June 26, 2017, 06:12:05 AM »
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    • Quote from: RomanCatholic1953 on June 25, 2017, 11:12:07 PM
    (CNSNews.com) - Before LGBT Pride celebrations begin in Chicago this weekend, Bishop of Springfield Thomas Paprocki [1] issued a formal decree [2] calling on all members of the Catholic faith to enforce the Church’s longstanding policies on the issue of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity.
    These policies include no same-sex marriages, no Communion for people in a same-sex union, and no funeral rites for unrepentant ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, among other teachings.
    “Jesus Christ himself affirmed the privileged place of marriage in human and Christian society by raising it to the dignity of a sacrament,” stated the Bishop in his decree [3]. “Consequently, the Church has not only the authority, but the serious obligation, to affirm its authentic teaching on marriage and to preserve and foster the sacred value of the married state…”
    Rev. Paprocki’s decree [3] gave instructions regarding five specific practices.
    First, the bishop stated that no member of the clergy are to participate or in any manner be involved in a same-sex marriage ceremony. This includes abstaining from “providing services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges” for the purpose of a gαy marriage.
    The bishop also decreed that people involved in ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ relationships are not to be given Holy Communion or funeral rites without first repenting.
    He also added that people in same-sex relationships are not permitted to “serve in a public liturgical ministry.”

    Rev. Paprocki said that children of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ parents may still be baptized, go through the process of Confirmation, and attend Catholic schools.

    The bishop concluded his decree bywriting, “I remind all who exercise ministry within the Church that while being clear and direct about what the Church teaches, our pastoral ministry must always be respectful, compassionate, and sensitive to all our brothers and sisters in faith…”
    Except for the screwed up part giving permission to baptize and etc. children of the queers,  sounds like he is pretty much saying they are  excommunicated - no?

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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #2 on: June 26, 2017, 08:50:51 AM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn on June 26, 2017, 06:12:05 AM
    Except for the screwed up part giving permission to baptize and etc. children of the queers,  sounds like he is pretty much saying they are  excommunicated - no?
    The issue of the baptism of the children of these unlawful unions is also covered in the Code of Canon Law 1917.
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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #3 on: June 26, 2017, 09:36:54 AM »
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    LOL, this would be no news just 10 years ago. It is interesting how Catholics are slowly brainwashed. 
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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #4 on: June 26, 2017, 09:37:47 AM »
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    • = llinois Bishop Decrees: Atlantic ocean water is salty
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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #5 on: June 26, 2017, 11:15:06 AM »
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    • Well you know what? People are so stupid and incapable of thinking that one needs to tell people who are swimming in the ocean that it is salty. They would probably never know otherwise, and it is the bishops job to tell them.

    Instead of dismissing the proper acts of the bishop as "normal" and "what he shoyld be doing anyways," we should be congratulating/commending  him for doing the right thing. How many of them are? As far as I can tell, no bishop from Texas has had guts to make such a decree. Though, admittedly, I dont and can not keep up with them all and know everything they say...
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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #6 on: June 30, 2017, 08:05:56 PM »
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    • Amen, Bishop Paprocki, God bless you.
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    Re: Bishop Decrees No Communion and No Funeral Rites for gαy Couples
    « Reply #7 on: June 30, 2017, 10:52:39 PM »
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    • Quote from: Student of Qi on June 26, 2017, 11:15:06 AM
    As far as I can tell, no bishop from Texas has had guts to make such a decree. Though, admittedly, I dont and can not keep up with them all and know everything they say...

    At least the archbishop here in Galveston-Houston issued a statement:

    The Supreme Court's narrow majority decision today is gravely unjust as it attempts to change the nature of marriage. Mandating marriage redefinition across the country is a tragic error harming the common good and the most vulnerable among us. The ruling does not and cannot change what marriage really is. No one and no court can make what is false true.

    https://pophouston.org/news/cardinal-dinardos-statement-re-supreme-court-ruling-on-marriage
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