{"id":1267662,"date":"2022-02-03T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267662"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:08:48","slug":"jesuit-cardinal-calls-for-change-in-church-teaching-on-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesuit-cardinal-calls-for-change-in-church-teaching-on-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit Cardinal Calls for Change in Church Teaching on Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjesuit-cardinal-calls-for-change-in-church-teaching-on-homosexuality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Jean-Claude-Hollerich-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME\u2014Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich told Catholic News Agency (KNA) Tuesday the Catholic Church should change its teaching on homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Hollerich, the archbishop of Luxembourg and president of the EU Bishops\u2019 Commission (COMECE), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wort.lu\/de\/international\/hollerich-fuer-aenderung-der-kirchenlehre-zu-homosexualitaet-61f950e0de135b923682472e\">said<\/a> that Catholic teaching on the sinfulness of homosexual relations is mistaken and needs to be updated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct,\u201d Hollerich said, while calling for a fundamental revision of the teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scborromeo.org\/ccc\/p3s2c2a6.htm\">teaches<\/a> that same-sex attraction is \u201cis objectively disordered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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 states the Catholic Catechism, adding that under no circumstances \u201ccan they be approved.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know that I have homosexuals among my priests,\u201d Hollerich told KNA. \u201cI have homosexual women and men among the laity. And they know they have a home in the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cardinal also said that the way Pope Francis has dealt with the issue of homosexuality could lead to a change in official Church teaching.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The decision by Pope Francis to offer his tentative support for civil union laws for same-sex couples was praised Thursday by U.N. chief Antonio Guterres. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3d7n6WctCL\">https:\/\/t.co\/3d7n6WctCL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1319712575161094145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2018, Pope Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2018\/12\/02\/pope-francis-no-room-homosexuality-priesthood\/\">said<\/a> it is a mistake to downplay the seriousness of homosexuality, insisting that homosexuals have no place in the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether homosexuality was a problem for priests or \u201cjust an expression of an affection,\u201d the pope said it is \u201ca mistake\u201d to treat it as something unimportant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just an expression of an affection. In consecrated and priestly life, there\u2019s no room for that kind of affection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also reiterated Church teaching \u201cthat people with that kind of ingrained tendency should not be accepted into the ministry or consecrated life. The ministry or the consecrated life is not his place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Vatican\u2019s doctrinal office, in a text personally approved by Pope Francis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/03\/15\/vatican-denies-the-possibility-of-blessing-homosexual-couples\/\">declared<\/a> that the Church has no power to bless homosexual unions, since God Himself \u201cdoes not and cannot bless sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blessings require \u201cthat what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace\u201d and therefore, \u201conly those realities which are in themselves ordered to serve those ends are congruent with the essence of the blessing imparted by the Church,\u201d it declared.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, it is not licit to impart a blessing on relationships that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (the indissoluble union of a man and a woman), \u201cas is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex,\u201d it stated, because the union itself is \u201cnot ordered to the Creator\u2019s plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blessing homosexual unions is impossible, the document declared, because \u201cthere are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God\u2019s plan for marriage and family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blessing an illicit sexual union would be \u201cto approve and encourage a choice and a way of life that cannot be recognized as objectively ordered to the revealed plans of God,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME\u2014Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich told Catholic News Agency (KNA) Tuesday the Catholic Church should change its teaching on homosexuality. 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