Photo ~ Giacomo Cardinal Biffi, the 82-year old Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy

Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven
Thanks to Bob Jones papist for submitting this news article.

The congregation for the doctrine of the faith reprints as-is the 1986 letter on homosexuality, precisely as various governments are legalizing gay unions.

This document is relevant because never before as in recent months has the question of homosexuality been at the center of disputes and controversies that have involved the Catholic Church. With positions that are not unanimous even at the highest level of the hierarchy.

It should be enough to recall the recent decision in Austria of the cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn, to approve, in spite of the contrary opinion of the pastor, the election as member of a pastoral council of a homosexual cohabiting in a union recognized by the city government, and manifestly not repentant – but rather proud – of his behavior.

Or the vigorous disagreement manifested a few days ago by the cardinal of New York, Timothy Dolan, against the public support given by President Barack Obama to the legalization of so-called "gay marriage."

The move by Obama was all the more striking in that it came immediately after a referendum in the state of North Carolina in which the citizens voted into the constitution the classical definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman: a definition for the support of which the field had been taken, at the age of 93, even by the charismatic evangelical leader Billy Graham, to whom Obama had gone in "pilgrimage" to receive his advice in April of 2010, continuing a presidential tradition inaugurated by Dwight Eisenhower.

The link includes commentaries of Ratzinger and Cardinal Biffi.

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