France: Catholic priests bless homosexual unions

According to Riposte Catholique – a website based in France – seventy-five Catholic priests and deacons in France officiated this year at blessings of the unions of divorced heterosexual couples. However, the clerics gave assurances that since the blessings do not constitute sacramental marriage, they are not in violation of Catholic teachings about marriage.

Observers note that even while the officiating Catholic clergy supposedly did not resort to the use of the Catholic marriage ritual, which has always been reserved to one man and one woman for life, at least seven of the couples so joined are of the same sex.

According to an exhortation made by St John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, ‘Similarly, the respect due to the sacrament of Matrimony, to the couples themselves and their families, and also to the community of the faithful, forbids any pastor, for whatever reason or pretext even of a pastoral nature, to perform ceremonies of any kind for divorced people who remarry. Such ceremonies would give the impression of the celebration of a new sacramentally valid marriage, and would thus lead people into error concerning the indissolubility of a validly contracted marriage.’
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Fiel al Evangelio

Jun 29, 2014

Josefine

Jun 29, 2014

Do not be like Esau, who traded his birthright for a mess of pottage, for God has given his blessing to Jacob and gave him the name "Israel".
So Israel stands for Jacob and his twelve sons, so the Messiah and Redeemer and the twelve tribes stands for Israel and the twelf tribes of Israel.
We are one with Christ, the vine, he is the spiritual Israel, and we his Church, body of Jesus of Christ, has closed a perpetual Covenant through his blood with us at the Passover meal.
Therefore, nobody should be like the invited wedding guests in the parable of Jesus, which cancel the invitation to the wedding supper of the Lamb with his bride, because they are busy with the world and fall prey to the temptations of the snake.
We have against satanic forces, to fight the rulers and powers in the invisible range.
We can do that only with the word of God, the spirit of our eternal King Jesus Christ. The disciples of Jesus Christ are the only ones who can do that.
Satan, the fallen angels, and his people know this, and so they seduce people with their lies, that go to the wrong way let them, which takes away from the word of God and the commandments of God.
Our only chance is to be vigilant and to pray, that is to live consciously in the presence of God.
Our father in heaven, give your people the grace of conversion, to defeat Satan and his people - in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Josefine

Jun 28, 2014

The same decadence was also in Rome shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire. The pleasure and hedonism of the Roman emperors has the social virtues weakened so that they have led to the decline and decay of culture.
But today the cultural decline even from politicians, supported by the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

Knights4Christ

Jun 28, 2014

The Church is out of control, the Sodomites do what they want and Francis let everything happen without establishing order is like if nobody who is Catholic is living in Rome.