Barney the Dinosaur Pope Francis speaks:
Pope Francis reassured parents of LGBT children that “God loves your children as they are,” and that there is a place in the church for them, according to a report.
“The church loves your children as they are because they are children of God,” the pontiff told the group, according to a report in the Jesuit weekly America Magazine.
The exchange came during a meeting last week with “Tenda di Gionata,” or “Jonathan’s Tent,” an Italian group of Christian parents of LBGT children founded in 2018, the magazine said.
A group of about 40 parents met briefly with the pope last week in the courtyard of San Damaso at the Vatican — with the parents presenting the pontiff with a rainbow-colored T-shirt that read, “In love, there is no fear.”
They also gave the pope a book titled “Genitori Fortunati,” or “Fortunate Parents,” which documents their difficulties fitting into the Catholic Church.
Go here to read the rest. Somehow PopeWatch suspects that Saint Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah is not on the Pope’s reading list. More is the pity.
Jesus loved the woman taken in adultery just as she was when he forgave her sin. But he didn’t leave her that way. “Go and sin no more.”
The second part comes from a place of greater love.
Pray tell, how does anyone honor this “father”? He is possessed.
You honor the office, not the man who holds it, necessarily.
You could honor him by not insulting him for saying something that isn’t even necessarily wrong.
I expect the occupant of the See of Peter to teach what Christ and His Church teach. All of it, not just the huggy parts. If he fails to do that, I have a duty to call him out. So do we all.
We can explain the Faith more fully and still honor the Holy Father. Calling him out probably is never respectful; calling him possessed certainly isn’t. I wasn’t at this event, so I don’t even know if he failed to present the full teaching on the subject.
Personally, I think it was a sentiment, not a teaching.
The correcting and the teaching (and even Peter —especially Peter—needed correcting) is up to all of us, although not necessarily in a particular way.
This Pope has no problem omitting any Catholic teaching unworthy of his political worldview.
Bet on it.