New York Times columnist Timothy Egan chose to confront the widening scandal within the Catholic church — namely, the allegation that Pope Francis’s power base is a homosexual cabal within the Vatican, leading him to advance known pederasts — by asserting two things:
(1) The Church has a long history of Popes who deviated from church teaching on sex and
(2) Church teaching on sex is all wrong, because Jesus Christ never explicitly said “It’s a sin for two men to have sex with each other or for adult men to use male children and teenagers for sex.”
People more learned in Church doctrine than I have already addressed the second argument. Matt Walsh makes it simple:
I am not at the moment interested in discussing whether Christianity is right about homosexuality or human sexuality in general. The point is simply that Christianity does have a teaching on the subject, and, if you wish to be Christian, you can’t disagree with it. The Bible clearly condemns the homosexual act repeatedly, including in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Timothy 1:10, and all across the Old Testament, most notably in Leviticus and Genesis. And Jesus Christ is quoted in two Gospel accounts explicitly defining marriage. He teaches that marriage is when a “man” and “his wife” come together and “become one flesh.” That is settled doctrine, right from the Son of Man Himself. It is not a liberal doctrine or a conservative doctrine. It is just truth. A Christian must accept that it is truth because it came from the One who Himself is Truth.......While the Leftist assault on the Catholic Church in Latin America was economic, in Europe (and in the U.S.), which have wealthier and morally more decadent cultures, the communists attacked the Church with the most potent weapon of all: sex. There is no better example of this than what happened in Brussels, Belgium, where the Left-leaning church hierarchy aggressively and openly promoted hardcore pedophilia..................To Read More...
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