Rome and Its Moral Teaching
We have often remarked that the present pope is subtly endeavouring to send out messages which appeal to the spirit of this corrupt generation, in order to make the Church of Rome appear more attractive in the eyes of the world. A further step in the downward progress of the papacy in softening its line on moral issues is the latest statement to emerge from the Vatican, that “LGBT” young people wanted to “benefit from greater closeness” with the Church. Instead of referring to sodomites as people of “homosexual tendencies”, as formerly, the papal propaganda machine is now beginning to refer to them as “gay” – their own preferred choice of identification.
Cardinal Baldisseri, a Vatican spokesman, commented on this change of tone: “We are open. We don’t want to be closed in on ourselves.” Yet, at the same time, the Roman Church’s own official position remains unchanged, and only last week the Pope stated that only opposite-sex couples were able to form families. “The family [as] man and woman in the image of God is the only one,” he remarked. Of course, sending out mixed messages is nothing new for this pontiff or for the Church of Rome more generally. How far the Roman harlot may depart from traditional moral teaching in its occasional pronouncements is impossible to predict, but when one form of gross sin is countenanced, there is no limit to the capacity of fallen men both to justify it and to indulge in it. AWM
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