It’s scarcely credible that
Pope Francis would say “God made you that way” (Pope resigned to getting
things wrong, May 25). The Catholic Church exists to preach the truth, and
that statement is a lie. Not just any old lie, but the one which arguably has
proved the most harmful to its mission.
Last
week the Pope’s withering critique of Chilean bishops’ handling of sex abuse
resulted in their wholesale resignation. He quoted their “loss of
prophetic strength”, meaning loss of courage in proclaiming the Gospel, which is
the first task of any priest, especially the Pope.
The Gospel states
that “God made them male and female” (Mt 10,6). He didn’t make them homosexual.
There’s no ‘gay gene’. It’s painful to contemplate the societal influences –
chiefly the absence of fathers in early childhood – that deceive people into
believing homosexual inclinations are innate, and preaching that it’s a
deception will not make priests popular. However, priests and popes are not
meant to be popular, but truthful.
Pope Francis blamed the Chilean
crisis partly on men in seminaries who have a history of active homosexuality.
If God made them that way, why
shouldn’t they be in seminaries?
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