The
following excerpts are
from my good friend and fellow Catholic blogger, Lisa Graas at
LisaGraas.com:
At
Renew America, Father James Farfaglia says that he now thinks it is a
“plausible possibility” that Pope Benedict XVI was forced out by
the gay lobby. I have long accepted it as a plausible possibility,
but we just don’t know that for sure. Father also says “We are
back to the days of the Arian heresy.” After all, we have bishops
at the Vatican claiming that sin, even grave sin, can be a means of
holiness.
Yesterday,
I was heartened by Cardinal Napier’s remarks at the Vatican press
conference. Today, I am disheartened by Archbishop Kurtz’s remarks
at today’s press conference. Michael Voris refers to them as
“non-answers.”
Cardinal
Kasper leads the news at Catholic Herald, as I write, with his claim
that a “growing majority” of Synod fathers support Communion for
those divorced and remarried. My heart breaks at the suggestion. How
can one blog a broken heart? How can one blog tears? One cannot. You
must trust that I have both.
Sin
is not a means of holiness. It is a separation from God.
Some
people are arguing that no one should be denied at least the
opportunity for Communion, as if some people are being denied the
opportunity. The problem is that some people believe that sex is more
important than salvation. Some people are not willing to abstain from
sex in order to be saved by our Lord. As a celibate, divorced
Catholic, I think they’re crazy to choose sex over Jesus. What is
crazier, however, is that there are bishops who are siding with them.
I
can only wonder if those bishops are not celibate. Why else but a
failure in their own celibacy would they fail to understand that
celibacy is not only possible but is spiritually transformative? If
you have tasted and seen the goodness of the Lord, why would you
deter people from presenting themselves in their wedding garment at
His banquet?
Read
more by clicking below:
LisaGraas.com | Synod 2014: Can Sin Be Holy?
