The Argentine Jesuit (Pope) also has spoken of his own ministry to gay and transgender people, insisting they are children of God, loved by God and deserving of accompaniment by the church. - AP
I'm so happy for Fr. Martin!
Fr. James Martin, SJ3 hrs ·
Dear friends: Today Pope Francis received me for a 30-minute private audience in the Apostolic Palace, where I shared with him the joys and hopes, and the griefs and anxieties, of LGBT Catholics and LGBT people worldwide. I was so grateful to meet with this compassionate pastor.
The only other person in the room with us during our meeting was his translator.
Wah??? Gasp!!! Wheeze!!! >x< >x<
ReplyDeleteI hope it was a good meeting because we already know that a storm of loud wailing and the gnashing of teeth is or has begun withing the Catholic world.
Viva Cristo Rey!
Viva il Papa!
I know - he's getting blasted. Viva il Papa!
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After the famine had abated, Father Walsh was asked to meet Pope Pius XI in a private audience. It was in the evening, just the two, Father Walsh reporting on the success of the relief mission and the Holy Father grateful for the services of this dedicated priest and religious. As the conversation went on they began to comment, Pope and Jesuit, on the trials through which the Church was then passing: communism, opposition in Mexico, the rising of persecution in Spain. The picture was a bleak one and prospects for the Church not encouraging. Finally the Holy Father interrupted the conversation and asked a question. "Tell me, Father Walsh, "who have been the worst persecutors of the Church, tell me?" Father Walsh knew the Pope wanted to answer his own question, so he didn't answer. The Pope said, "The Church's worst persecutors have been her own unfaithful bishops, priests and religious." He went on, "Opposition from the outside is terrible; it gives us many martyrs. But the Church's worst enemy is her own traitors."
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