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The answer: He called for the proclamation of moral truth! Isn't that what ALL OF US should want? Isn't proclaiming the truth the purpose of the Church? Jesus told the apostles to go forth AND TEACH? What were they to teach? THE TRUTH so that, knowing the truth, we could embrace it and be saved!
Fr. Haley wants the Church to proclaim the truth on the morality of same-sex attracted men being ordained to the priesthood. Let me put it in the form of a question: (Read more....)
"Whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery in his heart". Matt 5:26
ReplyDelete(The Lord's *New Testament* Law is *more* strict, not less, than the OT Law).
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them." Matt 5:18
(The outer expression/The inner reality ... all holy and of God)
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and it's fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood Of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things; and an evil man outnof the evil treasure, evil things." Matt 12: 33-35
"Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life" Prov 4:23
"All deeds are right in the eyes of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart" Prov 21:2
"But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God" Ezekiel 11:21
The sin of sodomy starts in the heart. The sin of sodomy is expressed in action, as fruit of an evil heart. But it is the heart, God judges, and all the sins secretly retained therein.
There is no such thing as a "celibate homosexual". Celibate man. Celibate woman. Not celibate homosexual. Anyone who secretly prefers sodomy in the inner core of the heart is a sodomite in God's eyes and will go to hell. Sodomy sin, even inner preference for the sin must be recognized and repented of; the process of cleansing begun *prior* to discernment.
One day, the Seminary Gatekeepers will discern, with the Holy Spirit guiding them, the faintest of inner preference for this perversion; and lock the door against them. They will keep the Seminary a Holy Place in which God's Priests are properly, fully, righteously formed.