" Archdiocese of Salzburg Publishes New Book on Church Blessings for Same-Gender Couples"

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I would like please to see an enlightened bishop offer blessings for other people who are attracted to commit sins together. I was thinking maybe of an adulterers blessing, a fornicators’ blessing and, on a non sexual level, a group gossips’ blessing so that people like me who feel the urge to pass titillating rumours around can feel welcome in the church. We have our rights and needs too!
 
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Whenever I see the name of the ministry “new ways,” I am reminded of this passage from Jeremiah, where God tells us instead to choose the old ways:
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
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Volgger shared that he was commissioned by Archbishop Franz Lackner to explore the “the question of an official Benediction” for lesbian and gay couples.
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So the Archbishop instigated this. What does he really expect or intend?
 
For some reason, the Church chooses not to offer blessings to men and women who wallow in pornography. Why is that?
 
I am sorry, but the archbishop is out of his mind for considering this, even for a second. The answer is no, plain and simple. I don’t need to have attended seminary for 10 years and have a doctorate in theology to know that this is wrong. There is no excuse for this kind of idiocy, even from a bishop or archbishop.
 
Maybe because there is not even a semblance of charity in selfish indulgence or sexual objectification; but Pope Francis wrote in Amoris Laetitia that same-sex “unions” are not even remotely analogous to marriage. So what possible ground could there be for a legitimate blessing, even allowing for “gradualism”? [Which is most likely gravely misapplied in this context because it would be regressive gradualism, which is a contradiction in terms, right?] I’m just struggling to see the Archbishop’s perspective unless it is really just heretical (and we’re not allowed to accuse clergy of this on these forums iiuc).
 
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I fail to see an analog between marriage that is intended to mirror the Holy Family, and a same-sex couple in some sort of arrangement. The point is what is the difference between one vice and another, as far as “acceptance” goes. So now people who struggle with every other sin become pariahs, but practicing homosexuals are somehow more deserving of kindness and mercy? I cannot see parsing any gravely sinful behavior as either more worthy of mercy and understanding or as less grave.

That said, the Bishop has indeed lost his mind, or as acting as enemy of Church teachings.
 
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Neithan said:
I’m just struggling to see the Archbishop’s perspective unless it is really just heretical (and we’re not allowed to accuse clergy of this on these forums iiuc).
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Being most generous with reasoning…perhaps the Bishop hoped those he authorized to explore the issue would come up with the obvious answer: there is no reason to bless a sinful union.

I don’t know his motives.
 
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I fail to see analog between marriage that is intended to mirror the Holy Family, and a same-sex couple in some sort of arrangement.
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There is none. In fact, the image of the family (husband loves wife, wife loves husband, love generates child) mirrors the Trinity (Father loves Son, Son loves Father, love is so perfect its personified in the Holy Spirit).
 
Many men in the Old Testament had more than one wife. And Utah has loosened its restrictions on polygamy. Perhaps His Excellency, the most Reverend Bishop will consider the possibility of blessing polygamous unions?
 
I think all sinners deserve an appropriate blessing…

Repent and Live the Gospel!​

 
Is this guy supposed to be the Austrian version of Fr. James Martin?
 
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