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I’ve posted this elsewhere but it seems applicable to this thread:
Bishop Carl Moeddel, Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati since 1993, has served as a veritable posterboy-bishop of the National Association for Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries for the past five years. Speaking to the group’s national convention in Oakland, California, on September 8, 2000, Bishop Moeddel recounted the advances the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has made in the normalization of homosexuality in the Catholic schools. He bragged, speaking in an affected lisp: “I was pretty proud of the fact that we were starting…a youth group for gays and lesbians at the secondary school level…. Our priority in the coming year is to try to get into all of our high schools. Talk to our teachers. Hopefully to move from there into our elementary schools, but starting with our high schools.” He also explained how he’s been giving in-service day workshops to Catholic school teachers to help promote the U.S. bishops’ document Always Our Children, a pronouncement on “ministering to gay and lesbian persons” that was later revised at the request of the Vatican.
Moreover, under the leadership of Pilarczyk and Moeddel, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has introduced and zealously promoted its Catholic ministry to “gays and lesbians,” supports the presence of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), a homosexualist propaganda group in the Catholic schools, all in an effort to “eliminate bias and discrimination and support inclusion” of homosexuals in Catholic parishes and schools. Pilarczyk named Fr. Mike Leshney, chaplain at the all-boys Moeller High School at the time, as the leader of the new ministry. Fr. Leshney had served as chaplain to the Cincinnati chapter of Dignity in the 1980s before the Vatican ordered bishops to withdraw all support from organizations opposing Church teaching on human sexuality — namely, Dignity.
Shortly after the homosexual priest scandals hit the media in 2002, Fr. Gerald Haemmerle, then-Rector of Cincinnati’s Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, made it clear that the local Catholic Seminary would not discriminate against homosexual men who desired to enter priestly formation for the Archdiocese. Despite the fact that the Vatican had just reiterated that homosexual men should not be ordained to the priesthood, Fr. Haemmerle said, “We look at everyone and try to determine whether or not they can live with their own sexuality…. That’s either homosexual or heterosexual.” Fr. James Walsh, former Executive Director of the Cincinnati Seminary (now a pastor on Cincinnati’s west-side), backed Haemmerle’s approach. He said he knows “gay” priests who were ordained under his watch, and they turned out to be “fine ministers,” he emphasized. “It’s really commendable how it’s handled here” (Cincinnati Enquirer, April 15, 2002)…"
newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0605-rose
Bishop Carl Moeddel, Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati since 1993, has served as a veritable posterboy-bishop of the National Association for Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries for the past five years. Speaking to the group’s national convention in Oakland, California, on September 8, 2000, Bishop Moeddel recounted the advances the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has made in the normalization of homosexuality in the Catholic schools. He bragged, speaking in an affected lisp: “I was pretty proud of the fact that we were starting…a youth group for gays and lesbians at the secondary school level…. Our priority in the coming year is to try to get into all of our high schools. Talk to our teachers. Hopefully to move from there into our elementary schools, but starting with our high schools.” He also explained how he’s been giving in-service day workshops to Catholic school teachers to help promote the U.S. bishops’ document Always Our Children, a pronouncement on “ministering to gay and lesbian persons” that was later revised at the request of the Vatican.
Moreover, under the leadership of Pilarczyk and Moeddel, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has introduced and zealously promoted its Catholic ministry to “gays and lesbians,” supports the presence of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), a homosexualist propaganda group in the Catholic schools, all in an effort to “eliminate bias and discrimination and support inclusion” of homosexuals in Catholic parishes and schools. Pilarczyk named Fr. Mike Leshney, chaplain at the all-boys Moeller High School at the time, as the leader of the new ministry. Fr. Leshney had served as chaplain to the Cincinnati chapter of Dignity in the 1980s before the Vatican ordered bishops to withdraw all support from organizations opposing Church teaching on human sexuality — namely, Dignity.
Shortly after the homosexual priest scandals hit the media in 2002, Fr. Gerald Haemmerle, then-Rector of Cincinnati’s Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, made it clear that the local Catholic Seminary would not discriminate against homosexual men who desired to enter priestly formation for the Archdiocese. Despite the fact that the Vatican had just reiterated that homosexual men should not be ordained to the priesthood, Fr. Haemmerle said, “We look at everyone and try to determine whether or not they can live with their own sexuality…. That’s either homosexual or heterosexual.” Fr. James Walsh, former Executive Director of the Cincinnati Seminary (now a pastor on Cincinnati’s west-side), backed Haemmerle’s approach. He said he knows “gay” priests who were ordained under his watch, and they turned out to be “fine ministers,” he emphasized. “It’s really commendable how it’s handled here” (Cincinnati Enquirer, April 15, 2002)…"
newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0605-rose
The above statement is blatant blasphemy. This could potentially be a detour for many trying progress on the spiritual path. As someone who left a sinful lifestyle to return to the Catholic Church (praise the Grace of Christ), this conference would be the very OPPOSITE people in a similar situation as myself need. It actually encourages people to remain in sin and on the path to hell. It even dares to call this sinful way superior to the true Catholic spiritual path!!!
