No mistaken, he *was *a tax collector. However, he chose to repent of his sinful ways and become a follower Jesus in his commision to live and spread the Gospel. Matthew could just as easily remained a tax collector if this was God’s will for him, and still teach and preach the Gospel (as is the call of all religious and laity). A decision to repent and turn from sin is the crucial difference, silly you! Try again?
Oh, I see, so if he repents he can carry on as normal? I assume therefore that if he is celebate he has repented, and, if he has repented he can teach children, or even be a priest, his homosexuality no longer is an issue!!! But, how do you know he’s not celebate, how do you know what his (or her) private life is? or are you claiming to play God by knowing his or her repentance?
So Norwich - what do we do with the Priests who have fallen?
Norwich said:
This piece is about a Cardinal saying publicly that two “gay” people can live a life of public sin and still teach in a Catholic school. I saw noting about repentence or submission to the will of God.
There was some controversy surrounding this man when he was about to be raised to the cardinalate. He made some pro-homosexual, pro-contraception comments and maybe some other dissenting comments. Because of this, he was made to make this profession of faith which specifically included an oath to uphold the Church teaching on the immorality of the homosexual act. Apparently he has not been faithful to this oath:
I remember, now. Old “habits” die hard.
Very true, but none of that fits the secular agenda that many want upheld as dogma.
You know it takes all of my strength to be tolerant of people such as yourself, who obviously have no concept of the truth or any regards for what God teaches us. Good!?!?!, since when is sexuality placed above God good, since when is a sexuality not in accordance to the creation account and God’s plan for marriage okay, since when is something condemed by God okay??? You know it may seem fashionable and tolerant to you to look to new age ideals just baised on false logic and unrealistic ideology to accept others deviancy, but that does not make it logically or religiously relivant in the least. Homosexuals, in case you haven’t noticed, are far more promiscuous, far more mentally illed, far more anti and less monogomous, and far more radical in deviant ideologies then any heterosexual group. So let me ask you this, why do God’s laws mean nothing to you, can you actually be so hard hearted to his laws and embrace what you want in accordance to your own selfishness? Let me ask you this, lying is wrong is it not? stealing is wrong, murder is wrong, hurting anyone in any context is wrong, right? So wrong in fact they do not come without harsh consequence, in other words they are not too good for our well being as a people and a society. We don’t even need the bible to come to this conclusion. Now take a look at the bible, which of course is the inaffalible word of God, everyone of these wrongs are condemed and considered a sin. They are indeed comanded by God as so, and as so harmful and are to be avoided. so then we can determine God is pretty much right in all this natural law, and we can understand this even without believing in him. So when it comes to homosexuality, it’s the same thing, it’s condemed for a reason! Not out of fear or ignorance, but out of the violative and harmful nature of homosexuality, simple as that.
Well guess what, I’ve been around numerous homosexual activists, I know the only goals behind those who work for tolerance and other ****, are those with the most radical and misinformed garbage. The whole sum of the this movement is based on deviant liberal values, with the intent of nothing more then bringing everything down to their level, destroying morals and values along the way…
groups-beta.google.com/group/The-Truth-About-Homosexuality/browse_thread/thread/a6d7423c658f567c/962113094df23854#962113094df23854
So, alcoholics and pedophiles (inclusive ones) can do the exact same thing, they can mimick ideal characteristics so well, but that does nothing but mask their overlying deviancy and inmorality…
No it is in all reality that people like you are at the root of what this evil is, Instead of grasping common sense and the truth of God, you are the heimechulai, the ones who will try to embrace the fashions of this world over the truth of God, and force it on false ideology and fabricated information. We need to stop and think about God’s expectations and comands for us, and not let anything wordly or watered down get in the way of that!
That is something for starters, once you have reached that level you will know it as well.
Rubbish. They wanted males, not females. The hospitality fiction is a concoction of the “gay” left.
The hospitality “fiction” is old Jewish tradition. Why are you constantly talking about things you don’t know and/or don’t understand?
Because you state it, that makes it fact? Your agenda is transparent. I accept the full Truth and I do not make the moral law plastic.
Why don’t you speak with a devout Catholic priest who binds himself to the barque of Peter?
Because i said what you called the “hospitality myth” is an old Jewish tradition of teaching.
My agenda is to be faithful to Christ’s Church. Any Rabbi you may choose to consult may not agree with the Church. Why would I seek his counsel? I accept what the Church teaches, not homosexual agit prop.