Cardinal Wuerl explains why Church workers must be consistent with the Gospel

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Washington D.C., Jan 14, 2016 / 06:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Church workers have to lead people toward Catholic teaching in their public lives, not away from it, the Archbishop of Washington has said. His comments follow the firing of a part-time church cantor after his D.C.-area parish learned he was in a same-sex marriage.

“When a person involved in ministerial activity offers a counter-witness to Catholic teaching by words or public conduct, however earnest they may be, experience shows that it can lead people away from the truth and otherwise have an adverse effect on our mission,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl said in a Dec. 31 blog post. “The Church not only must be free to then take corrective steps, it has an obligation in charity and truth to do so.”

He added: “no one can claim a right simultaneously to work for the Church and to work against her belief.”

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[zz912]

Excellent response and good job supporting those underneath him. Kudos to the Cardinal for standing up for Catholic beliefs.

 

[Murmurs]

Putting someone in a position where one is forced to choose between the way God has (for His own reasons, perhaps), made one, and the not-unnatural desire to express that with someone one loves, on the one hand - and following the unchanging teaching of His Church, on the other, can never be easy and I am quite sure no one involved is very happy about the whole situation, and I pray for all of them.

That doesn’t mean, however hard it might have been, that it was in any way the wrong decision or taken for the wrong reasons.

I echo zz912’s kudoses (kudoi?) to both the parochial authorities and those that backed their decision all the way up to Cardinal Wuerl.