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Anti-Catholic Paper Allowed in 70% of London, Ontario Parishes Opposes Bishop’s Same-Sex Marriage FightLONDON, February 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “The church’s teaching on homosexuality…seems to us out of touch with growing scientific evidence on the nature of homosexuality itself.”
“…Same-sex, loving and committed relationships and the sexual expression thereof can be holy and may even be sacramental.”
A reader might be forgiven for assuming that the above quotes come from a leader of a homosexual activist group lobbying Parliament to legalize same sex ‘marriage.’ It might be considered unusual however, coming from a Catholic publication, but the authors of the quoted editorial claim to be running a Catholic newspaper, the Catholic New Times (CNT), which is published in Toronto.
CNT’s casual but persistent decades long dissent from Catholic teaching on major issues such as abortion, same sex ‘marriage’ and a female priesthood, is not news, but it is a source of constant scandal to many laity and faithful clergy. One such is Debbie Morlani, a parishioner and catechist at St. Peter’s Cathedral Basilica in London Ontario.
Mrs. Morlani, involved in youth and young adult ministry and in teaching potential adult converts, told LifeSiteNews.com that some younger people had approached her with doubts about their conversion after finding CNT in the back of their churches. “They see this anti-Catholic stuff; they don’t know it doesn’t represent the faith, and they start to wonder if they want to join a Church that says these things.”
Morlani said she was shocked to discover that nine out of thirteen parishes she contacted carried the leftist “social justice” paper. CNT, despite its long history of serious dissent, is in fact a staple publication in numerous Catholic parishes across Canada.
lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022201.html
“…Same-sex, loving and committed relationships and the sexual expression thereof can be holy and may even be sacramental.”
A reader might be forgiven for assuming that the above quotes come from a leader of a homosexual activist group lobbying Parliament to legalize same sex ‘marriage.’ It might be considered unusual however, coming from a Catholic publication, but the authors of the quoted editorial claim to be running a Catholic newspaper, the Catholic New Times (CNT), which is published in Toronto.
CNT’s casual but persistent decades long dissent from Catholic teaching on major issues such as abortion, same sex ‘marriage’ and a female priesthood, is not news, but it is a source of constant scandal to many laity and faithful clergy. One such is Debbie Morlani, a parishioner and catechist at St. Peter’s Cathedral Basilica in London Ontario.
Mrs. Morlani, involved in youth and young adult ministry and in teaching potential adult converts, told LifeSiteNews.com that some younger people had approached her with doubts about their conversion after finding CNT in the back of their churches. “They see this anti-Catholic stuff; they don’t know it doesn’t represent the faith, and they start to wonder if they want to join a Church that says these things.”
Morlani said she was shocked to discover that nine out of thirteen parishes she contacted carried the leftist “social justice” paper. CNT, despite its long history of serious dissent, is in fact a staple publication in numerous Catholic parishes across Canada.
lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022201.html