That isn’t the point. There is no biblical evidence for Paul having homosexual temptations. So why try to assert it?
Per the John Jay College of Criminal Justice report on the clergy sex abuse scandal: 10667 victims (81% male, 22% under 10 years of age) of 4392 priests over the last 50 years. This is not a small sampling.
so if 22% were under 10, does that mean 78% were over 10?
Is this the same Father Murphy that has been accused of molesting the deaf students in the Boston area? The local newspapers were full of glowing reports about all the good work he has done for the community. I often wonder about the good work that Judas Iscariot did before his betrayal and that Martin Luther did as a Catholic monk.
The “medical profession” also doesn’t consider a zygote a human being. I hope you don’t choose to trust and rely on the “medical profession” more than you trust God and His word and your Catholic faith.
Well, sir, at this moment, my wife is the last stage of uterine cancer and she has about a 20% chance of survival.
It’s not an issue of it being a temptation. It’s the nature of the abnormality and disorder that’s at issue. Would you be happy if someone falsely accused a friend or relative of yours of being a pedophile? I would hope not. Likewise, we are not happy when someone falsely accuses St Paul, who is also our friend and our brother and father, of being a homosexual.
What does this have to do with prayer? I never mentioned anything about prayer. I was talking about trusting in God. Relying on the help of doctors (unless it is for abortion or something else immoral) is not opposed to trusting in God, but rather part of trusting in God as God can work through His doctors.
Well, there you go then. We could have eliminated 78% of the problem if homosexuals were not priests.
And they should. Pathology is the scientific study of the nature of diseases and their causes. I don’t know of any medical professionals who consider pathology an abnormal pursuit of medicine.
Just because someone does one good thing at the end of his life, does not mean that the rest of his life is something to celebrate, especially in this case since Fr Mychal was not only openly homosexual but an homosexual activist. By no means is the whole of his life something that should be “inspirational.” He should be condemned for many of the things he did:
That’s exactly what I had thought when Father shared it with me.
Um I think maybe you didn’t understand his post unless you are saying that homosexual acts, contraception, abortion, sterilization, masturbation, transgender surgery are all normal.fix:
And they should. [snip]
I think that you and fix don’t know what the word “pathology” means.Um I think maybe you didn’t understand his post unless you are saying that homosexual acts, contraception, abortion, sterilization, masturbation, transgender surgery are all normal.
I assure you whether you trust in prayer alone or in the medical community and prayer, God’s will will be accomplished either way. I lost my mother to cancer recently. I will pray for you.
I think you don’t understand the PHRASE “manner of pathology”!
While heterosexual attraction may be “normal” not all of it is acceptable. Those with heterosexual orientation must also struggle against sexual sin and strive for purity.
“Manner of pathology”? The manner of studying diseases and their causes? What is hard about understanding that?
