Protest planned after US archbishop won’t cancel ‘scandalous’ retreat for ‘gay’ clergy | News

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In other words, get back in the closet, guys, we don’t want to have to acknowledge your existence.
 
I had to laugh at their statement. “Protesters respectfully demand…” I wasn’t aware there was such a thing as a “respectful demand”.

Seriously though, this news story is making a whole lot of something out of nothing at all. The event is being run for gay clergymen. There is nothing in the archbishop’s announcement that goes against Catholic teaching, or implies that Catholic teaching will be contravened in any way. One interviewee,in that article, as well as the protesters (disgustingly, IMO) equate gay Priests with child abusers and paedophiles, simply because they are gay.

The attitude of these protesters is really uncharitable, to say the least.
 
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The first Two response posts above completely misrepresent the article.

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Please could you show me where I have misrepresented the article in my previous post?

And please could you tell me what you mean when you say “not surprised”?
 
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The first Two response posts above completely misrepresent the article.
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No they don’t.

From the article:

“At a time when the Church is reeling from the sex abuse crisis, it is appalling that Archbishop Lori is permitting a retreat for ‘gay bishops, priests, deacons and seminarians’ to be held in his diocese,” Janet Smith, recently retired professor of moral theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, told LifeSiteNews.

That is a pretty blatant attempt to link homosexual clergy with sex abusers.

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“This is clearly not a retreat designed to underscore the Church’s teaching concerning sexuality and to help the attendees to grow in chastity,” continued Smith. “I commend the laity of Baltimore who, for the sake of souls, have urged Archbishop Lori to use his powers to prevent the retreat from taking place and to make a strong public statement against it. Laity do not like to oppose their leaders; we revere them, but it is long past time that the lavender mafia cease to have influence in the Church.”

The article clearly implies that homosexual clergy are bad, and we need a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The quote also has a reference to the “lavender mafia,” which is an anti-Pope Francis conspiracy theory popular with some anti-Pope Francis, homophobic Catholics.

Lifesite is a bad source. It’s best to just avoid its agenda driven articles.
 
I withdrew my first post because I misread, my bad. However, I am still wondering if this retreat center is under the Archdiocesan authority. If it’s privately owned, then the Archbishop can’t really stop the retreat. He can and did announce that the group putting it on is not following Church teaching.

Archbishop Gregory is the one with authority over the priest leading the retreat.
 
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