This is the price of lack of teaching to the young people.
I can give you even worse - Our Bishop is under attack for our Catholic High School in Whitehorse having a pro Catholic anti gay policy that resulted in two students not being allowed to attend because they were openly gay. Who would have believed it a Catholic school that follows church doctrine - what were we thinking.
Quite true and it will get worse. We shouldn’t be all that surprised though, Christ told us we would be persecuted for our faith and I doubt that will ever change.The war against the church is now more open. There have always been those who have tried to attack the church. But to sue the church for standing for it’s beliefs? This is getting down right stupid.
I can’t find a link that the Bishop didn’t allow openly gay people to attend, but if that’s true do we as Catholics not see a problem with this?
what problem?
Well it smacks in the face of the message that “all are welcome” and two was this a prom? The manner in which I read this was that they weren’t allowed in the school. Second homosexuality is not a sin in the Catholic church, homosexual acts are. Does one consider attending a school prom and dancing as a “homosexual” act?
Yup!
Hold on a second – the goal posts seem to have been moved…
The leftist version of tolerance rears its ugly head.
Seriously, we’re going to bring politics into this debate. I’m beginning to think this website might as well just be titled Conservative Republican Catholic & Answers. My point isn’t to attack this website, which I find quite informative, but to suggest that both liberals and conservatives are intolerant of others views. So how about we just stay on topic and discuss the matter at hand which is these students trying to banish a Catholic priest from campus.
That was my first read, too, but I think the original comment explicitly said ‘prom’…
However, it’s not just ‘sin’ but the ‘near occasion of sin’. I would think it is reasonable to assert that attending the prom as a romantic couple is a near occasion of sin, which may lead to sexual sin. So, it would be responsible for the school to not permit them to attend as a couple.
The good bishop is tring to avoid scandal. By allowing 2 openly gay students to attend an event together as a gay couple suggests public approval of their lifestyle, and that approval cannot be given, or appear to be given by the Church.
No, same sex attraction is not a sin. Going to the prom together as an openly, affirmed gay couple is practicing homosexuality. There appears to be an effort to be seen as a committed couple. At the very least, this has the potential to cause scandal. If the school allows this type of behavior, then students can reasonably ask if the school and the Church sanction such relationships.
Politics is the mass extension of ethics. It is unavoidable. The tyrannical activity of the homosexual students at Georgetown is political in nature.
Catholicism is orthodox. Heterodox is against the church.