They waited till the Pope was in danger of his life

If you need to be told why this is wrong (not to mention cowardly, underhanded and sneaky), you will never understand anything about what the Catholic Church is.

England’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference Adopts Gay “Equality” Agenda for Church Employment

LONDON, February 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the latest manifestation of the homosexual crisis within the Catholic Church in England, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has issued a directive stating that persons living sexually immoral situations, including those in homosexual partnerings, must be given equal opportunity for Church employment.

The “Policy Statement and Guidelines on Diversity and Equality,” often reading like documents produced by gay advocacy organizations and using their euphemisms, implies that barring active homosexuals from Church employment is a matter of grave injustice, even when it would keep gays and children apart. The statement says, “Catholic organizations must ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment than another on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or age.”

The statement, prepared by the Department for Christian Responsibility and Citizenship, omits any reference to Catholic teaching, such as stated in the July 2003 Vatican document, that “Sacred Scripture condemns homosexual acts as a serious depravity...”. The 2003 authoritative church document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith goes on to state that “The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour.”
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The English bishops’ strong direction against traditionally understood prudent, if not required, actions to prevent scandal or sexual abuse within Church institutions is certain to be viewed as a shocker by faithful Catholics. Revelations that the growth and tolerance of a homosexual sub-culture within many North American and European dioceses since the 60’s fueled the sexual abuse scandals does not appear to have been factored into the English bishops’ statement.

The bishops’ directive says, “People of all sexual orientations have a right to take a full and active part in the life of the Catholic community. Without giving any definition of “full and active” participation in Catholic life, the directive leaves open the question of allowing active homosexuals and others involved in un-repented sexual sin to receive communion. Catholics believe is the actual body and blood of Jesus and that to receive it in a state of mortal sin constitutes the sin of sacrilege.

Last year Catholic World Report revealed the existence of a homosexual underground that operated in Britain’s largest aid organization, Catholic Aid for Overseas Development (CAFOD). The head of the English bishops’ conference, Cormac Murphy O’Connor, was forced to intervene when Bishop John Crowley of Middlesbrough, the former chairman of CAFOD, was to celebrate a Mass on the anniversary of a union between two homosexuals, a former priest, and a former director of CAFOD.

Since then, in spite of protests from the faithful neither the bishops’ conference nor any individual English bishop has dissociated itself in any way from CAFOD, though a lay group called Catholic Action Group (CAG) is organizing a funding boycott.

Domenico Bettinelli, an editor of Catholic World Report commenting on the homosexual scandals that have rocked the US Church said it is no mystery what led to the scandals. He said that since the 1960’s in seminaries and dioceses, “A culture of permissiveness toward deviance was the norm in many places; a sense of personal sin and the need for redemption was not inculcated; the Church’s teachings on sexuality were laughed at.”

Read the “Policy Statement and Guidelines on Diversity and Equality”:
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/equality/diversityandequality_guidelines.pdf

Why not more Kipling?

A Code of Morals
Rudyard Kipling


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Lest you should think this story true
I merely mention I
Evolved it lately. ’Tis a most
Unmitigated misstatement.



NOW Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order,
And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border,
To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught
His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught.

And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair;
So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair.
At dawn, across the Hurrum Hills, he flashed her counsel wise—
At e’en, the dying sunset bore her husband’s homilies.

He warned her ’gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold,
As much as ’gainst the blandishments paternal of the old;
But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby the ditty hangs)
That snowy-haired Lothario, Lieutenant-General Bangs.

’Twas General Bangs, with Aide and Staff, who tittupped on the way,
When they beheld a heliograph tempestuously at play.
They thought of Border risings, and of stations sacked and burnt—
So stopped to take the message down—and this is what they learnt—

“Dash dot dot dot, dot dash, dot dash dot” twice. The General swore.
“Was ever General Officer addressed as ‘dear’ before?
“‘My Love,’ i’ faith! ‘My Duck,’ Gadzooks! ‘My darling popsy-wop!’
“Spirit of great Lord Wolseley, who is on that mountaintop?”

The artless Aide-de-camp was mute; the gilded Staff were still,
As, dumb with pent-up mirth, they booked that message from the hill;
For clear as summer lightning-flare, the husband’s warning ran:—
“Don’t dance or ride with General Bangs—a most immoral man.”

[At dawn, across the Hurrum Hills, he flashed her counsel wise—
But, howsoever Love be blind, the world at large hath eyes.]
With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife
Some interesting details of the General’s private life.

The artless Aide-de-camp was mute, the shining Staff were still,
And red and ever redder grew the General’s shaven gill.
And this is what he said at last (his feelings matter not):—
“I think we've tapped a private line. Hi! Threes about there! Trot!”

All honour unto Bangs, for ne’er did Jones thereafter know
By word or act official who read off that helio.
But the tale is on the Frontier, and from Michni to Mooltan
They know the worthy General as “that most immoral man.”