A leading Catholic bishop has criticized the New Ways ministry, a gay friendly organization, for confusing the faithful as to authentic Catholic teaching on gay marriage. Is that possible? Are there any Catholics who do not know what Church leaders say about gay marriage. To be sure, a surprisingly high number of Catholics reject the teaching of Church leaders on gay marriage. 46% of American Catholics support the legalization of gay marriage; 47% oppose. I doubt that any significant number of the 46% are unaware of the Bishops' position. If the Bishops' position is the authentic Catholic position, then 46% of American Catholics think the authentic Catholic position is not Christian. At least, I am not sure what the alternative interppration of this data might be.
See generally http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/02/leading-us-catholic-bishop-den.php
posted by Steve Shiffrin
Folks,<> is there any doubt that there is no talking to these idiots? And I don't just mean Limbaugh; I'm also talking Arguing with these assholes is something like going to an elementary school playground and calling someone a "doody head."
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Susan
Thanks for commenting. Good to see you here. There is more on the story (about the group and the way th Cardinal handled this). See http://ncronline.org/news/gay-group-director-responds-cardinals-criticism.
Posted by: Steven Shiffrin | 02/14/2010 at 02:39 AM
When I was a member of the adjunct ministerial staff of a Jesuit retreat house, New Ways Ministry came in and did a program for us regarding ministering to gays and their family members. They were CRYSTAL CLEAR about the teachings of the church - even distributing cites and excerpts to relevent Church documents. There was no confusion from their presentation as to what Catholic teaching is on this matter.
Posted by: Susan Stabile | 02/12/2010 at 07:47 AM