Original Now Deleted St. Frances Cabrini Parish 'Statement of Reconciliation'

[Hazumu]

LifeSite Special Report - Friday December 21, 2007

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"We, the members of St. Frances Cabrini Parish, claim as our own the words of the Apostle Paul. "There is no longer Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave nor free, there is no longer male and female: for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)

As members of one body we are grieved by the separation of many of those Catholics who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual from the Catholic Church. We are aware of the centuries of oppression that these brothers and sisters have suffered at the hands of civil and religious authorities. We are aware of recent attempts by our bishops to label our brothers and sisters as "objectively disordered," and to fight against their being granted their full civil rights.

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Approved August 1994"

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In 1994 they had it right!  Now -- pffffffft, gone.  Read the whole statement...

BTW, LifeSite appears to be firmly in the 'Compassionate Fundamentalist' camp -- love the sinner but hate the sin, and all that...

Karen

[Wing Walker]

LifeSite Special Report - Friday December 21, 2007

LifeSiteNews.com

"We, the members of St. Frances Cabrini Parish, claim as our own the words of the Apostle Paul. "There is no longer Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave nor free, there is no longer male and female: for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)

As members of one body we are grieved by the separation of many of those Catholics who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual from the Catholic Church. We are aware of the centuries of oppression that these brothers and sisters have suffered at the hands of civil and religious authorities. We are aware of recent attempts by our bishops to label our brothers and sisters as "objectively disordered," and to fight against their being granted their full civil rights.

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Approved August 1994"

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In 1994 they had it right!  Now -- pffffffft, gone.  Read the whole statement...

BTW, LifeSite appears to be firmly in the 'Compassionate Fundamentalist' camp -- love the sinner but hate the sin, and all that...

Karen

Thank you for sharing that, Karen.  It is the first such statement that I have ever seen from any of the "mainline" Christian churches, not to mention a Catholic church.  Do you know if it ever caught on and for how long?  Getting something like that through a parish council would be like fitting an elephant into a telephone booth!

"Compassionate" and "Fundamentalist" are mutually exclusive, IMHO.

Wing Walker

[tekla]

Catholic churches are all over the map about this stuff.  Some of the ones run by orders (as opposed to local bishops) have been both more and less (depending on the order) liberal than the mainstream bishop/parish system.