RE: Damned Catholics
December 30, 2024 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2024 at 4:44 pm by Fake Messiah.)
The Worst Catholic LGBTQ+ News Stories of 2024
We asked our readers and other New Ways Ministry supporters to vote for the worst stories from a “nominations” list of 15 stories in each category.
1. Ghana’s Catholic bishops endorse an anti-LGBTQ+ law and support the use of “conversion” therapy for sexual and gender minorities. 55%
2. The Synod on Synodality closes after four years, but the final report does not mention LGBTQ+ people or issues, despite that these topics were mentioned in so many of the local reports. 54%
3. Pope Francis continues to condemn “gender ideology,” an amorphous term never fully defined. At one point, he refers to it as the “worst danger” in the world. 49%
4. Dignitas Infinita, a new Vatican document on the fundamental and universal application of human dignity lists “gender ideology” as a “grave harm” to such dignity. 47%
5. After transgender advocate’s funeral was held in New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemns the liturgy and authorizes a Mass of reparation to be celebrated in the building. 45%
6. Though usually slow to implement directives from Pope Francis’ Vatican, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops moves with speed to implement the anti-LGBTQ+ guidance from Dignitas Infinita. 38%
7. Some bishops oppose the blessing of same-gender couples which had been allowed by the Vatican with the release of the December 2023 declaration, Fiducia Supplicans. 31%
8. A National Catholic Reporter investigation reveals that two conservative Catholic organizations–Cardinal Newman Society and Person & Identity–were driving forces behind many diocesan anti-LGBTQ+ gender policies. 29%
9. Pope Francis uses an Italian anti-gay slur in a meeting with members of the Italian Bishops Conference, then repeats doing so a week later. 23%
10. The Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire ends a 60-year relationship with a group which supports mentally and physically challenged people from using church-run facility for youth camps, after some campers displayed Pride flags this past year. 22%
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/12/...s-of-2024/
We asked our readers and other New Ways Ministry supporters to vote for the worst stories from a “nominations” list of 15 stories in each category.
1. Ghana’s Catholic bishops endorse an anti-LGBTQ+ law and support the use of “conversion” therapy for sexual and gender minorities. 55%
2. The Synod on Synodality closes after four years, but the final report does not mention LGBTQ+ people or issues, despite that these topics were mentioned in so many of the local reports. 54%
3. Pope Francis continues to condemn “gender ideology,” an amorphous term never fully defined. At one point, he refers to it as the “worst danger” in the world. 49%
4. Dignitas Infinita, a new Vatican document on the fundamental and universal application of human dignity lists “gender ideology” as a “grave harm” to such dignity. 47%
5. After transgender advocate’s funeral was held in New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemns the liturgy and authorizes a Mass of reparation to be celebrated in the building. 45%
6. Though usually slow to implement directives from Pope Francis’ Vatican, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops moves with speed to implement the anti-LGBTQ+ guidance from Dignitas Infinita. 38%
7. Some bishops oppose the blessing of same-gender couples which had been allowed by the Vatican with the release of the December 2023 declaration, Fiducia Supplicans. 31%
8. A National Catholic Reporter investigation reveals that two conservative Catholic organizations–Cardinal Newman Society and Person & Identity–were driving forces behind many diocesan anti-LGBTQ+ gender policies. 29%
9. Pope Francis uses an Italian anti-gay slur in a meeting with members of the Italian Bishops Conference, then repeats doing so a week later. 23%
10. The Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire ends a 60-year relationship with a group which supports mentally and physically challenged people from using church-run facility for youth camps, after some campers displayed Pride flags this past year. 22%
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/12/...s-of-2024/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
