Homily 3rd Sunday of Advent (Cycle B) Fr Peter
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Testimony of openly gay Jesuit…….
Advent is dangerous. In my case I commenced my personal discernment to leave formation to become a Roman Catholic priest.
After 9 years as a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) I grew tired of the tyranny of orthodoxy, and deeply frustrated with being forced to live within it. I could not lie about my sexual identity
As an openly gay Jesuit I sought ordination to the priesthood publicly acknowledging that I could not serve with integrity and not be allowed to bless same-sex unions through sacramental marriage. I did not consider myself an orthodox Christian but rather both a member of the Society of Jesus in good standing and a Catholic in good conscience, one standing in right relationship with God, Church, my neighbors and myself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-brenkert/the-tyranny-of-orthodoxy_b_6320656.html
That’s nice. just tell us if there are any straight Jesuits. That will be news.
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Not sure,other than the usual need to judge others, what. Inspires this, Bosco.
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Im dispelling the myth that there are only a few gay priests.
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How? There are more than half a million priests, and most admit that about 1% are gay – do the math and then, when you have, you’ll see all you are doing is bearing false witness. I commend the ten commandments to you.
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That’s 1 out of 100 . Even your priests admit its nearer to 60%
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Really – give me a credible source for that stat – that is not a Gay advocacy website.
You really must not go about telling lies – it gives the impression that the spirit which animates you is the father of lies.
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Your own Vatican admits there is a gay lobby inside the Vatican. If only one in 100 were gay, well, there wouldn’t be a gay lobby.
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Stats aren’t your strong point, I’m guessing? There’s no reason why there might not be a greater concentration of gays in one place than in another. I’d have thought someone from California might have grasped that.
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Im going by what catholic seminarians are saying, not my imagination. They say catholic seminaries are hotbeds of gayness. many others have confirmed. Youre a realist. I thought you knew/
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who is the ‘they’ in this Bosco? The National Enquirer? Those best placed to know reckon about 1-2%.
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DETROIT – A Detroit-area Catholic priest will spend two months in jail each calendar year for the next five years for stealing money from a charity for the poor.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Bruce Morrow’s sentence calls for the Rev. Timothy Kane to be jailed during the months of December and January.
Kane also was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation and restitution of $131,400. He was ordered to report Tuesday to the Wayne County Jail.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/15/detroit-area-priest-sentenced-to-serve-2-months-each-year-for-5-years-in/
Its all a money grab. The costumes are just part of the show.
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So do tell us,Bosco, when a teacher or a policeman or some other official steals money, does that mean the whole of the school system or the police system is a scam too? I recall seeing something in the press about a Calvary Chapel pastor and money going missing, but, unlike you, can’t be bothered trying to track it down on the Internet, because there are sinners everywhere.
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Its one after another. And if its tolerated by the system, then yes, the system is bad, like the los angeles school board. they all need to be in jail.
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I think you’ll find that there are sinners everywhere Bosco. Why do you think we need Christ?
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Priests follow the money. You will find this to be true from ancient times. I plan to do a post about that. Where did the priests of Babylon go when Babylon was destroyed? Can anyone venture a guess? Look around. See who has all the trappings of the Babylon mystery religion.
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If modern priests followed the money, Bosco, no one would become a priest. If you can find an actual link between a religion which ended more than 1500 years before the birth of Christ and early Christianity you will do what no scholar has ever done – so best of luck with that. I hope your languages are up to it.
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Er eh, Babylon fell around 400 yrs befor Christ. Somewhere in there…don’t quote me. The religion started with Nimrod, the first world religion.
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Babylon was sacked in about 1400 BC, so I suspect you are referring to the neo-Babylonian empire, which did not start ay world religion. You really ought to quit the odd websites Bosco, you aren’t equipped to sort out the wheat from the chaff, and you simply, I fear, make a frightful ass of yourself regurgitating stuff that the people who wrote it only half understood.
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Lesbian Nuns-Unite!
*we’re here, we’re queer and jesus loves us, but we’re team Mary
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lesbian-Nuns-Unite/117555678273076
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Befor you ask why, its cause gay gay is the norm, not some hidden few. Yes, its the system.These ladies are supposed to be married to Jesus. They are not and its a scam. The Society of Jesus is loaded with homos.They hide under a organization name. Its a scam, a fraud. Calvary Chapel is just a name for Smiths operation. Each CC is run by its own people. There is no religion. Ive been to a horrible Calvary.
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Unless you have a lot of experience of nunneries, that is simply slander.. As it happens, for various reasons, I have quite a bit of experience and have not found what you say to be true.
Still, this is the age of the internet, where everyone has an opinion, and actual evidence is irrelevant.
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In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel
But, Cyrus didn’t destroy the city. It was after he died that invaders tore it up __ Bosco
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Yes, that is the Chaldean Empire, not classic Babylon, which was much earlier. There is zero evidence to connect any of its religious practices with Christianity, but do feel free to provide evidence no scholar has ever found.
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