America’s top 10 homosexuality-promoting Catholic bishops
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In happier news, at least one bishop has told off his government for daring to lock down churches while leaving shopping centers and restaurants opened. And finally, the leftist swing in the church has caused a number of usually closeted, homosexuality promoting bishops to out themselves publicly.
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It seems every day things just get crazier, even though just yesterday you said to yourself,
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We've just learned that the Pope is going to address one of the most radical pro-LGBT
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leftist so-called Catholic conferences on the planet.
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Joe Biden in a new interview is once again boasting of his Catholicism and believe it
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In happier news, at least one bishop has told off his government for daring to lock down
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churches while leaving shopping centers and restaurants opened.
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And finally, the leftist swing in the church has caused a number of usually closeted homosexuality
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promoting bishops to out themselves publicly, and we have that list for you.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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We've just learned that Pope Francis is to deliver an address at the opening ceremony
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of one of the most scandalous yearly so-called Catholic events in the United States,
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This is the same event in Los Angeles faithful Catholics have been picketing for decades since
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it scandalously promotes homosexuality and strange liturgical practices.
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It's always headlined by the most dissenting priests and religious, and this year is no
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The virtual four-day event, virtual of course because of coronavirus, which runs from February
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18th to 21st, will include presentations from religious leaders such as Bishop Robert McElroy,
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who we featured Wednesday, insisting that Joe Biden be given communion, remember?
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Furthermore, many bishops are proposing that the conference take steps to publicly deprive
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President Biden of his ability to receive the Eucharist.
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In contrast to the direction advocated by this flock of bishops, we have a Pope who has placed
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encounter, dialogue, honesty, and collaboration at the heart of his approach to public conversation,
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and who is unlikely to endorse the deprivation of the Eucharist from the president.
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And this conference, where Pope Francis will speak, is also featuring fellow Jesuit,
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Father Gregory Boyle, who openly promotes homosexual marriage and women priests.
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Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen?
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I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of
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And this, you know, again, this is, you know, contrary to the party line, but again, this has
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always happened in my experience, even with poor folks, uneducated folks, monolingual
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folks, and you ask them, what's the church say?
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And then they're equally clear, and it's the opposite thing.
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Yeah, and you just go, you know, God says I can't go to communion because I'm not married
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You know, the Vatican just said that the ordination of women is a grave sin.
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Have you ever met anybody who would think, who would agree with that?
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I mean, my 85-year-old mother doesn't think that's true.
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And a 15-year-old knucklehead gang member in my office is not going to think that's true.
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And it's shameful to kind of say stuff like that because it's not honest.
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Instead of saying, I'm frightened for the church to say, I'm frightened that women will be ordained.
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But don't say it's a grave sin because that's nonsense.
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It is so sad that Pope Francis will be speaking at this virtual conference and thus giving
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With all these things, we must continue to pray for Pope Francis' conversion.
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If that's not bad enough, Pope Francis just appointed homosexuality-promoting Newark Cardinal
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Joseph Tobin to oversee a very troubling situation where a Catholic bishop was undermined by the
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Vatican under Pope Francis for standing up for Catholic values.
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In June 2019, Indianapolis Bishop Charles Thompson cut ties with Brebeuf Jesuit Prep School
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after administrators at the school refused to follow his directive not to renew the contract
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When the school refused to follow the policy, the archbishop decreed that the school, and I
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quote, can no longer use the name Catholic and will no longer be identified or recognized
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as a Catholic institution by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
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But when the Jesuit school appealed to the Vatican, the Jesuit Pope, in what should have sent shockwaves
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around the Catholic world, backed the school against the faithful archbishop.
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Now, the school still identifies itself as a Catholic school.
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Now, Pope Francis has called on Cardinal Tobin to arbitrate.
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He was made Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2017 while serving then as Archbishop of Indianapolis.
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Now, Tobin has a long history of backing the normalization of homosexuality within the Catholic Church.
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So which way do you think Tobin is going to rule on this case?
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Let me just say, if you are tired of the confusion and cowardice and craziness coming from leaders
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in the Church, you don't want to miss LifeSite's latest interview with Father James Altman,
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whose words of clarity are so desperately needed right now.
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He sat down with LifeSite's Danielle Zuccaro recently to give his take on a number of controversial
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topics, including whether the Church should permit Joe Biden to receive Holy Communion.
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Have a quick peek at this, and be sure to check out the full interview at LifeSiteNews.com.
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I hear in the news that certain shepherds think it's perfectly okay to commit sacrilege and give
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So if they're out there listening, don't even try to challenge me on it.
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By the way, over 40 people have signed onto a LifeSite petition urging the U.S. bishops
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to refuse Holy Communion to pro-abortion Biden.
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Beyond that, give your own bishop a call or letter or email, or better yet, meet with him
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personally to ask him to take action on this scandal in the Church.
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Biden's so-called Catholicism seems to be in the news every day.
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The president, in his first White House interview, along with his wife, told People Magazine when
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asked if prayer helps him in leadership, and I quote,
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I never miss Mass because I can be alone, he added.
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So he also said, for me, prayer gives me hope and it centers me.
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At least some U.S. bishops are not taking this ultimate confusion lying down.
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Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Nauman told LifeSite News in an exclusive interview that the bishops
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of the United States have an obligation to act when it comes to the country's president
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identifying himself as a devout Catholic while working to expand abortion.
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The fact that President Biden identifies himself as a devout Catholic while working to preserve
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and expand legalized abortion, even using tax dollars to fund abortion, presents a unique
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Nauman, by the way, who also acts as the chairman of the U.S. bishops conference,
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Committee on Pro-Life Activities, he called on the bishops and the laity across the country
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to pray and fast for Biden so that he will, that's Biden will, cease attempting to confuse
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people about Catholic teaching by trampling on the sanctity of human life while presenting
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So, when asked about how he deals with the problem of pro-abortion politicians who claim
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to be Catholic presenting themselves for Holy Communion, Archbishop Nauman said when dialoguing
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with them produces no fruit, he requests that they not present themselves to receive communion.
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And there are other bishops, other courageous bishops willing to speak the truth to power.
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Just this week, Peruvian Archbishop Javier del Rio Alba slammed his government for forcing
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churches to shut down while shopping malls are allowed to stay open.
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They have ordered the total closure of temples and centers of worship in almost all of Peru,
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while in the same places, banks, shopping centers, and even restaurants are allowed to operate
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with a capacity that can reach up to 50 percent, end quote.
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The Archbishop reiterated the importance of in-person attendance at the sacraments, saying
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Highly worrying that our leaders do not recognize this vital need of the majority of Peruvians
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and even give it less importance than merely recreational encounters.
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Remember, it is a universal principle that government cannot dictate religious practice.
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Remember, too, that there was an open letter published in May 2020.
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Catholic clergy, led by former Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano,
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and three cardinals, Gerhard MĂ¼ller, Joseph Zen, and Giannis Pouzatz,
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reminded politicians around the world that, and I quote,
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The state has no right to interfere for any reason whatsoever in the sovereignty of the church.
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And finally, let me get to our tier list of anti-family bishops.
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One of the best things about the papacy of Pope Francis has been the rediscovered honesty,
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you might say, of some of the dissident bishops in the church.
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Under the papacies of John Paul II or Benedict XVI, many prelates hid their heterodox views,
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but under Pope Francis, they feel free to show their true colors, or one might say, come out of the closet.
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It's like a top 10 list, a tiered top 10 list, if you will, of the most anti-family bishops in America.
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Cardinal Blaise Cupich has praised the pro-LGBT Father James Martin
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and has removed a priest in his diocese from a parish in apparent retaliation
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Previously, the pride flag, by the way, was previously used by the parish to promote the homosexual agenda.
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When still an archbishop, I asked now Cardinal Cupich in a press scrum
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if he believed that homosexual couples could receive Holy Communion,
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There's also Cardinal Wilton Gregory, he of D.C.
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Now, Cardinal Wilton Gregory has permitted the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,
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when he was back in Atlanta, to act as a center for LGBT events,
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including LGBT potluck socials and participating in the city's pride parade.
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He personally invited pro-gay Father James Martin to give a talk in his archdiocese
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and has designated a pro-gay priest who heads a homosexual-affirming parish
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as the spiritual director for victims of sexual abuse for the Atlanta archdiocese.
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Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark is the third bishop on our list.
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He has endorsed pro-LGBT celebrity priest, Fr. James Martin,
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has called the church's teachings on homosexuality unfortunate and hurtful
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and welcomed homosexuals to the Cathedral Basilica in Newark
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as a part of an LGBT pilgrimage where Catholics married to same-sex spouses
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were invited to participate in the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
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The next bishop on our list is Archbishop John C. Wester
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Archbishop Wester last year spoke at a conference on Catholic LGBT pastoral ministry,
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which included dissident nun, Sister Janine Gramick, of New Ways Ministry,
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a pro-LGBT group, by the way, that is condemned by the Vatican
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and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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And the archbishop also expressed his appreciation for people in the LGBTQ ministry.
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The next bishop on our list, Auxiliary Bishop John P. Dolan of the Diocese of San Diego, California.
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Bishop Dolan, who has been a pastor of an extremely pro-LGBT Catholic parish
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and has in the past, along with married homosexual partners,
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celebrated a special mass for families of the LGBT community.
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The next bishop is Bishop Robert McElroy of the Diocese of San Diego, California.
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Bishop McElroy has declared that labeling homosexual acts as intrinsically disordered,
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very destructive language that I think we should not use pastorally.
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Bishop McElroy also was praising a parish that advertises masses with the LGBT rainbow flag
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and has a young adult ministry led by an openly gay man.
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The next bishop on our list, Bishop John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky.
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Bishop John Stowe has promoted homosexuality in the church
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and last year spoke at a conference on Catholic LGBTQ pastoral ministry
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and previously at a radical pro-LGBT conference stating that
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even though the group organizing the conference has been condemned by the Vatican and U.S. bishops.
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The next bishop on our list is Bishop Stephen Beigler of the Archdiocese of Cheyenne.
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Bishop Beigler has, alongside a cardinal and 10 bishops,
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teamed up with a pro-homosexual advocacy group to release their statement affirming youths
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Moreover, he downplayed the fact that the majority of victims of clerical sexual crimes
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against minors in the Catholic Church have been teenage boys.
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The next bishop on our list is Bishop Edward Weisenberger of the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona.
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Bishop Weisenberger has just signed a statement in partnership with that pro-homosexual advocacy group
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in support of young people who identify as LGBT, telling them, again, as the last bishop did,
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The next bishop on our list is Bishop Joseph Kopaz of the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi.
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Bishop Kopaz has, alongside the cardinal and many bishops,
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signed on to that same statement affirming LGBT youth.
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Also, he's suspected of covering up for fraudulent priests
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The next bishop on our list is actually an honorable mention.
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This would be a number 11, but it's Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
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Cardinal Farrell, who was a U.S. bishop for 30 years,
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because even though he was moved to the Vatican in 2016 by Pope Francis
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and made a cardinal, he was one of the few high-ranking prelates
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We can guard our children and our family and friends from their false teaching.
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But most importantly, we can pray for their conversion.
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Remember, these men are very much like Joe Biden
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and perhaps some of your own friends and family.
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They're all very probably nice, likable people.
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from what the Church has always taught about homosexuality.
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Homosexuality is an intrinsically disordered sexual drive.
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The inclination or temptation is not a sin in itself.
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When we give in to the temptation, which is when we sin,
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Just like it is a sin for a married man to give in to temptations,
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to be intimate with a woman who is not his wife,
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who give in to the temptations of lustful desires
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are harming themselves and those they involve in these behaviors.
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The Church's stance on this issue is one of love.
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Love for God first and love for neighbor and self.
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Same-sex sexual behavior harms the body, mind, and soul.
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to really care for those with same-sex attractions
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just like it's a struggle to remain pure in this world
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that more souls go to hell for sins of the flesh
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Let us offer up our prayers, sacrifices, and sufferings
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and for our own purity of heart, mind, and soul.
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Let us remember to make the first five Saturdays devotion
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And by promoting true devotion to Our Lady in this world,
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to a fallen world and into the stables of our hearts.
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