French government cracks down on priest who
said homosexual relations are sinful
But hang on a moment... homosexual acts are sinful. More State intolerance. More Gay Lobby bullying.
GENE
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 08:00 am
The French government has initiated a series of
legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for calling homosexual relations
sinful and for describing homosexuality as a “weakness.”
On March 15, the priest of the
Institute of the Good Shepherd — created in 2006 in Rome for “the defense and
dissemination of Catholic Tradition in all its forms,” according to the
website of this society of apostolic life — posted a video on Instagram in which he encouraged the
faithful to fight against their weaknesses.
Raffray commented that each person has his or her
own weapons with which to fight, but the devil convinces people that the fight
“is too hard” and therefore it’s useless to resist.
The video was denounced by various LGBT lobby
groups, and Aurore Bergé, government minister for equality between women and
men and the fight against discrimination, called the priest’s statements
“unacceptable.”
Aurore Bergé, government minister for
equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, initiated
the legal action against the French priest. Credit: Sylvain Lefevre/Getty
Images
Bergé wrote on X that she has asked the Interministerial
Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-semitism, and Anti-LGBT Hatred
(DILCRAH) to report the alleged infraction on the basis of Article 40 of the
penal code to the public prosecutor. “In the face of hatred I’m not going to
let anything get by, whatever it may be,” she added.
DILCRAH in turn stated on X that
it received the minister’s message and has informed “the prosecutor of the
homophobic comments made by Mr. Raffray on social media. So-called ‘conversion
therapy’ has been illegal since 2022. Talking about homosexuality as a weakness
is shameful.”
‘Christian
morality and the entire Church’ are at stake
In an interview with the French
Catholic media Famille Chrétienne (“Christian Family”), Raffray
explained that the video was about “temptations in general. I wanted to make it
clear that we do not have to give in to all our temptations, to all our
desires.”
“Homosexual acts are a sin, but I think people
don’t know what a sin is anymore. Condemning a sin is not the same as
condemning the person who commits it,” he pointed out.
“You could have blamed me if I had said something
clumsy or hurtful. That’s not the case at all. Not only am I not homophobic,
but as a priest I am careful with the language I use on this topic, because I
know that it is a sensitive topic and that people can easily feel hurt,” the
priest explained.
The French priest then noted that “what’s at stake
is not me but the freedom of being a Christian today. I hope that all the
faithful realize that what is at stake is Christian morality and the entire
Church.”
Raffray then shared that he has received comments
from homosexuals thanking him for what he said, “this truthful speech. If some
do not want to listen to the doctrine of the Church, no one forces them.”
"But hang on a moment... homosexual acts are sinful."
ReplyDeleteQuite so Gene.
Sugarboy Nando
The usual bollocks from Gene "Cafeteria Catholic" Vincent.
ReplyDeleteDespite his fanatical, arse-kissing devotion to the appalling Joseph Ratzinger - the man who, from 1981 - 2013, concealed, excused, covered up - and hence abetted - the continuing buggery of small boys and the rape of small girls, [not to mention sexual assaults on vulnerable adults] - Gene nevertheless flouted his master's voice by practising artificial contraception to limit the size of his family.
Do we need to take lectures on morality from a two-faced, canting bigot like Gene "Nominal Catholic" Vincent?
Do we fuck!!
Oh, dear, Gene, it must be really difficult being you at the moment. You have been factually refuted time and time again, and no matter how often you try to rebut those facts, I keep coming back to that bruise on your scrotum and keep hammering away at it:
ReplyDeleteHad Ratzinger unfrocked Kiesle in 1985, the abuse of children at St Joseph's would not have continued for a further three years. That is a FACT, no matter how often you try to deny it.
As for this desperately ridiculous effort: - show me the text of the apology he made in respect of the Kiesle case. Oops! Sorry, I forgot. You can't because it doesn't exist. - dear me, Gene, can you really be that stupid?
Ratzinger's apology in full reads as follows [my footnotes}:
“I can only express to all the victims [1] of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness. I have had great responsibilities [2] in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses [3] and the errors [4] hat occurred in those different places [5] during the time of my mandate."[6]
1 ALL THE VICTIMS, Gene: victimS, plural: you can tell this by the S on the end of the word. All the victims of sexual abuse that occurred during Ratzingers time as Archbishop of Munich [1977- 1982] and later head of the Congregation of the Faith and Pope - that is, 1985 - 2013. The phrase "ALL THE VICTIMS therefore must include the victims of Stephen Kiesle between the years 1985-1988, when Ratzinger failed to unfrock Kiesle.
[2] I HAVE HAD GREAT RESPONSIBILITES [see 1 above]: and one of those was to detect, root out and expel priests and others in the Catholic Church whose favourite hobby was buggering small boys and raping little girls. These GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES obviously include those children abused by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him in 1985.
[3] THE ABUSES - these must include the abuses committed by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him [unless you can prove differently, Gene?].
[4] THE ERRORS - these must include Ratzinger's failure to unfrock Kiesle in 1985 and probably his failure to alert Fr Thomas Ryan that he was allowing a convicted paedophile rapist to minister to the young people in his church.
[5] THOSE DIFFERENT PLACES - except, of course at St Joseph's Church, Penole, CA, where Stephen Kiesle, still a priest, continued to abuse children during the years 1985-1988 - Ratzinger made it clear that his apology did not include this, didn't he, Gene, and you can prove that, can't you? What's that? oh, you can't? Dear me, and YOU call ME a lying tosser...
[5] DURING MY MANDATE: that is, during the years 1985 - 2013.
It is clear to anyone whose mind has a greater ratiocinatory capacity than a pair of skid-marked underpants that Ratzinger was apologising for all the sexual abuse committed on his watch 1985-2013 by priests whom he failed either properly to oversee, accurately to diagnose and condignly to punish, as well as arranging for their being unable to access children and young people ever again.
"I can only express to ALL the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness." It's that word ALL that gives it away, Gene: I'm sorry if it's confusing.
Stuff your pissy little opinions up your arse. I will not apologise for telling the truth, and I will go on telling it until you acknowledge that it is the truth. In the meantime, I continue to wait for your answer to this:
"Detters can we leave A.N. WILSON and ARIANNA HUFFINGTON behind?"
Not until you have dealt honestly with this example of your lying bastardy:
'Gene writes beautifully - something not always the case with authors of trail-blazing literary works.' [A.N. WILSON]
'I was enthralled. A new star has shot into the literary firmament. [ARIANNA HUFFINGTON]
When you are going to admit that you have made these reviews and their authors up? Make no mistake: I am going to keep on asking until you tell the truth, or I lose patience, inform Mr Wilson and Ms Huffington and let nature take its course.