German Catholic bishops back same-sex blessings ... bar stewards!
The five-page document, “Blessing ceremonies for couples who love each other,” was passed by 176 votes for, 14 against, and 12 abstentions at its second reading, meaning it was formally adopted as a resolution of the synodal way. The German bishops supported the text by 38 votes in favor, 9 against, and 11 abstentions. The document — which contradicts a 2021 Vatican declaration that “the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex” — calls on bishops to “officially allow blessing ceremonies in their dioceses for couples who love each other but to whom sacramental marriage is not accessible or who do not see themselves at a point of entering into a sacramental marriage.”
The official news website of the Catholic Church in Germany said that a handbook containing blessings for different kinds of couples would be developed following the vote.
Excellent news! Where the Anglicans lead, the left footers follow. Perhaps, Mr Vincent, the Roman Catholic Church is now, in your thread bare phrase “f*cked” like the Anglicans?
ReplyDeleteJustin “how full of” Cant You Are, Stephen Eee by Gum I Can, and Cardinal Vincent Tickles Up The Choirboys.
"Where the Anglicans lead..."
ReplyDeleteThe only place the Anglican will lead to is perdition.
GENE
And so, by your own logic, will the Catholic Church now that it has seen sense and admitted that homosexual relationships are as God given as any other.
ReplyDeleteGene, you are as thick as mince.
Father Richard "turned out nice again" Dawkins, SJ,
former professional atheist and now a convert to another bogus creed, Gene Vincent's cant and hypocrisy-ridden version of Catholicism.
" ... the Catholic Church now that it has seen sense and admitted that homosexual relationships are as God given as any other."
ReplyDeleteNo. The Catholic Church has admitted nothing of the sort - and never will.
GENE
Detterling read the 2021 Vatican declaration that “the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex”
ReplyDeleteGene
The church chooses not to have that power, but Jesus Christ can and does. Galatians 3:28 refers - and St Paul speaks with more authority from God than does some tin pot priest in a corrupt, sexually predatory organisation. By tolerating and concealing sexually abusive priests, the RC church has forfeited any moral authority it might have had to pronounce an anathema on homosexuality. And in this instance, this applies to the Anglican church as well. Either stop talking crap or hold your tongue.
ReplyDeleteFr "Wanker" Murphy.
NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THESE EMBARRASSING POSTS, GENE?
ReplyDeleteFROM GROINRASH AND PUSTULE - “PORN FOR THE PEOPLE”, AND VANITY PUBLISHERS TO THE DELUDED & ILLITERATE.
The miracle we would like Padre Pio to perform is for Gene Vincent to write the other 74, 688 words of GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS and pay the balance of the publishing fee. We drew up the original contract for a 75,000 word novel in 2018, with Mr Vincent to pay our £3,500 publishing fee by December of 2020. So far neither the novel nor the money has appeared, despite repeated promises and excuses, the latest and least credible being some nonsense about the illustrations, supposedly by a painter called Johnny Bluenote who, as far as we know, is yet another of Gene’s sock puppets. If Mr Bluenote is as good an artist as Mr Vincent is a writer, then we imagine that most of his pictures, like Gene’s writings, adorn various lavatory walls in the seedier pubs of West London.
The latest promise was of publication this month, but so far neither manuscript nor money has appeared. We regret therefore that unless both are received by next Friday fortnight, March 31st, GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS will never be published. This is no loss to the literary world - the three hundred words we saw (which we now realise is all there ever was) were beyond terrible - a sort of alphabet soup, a demented, drunken parody of Finnegans Wake,
twenty times watered, too bad even even to be called balderdash.
Having said all that, we realise that our prayer is asking too much even of the admirable Fr Pio. Working this miracle would require the impossible - for Gene to be endowed with literary ability as well as determination, sobriety and creative imagination, too long an order. Perhaps we should try St Jude.
Perry “knee ‘em in the bollocks” Kidney-Wiper, Contracts Manager, Groinrash and Pustule, Publishers.
Anonymous11 March 2023 at 02:15
Don’t be silly, Mr Kidney-Wiper. These Padre Pio stories are all fraudulent nonsense, as bogus as the man himself and those, like Gene Vincent, who believe in him. Dear me. whatever next, Gene Vincent writing a novel indeed. He couldn’t write “knackers” on a toilet wall.
Geoffrey Archer
'Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths' will be published soon after Easter 2023.
ReplyDeleteGENE
No, it won't.
ReplyDeletePerry “knee ‘em in the bollocks” Kidney-Wiper, Contracts Manager, Groinrash and Pustule, Publishers.