The following is an excerpt from an article posted on the Vatican News website.
Ms Silvia Teresa Retamales Morales said that it was a great privilege and responsibility for her to be at the Synod. She said that he was here to express the voices of all those young people who wanted to come to Rome and talk to the bishops.
She says that when young heard she was coming to the Synod they reached out to her, many of whom were non-Catholic. They told her that they wanted her to bring this message: they want a multi-cultural Church that is open to all, not a Church this is judgmental.
They want a Church that makes everyone feel at home, a Church that reflects the message of Jesus Christ. She also said that young people say that the Church should not discriminate against minorities – especially people of different sexual orientations and the poor.
Addressing, specifically, homosexuality, she said that young people believe that gay people have the same rights as everyone else and that they too want to live their faith in the Church. She says that she sees discrimination, people who are not open to gays. She said that the Church’s first mandate is love. Gay people must be fully recognised as brothers and sisters that need to be accompanied by us. She said that this had been discussed in the Synod assembly.
I suspect that Ms. Morales and Synod youngster want the Church to "fully recognize" gay people by affirming the homosexual lifestyle itself.
Why she and others do not just come out and say so is frustrating indeed. At least be honest about it.
I guess she and others think the rest of the Church will be bamboozled by their ambiguities.
But imagine the possibility that such ambiguous nonsense will be reflected in this Synod's Final Report which, with Papal approval, is to be considered as part of the official Magisterium of the Church!
The very fact that homosexuality can even be entertained for consideration by the Successors of the Apostles represents an abdication of the teaching office which is at the center of their Episcopal Ordination.
Such points of view should be repudiated for what they are, a rejection of Church teaching regarding the unitive and procreative nature of human sexuality which is only and fully expressed in the Sacrament of Marriage.
Either as a result of ignorance or by purposeful design, Ms, Morales (and apparently the Vatican itself which publishes her statements) continues to participate in the deception of the gay lobbyist that fidelity to the Gospel and Church teaching amounts to discrimination against homosexuals.
No, Ms. Morales, enlightening those ensnared in the evil of homosexuality is not an act of discrimination but an act of charity, enlightening their minds and fortifying their wills to withstand the ruination of their souls and those of others who engage in such perversity.
That the Holy See would see fit to publish Ms. Morales' remarks is disturbing, but -- all the more pitiable -- not surprising these days.
Perhaps what I find most disconcerting is the fact that a retired Pastor such as I seems to be among the very, very few who voice any objection to this woman's comments and their publication on the Vatican News website.
Shame on the Vatican Press Office, shame on Ms. Morales and shame on the Bishops gathered in Synod!
Where are today's Apostles?
Dear Holy Spirit, how long? How long, O Lord?
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