via Queerty by Lester Brathwaite on 2/11/13
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.
For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
– Noted lover of gays and proponent of marriage equality Pope Benedict VI announces his resignation from the papacy, citing health concerns (via PinkNews). The 85-year-old former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is the first Pope to resign his position in six centuries.I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.
For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
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Дорогие друзья и
сочувствующие,
если бы примеру Папы Бенедикта XVI последовал предстоятель РПЦ МП Кирилл Гундяев, это был бы мудрый и своевременный шаг.
И желательно к 28 февраля, чтобы не проиграть конкуренцию Ватикану.
Спасибо за причиненные неудобства.
если бы примеру Папы Бенедикта XVI последовал предстоятель РПЦ МП Кирилл Гундяев, это был бы мудрый и своевременный шаг.
И желательно к 28 февраля, чтобы не проиграть конкуренцию Ватикану.
Спасибо за причиненные неудобства.
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PHOTOS: As Illinois lawmakers consider a marriage-equality bill, members of the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and the Rainbow Sash Movement demonstrated outside Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Sunday, in protest of Cardinal Francis George’s attacks on same-sex marriage and LGBT rights.
via Queerty by Dan Avery on 2/11/13
PHOTOS: As Illinois lawmakers consider a marriage-equality bill, members of the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and the Rainbow Sash Movement demonstrated outside Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Sunday, in protest of Cardinal Francis George’s attacks on same-sex marriage and LGBT rights.
“When church leaders attempt to shore up that discrimination in civil law, imposing their backward beliefs and strictures on Catholics and non-Catholics alike, they especially become a target of protest and ridicule,” the GLC said in a statement.
As head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal George spent thousands of dollars to support California’s Prop 8 an anti-gay referendum in Maine. He’s compared gays and lesbians to the KKK and, in a recent op-ed, whined that he and the Church we being labeled as homophobes: “Those who know the difference between marriage and same-sex arrangements will be regarded as bigots.”
On February 20, the Illinois Catholic Conference is planning a lobbying day to convince state legislators not to approve marriage equality.
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