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New York, post-type of Sodom and Gomorrha?

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

How can anyone not see the evil of homosexual lifestyle? The fallen human nature has not learned from the past in previous civilizations. What was common among them and what ultimately brought them down? This false notion of recognition to same-sex marriage is not moral or justifiable; it is a human law that has no basis on natural grounds, and of course divine law absolutely rejects it.

Today we learn of the sad news that New York has become the 6th state in the US to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill was signed on Friday night by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Albany, NY. Of course we cannot blame this on the Democrat-controlled Senate and Assembly for the downfall of NY; it is ultimately a problem of rejection of sin.

There is a right ordering of society. When society walks along the correct moral path of justice, respecting rights from the basis of human nature and God’s revelation, there is advancement and prosperity in all aspects of life. The correct human nature does not allow for same-sex marriage to be valid, because it is a polar opposite of the image of opposite-sex marriage.

It is a sterile pursuit of the inverted passion. It is a license to commit sins without legal ramification. Of course, the laws of God still prohibit it. These individuals will be accountable to God’s law at their particular judgments after death.

We have recorded history of ancient civilizations that shows that these characteristics are not uncommon among cultures that are about to collapse on themselves. It will be brought down by sterility in families and social confusion. God will not be patient for long, because it is a sin, both in the recognition of homosexual marriage as law and the lifestyle that is abhorrent to right society.

New York is not so different from Sodom and Gomorrha in many respects. They are both center of fanatic lifestyle and commercialism of the human ideals.

One has to wonder whether New York, among other 5 states, will last longer or shorter than the once Sodom and Gomorrha.

And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous (Genesis 18:20)

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challenging Bishop Olmsted to ‘love authentically’ by acknowledging the sin of interreligious relations

Friday, August 13th, 2010

It is true that idolatry (which can also be human-idol –of the flesh– worship) leads to homosexual way-of-life.

For the concialists in the Vatican II church, interreligious gathering and prayers will only be the driving force for more effeminate words and feelings toward homosexual tendencies.

Can the Catholic Church be in a position where she is both committing idolatry with the unbelievers and being faithful to God? It cannot happen. Impossible.

That is why there is a difference between spiritual whoredom and being a spotless bride of Christ.

By presenting the supernatural faith to non-Christians, the Catholic is giving witness to authentic love. How can these conciliar bishops speak of authentic love when they cannot love authentically by asking for the conversion of non-Catholics to the True Faith? 

They are religious hypocrites, full of dead men’s bones, worse that Judas. They hand non-Christians right back to the enemy of souls, who is Satan.

Nobody should take them seriously unless they speak of the sin that cries out to God for vengeance, the unnatural vice, the mortal sin of sodomy, and the consequence of spiritual apostasy, the ways of communicating with idolatry and those in mortal sin, in matters of religious practices.

Why on the spiritual level, we don’t think of whoredom with false religions? While on the natural level, we speak kindly to those of homosexual orientation?

Enough with the soft words. People need to hear the truth, not some speech from a bishop who speaks unkindly of the ‘disorder of homosexuality’ and opposes phony legal ruling with nice philosophical words.

These hypocrites are all the same in different colors. While homosexual way-of-life is a sin, so too is idoltary in interreligious affairs.

And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: (2 Thessalonians 2:10).

They don’t love the truth– if they did, they would have preached it and expected conversion.

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The Union of the Human Nature in Catholic Marriage

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Catholics, above all else, should choose their soul mates according to the law of equal justice. Divine law demands that Catholics should hold to the same standard of Catholic faith and morals when choosing their spouses.

The only way to preserve natural gift in human nature to the predestined is to maintain the Catholic lineage by progression in human generation. Sometimes, God may allow exceptional circumstances by placing good quality of human nature in person of different religious background.

When Catholic spouses give to God what He needs, namely, the flesh and the human nature, God will provide the grace of predisposition.

We are not talking about things of biology or genetics, but the quality of the human person and the material substance formed from those in the Body of Christ, as if natural tendency and attraction to the practice of virtue are passed down from one generation to another, for God remembers the children of those who loved Him.

Ultimately, all gifts, whether natural or supernatural, come from God. God is the creator and the provider of all things, and from Catholic marriage comes Catholic souls, however may be their low status in society, they have their reasons of predilection, conformable to the will of God in Catholic Marriage.

Truth is above reason and reason conforms to truth. It is not without reason that the divine command of God demands equal justice in marriage between Catholic spouses.

God recognizes His children from the children of the world. The children of God come into the world to imitate His only-begotten Son, and His Mother, in virtue and lowliness. The children of the world are given great and many natural gifts of intelligence, social affairs, and physical ability.

The children of God are given those qualities that are rejected by the world, namely, sanctity, humility, the fervent desire for the eternal life and the love of virtue. They may and are given supernatural ability, of intelligence and acceptance of the social kingship of Christ, and those qualities in their souls.

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Father Connell Answers Moral Questions

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

by Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, C.SS.R., S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D.

Common-Law Marriage

Question: Some twelve years ago a Protestant man and woman (both baptized) began to live together with the intention of contracting a common-law marriage. After a time they separated and were planning to get a divorce, when they discovered that the state in which they had been living did not recognize common-law marriages, so that they were not actually married before the civil law. Now the woman has become a Catholic and wishes to marry a Catholic. Is she free to contract such a marriage?

Answer: When two baptized non-Catholics wish to marry, nothing more is required for the validity of the marriage than the mutual exchange of marital consent, which may take place informally, even without the presence of witnesses. This holds good even in a place where the civil law does not recognize common-law marriages. For the conditions governing the marriages of baptized persons are determined by the Church: and in the case of two persons free from the obligation of the canonical form (Canon 1099) the Church requires for a valid marriage, as far as the form is concerned, only the mutual giving and receiving of conjugal consent. Therefore, the solution of this question goes back to the other question, whether or not this couple exchanged true marital consent when they began to live together or at some subsequent occasion. If their primary intention, in some way expressed to each other, was to take each other as husband and wife, then they were married, even though they were in error when they thought that their mode of co-habitation was recognized as a marriage in their particular state. And if they did marry in this way, the marriage was subsequently consummated, the woman will never be free to marry, even after her conversion to Catholicism, as along as her husband is living. However, if the primary purpose of the couple was to make their union legal before the civil law, and the intention to marry was dependent on the belief that a common-law marriage was legally recognized, they were not married, because there was substantial error in their agreement. Doubtless in practice it would be very difficult to determine the precise nature of the intention the couple had when they entered on their union. A priest who encounters such a case should refer it to the diocesan officials.

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Father Connell Answers Moral Questions

Monday, May 17th, 2010

by Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, C.SS.R., S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D.

The Mixed Marriage Guarantees

Question: A non-Catholic who married a Catholic girl in my parish, after giving the required promises to obtain the dispensation, now asserts that he is not bound to abide by these promises because he was forced to make them. What answer should be given to this claim?

Answer: This is an example of the deplorable dishonesty to which people sometimes have recourse in order to be free from an obligation that displeases them. The individual in question should be told that he was not forced to make the promises because he was not forced to marry the Catholic girl. The Church granted the favor of a dispensation on condition that the two parties gave the guarantees stipulated in Canon 1061. No pressure was exerted on them to enter the marriage; on the contrary, the Church would have preferred that it did not take place. The non-Catholic who pleads that he was forced to sign the promises is as unreasonable as a man who contracts with a tailor for a suit of clothes, and after receiving the garments complains that he is being forced by the tailor to pay him a sum of money.

Since the attitude in question seems to be growing among non-Catholics who have married Catholics, it might be advisable for a priest who receives the mixed marriages promises to ask the non-Catholic explicitly if he feels he is being forced to give the guarantees. If he admits that this is his attitude, there can hardly be present to moral certainty of the fulfillment of the guarantees which the Code demands as a condition for the granting of a dispensation (Can. 1061, § 1, 3).

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Father Connell Answers Moral Questions

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

by Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, C.SS. R., S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D.

Choosing a Particular Priest

Question: Should a pastor allow his people to choose a particular priest to officiate at marriage, or rather insist that (apart from some very extraordinary reason) they accept the priest assigned to the ceremony, whether the pastor himself or one of the assistants? After twenty years of experience in the priesthood it seems to me that the former custom is not in conformity with the proper Catholic attitude. When there is need for any sacerdotal service our people should be trained to realize that the sublime power of the priesthood should predominate over the personal characteristics of the individual priest, and hence, in the matter of assistance at a marriage, as in the celebration of Mass or the distribution of Holy Communion, they should accept equally the services of any priest designated by the pastor. Am I correct in holding this opinion?

Answer: The principle on which our questioner bases his opinion is surely in accord with Catholic ideals. Catholics should look primarily to the supernatural dignity of their priests, and show themselves willing to accept the ministerial services of any priest their lawful ecclesiastical authorities may assign to provide for their spiritual welfare. To emphasize excessively the personal qualifications of their priests and to manifest their preferences very strongly on this basis is surely not a truly Catholic attitude. Thus, it is not in conformity with the Catholic spirit for the members of a congregation to make a protest to the Bishop when a priest whom they greatly esteem and love is assigned to another post. Similarly, to attend the Mass of one priest in preference to another because of merely personal liking indicates a failure to realize that it is Christ who is the principle priest in every Mass, and it is of little consequence who is the secondary priest.

On the other hand, there are certain sacred functions and offices in which the abilities and the personal traits of the individual priest can be taken into consideration without any violation of Catholic ideals. Thus, it is perfectly lawful for a person to choose a particular priest as his confessor because of his special understanding or kindness or ability as a director. And can we blame the lay Catholic who, given the choice, attends the sermon of a priest who manifests a more scholarly and inspiring way of presenting the doctrines of the faith than one who does not take proper care to prepare himself for the important task of announcing the word of God?

In choosing a priest to officiate at a wedding or a funeral, it would not seem wrong for Catholics to manifest a preference based on reasonable grounds. Certainly, there would be no objection if a relative or old friend be requested for such occasions, or a priest to whom one of the interested parties had reason to be very grateful, such as the priest who was formerly a teacher of the young man entering marriage. Again, I would not consider it blameworthy if the bridal couple showed their preference for a certain priest because he conducts the marriage ceremony in a dignified and impressive manner and celebrates Mass more devoutly than the other priests of the parish. The wedding day is a memorable event in their lives, and they wish to be able to look back on it in the years to come with the recollection that the officiating priest contributed to it the full fervor and dignity of his sacred ministry, instead of rushing through the ceremony in an undignified and careless manner. However, I would agree with the questioner to the extent of admitting that it would not be a manifestation of the proper Catholic attitude if the choice was based merely on the prominence of the social graces of an individual priest.

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