News Item: : We Must Console Our Lord in Gethsemane
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Thursday 13 April 2017 - 09:45:52

Fr. James Martin SJ

It was awful to read a few days ago that Fr. James Martin SJ had produced a subversive book to promote homosexual ideology within the Catholic Church.

Worse still, was the fact that two of Pope Francis' most recently promoted cardinals were giving public backing to this attempted subverison of Catholic Faith and Morals.

As LifeSiteNews reported, Martin's book argues that Church employees should not be fired for endorsing homosexual acts or openly professing homosexuality. He also suggests that Church leaders should use the LGBT terminology when addressing ''LGBT people''.

Interestingly enough, Martin himself seems to have left out some of the ever-growing list of letters in this alphabetical collective, which has by now grown to at least LGBTQIA proportions. One is led to wonder what would Martin do if some of those people ''identifying'' under those various letters suddenly labelled him as exclusive...

Anyway, Cardinal James Tobin of Newark was out describing the new book as ''prophetic''. Meantime, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Pope Francis' choice to head up the Vatican's new family and life dicastery (!), suggested that Martin's book will, ''also help LGBT Catholics to feel more at home in what is, after all, their church.''

That's funny, I always thought it was Christ's Church, to which all people were called to membership through ongoing conversion of heart.

The release of a book such as this, coupled with high level support from men currently holding positions of power in the Church, gives serious scandal to Christ's flock and to those who may be thinking of joining it. At the same time, it undermines those Catholics who experience same-sex attraction and yet co-operate with grace in the Sacraments to live chaste lives in the Church.

That is because, whilst all people should be loved and welcomed by Christ's faithful, Martin would have us also welcome their sinful lifestyles and actual sins. That could only lead to spiritual death, disunity and unhappiness for all involved.

This is why his efforts ought to be resisted by the Church.

All of the above-mentioned travesties have now been made even worse by the disturbing news that Fr. James Martin has just been appointed as a consultor to the Vatican's communications office.

That is to say that Fr. James Martin, the same man who criticized the Catechism of the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality when he publicly received an award in 2016 from the dissenting, homosexualist New Ways Ministry - a group already condemned by both the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops - will now be an official consultor to the Vatican's communications office under his friend Pope Francis.

Everything being described here underscores the questions I recently posed to Archbishop Ganswein about his claim that the ''Gay Lobby'' was not a ''power lobby''.

It also points to the question I also posed, over the reliability of the Vatican's public communications office in regard to other matters; such as the Synods of '14 and '15, and the claims of Fr. Ingo Dollinger and Archbishop Negri.

For the good of his immortal soul, and those of the people he might influence with his errors, Fr. James Martin should not only not be receiving this appointment; but he should rather be being given public correction from his religious superiors.

Alas, we are living through a grave crisis in which those same superiors both share in and promote such theological errors and moral vice.

On a happier note, I see that Mr. Michael Warsaw of EWTN has also been appointed as a consultor to the Vatican's communications office. I pray that he will follow the example of the late Mother Angelica, and continue in the fidelity which he typically demonstrates himself, by using this new platform to resist these grave scandals.

If, for some reason he does not, then EWTN's vast customer base should raise their voices to defend the Faith. In fact, they should do that anyway.

Today is Holy Thursday.

Let us join close with Our Lord and His many sufferings. On this, one of the holiest of nights in the Church's year, may God grant each one of us the grace to remain with, and to console, the Sacred Heart of Jesus in this, His Hour.

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