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Austrian bishop decries pro-LGBT concert Cardinal Schönborn allowed in Vienna
cathedral

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-bishop-decries-pro-lgbt-concert-cardinal-schoenborn-allowed-in-vienna-cathedral

SALZBURG, December 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>)
— *Austrian Bishop Andreas Laun joined his voice to those condemning* *the
pro-LGBTQ concert that Cardinal Christoph Schönborn allowed and attended
Nov. 30 in** Vienna’s preeminent cathedral.*

“I just think that *silence can also be sin*. That is why my answer to this
event in the House of God is only a big NO. NO and NO again!” wrote the
retired auxiliary bishop of Salzburg in the Austrian Catholic
German-language news outlet kath.net <https://www.kath.net/news/70011>.

In his trenchant rebuke, *Laun quoted Archbishop Carlo Viganó’s
denunciation of *t*he November 30 AIDS charity concert as a “homoerotic and
blasphemous provocation.” *

Viganó decried the event in a message of support
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-vigano-condemns-pro-lgbt-concert-in-vienna-cathedral-as-blasphemous>
to Alexander Tschugguel, who organized a Rosary of reparation outside the
14th-century cathedral during the concert.

Tschugguel
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/120-people-pray-rosary-outside-vienna-cathedral-in-reparation-for-pro-lgbt-concert-happening-within>,
the 26-year-old Austrian famous for taking several statues of the Pachamama
pagan idol from a church in Rome during October’s Amazon Synod and throwing
them in the Tiber, reported that the Rosary was attended by 120 people.

*This is the third year in a row Cardinal Schönborn has allowed and
attended the “Believe Together” concert
<https://www.vienna.at/lange-nacht-der-solidaritaet-aids-benefiz-abend-im-wiener-stephansdom/6443277>,*
which is hosted by an organization called LIFE+ and marks World AIDS Day.

*Last year’s event featured a shirtless actor known for playing homosexual
roles standing on the altar rail,** loud rock and electronic music, and
actors dressed as demons.*

*This year, Thomas Neuwirth — the drag queen “Conchita Wurst” *who
represented Austria in the 2014 Eurovision contest *— performed
<https://www.vienna.at/lange-nacht-der-solidaritaet-aids-benefiz-abend-im-wiener-stephansdom/6443277>
in **the sanctuary* with male and female adolescents used for back-up.

Organizer and homosexual activist a Gery Keszler thanked Schönborn for his
presence and permission to use the cathedral, saying: “We are very grateful
for the trust that the cardinal has placed in us.”

“The media have reported what happened in St. Stephen's Cathedral, of
course, with the permission of the authority,” wrote Laun.

“I thought of Jeremiah’s lament in the face of the sins of the people: ‘And
with this ye come and stand before my face in this house over which my name
is proclaimed, and say, “We are safe” and then continue to pursue all those
abominations. Has this house, over which my name is proclaimed, become a
den of robbers in your eyes?’ [Jeremiah 7:9-11
<https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-10.htm>]” wrote the bishop.

“Perhaps we should say: a place for pleasure that God does not like?” he
added.

“And* I thought of **the temple cleansing, how Jesus would not tolerate the
merchants and even the harmless pigeons in the temple,”* wrote Laun.

His column also included an extensive, unsourced quote by prefect for the
Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship Cardinal Robert Sarah regarding
people with homosexual tendencies:

We must treat them with the greatest possible compassion. The first work of
charity we owe them is the truth. No one expects a word of favor from the
Church. A partnership between two people of the same sex can never be a
marriage. There is no conviction of the person in this statement.... I
implore the believers who are tempted to homosexuality not to be locked up
in this prison of LGBT ideology. Through baptism you are children of God!
Your place is -- as for all Christians -- in the Church. And if from time
to time the spiritual struggle becomes too hard, fraternal love will carry
you.

“To which I add, AMEN,” wrote Laun.

This is not the first time the outspoken 77-year-old bishop has criticized
his brother bishops.

Notably, *when German Cardinal Gerhard Marx and Bishop Franz-Josef Bode
floated the idea in 2018 of blessing same-sex unions*, *Laun compared
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-bishop-forcefully-rejects-german-bishops-idea-of-blessing-homosexu>*
*it
to blessing a brothel or a concentration camp.*

He also pointed out the oft-ignored but* essential distinction between* *the
sinner **and* *the sin.*

*“But now concerning the question of Cardinal Marx, and not a few of the
priests, the answer is simple: one may ask for God’s blessing for sinners,
but not for the sin,” **he wrote.*

“That is to say, one could not consecrate a brothel, one could not bless a
concentration camp or weapons which are not explicitly ordained for hunting
or for legitimate self-defense,” observed Laun.

“Therefore it is clear that *one may not bless a relationship which is
sinful; [one may not bless] the mafia; no blessing for organizations or
institutions which promote or procure abortions or which propagate
ideologies which are against the Faith, antisemitic contents, or other
forms of racist thought.”*
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