[Grem] Osztr. püspökök követelik a homoszexuális párok hivatalos liturgikus megáldását, a Kat. Egyh. erkölcsi tanításának megváltoztatását

[Emoke Greschik]

 Austrian bishops commission book calling same-sex relationships ‘image of
God’s goodness’
A new book commissioned by the bishops demands that Church teaching on
homosexuality be overturned
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-bishops-commission-book-calling-same-sex-relationships-image-of-gods-goodness
By Martin Bürger

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LINZ, Austria, May 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>) –*
A new book commissioned by the Austrian bishops argues that homosexual
relationships come from God, revealing God’s “goodness and humanity.” The
book calls upon the Church to change her teaching against homosexuality and
to bless homosexual relationships. *

According to liturgical scholar Fr. Ewald Vollger OT, who contributed to
the book, *changing Church teaching on homosexuality “can be not only
discussed, but also demanded.” *The Church could only bless homosexual
relationships after a previous change to Church teaching, as Vollger
pointed out himself.

Talking to the diocesan newspaper
<https://www.kirchenzeitung.at/site/themen/gesellschaftsoziales/mehr-als-ein-normaler-segen>
of the Diocese of Linz, he said, “There is also *a considerable number of
bishops *that* would like to see a rethinking in the area of sexual
morality for the evaluation of same-sex relationships.”*

While making sure to distinguish the blessing from the sacrament of
marriage, Vollger nevertheless claimed that *homosexuality needs to be seen
in a positive light*.

“Just as marriage between a man and a woman is an image of God’s creative
love, so is *a same-sex relationship an image of God’s attention to human
beings,*” he said. *“If partners live the gift of mutual love in
faithfulness to one another and live their lives with the spiritual gifts
of God such as kindness, forbearance, patience, reconciliation, etc., their
relationship is also an image of God’s goodness and humanity.”*

Vollger praised the blessing of homosexual couples on Valentine’s Day, as
it takes place annually, for instance, in Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s
cathedral in Vienna. The blessing proposed in the book commissioned by the
Austrian bishops, however, goes beyond that.

“*A benediction,* as proposed from the point of view of the theology of
liturgy, *would also have an official character through which the Church
expresses the obligation of fidelity and the exclusivity of the
relationship*,” according to Vollger.

In his interview with the diocesan newspaper, Vollger did not explain how
Church doctrine could change. *The Church’s condemnation of homosexuality
goes back to ancient biblical times.*

*“The rejection of homosexual behavior that is found in the Old Testament
is well known,” writes Catholic Answers
<https://www.catholic.com/tract/homosexuality>. “In Genesis 19, two angels
in disguise visit the city of Sodom and are offered hospitality and shelter
by Lot. During the night, the men of Sodom demand that Lot hand over his
guests for homosexual intercourse.”*

*After Lot’s refusal, “the angels blind the men of Sodom. Lot and his
household escape, and the town is destroyed by fire ‘because the outcry
against its people has become great before the Lord’ (Gen. 19:13).”*

*It is because of this passage that homosexuality is called one of the four
sins that cry out to God for vengeance. *

*In the New Testament
<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A9-10&version=RSVCE>,
St. Paul is clear that active unrepentant homosexuals cannot enter heaven. *

*“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
robbers will inherit the kingdom of God,” he writes*.

*The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that* *homosexual acts are
“acts of grave depravity*,” pointing out that tradition has “always
declared that ‘*homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’”*

“They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the
gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual
complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved,” states the
Catechism.

The Catholic Church furthermore teaches that the homosexual inclination is
also “objectively disordered” since *God created sexual attraction for the
purpose of drawing a man and a woman together to become husband and wife in
marriage. *

The book commissioned by the Austrian bishops looks at the blessing of
homosexual relationships not only from the point of view of liturgy. It
also contains a section on ethics and moral theology, a biblical section,
as well as a chapter looking at the current situation *in Austria*, where*
homosexual “marriage” was legalized in 2019.*

Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on homosexuality in North America
used the publication of the book to push their agenda.

*Pro-homosexual Jesuit Fr. James Martin tweeted about it:*

*New Ways Ministry
<https://www.newwaysministry.org/2020/05/25/archdiocese-of-salzburg-publishes-new-book-on-church-blessings-for-same-gender-couples/>,
**which,* according to its website
<https://www.newwaysministry.org/about/#mission>, “*educates and advocates
for justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger church and civil
communities,” also wrote about it.*

German-speaking bishops are a significant force in advancing the homosexual
agenda.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, at the time head of the German Bishop’s Conference,
said
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/cdl-marx-homosexual-couples-belong-to-churchs-sacramental-community-can-receive-blessing>
in 2019, “I insist: we welcome homosexuals, they belong to the Church, also
to the sacramental community.” He added that homosexual couples can receive
“a blessing in the sense of a pastoral accompaniment, we can pray together.”

*The current president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg
Bätzing, has also called for changing the Church’s official teaching on
“practiced homosexuality” by “jumping over trenches.”*

“Here the statement of the Catechism is first of all that these people are
to be met with esteem and respect,” Bätzing said
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/in-easter-interview-german-bishops-head-calls-for-changing-church-teaching-on-homosexuality>
in an interview earlier this year. “But every single sexual act is seen as
evidence of a disordered sexual life. This is something that many people no
longer want or can understand.”

Bätzing claimed that in moral theology, “we have long since moved towards
saying” that if “true love and faithfulness are lived,” even among same-sex
partners, “we must acknowledge that.”

*On the other hand, German Cardinal Gerhard Müller has come down strongly
on the side of Church doctrine during a talk in 2018.*

*“If a priest blesses a homosexual couple, then this is an atrocity at* *a
holy site*,* namely, to approve of something that** God does not **approve
of*,” the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
pointed out.

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