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<h1 class="gmail-article-title"><font size="4"><b>Osztrák katolikus pap leszbikus párt adott össze<br></b></font></h1><div><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-diocese-confirms-that-catholic-priest-held-liturgy-celebrating-lesbian-union">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-diocese-confirms-that-catholic-priest-held-liturgy-celebrating-lesbian-union</a></div>
<div><img src="cid:ii_k2z4cy0s0" alt="image.png" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="471" height="291"><br></div><p class="gmail-article-tags gmail-hide-print"> </p><p class="gmail-article-tags gmail-hide-print"> ........<br></p><div class="gmail-article-text-wrapper"><p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">The basic question is if homosexual people can feel themselves at
home in the Church,” Thomas Stanzer told German Catholic news site
<a href="http://kath.net">kath.net</a> this Monday. </span></b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">“Family spiritual advisor Michael Kopp answered ‘yes’ to this question,</span>” he continued. </b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
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<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The diocesan spokesman underscored that this was “not a sacramental liturgy,” and quoted Pope Francis’ controversial encyclical <em>Amoris Laetitia</em>.</b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“Every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be
respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration, while
‘every sign of unjust discrimination’ is to be carefully avoided, the
Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation <em>Amoris Laetitia</em> (250) states,” Stanzer said. </b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
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<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">homosexual acts as
acts of grave depravity,</span> tradition has always declared that <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">‘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,”</span> the Catechism of the Catholic
Church teaches (CCC 2357).</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Kopp is the pastor of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">St. Margaret’s Catholic Church in Wolfsburg</span>, Austria who hitherto has been known best for his occasional <a href="https://unterkaerntner.at/index.php?id=1172">cabaret acts</a></b></span>. According to the Austrian <em>Unkerkaerner </em>newspaper,
Kopp has written two cabaret shows since he was ordained in 1997.
Previously a “family pastor” in the Diocese of Gurk, Kopp has been with
the Diocese of Graz-Seckau since January 2019. </p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Kopp’s definition of “family” <a href="https://www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at/portal/home/aktuellesneu/article/3346.html">includes both </a>“the
root of every personal life existence” and also “every form of
relationship among people in the most diverse constellations of common
life.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>This is not,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>however, the Catholic definition of family. According to the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a4.htm">Catechism of the Catholic Church</a>, family stems from the small community of love, founded by a married couple, into which a child is born or adopted</b></span>. </p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“The family is the <em>original cell of social life</em>,” the
Catechism says. “It is the natural society in which husband and wife are
called to give themselves in love and in the gift of life. Authority,
stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the
foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The
family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral
values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is
an initiation into life in society” </b></span>(CCC 2207).</p>
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