Cardinal Gracias: "Catholic Church pays tribute to Homosexuals With Full Respect."

(New Delhi) The Supreme Court of India reinstated the ban against homosexual acts.

Cardinal Garcia emphasized to Asianews: "As Christians, we express our full respect of homosexuals. The Catholic Church opposes the legalization of gay marriage, but teaches that homosexuals have the same dignity as anyone else and condemns all forms of unjust discrimination, persecution or abuse."

Criticism of the statements of Cardinal were leveled by Christian groups such as the Christian Mission Movement. "Respect" you have to pay every man as such, but not because someone is gay, because then one would respect his homosexual acts. But they are sin. That is why the choice of words by the Cardinal are "inappropriate" and not useful for communicating the Christian faith among people who practice homosexuality.

Cardinal Gracias represents Asia in Pope Francis's C-8 Cardinals' Advisory erected last April, to advise him in the reform of the Roman Curia and the leadership of the Church.

Continued at The Eponymous Flower

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Fischl

Dec 13, 2013

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Dr Bobus

Dec 12, 2013

should be: his phrase

Uncle Joe

Dec 12, 2013

An interesting piece of information from the source of the article:
NB: Cardinal Gracias is also hostile to the TLM from what we can gather from a local traditional Indian blog. It appears he has closed the TLM down there.More

An interesting piece of information from the source of the article:

NB: Cardinal Gracias is also hostile to the TLM from what we can gather from a local traditional Indian blog. It appears he has closed the TLM down there.

Dr Bobus

Dec 12, 2013

Yet another vague political statement. The Cardinal condemns all forms of unjust discrimination, persecution or abuse but never bothers to say that has phrase has anything to do with the law.
Calling Dr Howard . . . Dr Fine . . . Dr Howard . . .More

Yet another vague political statement. The Cardinal condemns all forms of unjust discrimination, persecution or abuse but never bothers to say that has phrase has anything to do with the law.

Calling Dr Howard . . . Dr Fine . . . Dr Howard . . .