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 Damning Same-Sex Love Profession of Faith Required of Sr. Gramick & Fr. Nugent Nun and Priest are Subjected to a Medieval Brainwashing |
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Compiled By GayToday
Vatican City—A 22-year old Roman Catholic spiritual outreach to gay men and lesbians,
New Ways Ministry, was shorn of its dignity last week at the behest of the Vatican because,
the Holy See charged, New Ways failed to communicate that homosexuality is a grave offense.
A Catholic priest and nun, the Reverend Robert Nugent and Sister Jeannine Gramick have been told that they must never again take up their ministry because they have also failed —in the light of Roman Catholic doctrine—to condemn homosexuality as intrinsically evil. In the meantime, in spite of the agony it causes among gay and lesbian Catholics, the Vatican's true signals suddenly seem not only unfriendly, but hostile in the extreme. GayToday has received a copy of the following document from reliable sources: This is the profession of faith that the founders of New Ways Ministry were required to sign by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Profession of faith required of Fr. Nugent and Sr. Gramick by the CDF Profession of Faith
I also firmly accept and hold that homosexual acts are always objectively evil. On the solid foundation of a constant biblical testimony, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity (cf. Gn 19:1-29; Lv 18:22, 10:13; Rm 1:24-27; I Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10), Tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered (cf. Persona humana 8; Homosexualitatis problema 3-8; Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357, 2396). I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teaching that the homosexual inclination, though not in itself a sin, constitutes a tendency towards behavior that is intrinsically evil, and therefore must be considered objectively disordered (homosexualitatis problema 3; Catechism of the Catholic Church 2358). I also adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teaching that, while homosexual persons must be received with respect and protected from all unjust forms of discrimination, no one can claim any right to engage in homosexual behavior (cf. Persona humana 8; Homosexualitatis problema 9-10; Catechism of the Catholic Church 2358). Moreover, I also adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teaching that homosexual persons, by the virtues of self-mastery which lead to inner freedom, by prayer and sacramental grace and other forms of assistance, can advance toward Christian perfection (Homosexualitatis problema 12; Catechism of the Catholic Church 2359). Responding to such required Vatican pledges of allegiance to dogma, a Scottish immigrant to the U.S., M. Graham Finlayson, quoted the following indictment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy: "There is no greater crime against humanity than that men should be trained to be the masters of other men's minds and souls." |
