Saturday, February 9, 2019

IN the NEWS - What's Up Down Under in Catholicism?

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13

"Archbishop Peter Comensoli of Melbourne, Australia is enlisting members of Victoria's gay community to help remake the Church in Australia.

On Wednesday, his archdiocese will host a "Listening & Dialogue Encounter with the LGBTIQA+ Community" to determine the way forward for Melbourne Catholics.
Faithful Catholics have called on Comensoli to call off the meeting, to no avail. According to insiders, the archbishop has known about the upcoming "encounter" for months.
A key component of the Plenary Council process, "listening and dialogue" sessions serve as a platform on which Catholics — and non-Catholics — are invited to lay out their vision for how the Church must change to correspond with the new times. Toward that end, since 2018, Catholics across the country have been weighing in on the central Plenary Council question: "What do you think God is asking of us in Australia at this time?"
Lana Turvey-Collins, national facilitator for the Plenary Council, is a promoter of same-sex marriage. Turvey-Collins reportedly peppered her social media accounts with rainbow flag images in the lead-up to the national referendum on gay marriage in 2017, removing them only after the country's bishops appointed her facilitator.

The radical leftist Victorian State Government of Premier Daniel Andrews, a self-identified Catholic, has named Victorian Commissioner for Gender and Sexuality Ro Allen a key session collaborator. Andrews' administration — described as "rabidly anti-Catholic" — actively promotes abortion, euthanasia and "gender ... intersex and sexual diversity in schools."
Another major partner is Acceptance Melbourne (AM), a gay advocacy group which lobbies on behalf of Catholics "who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, intersex and queer."
Rejecting Catholic teaching on chastity and sexuality, AM is bent on transforming the Church in Australia into a body that "embraces and welcomes diversity, and is inclusive and open to all who identify as LGBTIQ, supporting their integration of faith, sexuality and gender identity."
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