Comments on: Bishop Barron criticises synod report’s suggestion scientific advances could shift Church morality teaching https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/11/28/bishop-barron-criticises-synod-reports-suggestion-scientific-advances-could-shift-church-morality-teaching/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Todd https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/11/28/bishop-barron-criticises-synod-reports-suggestion-scientific-advances-could-shift-church-morality-teaching/#comment-98947 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:50:29 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=27535#comment-98947 It was not until 1822 that the church took the work of Copernicus off the index of “forbidden books”, long after windjammers circumnavigated the globe without Satellite navigation.
Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for following the work of Copernicus, who claimed the earth revolved about the sun. Galileo was forced to abjure detest curse or suffer the same fate as Bruno.
In any event he was under house arrest for the rest of his days.
When saint Peter went back into the temple he had to involve himself with Judaic myth (Jewish), which meant Sheol was “down there”, heaven “up there”, and the earth was flat into the bargain.
This myth- Jewish influence has continued with the reading of Old Testament regularly (the Divine Office contains much material from psalms), but also in tacit acceptance of myths which are well and truly dated.
The place for science is generally accepted as a secular mindset. It does not offer a glimpse into either God or soul, which do not exist in the sensate anyway (“Crossing the threshold of Hope” JPII- on positivism).
As such science supplies findings which cannot alter basic self-evident moral norms, that a read of the Catholic Catechism contains.

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By: Regina https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/11/28/bishop-barron-criticises-synod-reports-suggestion-scientific-advances-could-shift-church-morality-teaching/#comment-98827 Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:33:34 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=27535#comment-98827 It is a fundamental that
1.NO two homosexuals can EVER fall in love [anima/animus].
2.No two homosexuals can EVER reproduce like two heterosexuals .
3.Grace springs from nature, not the other way around. What is
not natural can never EVER be graced with a blessing..
The German bishops have a problem. They have YET to face it.
It is a mammoth apology to the German people. Lawsuits resulting
in U.S. $300,000 for pedophilia should be routinely accepted, and
apologies made. Deflecting attention from the German problem is not
going to change the veracity of that inconsistency.
Attempts by German Bishops to alter the Catholic Catechism so that they (the Bishops)
appear to be squeaky clean is equally scandalous.
Bishop Barron is, frankly, too nice. “Evolutionary biology, anthropology,
and chemistry might give us fresh insight into the etiology and physical dimension
of same-sex attraction, but they will not tell us a thing about whether homosexual
behaviour is right or wrong.”
What Rome should have stated,it should have been stated long ago. Flowery language
won’t get Rome off the hook any more than it will get German Bishops off the hook.
Problems MUST be faced. Using academic posturing does not fool the masses any
more, most of whom are well educated anyway.
Th EU is following an ideology. That much can be seen from its clear stance on pro-choice,
unlike Poland which is pro-life, AND is being persecuted by the EU.
Instead of promoting nonsense, German Bishops could show some backbone by openly
contradicting EU policy on pro-choice, and thus contradicting the ideology that underpins
the EU, an ideology that began in USA, and has spread globally, and is an apostasy
– that much can be gleaned from its 1973 Humanist manifesto. Promoting homosexual
behaviour is part of that ideology/ apostasy/ Secular Humanism.
A Bishop should be a sign of contradiction, not someone who swings along with an
EU profile that promotes abortion.

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