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| Not teacher of the Faith, but corrupters of children |
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to
stumble,
it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung
around his neck
and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 18:6
A couple of weeks ago we posed the following questions to the dissenting Trustees and teachers at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). We know this blog is read by these dissenters, and we have a combox.
When challenged in the area of doctrine, to remain silent takes on a meaning of the utmost gravity. The dissenting trustees and teachers do not want to reply, because to reply in the negative, means they publicly and explicitly dissent from doctrine, and become gravely suspect of heresy. This has serious implications retaining their positions as trustees and teachers within a Catholic school system, thus they seek to avoid explicitly denying Catholic doctrine, as they would (without contradicting themselves) have to resign as teachers and trustees. However, as is usually the case, the love of money outweighs the love of heresy (or, as they see it, their love of LGBT-gender ideology).
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| Catholic teachers endorsing homosexual activity |
Dear readers, please review again the questions we have posed for those who have authority over children and youth for Catholic education. Consider the grave spiritual danger children are in when confronted with trustees and teachers who teach an evil ideology. History shows that evil teachers produce bad fruit.
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| What innocent children are taught has SERIOUS consequences |
1. Do you reject lust as a morally disordered desire that is isolated from the right use of sexual pleasure within marriage? (c.f. CCC 2351)
2. Do you reject masturbation as an objectively evil act? This question must be asked, as homosexuality involves mutual masturbation, manually, orally and anally. (c.f. CCC: 2352)
3. Do you reject pornography as it (e.g.) offends against the marital act? Sex "education" that teaches sexual acts outside of marriage, or the teaching of the "LGBT" agenda as acceptable expressions of sexuality therefore qualify as pornographic. (c.f. CCC 2354)
4. Do you reject homosexual acts as "acts of grave depravity" and "intrinsically disordered"? Do you reject homosexual acts as "contrary to natural law"?
(c.f. CCC 2357)
5. Do you accept that persons with same-sex attraction are "called to chastity", and therefore to refrain from same-sex sexual activity? (CCC 2359)
6. Do you accept that sexual love is "ordered to the conjugal love of a man and a woman"? (CCC 2360)
7. Do you accept that under no circumstance can homosexual acts be approved? (CCC 2357)
8. Do you accept that for those for whom homosexual inclinations is a trail, they should be accepted "with respect, compassion and sensitivity", such that they can "fulfill God's will in their lives"and, "if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition"? (CCC 2358)
9. Do you accept the following teaching that "Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices"? (CCC 2396)
Those who reject Sacred Scriptures and the teachings of the Church are in dissent. They break with the Church and despise Her Teaching Authority founded in Christ. Human sexuality and the morality of all human acts, are not, as dissenting trustees and teachers claim, based on political positions. We are speaking about truth, not passing political ideology. Either these people are incredibly stupid or incredibly duplicitous when they make these claims. We suspect they are a bit of both.
Sexual morality is based on Divine Revelation through the Authority of Christ's Church. All human actions are founded in moral decisions.
The Catechism is not conjecture, opinion, it is mandated with Apostolic Authority. St. Pope John Paul II wrote in Fidei Depositum:
"...by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church's faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium. I declare it to be a sure norm for teaching the faith..."
Those who promote the "LGBT-gender" ideology agenda, do so contrary to Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium. Their silence convicts them.
St. John Bosco, pray for us.
2 comments:
As we say in the *My Airts* (These Parts), your school trustees are what we call a Useless Shower. Just like the American bishops!
Four years ago Church Militant reported that the American hierarchy knew that the U.S. Government promoted abortion and homosexuality, but most bishops never uttered a squeak. (See: The Silent Bishops. August 2 2016).
As the old adage goes, marry the age and become a widow.
Now the Toronto Catholic teachers, like the majority of the U.S. hierarchy, are determined to marry the bride of Christ to the Spirit of the Age.
Tragically enough they think they are *listening* to people's needs, or pursuing Bergoglio's muddled theology of *accompaniment*.
And Bishop Barron, who once had the good idea of *Christianising* the culture, speaks darkly about silencing the hierarchy's critics on social media. Good luck with that, Robert.
Here's food for thought, my dear Bishops.
The Protestant churches in Scandinavia long ago surrendered Christian moral teaching to the Permissive Society, hoping this fatal compromise would bring back the godless to the pews.
It didn't.
The godless continued to stay away in spite of Danish clergy insisting that abortion was a personal choice and homosexual acts as normal as sunbathing.
Malcolm Muggeridge saw it all coming in the 1960s when he reported on the drift towards worldiness and apostasy by the World Council of Churches.
But the writings of Gresham Machen, A.W. Pink, Cornelius Van Til, John Murray, Alan Stibbes, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Stott, Michael Green, Francis Schaeffer and Os Guinness influenced the then rising generation, many of whom were drawn to orthodoxy and Biblical truth. There was revival and renewal in Protestant churches.
Now clapped-out liberal theology has rebooted itself as Progressive Spirituality against which reformed theologian Dr. Peter Jones speaks brilliantly on YouTube. (Progressive theologians are all over the Patheos website.)
This Progressive Spirituality has gotten into the entrails of Pope Francis and his bishops, like an amoebic parasite.
Progressive Christianity is gnostic, as Dr. Jones points out.
And gnosticism is the parasite that keeps returning to pollute the body of faith.
Progs stand well clear of the bloody reality of abortion (it's called Sitting on the Fence) and regard homosexual adoption as a Civil Liberties issue. The well-being of the child in deserving a Mother and Father are overlooked in favour of the rights of homosexuals in getting everything that they demand.
And the bishops will go on being silent!
They used to call it *the treason of the clerks*.
My brief list of theologians who contributed to revival in reformed churches ought to have mentioned Carl F.H. Henry, Jim Packer (J.I. Packer), R.C. Sproul, John Piper, and of course Donald Macleod of Scotland.
The collected essays of the late Alan Stibbs, *Such A Great Salvation* appeared at a time when the Church of England seemed lost in a sea of liberalism. John Stott and Michael Green were of the same frame of mind.
In my youth I came across too many modernist theologians in St Paul's Catholic Bookshop. I should be hard pressed to recommend today anti-modernist Catholic theologians and scholars. The Abbe of Nantes is certainly one of them.
Donald Macleod, formerly principal and professor of systematic theology at the Free Church College in Edinburgh, is author of one of my favourite books, *The Person of Christ - Contours of Christian Theology*. It is the book I was looking for and failed to find, all those years ago in my local Catholic bookshop.
*Incarnation - The Person and Life of Christ* by the late Thomas F Torrance stands on my bookshelves beside the 690 page Cathechism of the Catholic Church. Professor Torrance studied under Karl Barth in Basle.
At the moment I am reading *Paul in Syria - Background to Galatians* by Paul W Barnett which is first-rate, as well as *The Work of Theology* by Stanley Hauerwas, a book full of delights and surprises.
*That I will die a Protestant does not mean that Catholicism has not had and continues to have a significant role in my life,* Professor Hauerwas writes. *Fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame cannot help but leave its mark on you.*
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