Saint Cicero & the Jesuits, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Saint Cicero & the Jesuits, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: It goes without saying that Pope Francis is definitely a good Jesuit Probabilist and not at all an Jansenist - and we have been quite good at manufacturing the later and not the former.  One need only look at those speaking against Francis at the Synod to see this.  This is likely a good thing in figuring out how to deal with remarried Catholics (and even just the divorced ones - although it is hard to see the fault of one's ex more than your own - especially if you think the balance does rest with them (and their mother).  This should allow many to return to the Church in both the sacraments and marriage who otherwise would not.  Indeed, I am already considering the question of wedding China again.



Where a harder look is needed - and not just on forgiveness but on the question of whether morality, some of it of ancient vintage, might be mistaken in some aspects. That gay trysts for heterosexuals, or even among gays, is wrong does not take much moral imagination.  To go beyond these circumstances and view that gays were like made that way in something called epigenesis, and is therefore not chosen, must lead to the conclusion that marriage among gays and lesbians cannot be in the least bit wrong or in any way disordered - as they are no more flawed than those of use with a melanin deficiency - yet white people are allowed to marry other white people all the time, though this subjects the children to possible skin cancer.  Mercy is not necessary in either case, except for past mistakes in one's sexual history where the grace of God could help us with the fact that the relationship just did not work out.  The error are mostly the human nastiness, not the sex, but we can throw that in too.