Bishop Paprocki's unhinged decree on same-sex marriage: Distinctly Catholic: Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, should be sacked. He issued a decree last week setting guidelines and limits for how the pastors in his diocese treat people in same-sex marriages.
MGB: He is using his office to fight the culture wars. It is almost reverse-simony although the original punishment for simony has not so far applied. He is right to suspect that gay priests are probably quietly blessing gay marriages, as they do second marriages and other civil marriages by Catholics. He is technically correct on Canon 930 grounds, if you believe the Church is correct on homosexuality, which it is not. This whole kinder and gentle approach does not help when renouncing teaching is needed. As for denying burial, we used to do that with suicide and it was cruel, especially when the suicide was a teenager. Now we know that a lot of gay teen suicides are those who are in extreme conflict because the Church condemns them as disordered but their hearts tell them they are not. We call it mental illness but it is moral angst. We cause that by not repudiating current teaching on homosexuality. The irony on burial is thick and sad. Another form of priestly sexual abuse.
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