Welcome for gay parents removed from Catholic video

[trotsky]

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/welcome-for-gay-parents-removed-from-catholic-video-1.3415965

Words of welcome from a bishop for gay people raising children and people in second marriages have been removed from a video promoting the World Meeting of Families 2018. The meeting takes place in Dublin in August and will probably include a visit by Pope Francis.

In the video,entitled Parish Conversations Session 1, David O’Connell, a Cork man and auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, had said: “Pope Francis, he gets it. Today there are all sorts of configurations of families – mum and dad; mum or dad on their own; gay couple raising children; people in second marriages.”

However, a spokeswoman for the meeting has now said: “The wrong version of the video for Parish Session 1 was inadvertently uploaded for a short time but the correct version is now in place.” She said she was “looking into how this mistake happened”.

...“There was no other reason for making this change than to deal with the important issues raised by Bishop O’Connell later in the programme in a fuller way.” However, the words of Bishop O’Connell removed from the Session 1 video are not repeated by him in Session 5.

[MineralMan]

1. How Christian of them, eh?

Jesus wept. Or would have, maybe. Who knows?

The actual man, Jesus, would be turned away and spurned by most Christians I have met in churches.

There are Christians who follow the teachings as best they are able. I have met some such. They are, sadly, in the minority, though, in my experience.