I recently came across an article contrasting traditional Catholic teaching with Cardinal Cupich's on homosexuality. It highlighted two documents, showing the deficiencies of what I present second.
As per then Cardinal Ratzinger & the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2003):
No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons....
in the Creator's plan, sexual complementarity and fruitfulness belong to the very nature of marriage.
the marital union of man and woman has been elevated by Christ to the dignity of a sacrament.....
There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family...
Christians give witness to the whole moral truth, which is contradicted both by approval of homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons...
Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral....
Not even in a remote analogous sense do homosexual unions fulfil the purpose for which marriage and family deserve specific categorical recognition. On the contrary, there are good reasons for holding that such unions are harmful to the proper development of human society, especially if their impact on society were to increase....
The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003, approved the present Considerations....
from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 3, 2003, Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga [link added] and his Companions, Martyrs.
The synodal approach to church life that Pope Francis is encouraging has greatly assisted me....the fallacy that “Father knows best” can easily creep into our thinking....[Agree wholeheartedly!]
This approach of putting aside our preconceptions and really listening also applies to how church leaders ought to consider people in a variety of life situations. This includes not only LGBTQ Catholics, but also people who are married or single, those in so-called irregular situations, those who are living with physical and psychological disabilities [link added] and others....
Many LGBTQ people also learn and know what sacrificial love is, as they take on the role of parenting children who otherwise would not have a home [With all due respect your Eminence, how dare you flagrantly slap Catholic teaching in the face!]....
LGBTQ Catholics...place a high priority on expressions of love and intimacy that comport with church teaching....
Pastoral outreach to the LGBTQ population always should include the call of the Gospel to live a chaste and virtuous life. At the same time, in my 50 years as a priest I have learned that all of us struggle with those demands. We are, after all, all called to chastity [Yes, we are all called to chastity!]....
Cardinal Cupich is correct about our fawning clericalism and our universal call to chastity. That's about it.
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
