Mexican Bishop Raúl Vera, one of the strongest advocates for LGBT people within the Roman Catholic Church, is speaking out again. Vera, the bishop of Saltillo in Northern Mexico, made the following statement in an interview recently published in the Spanish and Latin American newspaper El País. He said: “The people who say homosexuals are sick are sick themselves. The Church needs to come to them not with condemnation, but with dialogue. We cannot cancel out a person’s richness just because of his or her sexual preference. That is sick, that is heartless, that is lacking common sense.”
Author’s note: Dear Bishop Raúl, homosexuality is not a source of “richness” for those such afflicted. As The Catechism of the Catholic Church clearly states: “This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.” And, in this “disordered” state, we are truly sick: for, we have closed ourselves off from the beauty and natural order of God’s plan. Furthermore, the carrying of this Cross does not require “dialogue.” Because, the solution has already been explicitly articulated: “These persons are called to 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.”
See another blog on Bishop Vera and his unorthodox views:
http://www.josephsciambra.com/2013/09/catholic-bishop-condones-gay-sex-and.html
See another blog on Bishop Vera and his unorthodox views:
http://www.josephsciambra.com/2013/09/catholic-bishop-condones-gay-sex-and.html