Thank-you for this great article. I am so happy to hear this news, I am so tired of people running away from our Catholic faith because of the very rules of our faith.
I pray for these people often because of their lifestyle, the Bible says it is wrong and if you really believe in Our Lord Jesus Christ then you should change and follow the teachings of the church.
I am also tired of some people trying to convince me that this is an acceptable lifestyle, you donot see two male birds cohabitating together nor do you see two female cats cohabitating together.
It seems so natural to follow the church and its teaching.

I was just fired from housing at the University of Minnesota after fifteen years. My supervisor said he ha no problem with my work, I just didn't get along. Part of this may be that, since my conversion in 2002, I found it increasingly difficult to 'celebrate diversity'. These are the code words for G.L.B.T. agenda. So deeply ingrained is this culture that there is a 'lavender' house, i.e. resident community, where men and women may explore common interests. A student requesting reassignment to hall may be placed on this floor in this hall without being told the nature of its interests. Just a suggestion to parents of college bound men and women to ask about these matters first.

Thee Catholic position towards homosexuality is quite moderate and reasonable compared to many Protestant sects as well as the treatment of gays by other faiths..

Catholics are called, in the Catechism, to love their fellow man. Most of us do and good Catholics worry less about our brother's sins than we do our own. The Church defines love differently than society though and this creates problems for the Rainbows. Love in the church is wanting what is best for our brothers and sisters. A celebration of sin is never "what is best", and while it is not a sin to be homosexual, it is certainly a sin to engage in homosexual acts. It is also a sin to boast of sin and to encourage others to sin.

You can be gay and Catholic, but you can not be a practicing gay and a good Catholic. The bishop is correct in denying communion. I pray that these folks will stop celebrating their sins, recognize that they are sinners as we all are and come back to Mother Church on her terms, not theirs.

GLBT Catholics have a choice. They can choose their lifestyle...and it is a choice....or they can choose the Church. They cannot choose both, just as I cannot choose to celebrate adultery, murder or any other sin and simultaneously choose the Church. It's one or the other. Choose.

Thank you Archbishop for your loyalty to Catholic teaching! My only hope is that prayer be our weapon of attack, a genuine act of charity. I believe that the rosary be one prayer method we can use. She will intercede for conversion and obtain for those trapped in the "culture of diversity" purity of heart, mind,and body.
Anthony

Some comments on homosexuality by the saints:

Saint Catherine of Siena, a religious mystic of the 14th century, relays words of Our Lord Jesus Christ about the vice against nature, which contaminated part of the clergy in her time. Referring to sacred ministers, He says: “They not only fail from resisting this frailty [of fallen human nature] . . . but do even worse as they commit the cursed sin against nature. Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this not only causes Me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these miserable creatures have chosen as their lords. For Me, this sin against nature is so abominable that, for it alone, five cities were submersed, by virtue of the judgment of My Divine Justice, which could no longer bear them. . . . It is disagreeable to the demons, not because evil displeases them and they find pleasure in good, but because their nature is angelic and thus is repulsed upon seeing such an enormous sin being committed. It is true that it is the demon who hits the sinner with the poisoned arrow of lust, but when a man carries out such a sinful act, the demon leaves.”

Saint Augustine is categorical in the combat against sodomy and similar vices. The great Bishop of Hippo writes: “Sins against nature, therefore, like the sin of Sodom, are abominable and deserve punishment whenever and wherever they are committed. If all nations committed them, all alike would be held guilty of the same charge in God’s law, for our Maker did not prescribe that we should use each other in this way. In fact, the relationship that we ought to have with God is itself violated when our nature, of which He is Author, is desecrated by perverted lust.”

Saint Albert the Great gives four reasons why he considers homosexual acts as the most detestable ones: They are born from an ardent frenzy; they are disgustingly foul; those who become addicted to them are seldom freed from that vice; they are as contagious as disease, passing quickly from one person to another.

A Chesterton quote:

Take away the supernatural and what remains is the unnatural.

Amen to what Bob said.

It's really very simple. If you live in defiance of the teachings of the Catholic Church in the areas of faith and morals, then you are NOT Catholic...regardless of what your parents did when you were a child, and regardless of how you may have lived previously. When you willfully choose to thumb your nose at Church teaching, then you place yourself outside the Church.

I absolutely agree with Archbishop Flynn!!! In response: It takes alot of effort to distort and corrupt a "will" thus leading to the eventual destruction of conscience. How can anyone, with a well formed conscience, consider the gay and lesbian "lifestyle" not to be self deprecating and degrading? What "blessings"? Continue to pray for our brothers and sisters, those who have chosen to follow a morally bankrupt and ethically challenged path. It won't promote peaceful heart or a sustainable prayer driven life.

To our brothers and sisters who identify or label themselves as gay/lesbian/anything else. JUST A REMINDER!!! In matters of faith and interpretation of teaching the hierchy, the magistrium of the Roman Catholic Church, has ultimate authority on earth! Under obediance and guidance of the Holy Spirit. A well formed conscience, matured and tempered through redemptive suffering and sacrifice, affimed in a vigilant, prayerful life offered daily for the salvation of souls and the hope of heaven as a holy means of salvation. Accept generously that cross that has been given and carry it the best you are able for love of Jesus Christ, He who is the peace the world cannot give. Have courage and God Bless.