Lifesite News carries
an article by Doug Mainwaring in which he relates that a homosexual man has
reported that in a private conversation with Pope Francis the Pope told him
“God made you gay”. CNN adds to the story:
‘Describing his encounter with the Pope to CNN, Cruz said:
"You know Juan Carlos, that does not matter. God made you like this. God
loves you like this. The Pope loves you like this and you should love yourself
and not worry about what people say…” The
Pope's words would amount to a significant departure from the teaching of the
Roman Catholic Church, which considers homosexuality "objectively
disordered" and contrary to God's law.’ Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told
CNN on Monday: "We do not normally comment on the Pope's private
conversations."
People may take this as an
affirmation of the gay lifestyle by the Pope, but it is not -because it cannot
be. It is not wrong for Francis to say to a homosexual ‘God loves you’, for
God loves everyone He creates, but it must be followed with ‘But He calls you
to a life of virtue, just as He does everyone else.’ However, if what Francis said was ‘God
made you gay’ he errs in fundamental moral theology, for to say ‘God made you
that way’ is to say God positively created someone with what the Church calls an intrinsic disorder. Further, it implies that Mr. Cruz is not called to battle
against a disoriented proclivity that arises from original sin, since God
deliberately or at least knowingly created that disorientation within him –and is
it not Apostolic teaching God temps no one to sin (cf.Jas.1v13)?
It seems to me the Vatican Press
Office must either deny the Pope said made this statement to Mr Cruz or clarify the Pope's words. If the Vatican
Press Office continues to hold to its line that it 'does not comment on the Pope’s
private conversations', then I grinningly await the day a faithful Catholic
has a private conversation with Francis and emerges saying “The Pope
said the best thing Catholic folk can do in this time of doctrinal and
liturgical disorder/crisis is to return to the Catechism of the Council of
Trent and the Tridentine Mass”. I wonder how long it would take for the Vatican
Press Office to deny that had been
said?
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