From 1Peter5
Cardinal Marx Opens the Door to Blessing Homosexual Unions
Today, 3 February, Cardinal Reinhard Marx — the President of the German Bishops’ Conference — suggests a further opening with regard to the idea of establishing a blessing from the German Catholic Church to be given to homosexual couples. In an interview with the Bavarian radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk BR, Cardinal Marx refers to Pope Francis’ call of accompanying people more closely in their individual lives, and Marx calls for more pastoral care for homosexuals. When asked about the question of a blessing for homosexual couples, Marx thus proposes “that we be pastorally closer to those [such as homosexuals] who are also in need of that pastoral care and who also desire it.” He continues, saying:
There we also have to give encouragement that the priests and pastoral caretakers also give words of encouragement to the people in concrete situations. I really do not see there any problems. Another question is how this would be done publicly, in a liturgical form, that is where one has to be reticent and also reflect upon that in a good way.
When asked whether he could imagine such a blessing for homosexual couples, Cardinal Marx answers: “There are no general solutions; I do not consider it [such a general solution] to be right, because it is about the pastoral care for individuals.” These are cases “where we do not have a rule,” he explains. “And that does not mean that there is nothing happening.”
Liberace, in his fetching pink cape, on top and Quentin Crisp, looking coquettish in his bitch-roguish chapeau on the bottom - although one imagines both were regularly on the bottom.
Liberace, in his fetching pink cape, on top and Quentin Crisp, looking coquettish in his bitch-roguish chapeau on the bottom - although one imagines both were regularly on the bottom.
The emotionally anticipatory atmospherics surrounding the Ceremony for Sodomites is starting to intensify and while it may never reach the rash-producing level of existential vexation then existing prior to the leg-wrestlng finals between Quentin Crisp and Liberace at the 1963 IVC (International Vanity Championship) it, nonetheless, may well prove to be the most spiritually captious event since Assisi One.
The prizes for the 1963 IVC winner were precious powders, perfumes, onyx-handled hairbrushes, and two penis poultices developed by scientists at the SIPS Institute (Scientists Investigating Problems in Sodomy) in Providence, Rhode Island.
The prizes for he who drafts the Ceremony for Sodomites will be the praise-labels bestowed upon the revolutionaries by secularists; enlightened, merciful, compassionate, problem-solvers, pastoral pastors, and victors over Pharisaic dark agers.