A few months ago I wrote a post highlighting the fact that Terence Weldon - member of the Soho Masses Pastoral Council and author of the Queering the Church blog - had declared that a gay-rights campaigner who had probably, according to later reports, died at the hands of his rent boy was a "New Ugandan Martyr." In his post, Weldon also went on to seemingly disparage St Charles Lwanga, who is a true martyr for the Christian faith. One of the reasons St Charles was put to death was for his refusal to allow Mwanga II, the homosexual king of what was then called Buganda (modern-day Uganda), to sodomise him and the other young Christians under his care.Contrary to other Catholic organisations that provide pastoral care and support to those with same-sex attractions (i.e. Courage Apostolate), the Soho Masses group seems to promote the gay culture and its political agenda - which, of course, is profoundly opposed to the Gospel and to the truth that Catholicism proclaims. One wonders then, on this his feast day, what St Charles Lwanga would have to say about the Soho Masses? I find it very difficult to believe that his holy and brave man, who refused to submit to his King's homosexual lust, would approve of a group within the Church that seems to promote homosexuality as well as same-sex civil partnerships and the like.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
There were also some Anglicans who died for the Christian faith with St Charles and his friends. These men, who were mentioned by Pope Paul VI at the Canonisation of St Charles and his Companions, also refused the King's homosexual advances, and witness both to the Church's ultimate unity and to the fact that Christians should always stand together in promoting sanctity, truth and God's Holy Commandments. It is wonderful to know that St Charles Lwanga and the other young men and boys who gave their lives for Christ with him are now beholding God before His Throne in Heaven! May they not forget us who for now live as their earth-bound brothers and sisters.
Lord God, we pray for the Church,
that she may be One in faith and united in witnessing to the splendour of the truth.
May she always have the courage to call men and women to holiness
and may she never bow to the false teachings of this passing world. Amen
St Charles Lwanga and Companions, pray for us
[Image: St Charles Lwanga and Comps., as found on many websites on the internet. This image is in the public domain]
6 comments:
You refer to the "King's homosexual lust".
Sexual orientation and "lust" are very different subjects.
Homosexual "lust" is common in heterosexual prison communities. These people return to their usual orientation on release.
Please refer to the work of Catholic psychiatrists in this field which is available online.
Promotion of any sort of "lust" which involves using our brothers and sisters as objects of gratification is clearly sinful.
Do you think the inclinations with which humans are born, or which become intractably embedded in the psyche in childhood, are matters for judgment in our current state of knowledge?
Best Wishes
Clearly, inclinations are not a matter of judgement in so far as personal guilt is concerned, but there must be a judgement in relation to the objective moral quality of an inclination. In other words, although the contemporary caring professions - and especially the psycho-therapeutic community - do not like it, the homosexual inclination is a disorder. The problem is that in using this language one is usually called homophobic or "judgmental" with regard to individuals, but this is not the case. Any "disorder" (and there are perhaps as many as there are people in the world) is to be seen a cross, but the cross is not simply a negative thing. The homosexual attempting to serve God and the truth may even be more likely to become a saint than anyone else. Sadly, the world avoids the cross (c.f. The Imitation of Christ). There are many saintly homosexuals in the world, but in all those cases the "disorder" is both a suffering and a grace.
Daryl has answered his own question. When inclinations, be they heterosexual or homosexual, give way to lust leading to sexual gratification, yes.
It's not just about objectification. It's the act itself, however reciprocal and consensual.
Archbishop Nichols has something to say on this.
Check You tube-
http://youtu.be/FuTq0hfCW4k
Archbishop Nichols, whose photograph you display, is interesting on these matters.
SEE You Tube interview on
http://youtu.be/FuTq0hfCW4k
It would be a great thing if St Charles were made patron of those who suffer this affliction. I do wonder if Rome knows about the Soho Masses.
This is an excellent blog. Well done!
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