He loves Francis's comments on "homosexuals" and "Mercy"?
Read what we've always taught!!
It was the entire Holy Trinity, (including the pre-incarnate Son) who visited Abraham , passing divine judgement and retribution on Sodom and Gomarrah for homosexual practices - aka Sodomy. St Augustine mentioned it - and it is still held to be traditional teaching by the Orthodox who remain faithful to many of the Traditions
Christ mentions this during a passage of scripture in John 8 - he says "Abraham rejoiced to see My day - he beheld it and was glad - " "He also tells them that He is the God of Abraham" when He says "Before Abraham was made - I AM!" " I AM" being the name given to Moses from the Burning Bush as being the true Name by which God is henceforth to be KNOWN. it is written JHVH - or YHWH - in Hebrew without vowels from which we gain the Names Jehovah or Yahweh both of which are anglicised to mean "I AM"
This is why they picked up stones to throw at Christ. They claimed He was blaspheming to take the Name of God unto HIMSELF "
Back to the Orthodox/St Augustine revelation that it is the Holy Trinity whom visited Abraham....
Genesis 18
[1] And the Lord appeared to him ......2] And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him 3 men standing near him: and as soon as he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and ADORED down to the ground. [3] And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant:
www.drbo.org/chapter/01018.htmLater in the Chapter it can be seen that only TWO members of the Holy Trinity are to remain on earth, with Abraham, whom then go down to judge Sodom and Gomorrah,- whilst one returns to Heaven. The one who returns to Heaven might be God the Father. Therefore being the Son and Holy Ghost who went on to condemn Sodom
St Augustine mentions it in his writings His theology is representative of historical core Catholic belief which Sting's & Francis's views definitely are not!
"On the Trinity" (Book II) - Chapter 10
"But under the oak at Mamre he (Abraham) saw three men, whom he invited, and hospitably received, and ministered to them as they feasted.
Yet Scripture at the beginning of that narrative does not say, three men appeared to him, but, "The Lord appeared to him." And then, setting forth in due order after what manner the Lord appeared to him, it has added the account of the three men, whom Abraham invites to his hospitality in the plural number, and afterwards speaks to them in the singular number as one; and as one He promises him a son by Sara, viz. the one whom the Scripture calls Lord, as in the beginning of the same narrative, "The Lord," it says, "appeared to Abraham." He invites them then, and washes their feet, and leads them forth at their departure, as though they were men; but he speaks as with the Lord God, whether when a son is promised to him, or when the destruction is shown to him that was impending over Sodom."
www.newadvent.org/fathers/130102.htmAs the book of Jude states in the New Testament The pre-incarnate CHRIST led the people out of Egypt and then later passed Judgement on them (as He had against Sodom along with the Father and Holy Ghost.
"I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not:"
[Jude 1:5]
www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/dIt becomes clear that the punishment of Sodom was Trinitarian when you view the original Text in Genesis 19- there are mentioned two Lord's in the passage - one on earth with Abraham - the other has returned to Heaven. The entire Triune Godhead are performing the Judgement on Sodom.
See the text - TWO Lord's are clearly mentioned.
Genesis 19
[24] And the LORD (the Son on earth) rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the LORD (the Father) out of heaven.
www.drbo.org/chapter/01019.htmTrinitarian theology pre-dates the Reformation - so you find many Protestants evangelising on the issue. Without realising that it is core Trinitarian belief.
www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-g…See also Sam Shamoun's video on YOUTUBE. "The Trinity in the Old Testament" Neither of these two links were presented by Roman Catholics - the Catholic Theologians need to be allowing us all to be receiving TRUE Roman Catholic teaching again. All I have found on the subject is being taught by none-Roman Catholics - yet it is our own belief
www.youtube.com/watch