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Cardinal: St Paul Knew "Nothing" About Homosexuality

When the Church's teaching on homosexuality was “created” [by God] “the concept of homosexuality did not even exist,” Luxembourg's Cardinal Hollerich told the Croatian Glas-koncila.hr (March 27), …More
When the Church's teaching on homosexuality was “created” [by God] “the concept of homosexuality did not even exist,” Luxembourg's Cardinal Hollerich told the Croatian Glas-koncila.hr (March 27), making a fool out of himself.
Croatia is still relatively Catholic. Homosexualists are trying to corrupt such relatively unpolluted areas.
According to Hollerich, homosexuality is a "new word" [but an old concept]. He wants his audience to believe that people in St. Paul's time had "no idea" that homosexuality existed, despite the fact that St Paul strongly condemns this vice as do many ancient philosophers.
Hollerich believes that St Paul condemned homosexuality because he saw it as “something orgiastic, typical of married people who kept slaves for personal lust.” Such a distortion of the Bible is called "eisegesis." It consists of introducing one's own prejudices into a text.
“How can you condemn people who can only love the same sex?" - is Hollerich's argument for homosexual sin, "Purity …More
tbswv
Does this clarify things, Cardinal?
St Paul
"And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error."
[Romans 1:27]
CatholicConclave
I have asked the Cardinal on twitter for a retraction. Catholic Conclave on Twitter
SHJ-IHM
You can only dictate what people can tolerate? What if I can't tolerate the N O Mass?
Jeffrey Ade
Hollerich is clearly a marxist promoting the destruction of the Catholic Church and Western civilization. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Rand Miller
St. Paul: ...they also that consent to them that do them...are worthy of death.
Tony M
It seems Hollerich 'knows nothing' about God ....and His Commandments..... as he hollers out his apostate ideas to anyone who will listen to him.
pw
He also knows nothing about the ancient world, not least the Roman Empire
GaryLockhart
Hollerich should publicly confirm or deny that he is a homosexual.
alfred dunn
This is a very stupid man.
John A Cassani
How could a faithful priest respect or obey Cardinal Hollerich? Or any of the multitude of others like him?
la verdad prevalece
Saint Paul: if someone preaches a different gospel, let him be anathema.
English Catholic
But Holy Scripture is inspired by God: Pope Pius XII said in Divino Afflante Spiritu, On Promoting Biblical Studies Divino Afflante Spiritu (September 30, 1943) | PIUS XII “For as the substantial Word of God became like to men in all things, ‘except sin,’ so the words of God, expressed in human language, are made like to human speech in every respect, except error” (Divino Afflante Spiritu, 37…More
But Holy Scripture is inspired by God: Pope Pius XII said in Divino Afflante Spiritu, On Promoting Biblical Studies Divino Afflante Spiritu (September 30, 1943) | PIUS XII “For as the substantial Word of God became like to men in all things, ‘except sin,’ so the words of God, expressed in human language, are made like to human speech in every respect, except error” (Divino Afflante Spiritu, 37). Is Cardinal Hollerich saying that God doesn't understand the issue of homosexuality? If so, Hollerich clearly doesn't.
Edward Thomas Snyder
If the Greek text is in any way unclear, the Aramaic of 1Cor 6:9 is not:
(vla) [neither] (shkby) [males lying down] ('am) [with] dkra [males];
and to make it even clearer, shkb also means 'to rape' [the act of a male], dkr also refers to the male's reproductive organ, so there is no doubt at all of the meaning, that is a male with a second male.More
If the Greek text is in any way unclear, the Aramaic of 1Cor 6:9 is not:

(vla) [neither] (shkby) [males lying down] ('am) [with] dkra [males];

and to make it even clearer, shkb also means 'to rape' [the act of a male], dkr also refers to the male's reproductive organ, so there is no doubt at all of the meaning, that is a male with a second male.
Fr Dan
Homosexuality has been around from almost the beginning, the name doesn't matter, the reality does. The Bible makes it crystal clear . The homosexuality act is a sin before God. Any religious leader who rejects this has lost all credibility, and true Christians must reject them.