Fr. James Martin is up to his innocent-sounding trickeries again. I’ve written about them before, but first things first. There’s been a lot of doubting on my Facebook page of late that the Catechism calls homosexuality—the orientation itself, independent of any homosexual acts—“disordered.” But the does say that, quite plainly: “The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.”
The Catechism, homosexuality, gay priests, & Fr. James Martin.
BY: Henry Matthew Alt • June 1, 2024 • LGBT Issues
Fake Site News promotes Fr. Gerald Murray’s latest fit against the pope on Warmed Over With Raymond Arroyo. Murray and Fake Site are huge promoters of what they call “anti-sodomy laws.” They don’t say they want gays to be executed. They don’t say they don’t want gays to be executed. They don’t bring it up at all, as though it wasn’t the context of the pope’s remarks in his interview with the Associated Press. But it was the context. I confess I don’t know how you can neglect that context when discussing the pope’s insistence that homosexuality is “not a crime.” But they don’t mention it. At best this is sloppy.
Bill Donohue’s argument is that a marriage between two men (or two women) is impossible in natural law. Another way of putting that is to say that marriage has an ontological character such that two people of the same sex can not enter into it, any more than a square can enter into roundness. The law can declare a square round and make it henceforth “legally round,” but the square remains angular in fact. That’s Donohue’s point. If Fr. Martin wants to disagree, let him do so, but he should disagree with what Donohue is actually arguing. 
So I was going to write a post about Cardinal Marx and his dumb remarks recently about how Catholics are perfectly free to be flexible with the Catechism, especially when it comes to those troublesome paragraphs on homosexuality. Then I saw that Bishop Strickland opened his yap about it on Twitter, and so I guess I have to sweep up the detritis of Strickland’s error before I turn to Marx’s. Strickland saw the story at Catholic World Report and, apparently without exercising any theological forethought, tweeted that Cardinal Marx had “left the Catholic faith.
Gay Catholics apparently have a remarkable ability to keep being shocked by what they’ve heard over and over, as though they’ve been cruelly misled. “Everyone already knows,” we always hear, “that the Church is against abortion and gay sex.” I’ve had occasion to say these words myself to a certain faction of heavy-handed Reminders. But articles like today’s in the Washington Post make me sympathize with Catholics who spend their days and nights reminding. The pope says the Church can’t bless same-sex unions and gay Catholics wail that their “hopes” have been “dashed.” 
Catholic News Agency reports that the Austrian bishops are agitating for the Church to give a “formal, liturgical blessing” to “homosexual couples.” (It never ends. The answer is no, but it never ends.) Their committee on the liturgy asked for a book to be written explaining how such a thing may be done. The title of the book is The Benediction of Same-Sex Partnerships. CNA does not say whether the book limits blessings to “partners” who are celibate. It does not matter, in any case, because the Church has ruled it out and there’s no room to wiggle.
