Per la prima volta nella storia un cardinale (designato al momento) è stato incriminato per omofobia.
Il cardinale infatti è noto soprattutto negli ultimi tempi per la propria posizione riguardo l'omosessualità e anche per esser stato definito da Papa Francesco stesso "suo maestro"
Il cardinale infatti è noto soprattutto negli ultimi tempi per la propria posizione riguardo l'omosessualità e anche per esser stato definito da Papa Francesco stesso "suo maestro"
(Madrid) Here we go. For the first time in history a Cardinal of the
Catholic Church is being investigated because of "homophobia". On
6 February the prosecution of Malaga brought charges against the
Cardinal appointed by Pope Francis, Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona,
Monsignor Fernando Sebastián Aguilar. The 84 year-old Claretian and
friend of the Pope, who will receive the Cardinal’s biretta from his
hand in two weeks, had been interviewed shortly after Pope Francis had
announced in January his elevation to cardinal status. On this occasion
he was also asked about the journalistic perennial
"homosexuality". The appointed cardinal said here that homosexuality
can "be cured by proper treatment".
LGBT Activists Want the Cardinal in prison: Prosecutor “Obeys" Immediately
Cardinal Sebastián Aguilar is called because of his name "the eagle", as
his "student" Pope Francis called him, he never had a reputation for as
a "conservative". But that does not matter: neither this fact nor his
past merits or his age are to protect him from persecution by the gay
lobby.
The LGBT activists want to see the old Cardinal in prison. "The
prosecution of Malaga obeyed 'immediately the demands of the homosexual
lobby, supported therein by a unanimous decision of the municipal
council of Malaga, in which the Christian Democrats of the Partido Popular voted
against the old Archbishop,” said the religious sociologist Massimo
Introvigne. The Neo-cardinal will be officially ruled against. He faces a
prison sentence for breach of the Spanish Anti-Homophobia Law.
Cardinal Gave an Interview to Diario Sur
But what has Archbishop Sebastian perpetrated that is so terrible? In an interview with Diario Sur,
the daily newspaper of Malaga, the newly appointed Cardinal was asked
on 20 January to comment on the statements of Pope Francis on
homosexuality. Specifically, it was about the controversial statement
about homosexuals: "Who am I to judge him" Archbishop Sebastian said:
"The Pope accentuates the gestures of respect and appreciation towards
all people, but he betrays neither the traditional teaching of the
Church nor does he modify it. It is one thing to manifest towards a
gay man acceptance and affection, it is another to morally justify the
exercise of homosexuality. "
He continued: "To a man I can say that he has a deficiency, but that
does not mean that I do not appreciate this person or help him. I think
this is the position of the Pope. "
"Fix Homosexuality Through Therapy and Normalize"
The journalist asked if the archbishop had brought the word "deficit" of
"moral point of view". The neo-Cardinal replied: "Yes. Many get upset
about it and do not tolerate it, but with all due respect I say that
homosexuality is a deficient form to bring their own sexuality to
expression, as this depends in its structure and purpose to establish
reproduction. The homosexuality does not fulfill this purpose, it is
false. To say this, is by no means an insult. In our body we have many
weaknesses. For example, I have high blood pressure: Should I be upset
if you tell me that? This is a deficit that I try to correct as much as
possible through its own therapy. Making a homosexual aware of his
deficiency is not an insult, it's a help, because many cases of
homosexuality can be remedied and normalized by appropriate
treatment. That's not an insult, but appreciation. If a person has a
defect, then is the one who tells him that is a true friend. "
Anti-Homophobia Law: Legacy of the Zapatero Government
The gay activists saw the course differently and were immediately angry
that the new Cardinal had called homosexuality "a disease", a term which
is punishable in the Spanish courts due to the anti-homophobia law. The
law against "homophobia" is part of the legacy of Spain, which was left
by the Socialist Zapatero government (2004-2011).
The Emeritus Archbishop of Pamplona may be old, but he is not naive. He
weighed his words carefully and was careful not to use the word
"disease." Literally, the Cardinal spoke not from the fact that a
homosexual is "cured", but the fact that he can be "restored".
Since When are Dissidents in Jail?
It was also explained in a broadcast of the Archdiocese of Malaga,
which, rightly points to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. “It might
have added, why someone who holds a different opinion on the difficult
issue on the origin of homosexuality, should go to jail, even if the
word “healing” were avoided, which anyway possesses a variety
meanings,“ said Introvigne.
Anyway, the climate has become rough and the opinion police seem
omnipresent. So the Cardinal took advantage in the careful choice of
words of nothing. In Spain the enemy of the Church, Zapatero, no longer
rules. There govern the Christian Democrats of the Partido Popular . But
whoever thought that at least where Catholics govern, "homophobia laws
against bishops and cardinals are wouldn’t be used in any case," which
is why you can safely leave the Leftists their ideological playing
fields when they have such fun with it already, which has now been
definitively refuted by the prosecution of Malaga. For the first time
charges have been brought against a Cardinal of the Church, because he
has said what the Catholic Church has always taught on homosexuality
and what is part of the truth of faith, which they can not change.
Christian Resistance Should be Organized Before Dictatorship of Opinion is Established
Perhaps it's the comfortable Christians who think it
would already not so bad, should wake up and start with the resistance
in the countries where there is no homophobia Act, before they too need
to weigh with care every word, and because of a Catholic thought crime,
stand trial.
Fonte Katholisches