Catholic Mass Lectionary Omits Anti-Homosexualism Verses from Romans 1 by Dr Taylor Marshall Why do Catholics in America support homosexuality proportionately more than the general population? Two reasons: lack of authentic Catholic teaching regarding homosexuality…and the Church omitted one of the clearest Bible verses on homosexuality from the lectionary: One of the very unfortunate results of the New Lectionary is that verses that might be deemed offensive have been omitted from our liturgical celebrations. (I’ve written about how three “offensive” Psalms were removed from the Liturgy of the Hours after 1971 here.) Verses against Homosexuality Omitted from Current Lectionary An example of the silence of offensive passages is from the readings of last week, where the reading of Saint Paul against homosexuality (including female lesbianism) in Romans 1:26-32 is notably omitted from the cycle. Below are the readings for the 28th Week in Ordinary Time (Lectionary 468 and 469): Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 468 Reading 1 ROM 1:16-25 Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 469 Reading 1 ROM 2:1-11 So what’s missing? Romans 1:26-32 is clipped out. Yet this passage at the end of Romans 1 is the locus classicus for Paul’s theology against homosexual behavior and it also forms the cited passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for its teaching: CCC Para. 2357. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law.” In the footnotes in the CCC for this passage, you’ll find the citation for Romans 1:26-32. So if this passage is important for the Saint John Paul II’s Catechism, why is it skipped over in the Lectionary? The Missing Romans 1:26-32 Here is the skipped passage in full: 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural [Paul calls lesbianism is “unnatural”], 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men [male homosexual acts are “shameless acts”] and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. [homosexual acts are an “error” with “due penalty”] 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29 They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve those who practice them. [those that approve of homosexual acts and any of the sins above deserve to die according to “God’s decree”] This passage is inspired by the Holy Spirit – by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. This is not a politically correct passage of the Bible, but it’s just as true as John 3:16. We may not read it at Mass, but we need to accept it as “inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). Why is it omitted from the cycle of Romans for the Catholic Mass? Is there a bishop out there who will ask the Holy Father to have this verse included in the Mass readings of Roman Rite? In this time of crisis, we need a Saint John the Baptist who defends God’s teaching on human sexuality against the Herod’s that compromise God’s loving law.
Has the passage from Leviticus which states that a man lying with a man is an abomination also been removed from the Mass readings? Leviticus 20:13 13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. This is considered hate speech here in Canada and I wondered when the arrests would start when this passage would be read at Mass... We are accelerating into the full schism...
Just curious. Is the Koran banned in Canada? It is my understanding that it too contains strong prohibitions against homosexuality.
Ha! NO. Trudeau is embracing anything Muslim while banning Christianity. We are no longer a Christian country He often is photo-op'ed at mosques but never at a Church although he professes to be Catholic. His father was a Catholic and Prime Minister also and was the one who legalized abortion.
Catholic Church Covered Up Child Sex Abuse in Pennsylvania for Decades, Grand Jury Says https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news More Than 1,000 Children Abused By Pa. Priests The grand jury said it believes the “real number” of abused children might be “in the thousands” since some records were lost and victims were afraid to come forward. The report said more than 300 clergy committed the abuse over a period of decades. August 14, 2018 From Associated Press https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/more-than-1000-children-abused-by-pa-priests Among those named by the Pennsylvania grand jury is McCarrick’s successor in Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, a onetime Pittsburgh bishop and now one of Pope Francis’ top advisers in the United States. Wuerl, who took the helm of the western Pennsylvania diocese in 1988, was faulted by the grand jury for failing to do enough to protect children from predators during his two decades there — a claim he denied in a statement, saying he “acted with diligence, with concern for the survivors, and to prevent future acts of abuse.” Speaking at a news conference Tuesday at the state Capitol, Attorney General Josh Shapiro said diocesan administrators across the state dissuaded victims from reporting abuse to police, pressured law enforcement to terminate or avoid investigations or conducted their own biased probes without referring allegations to proper authorities.
One should no longer wonder why the Church has spent the last 5 decades pushing social justice issues in lieu of teaching the bible that is full of admonitions on adultery, fornication, sodomy/homosexuality, masturbation, c0-habitation. If pornography, abortion, contraception and in-vitriol-fertilization had been in play 2000 years ago, as it is today, Christ and scriptures would have been warning about these deadly sin as well. No homilies on these grave sins in my area. Social justice was all in play to eliminate, in most parishes, teaching on the sins of the flesh. Clearly, we see why scripture teaches, justice will start first within the house of God then the world. Thank God for unveiling the evil within the highest offices within the clergy. Its not over and it will continue to unravel, but there is a climate that is no longer tolerating what these evil clergymen have done for many decades. 1 Peter 4:17-18 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
