Thursday, March 23, 2006
THE ECUMENICAL WINTER
According to Pink News:
The Anglican church might be tearing itself to pieces trying to decide whether to consecrate gay bishops, but Pope Benedict certainly knows where he stands on the issue.
The American church’s decision to consecrate gay bishop Gene Robinson has set the Anglicans and Catholics further apart, and the blessing of same-sex unions in Canada's Anglican Church has added to the tension between the two largest branches of the Christian church. It’s a climate that former Archbishop John Carey has called “ecumenical winter”.
I think he has lobbed the ball back into B16's court. The next play should be interesting.
While I'm on the "pink" subject, a short entry in "The Catholic World" report, March 2006, states
The justice minister of the European Union, Franco Frattini, announced in January at the EU parliament in Strasburg that member states that do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve "marriage" and unions between same-sex couples, could be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU. The commissioner's statements came as the governments of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland ruled against legalizing homosexual marriage.
"Homophobia is a violation of human rights and we are watching member states on this issue..."
Benedict vs. the European Union? Right now it looks to be shaping up that way. Will the EU take on the Roman Catholic Church? Vatican City, I believe, is a member of the EU, and Vatican City is not going to approve homosexual marriage any time soon. Will the EU oust the Vatican?
