Blessed John Henry Newman vs. Archbishop Vincent Nichols

Blessed John Henry Newman vs. Archbishop Vincent Nichols

If the Archbishop Nichols is unable to change his mind and follow the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, the directives of Pope Benedict XVI and the wisdom of Blessed John Henry Newman then the Archbishop should resign? WHY? Here is a Commentary by John Smeaton, Director of SPUC:

Ref. http://lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.html?articeid=10091302

London, Sept. 13m 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Nichols Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children (Ref. Also John Smeaton blog, http://spuc-director.blogspot.com )

“These are dangerous times for families in Britain – and they are dangerous times too for Catholic families in Britain. In today’s Telegraph, Archbishop Nichols, the archbishop of Westminster, described as the “leader of the Roman Catholics in England and Wales” in interviewed by Neil Tweedle. He asks the archbishop whether the Catholic Church should one day accept the reality of gay partnerships, who replies: “I don’t know…”

“Now this is not an off-the-cuff, careless, remark by His Grace. He means what he says. Only two months earlier I watched him in an exchange on Catholic teaching and gay unions during an interview on BBC’s Hardtalk (Friday, 2nd July), Stephen Sackur, the Hardtalk interviewer, asked the archbishop, “Some of their vicars are also prepared to sanction gay unions. The Church is showing flexibility. Is the Catholic Church not going to do the same eventually?”

“To which the archbishop replied, “I don’t know. Who knows what’s down the road?”

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

“Homosexuality refers to relations between men or women who experience and exclusive or predominant sexual attraction towards persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. 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. They close they sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarily. Under no circumstances can they be approved.” (Part Three, Section Two, the Ten Commandments, Article 6)

“ … as a Catholic parent … and on behalf of Catholic parents I meet up and down the country, that Archbishop Nichol’s, my archbishop’s comments are dangerous to the souls of my children. And as a pro-life campaigner, I once again recall the lat Pope John Paul II, the great pro-life champion, who taught in paragraph 97 of his 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” that it is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not offer adolescents an authentic education in sexuality…

“Yet children returning this autumn term to Catholic schools up and down the country will be subjected … to the government policy of giving schoolgirls under the age of consent, access to secret abortions without parental knowledge or consent. They are delivering Catholic and non-Catholic children to the abortionists – and I can think of no greater abuse of children and parental rights and responsibilities than that…”

George H. Kubeck, In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010

P.S. “In America, the CINOP and the political party he belongs to is the enemy of marriage and the unborn.”