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In Red China, members of the Catholic clergy are not free
to obey orders from the Pope or cardinals of the Roman
Curia, as they are in free countries. Communists see such
directives as interference in a country’s internal
affairs. They label the Vatican as a “foreign country”
rather than the seat of a universal religion, the Catholic
Church. To keep everything under control, communist regimes
set up schismatic “patriotic churches” with
bishops and priests who have broken with the “foreign
country.”
Something similar appears to be developing here in the
United States. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors
approved a March 16 resolution publicly censuring the
Catholic Church for its position forbidding adoption of
children by homosexual pairs. The American Society for
the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is
protesting this brutal resolution as an attack on all
Catholics and public morality.
Dealing with a blatant internal matter
of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,
board members called upon newly-installed Archbishop George
H. Nierderauer “to defy” Vatican guidelines
forbidding Catholic Charities to turn over children for
adoption to homosexual pairs.
In typical communist parlance, the Board labels the Vatican
as a “foreign country” that seeks to meddle
with what it questionably calls “established customs
and traditions” of the city of San Francisco, “such
as the right of same-sex couples to adopt and care for
children in need.” Putting on airs of an infallible
authority, Board members dogmatically state: “Same-sex
couples are just as qualified to be parents as are heterosexual
couples.”
The Board also lambasted Cardinal William Levada, former
Archbishop of San Francisco and present head of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith. For supporting the Catholic
guidelines, the Board branded him an “unqualified
representative of his former home and the values”
the city holds dear, such as, presumably, homosexual practice.
The attitude of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
is a clear affront to all Catholics and an insult to the
Vatican. They directly attack the very hierarchical structure
of the Catholic Church, personally established by the
Divine Savior, who proclaimed: “Thou art Peter and
upon this rock I will build my Church.”
According to The San Francisco Chronicle,
the resolution was tragically written by a Catholic homosexual
city councilman and signed by several other members who
consider themselves Catholic.
The startling
and brutally hostile resolution can only call into question
whether the homosexual movement is gearing up for a war
against religion which, at the same time as it persecutes
the Catholic Church, calls for the establishing schismatic
pro-homosexual churches.
