Archbishop Flynn finally bows to Rome and sort of denies Holy Communion to homosexual activists

Archbishop Flynn finally bows to Rome and sort of denies Holy Communion to homosexual activists...

"When a man has stepped over the threshold and allowed himself to fall into mortal sin, he must be purified by trial, but he must also, My children, be purified by the rule of penance and confession.
"What manner of evil is being set now upon mankind that compels him to lose his soul by rejecting the Sacraments, by no longer confessing to his confessor, but coming to receive My Son in sacrifice, while his soul is degraded by sin of mortal nature!" - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1976

LifeSiteNews.com reported on May 6, 2005:

After ignoring years of protest and public outcry from Catholics for his controversial acquiescence to homosexual activists, the Archbishop of Minneapolis St. Paul has given what many consider the barest minimum response. In a letter to the Rainbow Sash movement - a homosexual activist group which protests Catholic teaching against homosexual sex - Archbishop Flynn writes, "No one wearing the sash will be permitted to receive the Blessed Sacrament."
Flynn's belated compliance with the requirements of Catholic moral teaching, however, is far from wholehearted. The Archbishop has asked the Rainbow Sash protesters only to remove the sash before going up to the priest for Communion.

In his letter, the Minneapolis Catholic church leader says that the decision is out of his hands since he has received notification from Rome. He stated, "Finally, the Vatican has communicated to me that it does indeed consider the wearing of the Rainbow Sash during reception of Communion to be unacceptable."

In December 2004, however, the head of the Vatican's office of Divine Worship and Sacraments, Francis Cardinal Arinze, was more forthright. He said in an interview on Catholic television network, EWTN, "These rainbow sash people, are really saying, 'We are homosexuals, we intend to remain so and we want to receive Holy Communion.' The Catechism of the Catholic Church...says it is not condemning a person for having homosexual tendency. We don't condemn anybody for that. But a person stands condemned for acting on it." Arinze then said that they must be refused Communion if they do not repent.

Despite Archbishop Flynn's claim of ignorance of the group's goals, the Rainbow Sash Alliance has never kept its attitude towards Catholicism a secret. Upon the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the group joined the screeches of anger heard from homosexual activist groups everywhere. They issued a media release that called Pope Benedict a 'homophobe' and liar for his defence of Catholic teaching on human sexuality.

The archbishop's mild and friendly response to the homosexual activists is a sharp contrast to the reply he gave to a group of concerned Catholic parents after hundreds of letters protesting the advancement of homosexual propaganda in the Catholic schools. In April 2004, Archbishop Flynn wrote to Colleen Perfect, of Catholic Parents Online, "From now on I am sending to you all the letters which assault my office because of communications which you have made.

"I must remind you that I am the Archbishop and choose to influence in a different manner than you and many of the people who would write to me. I think it is totally unfair of you to engage others in these letter-writing, e-mail campaigns. So, since it is you who have contacted these people, you are the one who will receive all of their responses. I would ask further that you not call and ask for an appointment concerning this."

Read Wanderer coverage of Flynn's response to Catholic Parents Online: http://www.thewandererpress.com/b4-1-2004.htm
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Vatican Cardinal Ends Debate: No Communion for Pro-Abortion Politicians or Rainbow Sashers
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05021603.html

Rainbow Sashers Call for Day of Protest on Pentecost, Call Pope Benedict a "Homophobe" and Liar
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05050305.html

"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds. Unless this balance is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be saved. Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past: When a country has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall! If you do not believe Me, My children, I say: You will read your history books, and you will find out that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And what did We do to that abominable city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed it! And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption." Jesus, November 1, 1985

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

SIN IS INSANITY
"I have told you, counseled you in the past, that sin is insanity. Your world and its people are involved--they walk as on a treadmill, seeking power and money and material goods and pleasure. And they go round and about, never stopping as the world plunges faster to the abyss.” – Our Lady, August 4, 1979

FREE WILL
"I say unto you, as your God, I bring not your destruction. You will bring about your own destruction, for I leave you, as your God, to the exercise of your free will. In your free will, if you reject your God and the plan for man's redemption as given from the beginning of time, I say unto you, you will destroy yourselves.
"Sin is insanity; insanity shall be loosed upon your world. There will come a time, if you continue on your present path, so vile and evil upon mankind that those who are living will envy the dead.” – Jesus, May 18, 1977

THE GREAT FOUNDATION
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My children." - Our Lady, June 18, 1980

READ YOUR BIBLES
"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy. Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy. Many have fallen away from the Faith." Our Lady, October 6, 1992

PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE
"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold them as being responsible for the fall of the children. Be ye warned now, My children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience and his soul. Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children. Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady, December 7, 1977

AN ABOMINATION
"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns those who do not repent of this sin." Our Lady, August 5, 1977

BLACK CLOUD OVER AMERICA
"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women. As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America." Our Lady, July 14, 1979

SODOM: "WE DESTROYED IT"
"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds. Unless this balance is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be saved. Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past: When a country has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall! If you do not believe Me, My children, I say: You will read your history books, and you will find out that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And what did We do to that abominable city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed it! And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption." Jesus, November 1, 1985

SIN: FORERUNNER OF WAR
"For sin is always a forerunner for war, My children: murders, persecutions, robberies, all manners of sins of the flesh, homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion, sodomy. Sodom and Gomorrah fell for less sins than you have committed now upon your earth. Noah took to the ark and the world was in a better state spiritually than your world now; for you have accepted a sophisticated manner of sin, based on man's reasoning and not God's truth." Our Lady, October 2, 1979

ANY COUNTRY
"Any country that allows homosexuals to roam and to seduce the young shall be destroyed." Our Lady, June 30, 1984

Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D167 - The Family - Part 1 PDF
D168 - The Family - Part 2 PDF

D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2 PDF
D175 - Defilement of the Young PDF
D176 - Sodom and Gomorrah PDF

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