New Cardinal Defended Masses for "GLBT" Roman Catholics

Vincent Nichols is included on list of 16 new 'princes of the church' eligible to vote for future popes Despite the immutable nature of church teaching on homosexuality and his own criticisms of the …More
Vincent Nichols is included on list of 16 new 'princes of the church' eligible to vote for future popes
Despite the immutable nature of church teaching on homosexuality and his own criticisms of the government's gay marriage plans, Nichols's outspoken defence of fortnightly masses for gay, lesbian and transgender Roman Catholics won him gratitude and respect.
The Soho masses ended a year ago, reputedly because of pressure from the Vatican and an outcry from traditionalist British Catholics who disapproved of what they saw as a celebration of homosexuality.
For six years, however, they were a fixture – and staunchly defended by the archbishop. In 2010, Nichols laid into critics of the Soho masses, saying: "Anybody from the outside who is trying to cast a judgment on the people who come forward for communion really ought to learn to hold their tongue."
It was a sentiment echoed by Pope Francis, who last year declared: "If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?" …More
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🤐 Vincent Gerard Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster) 🤐
Church child abuse scandal
While he was the bishop of Birmingham, he had to respond to the sexual abuse cases that were alleged in that diocese.
Among his first public acts in his role as Archbishop of Westminster was a statement on the issue of clerical physical and sexual abuse in Ireland following a government report into the running of …More
🤐 Vincent Gerard Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster) 🤐
Church child abuse scandal
While he was the bishop of Birmingham, he had to respond to the sexual abuse cases that were alleged in that diocese.
Among his first public acts in his role as Archbishop of Westminster was a statement on the issue of clerical physical and sexual abuse in Ireland following a government report into the running of industrial schools. In his own words: "Every time there is a single incident of abuse in the Catholic Church it is a scandal. And I'm glad it's a scandal." He was, however criticised widely on the issue of priests facing up to their crimes, where he claimed, "That takes courage, and also we shouldn't forget that this account today will also overshadow all of the good that they also did."

Interfaith relations
In March 2009, he allowed the Catholic chapel at a Roman Catholic college in Birmingham to be used for the commemoration of the birth of the Islamic prophet Muhammad with interfaith debate in the college chapel, sparking some local controversy. Nichols defended the location of the celebration, saying through his spokesman, "Christian/Muslim dialogue is an important part of the Catholic Church's agenda."
In November 2009, he "offered flowers at the altar to the deities" during a visit to the Hindu Temple in Neasden. When the action occasioned press comment, details of the episode were removed from the Archdiocese of Westminster's website
Homosexuality
Nichols supported the effort to have Catholic adoption agencies exempted from sexual orientation regulations. His position was qualified by his statement during a BBC interview that he would not oppose adoption by a gay person that was single.
Sexual Education
In February 2010, Nichols was thanked by British education minister Ed Balls for supporting a sexual education bill which would require schools – including Catholic schools – to explain civil partnerships and, as Balls put it, give "a balanced view on abortion... give both sides of the argument... explain how to access an abortion, the same is true on contraception as well.” Balls characterised the position of Nichols and the Church agencies as an improvement on the previous situation: "To have the support of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Nichols in these changes is, I think, very, very important, is a huge step forward
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"In Those Days Jesus Christ Will Send
Them Not A True Pastor, But A Destroyer."
--St. Francis of Assisi
"The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a man, …More
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"In Those Days Jesus Christ Will Send
Them Not A True Pastor, But A Destroyer."
--St. Francis of Assisi
"The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death.
"3. Then scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.
"4. There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people, the religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God."
"....and men will become more and more perverted.

Physical and moral agonies will be suffered.....
"Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist" Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Mountain of LA SALETTE the 19th of September, 1846
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Rome dances with wolves.
I'm going to marry my cat and I want special Masses too 🤬 .
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