(A)ccording to Sister Helen Prejean, author of the best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and internationally-renowned advocate against the death penalty, it is the Church’s doctrine on homosexuality that is sinful, as it fails to recognize “the full dignity of all human beings.”
Speaking on Sunday at the close of the symposium, Prejean noted that the first steps in denying and “removing” a human being is to declare them somehow “not quite human, not like how we are . . . to say that they’re ‘disordered’” – a reference to the language of the Vatican to describe the orientation of gay people. Such terminology, she said, fails to recognize the full dignity of all human beings and is the “greatest form of disrespect.”
Accordingly, “to not stand with LGBT people would be a sin,” declared Prejean to thunderous applause.
Prejean said that she is hopeful as she’s convinced that “people are waking and rising,” and that this will “change the Church.”
“When dialogue starts, the bread starts rising,” she said. “The yeast, the Holy Spirit, is in our hearts.”
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I have been disappointed with Sister Helen Prejean ever since I found out that Dead Men Walking was not a Zombie flick. It is interesting though how progressives could rise to the call on what Pope John Paul II wrote in the Gospel of Life towards the death penalty and yet still be totally deaf to what the Church teaches on just about everything else. I agree with the Church when she agrees with me. When the Church fails to act a a mirror they then try to reflect themselves back onto it. Homosexual acts being intrinsically evil as confirmed by scripture and Apostolic Tradition is the old paradigm. We believe in a Holy Spirit that teaches one thing one day and another thing another day. So what if God lives in the internal now – we will add progress as an attribute for God.
“The yeast, the Holy Spirit, is in our hearts.” Sorry I think it is just a yeast infection that will only be cured by humility and obedience.
Gerald ends his post with this zinger.
I’d google directions for the nearest Episcopal church.
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That’s so warm and fuzzy.
It is the sister who is dehumanizing homosexuals by identifying them with their orientation.
It is interesting to note that Prejean is also wishy washy on abortion.
The more I read the more I am convinced that the Church’s teaching on homosexual inclinations will be the next great conflict. Let us pray that the bishops respond to this dissent better than they have done to dissent on contraception.
Huh, that’s funny. I remember there’s a passage in the gospels that mentions removing the yeast…of the phrasees I think. The first time I read it, I was rather confused about what Christ was talking about when he said yeast and i connected it with unleavened bread and us emptying ourselves of our acts of sin so where we’ve just go the bare bone vices or disordered desires. It is then that Christ breaks this bread and we are freed. But I probably was a bit off as I believe other parts speak of a positive yeast. I dunno.
Well, she’s not in communion with the Catholic Church, so she may as well go ‘Piskie..
I got her number during the Terri Schiavo case. I figured it was a natural for Prejean: a chance to stand in solidarity with other representatives of the ‘seamless garment’. But she made no public statement. I finally caught a transcript of a CNN interview in which she was asked about the Schiavo case. She evaded the question and went into a partisan BDS rant. She could have stood tall; she stood small. What a fraud.
I saw Sr. Prejean give a talk at the school I used to go to a couple of years ago. I was impressed with what she said about the death penalty, but I had no idea that she didn’t support other Church teachings.
From this article, she doesn’t even seem to have the integrity that most ‘progressives’ have. This is so unfortunate.
The lady hath confused “obedience” with “self-serving coincidence”, methinks.
Oh, I just remembered (silly me!) : she’s being prophetic.
Right.
It seems commonplace for Catholics on both ends of the political spectrum to let their politics drive their faith. It’s rare to find one whose faith drives his or her politics. Of course, nobody ever admits that he or she is first of all a partisan, so I’m sure Sister Helen and her followers would fall all over themselves to deny it.
Don’t diocesan bishops have the authority to expel dissenting members of religious orders within their own diocese?
I think Sr. Prejean has confused many Catholics. I heard her speak on the death penalty and was impressed, but she’s so off-the-wall on almost everything else the Church teaches. Why doesn’t a Bishop speak up?
“Don’t diocesan bishops have the authority to expel dissenting members of religious orders within their own diocese?”
Hey Matt, When the phone don’t ring, you’ll know its Sr. Prejean’s bishop calling you.
“Why doesn’t a bishop speak up?” A few of them do, but most are searching for their spines.
[i]Don’t diocesan bishops have the authority to expel dissenting members of religious orders within their own diocese?[/i]
They can excommunicate, interdict, limit use of diosean facilities etc… but they cannot expel someone from an order unless the Bishop is also the prelate for the order which has a slim to none chance of being the case as most all of the orders recognized by Rome have the Pope as the person their prelate pledges obedience to and not the local Bishop.
Sister Helen Prejean, Fr. Rohr, David Haas, Marty Haugen…these are the Catholics that get invited to speak here in Hawaii. But thank God for the orthodox speakers that have been invited here and have come to enlighten us.
Whereas the Pope left the door open (if only a crack) on the Death Penalty, the door is shut and locked on the other issues.
Yet Sr. continues to speak as if the opposite were true.
You know, there are plenty of schools who need teachers, and plenty of nuns in teaching orders who do everything else but teach.
But do we want her in a classroom?
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