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by Christine Niles • ChurchMilitant.com • January 14, 2016
“The Holy Father is gradually trying to purify it”
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, nicknamed the “Vice-Pope” for his position of influence with the Holy Father, is acknowledging the existence of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican — a group Pope Francis is aware of and is trying to eliminate.
The head of the Pope’s Gang of Nine, Maradiaga admitted to the existence of the homosexual cabal in a January 12 interview with the Heraldo de Honduras paper. Asked whether there had ever been “an infiltration of the gay community” at the Vatican, he replied, “Not only that, but the Holy Father has said there is a ‘lobby’ in this sense. The Holy Father is gradually trying to purify it.”
Although their situation must be addressed pastorally, he explained, “what is wrong cannot be true,” and Church teaching cannot be revised to accept same-sex “marriage.”
No, we must understand that there are things that can be changed and others not. Natural law cannot be changed. We see how God has designed the human body, the body of the man and the woman’s body to complement each other and transmit life. The opposite is not the plan of creation; there are things that cannot be changed.
He spent the rest of the interview discussing the Vatican Bank, curial reforms and various projects he’s working on in his archdiocese.
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