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A Father's Plea to Church Leaders

Updated: Jan 21, 2020


In this post I have included a link to an article written by guest blogger, Brian Cahill, for New Ways Ministry. Brian Cahill is a former executive director of San Francisco Catholic Charities. Mr. Cahill brings his own personal experience as a father of a gay son who committed suicide.


He writes about his son, “He knew he was different, and he was frightened that others would discover he was different, He felt isolated even in his own family, with a father who, at the time, could not make him feel loved and safe, who could not tell him that being gay was not relevant in the eyes of a loving God.”


I do hope you take the time to read and think about the suffering of, not just the LGBTQ individual, but the family unit as well.


You can read the article here.

 
 
 

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Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God's special love for the poor and called God's people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came "to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind"(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with "the least of these," the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist.”

https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions

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