Now if only more priests had the courage to say what Archbishop Dolan says here! Amen Archbishop! You nailed it. This guy doesn't shy away from preaching the truth does he?
New York's cardinal-to-be delivered a no-holds-barred sermon on morality Sunday, telling his flock to stand firm against popular culture’s message that sex outside marriage is okay.
“The one who, with God’s grace and mercy, tries his or her best to be pure and chaste is often thought of not as a hero, not a saint, but as a freak in our culture today,” Archbishop Timothy Dolan said at St. Patrick’s.
“The biblical teaching on sexual responsibility is countercultural,” he continued, hailing those who stay true to their moral compass.
“Anyone who tries his or her best to live it can expect a lot of temptation and even ridicule and criticism.”
The fire-and-brimstone homily came as Dolan readies to be installed as a cardinal at a Feb. 18 ceremony in Rome.
Practicing Catholics are wrongly regarded as holier than thou — even outcasts — for following church teachings on sex, he said.
Dolan, whose promotion was announced earlier this month, was frank launching into a condemnation of extra-marital sex.
“I’m going to preach about sex,” he declared.
“Now I’ve got your attention.”
Dolan linked “sexual immorality” with society’s ills — violence, sex crimes, disease and broken families — and called on priests to do a better job of encouraging the sexually virtuous.
“The church has at times in the past, sadly, come across as as some naysaying, puritanical nag, always giving a big ‘No, no, no’ to one of life’s greatest joys,” he said.
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