No compromise on love or truth

Newman Centre’s St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Toronto has had its share of controversy. When I first attended Mass there in the late 1980s the sentiments of some of the students were almost hilariously anti-Church. There’s little as funny as privileged North American kids thinking they’re radical because they hurt mummy and daddy.

Matters have improved enormously since then, but recently a dozen “parishioners” have made a lot of noise about leaving the place because it’s too Catholic for them. The pastor, Fr. Chris Cauchi, merely allowed the group Courage to offer its services, and only after congregants struggling with homosexuality had asked for this to happen.

And here, of course, is the problem. There are some people who think there is no struggle involved, and that giving in to homosexual tendencies is fine and dandy, even to be applauded. Courage, on the other hand, offers gentle, empathetic and orthodox spiritual guidance, so that homosexual people can put their eternal well-being before their earthly temptations.  (more...)

No compromise on love or truth