Father mike schmitz gay
The Church and Homosexuality, with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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Here’s some of the stuff we spoke about in the conversation:
Books:
Made for Love: Same-Sex Attraction and the Catholic Church by Fr. Mike Schmitz
Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Actual world and Found Calm by Dan Mattson
Groups in the Church:
Courage
Encourage
Videos:
The Third Way
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Fr. Mike’s Video’s
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Same-Sex Love, Boycotting Netflix, Leaving the Priesthood
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Fr. Josh answers questions about why the Catholic Church cannot sustain same-sex relationships, how to be a conscientious consumer without being overly scrupulous, and what happens to priests who leave the priesthood.
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Snippet from the Show
“If we stop at the creature, and not the creator, we’ll be left unfulfilled. A sexual connection [in marriage] is not the close we were created for. It can be a means to an terminate, which is God, but it can’t be an finish in itself. ”
SHOWNOTES
Glory Story (1:11)
The past two weeks Fr. Josh’s parish as been holding the Love and Mercy Academy to facilitate their middle schoolers recognizes how much God loves them, the gifts the Church, and the gifts of the S
During the first week of January, more than 8,000 attendees, most of them young people from across the country, gathered together in downtown Chicago for the FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) SLS18 evangelization training conference. One of the featured speakers at the event was Father Mike Schmitz, director of Youth and Childish Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Duluth and chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Father Schmitz is known for his popular Internet videos and podcasts about the Catholic faith, and is also the author of the new book Made for Love: Same-Sex Attractions and the Catholic Church, in which he presents the compassionate truth of Catholic teaching on same-sex attraction. Father Schmitz was proficient to find some second during the conference to talk a bit about this and other subjects.
Nicholas LaBanca, for CWR: When you first started recording your videos and podcasts, did you ever believe you would reach so many people?
Father Mike Schmitz: No. The simple respond is no, I did not! I had been on campus for about two years, and it was roughly 2006 or 2007, and some students were like, “Hey you should record these
Father Michael Schmitz Tells the Truth in Love About Homosexual Attraction
MADE FOR LOVE
Same-Sex Attractions and the Catholic Church
By Father Michael Schmitz
Ignatius Press, 2017
208 pages, $16.95
To order: ignatius.com or (800) 651-1531
Father Mike Schmitz has done the Church a great service by writing his new book, Made for Love: Same-Sex Attractions and the Catholic Church, which was released last November. I aspire I had this book when I was an adolescent immature man, trying to navigate my life of faith with my attractions to men, for I think if I had encountered it when I was a teenager, my life would contain been very different. I would have finally found something that made sense of my encounter and, more importantly, found a path forward that could assist me find the happiness I desired in my life.
The key to Father Schmitz’s success is that he follows the model of Jesus. Father Schmitz is clear that the Church has no condemnation for men and women with same-sex attractions, but rather views men like me with “sensitivity, compassion and respect.” Thankfully, Father Schmitz doesn’t neglect the call to conversion, which is one of the most important parts of genui