‘L’Osservatore Romano’ article makes world breaking news.

Coming on the heels of the official Vatican document concerning homosexuality and the priesthood, this article in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, authored by French Jesuit and psychologist Monsignor Tony Anatrella, has become world breaking news, picked up by all the major worldwide news agencies. It is claimed the Vatican Secretariat of State specifically approved the article.

We anticipate that the reaction to this article will stir up violent reactions from the ‘gay’ community and lobby groups surpassing by far that generated by the Vatican document on the priesthood and homosexuality. For this article is directed to the status and effect of homosexuality on society at large.

If it wasn’t already Enemy No. 1 of the “gay” community world-wide, the Catholic Church will be enshrined in that position from now on.

Msgr. Tony Anatrella’s article is reported to be part of a long commentary, published to accompany the official Vatican release of the document concerning the access of homosexual men to the priesthood. He said homosexuality could not be considered an acceptable moral alternative to heterosexuality.

“During these past years, homosexuality has become a phenomenon that is always increasingly worrying and in many countries is considered a quality that is normal,” the L’Osservatore Romano article said.

“It (homosexuality) does not represent a social value and even less so a moral virtue that could add to the civilisation of sexuality,” Msgr. Anatrella said. “It could even be seen as a destabilising reality for people and for society”.

The Catholic Church, the article continued, had a duty to affirm its position that homosexuality is “against conjugal life, the life of the family and priestly life”. “In no case is this form of sexuality a sexual alternative, or even less, a reality that is equivalent to that which is shared by a man and a women engaged in matrimonial life,” the article said.

“It (homosexuality) cannot be encouraged or even less so, supported by pastoral initiatives,” it said in a pointed reference to Catholic priests who administer to homosexuals without reminding them of the Church’s position against ‘gay’ sex.

Msgr. Anatrella was further reported as saying in this article that homosexuality was “a sexual tendency and not an identity” and he repeated the Church’s stand against allowing ‘gays’ to enter into so-called ‘marriages’, to adopt children. He also called homosexuality “an incomplete and immature part of human sexuality”.

It is perhaps ironic that on the very day that this L’Osservatore Romano article became world breaking news we read here in Brisbane of an exhibition called “Mary of the Valley and Objects of Beauty” to be held at 572 Brunswick St., New Farm, Brisbane. The exhibition is to include painting, photographs, indigenous art, sculpture, jewellery etc. One of the photographic exhibitors is none other than Tony Robinson, self-proclaimed “gay Catholic activist”. His photographs are of statues, memorial plaques, etc, in Catholic churches and cathedrals in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne draped with the Rainbow scarf or sash symbolic of dissident so-called “gay, Catholic activists” like himself.

These photographs are deliberately provocative, blatantly disrespectful and indicative of the lengths to which people of Tony Robinson’s ‘persuasion’ will go to gain publicity, pathetic though it may be, for their cause.

Readers will recall that it was the actions of Tony Robinson that initiated a complaint to be made against Lepanto League with the Anti-Discrimination Commission almost 2 years ago: a complaint that was only resolved last month (see p.3) .

Tony Robinson and his ilk either obey the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding homosexuality and cease their promotion of the ‘gay’ culture or they cease claiming to be Catholic. They can’t have it both ways. There can be no such thing as a “gay Catholic activist”. It’s a contradiction in terms.

Tony Robinson’s photographs can be accessed on http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/justqueer2003/my_photos