First, in Vienna, now in London

The blessings that the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna extends to homosexual couples, have now been offered in a special Mass every two weeks in Soho (! in Soho, they are definitely trying to prove something) with the permission of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

This is surely not the same Cardinal who a few weeks was fighting tooth and nail against Catholic adoption agencies being forced to place children with homosexual couples.

One is reminded of

The Grand Old Duke of York

The grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up.
And when they were down, they were down.
And when they were only halfway up,
They were neither up nor down.

For the record, official teaching on homosexuality.

"3. Explicit treatment of the problem was given in this Congregation's "Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics" of December 29, 1975. That document stressed the duty of trying to understand the homosexual condition and noted that culpability for homosexual acts should only be judged with prudence. At the same time the Congregation took note of the distinction commonly drawn between the homosexual condition or tendency and individual homosexual actions. These were described as deprived of their essential and indispensable finality, as being "intrinsically disordered", and able in no case to be approved of (cf. n. 8, $4).

In the discussion which followed the publication of the Declaration, however, an overly benign interpretation was given to the homosexual condition itself, some going so far as to call it neutral, or even good. Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Therefore special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not."

It was the Cardinal's predecessor, Cardinal Hume, of course, who said that the translation "intrinsic moral evil" was stronger than the original text. Simply untrue as he probably knew himself. Why did he then say it?

Here also is Catholic teaching on concupiscence, to give some context on inclination.

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