A few months ago I wrote a post
highlighting the fact that Terence Weldon - member of the Soho Masses
Pastoral Council and author of the Queering the Church blog - had
declared that a gay-rights campaigner who had probably, according to
later reports, died at the hands of his rent boy was a "New Ugandan
Martyr." In his post, Weldon also went on to seemingly disparage St
Charles Lwanga, who is a true martyr for the Christian faith. One of the
reasons St Charles was put to death was for his refusal to allow Mwanga
II, the homosexual king of what was then called Buganda (modern-day
Uganda), to sodomise him and the other young Christians under his care.
Contrary
to other Catholic organisations that provide pastoral care and support
to those with same-sex attractions (i.e. Courage Apostolate), the Soho
Masses group seems to promote the gay culture and its political agenda -
which, of course, is profoundly opposed to the Gospel and to the truth
that Catholicism proclaims. One wonders then, on this his feast day,
what St Charles Lwanga would have to say about the Soho Masses? I find
it very difficult to believe that his holy and brave man, who refused to
submit to his King's homosexual lust, would approve of a group within
the Church that seems to promote homosexuality as well as same-sex civil
partnerships and the like.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
There
were also some Anglicans who died for the Christian faith with St
Charles and his friends. These men, who were mentioned by Pope Paul VI
at the Canonisation of St Charles and his Companions, also refused the
King's homosexual advances, and witness both to the Church's ultimate
unity and to the fact that Christians should always stand together in
promoting sanctity, truth and God's Holy Commandments. It is wonderful
to know that St Charles Lwanga and the other young men and boys who gave
their lives for Christ with him are now beholding God before His Throne
in Heaven! May they not forget us who for now live as their earth-bound
brothers and sisters.
Lord God, we pray for the Church,
that she may be One in faith and united in witnessing to the splendour of the truth.
May she always have the courage to call men and women to holiness
and may she never bow to the false teachings of this passing world. Amen
St Charles Lwanga and Companions, pray for us
SOURCE: http://areluctantsinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/st-charles-lwanga-and-companions-what.html
[Image: St Charles Lwanga and Comps., as found on many websites on the internet. This image is in the public domain]
[Image: St Charles Lwanga and Comps., as found on many websites on the internet. This image is in the public domain]
