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Saint Peter was a Saint, not a Tyrant

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Footnotes

  1. Random House (January 14, 2025).
  2. See Michael Haynes, “Pope Francis Says God Loves Homosexuals ‘as They Are’ in new Memoir, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-god-loves-homosexuals-as-they-are-in-new-memoir/; Cindy Wooden, Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope, https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/pope-looks-back-his-life-urges-people-look-future-hope 1/3/25
  3. Commonly, the term homosexual is used to refer not to those who have a deviant tendency but resist and maintain chastity but to those who indulge in vice. In the current context and the Fiducia Supplicans, which allows homosexual “couples” to be blessed, it is clear that this is referring to those who practice homosexuality.
  4. Psalms 5:7.
  5. Summa Theologica, I, q. 20, a.2 ad 4.
  6. Michael Haynes, Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals ‘as they are’ in new memoir, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-god-loves-homosexuals-as-they-are-in-new-memoir/; Cindy Wooden, Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope, https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/pope-looks-back-his-life-urges-people-look-future-hope 1/3/25
  7. Msgr. Giuseppe Graneris, Sin (Actual), in Roberti-Palazzini, Dictionary of Moral Theology, The Newman Press, 1962, p. 1134.
  8. Cornelius Damen, C.SS.R., Lust (Wantonness), in Roberti-Palazzini, p.719.
  9.  1 John 3:8.
  10. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, ‘The Water Has Been Agitated,’ https://www.laciviltacattolica.com/the-water-has-been-agitated/ 1/31/25.
  11. Id. Ibid.
  12. See Pope Francis Authorizes Blessing Homosexual Couples and Adulterers with a Declaration and a “Clarification” that Favor Sin by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo February 1, 2024, https://www.tfp.org/pope-francis-authorizes-blessing-homosexual-couples-and-adulterers-with-a-declaration-and-a-clarification-that-favor-sin/
  13. Summa Theologica, II-II q.153; Fr. Antonio Royo Marín, O.P, Teología Moral Para Seglares, https://www.mercaba.org/MORAL/ROYO/208-217_cap_ii_pecados_especiales.htm#ARTICULO%20II
  14. I Cor. 6:9-10.
  15. Wisdom 4:1. Douay-Rheims Bible.
  16. Matt. 5:8.
  17. 1 John 3:8.
    1. Giorgio Vercellin, Jihad, l’islam e la guerra, Giunti, Firenze, 1997, p. 10.

    1. Redazione, “Islam, la prima strage di ebrei,” Recensioni, 1 gennaio 2024.

  18. Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.