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Slack.com slash DHQ. Bishop Morelino of Madison wrote an excellent letter about the abuse

scandal. And I wanted to read two paragraphs of it to you and then focus in on two sentences

in those two paragraphs, but just to give it the full context, this is what it says in

part. It says, it is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy

of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation and the vineyard of the Lord.

The Church's teaching is clear that the homosexual inclination is not in itself sinful, but it

is intrinsically disordered in a way that renders any man stably afflicted by it unfit to

be a priest. And the decision to act upon the disordered inclination is a sin so grave

that it cries out to heaven for vengeance, especially when it involves praying upon the

young or the vulnerable. Such wickedness should be hated with a perfect hatred. Christian

charity itself demands that we should hate wickedness just as we love goodness. But while

hating the sin, we must never hate the sinner. It was called the conversion penance and renewed

communion with Christ and his church through his inexhaustible mercy. At the same time, however,

the love and mercy, which we are called to have, even for the worst of sinners, does not

exclude holding them accountable for their actions through a punishment proportionate

to the gravity of their offense. In fact, a just punishment is an important work of love

and mercy because while it serves primarily as retribution for the offense committed,

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