Father Matthieu Raffray, a popular member of the Institute of the Good Shepherd, published on 15 March on social media a very innocent catechetical video on "temptations" in which he mentioned, among other things, the truism that homosexual acts are sinful.
"We all have weaknesses, the one who is greedy, the one who is hot-tempered, the one who has homosexual tendencies. All the sins, all the vices that can exist in humanity and against which we can fight".
Father Raffray's anodyne words provoked an irrational outburst from Aurore Bergé, the French minister against "discrimination". Without arguments, she called the moderate statement "intolerable" (cf. John 6) and reported the priest to the Gaystapo.
Prosecution against Raffray has little chance of success, but the situation illustrates the growing hostility of the French regime towards Catholicism.
Raffray told FamilleChretienne.fr (21 March) that "I have always been very careful not to hurt or offend people, especially in this sensitive …More