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"At World Youth Day, Pope’s leading Italian bishop suggests Sodom wasn’t destroyed"
lifesitenews.com
"Italian Bishop Nunzio Galantino, a personal appointee of the pope... is coming under criticism after delivering a homily to young people at World Youth Day in which he rewrote the story of God’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
While the clear meaning of the text is to emphasize God’s hatred of sin, in the bishop’s telling the message of the story is about Abraham’s willingness to emphasize 'positive possibilities' and 'signs of hope' despite the 'misdeeds' of the people of Sodom.
It’s an interpretation that fits less with Catholic tradition than with the grievous admonition from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family that the Church should emphasize the “positive aspects” of mortally sinful lifestyles.
Here is what Bishop Galantino said, according to a translation provided by author and commentator Rod Dreher:
Dreher comments:
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