Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, called for the resignation of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Thursday for the latter’s public rejection of Catholic moral teaching.
“Cardinal Marx has left the Catholic faith. He needs to be honest & officially resign,” wrote Bishop Strickland on his Twitter account, citing the cardinal’s pressure for a change in Church teaching on the immorality of gay sex.
In an interview published Thursday, Cardinal Marx — one of Pope Francis’s team of nine advisors — insisted that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is “not set in stone” and “one is also allowed to doubt what it says,” in reference to Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
“Homosexuality is not a sin. It corresponds to a Christian attitude when two people, regardless of gender, stand up for each other, in joy and sorrow,” he said, adding that “LGBTQ+ people…
