Relating to the previous post, here's what happens when a situation such as the one at St. Joan of Arc is not addressed. You end up with a Father Donal Godfrey, SJ, as Executive Director of University Ministry at the (Jesuit) University of San Francisco.
We just came across two of his published homilies. They were given at Most Holy Redeemer Church and are posted on the "Gay Catholic Forum" website: "The Call to Come Out" and "Finding God in the Erotic."
There's nothing surprising about this. Fr. Godfrey is the same priest who said:
“The Catholic Church is not a credible moral voice within the gay community.” --from "Gays and Grays: The story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church" by Fr. Donal Godfrey, SJ p153.
Does Father mean he does not consider the Catholic Church a credible moral voice? I don't believe anyone can read much of his work without concluding: he considers the gay community to be "his" community, thus the answer is "yes."
But if he does not consider the Catholic Church to be "a credible moral voice," should he be responsible, as Executive Director of University Ministry, for the 8,500 souls at USF? Should he not in good conscience resign? Of course, there is another possibilty:
"I will not feign academic objectivity: if such a thing really exists. I firmly believe in a new approach and a new vision in this area of ministry. In this I do have an 'agenda.'" ibid, p132.
Posted by Gibbons J. Cooney
Monday, June 30, 2008
More from Minneapolis
Archbishop Nienstadt has plenty of allies. This lady absolutely nails the issue in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The real story behind the gay pride issue at St. Joan
By KATHERINE KERSTEN,
Star Tribune June 29, 2008
"Last week, controversy erupted when Archbishop John Nienstedt informed St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis that it could not hold a gay pride prayer service in its sanctuary. The service -- held for several years in conjunction with the annual Twin Cities Gay Pride festival -- celebrates the gay identity.
In response, organizers moved the celebration outside the church. One gay activist attended in what must have struck him as a clown's outfit, given the occasion -- the robes of an archbishop, miter and all.
David McCaffrey of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM) condemned what he called Nienstedt's "reign of homophobic hatred."
In an e-mail to the group's members, he characterized the archbishop's decision as "yet another volley of dehumanizing spiritual violence directed at GLBT persons and their families."
Clearly, there is hatred here. But it is not coming from the Catholic Church. Rather, it's a tool of those who are trying to compel the church to conform to their personal demands with caricatures and public mockery.
Opponents charge that the church does not welcome gays. They point to the fact that the archdiocese won't sponsor a gay pride prayer service as evidence. . . "
Read the whole thing.
The real story behind the gay pride issue at St. Joan
By KATHERINE KERSTEN,
Star Tribune June 29, 2008
"Last week, controversy erupted when Archbishop John Nienstedt informed St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis that it could not hold a gay pride prayer service in its sanctuary. The service -- held for several years in conjunction with the annual Twin Cities Gay Pride festival -- celebrates the gay identity.
In response, organizers moved the celebration outside the church. One gay activist attended in what must have struck him as a clown's outfit, given the occasion -- the robes of an archbishop, miter and all.
David McCaffrey of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM) condemned what he called Nienstedt's "reign of homophobic hatred."
In an e-mail to the group's members, he characterized the archbishop's decision as "yet another volley of dehumanizing spiritual violence directed at GLBT persons and their families."
Clearly, there is hatred here. But it is not coming from the Catholic Church. Rather, it's a tool of those who are trying to compel the church to conform to their personal demands with caricatures and public mockery.
Opponents charge that the church does not welcome gays. They point to the fact that the archdiocese won't sponsor a gay pride prayer service as evidence. . . "
Read the whole thing.
Might as well close the Church...
. . . if we're not going to battle sin because "there's nothing we can do to stop it."
From the Washington Times:
Bishop knew of abortion plan. Told 'there was nothing he could do'
"The Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond was told that a diocesan charity planned to help a teenage foster child get an abortion in January and did not try to prevent the procedure.
Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo "was told erroneously that everything was in place and there was nothing he could do to stop it," said Steve Neill, Bishop DiLorenzo's communications officer. "He is very apologetic about the whole episode.
"It is very awkward, it is very embarrassing. A human life was taken. He certainly has not taken it lightly in any way. He is clearly opposed to abortion."
"Awkward." "Embarassing."
And you know the Church has lost her way when attorneys speak for her:
"He was told it could not be stopped," Mr. Etherington (attorney of the diocese) said. "It was erroneous information. He didn't have to sign off on it. He was not personally involved."
"He was not personally involved." When a human life and souls are at stake. So I guess His Excellency did not even meet with the teenager in question.
h/t Southern Illinois Catholic
Posted by Gibbons J. Cooney
From the Washington Times:
Bishop knew of abortion plan. Told 'there was nothing he could do'
"The Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond was told that a diocesan charity planned to help a teenage foster child get an abortion in January and did not try to prevent the procedure.
Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo "was told erroneously that everything was in place and there was nothing he could do to stop it," said Steve Neill, Bishop DiLorenzo's communications officer. "He is very apologetic about the whole episode.
"It is very awkward, it is very embarrassing. A human life was taken. He certainly has not taken it lightly in any way. He is clearly opposed to abortion."
"Awkward." "Embarassing."
And you know the Church has lost her way when attorneys speak for her:
"He was told it could not be stopped," Mr. Etherington (attorney of the diocese) said. "It was erroneous information. He didn't have to sign off on it. He was not personally involved."
"He was not personally involved." When a human life and souls are at stake. So I guess His Excellency did not even meet with the teenager in question.
h/t Southern Illinois Catholic
Posted by Gibbons J. Cooney
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Why they hate him is why we love him!
More on the appointment of Archbishop Burke, form the liberal Associated Press:
"Every pro-choice Catholic Democrat politician should be very nervous," Reese said. "He made his name in the U.S. by denying Communion to pro-choice politicians.
"If he gets that view articulated strongly in Rome, he could become the voice for having that position for the universal church."
When Thomas Reese, former editor of the Jesuit "America" magazine is worried, something good must be happening!
And get this, from excommunicated priest Fr. Marek Bozek:
"I've been getting phone calls since 6 o'clock this morning from parishioners singing 'Ding, dong, the archbishop is gone,'" said the Rev. Marek Bozek, who, along with his parish board, were excommunicated by Burke after a long-simmering dispute over control of St. Stanislaus Kostka's assets."
Actually, it wasn't about assets but about disobeyeing his previous bishop and also "Ordaining" women. Besides, just off hand, what kind of parish is filled with big fans of "The Wizard of Oz" . . .?
h/t: Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit
Posted by Gibbons
"Every pro-choice Catholic Democrat politician should be very nervous," Reese said. "He made his name in the U.S. by denying Communion to pro-choice politicians.
"If he gets that view articulated strongly in Rome, he could become the voice for having that position for the universal church."
When Thomas Reese, former editor of the Jesuit "America" magazine is worried, something good must be happening!
And get this, from excommunicated priest Fr. Marek Bozek:
"I've been getting phone calls since 6 o'clock this morning from parishioners singing 'Ding, dong, the archbishop is gone,'" said the Rev. Marek Bozek, who, along with his parish board, were excommunicated by Burke after a long-simmering dispute over control of St. Stanislaus Kostka's assets."
Actually, it wasn't about assets but about disobeyeing his previous bishop and also "Ordaining" women. Besides, just off hand, what kind of parish is filled with big fans of "The Wizard of Oz" . . .?
h/t: Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit
Posted by Gibbons
From the Anglican Conference in Jerusalem
News from the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) being held in Jerusalem.
The GAFCON Bishops object to the hijacking of God's Word by confused Anglican Bishops in the more "developed" world:
"'We grieve for the spiritual decline in the most economically developed nations, where the forces of militant secularism and pluralism are eating away the fabric of society and churches are compromised and enfeebled in their witness,' it said in a final statement . . .
In its statement, GAFCON accused churches in the West of proclaiming "a false gospel (that) undermines the authority of God's Word" and promotes a 'variety of sexual preferences and immoral behaviour', including same-sex marriages.
'We acknowledge God's creation of humankind as male and female and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family,' it said.
A Primate's Council -- a body of the heads of member Anglican churches -- would be formed to lead the conservative provinces and offer alternative leadership to conservatives in liberal 'churches under false leadership,' it said.
'The time is now ripe for the formation of a province in North America for the federation currently known as Common Cause Partnership to be recognised by the Primates' Council,' it said in a challenge to Anglicanism's usual geographical structure."
That's from Reuters.
And this, from a story in the Telegraph.uk:
"The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, said this week that the 'sheer existence' of the Gafcon movement posed a challenge to the existing Anglican Communion but insisted the liberals had brought the split upon themselves.
'The American revisionists committed a strategic blunder in 2003. I don't think they believed there would be consequences. It was a horrific strategic blunder they committed and there are consequences. The consequences are unfolding and our churches are divided.'
'Our churches are now divided and a permanent division exists around the world. The sleeping giant of evangelical and orthodox Anglicanism has been roused in Canada and the US.'"
The GAFCON Bishops object to the hijacking of God's Word by confused Anglican Bishops in the more "developed" world:
"'We grieve for the spiritual decline in the most economically developed nations, where the forces of militant secularism and pluralism are eating away the fabric of society and churches are compromised and enfeebled in their witness,' it said in a final statement . . .
In its statement, GAFCON accused churches in the West of proclaiming "a false gospel (that) undermines the authority of God's Word" and promotes a 'variety of sexual preferences and immoral behaviour', including same-sex marriages.
'We acknowledge God's creation of humankind as male and female and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family,' it said.
A Primate's Council -- a body of the heads of member Anglican churches -- would be formed to lead the conservative provinces and offer alternative leadership to conservatives in liberal 'churches under false leadership,' it said.
'The time is now ripe for the formation of a province in North America for the federation currently known as Common Cause Partnership to be recognised by the Primates' Council,' it said in a challenge to Anglicanism's usual geographical structure."
That's from Reuters.
And this, from a story in the Telegraph.uk:
"The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, said this week that the 'sheer existence' of the Gafcon movement posed a challenge to the existing Anglican Communion but insisted the liberals had brought the split upon themselves.
'The American revisionists committed a strategic blunder in 2003. I don't think they believed there would be consequences. It was a horrific strategic blunder they committed and there are consequences. The consequences are unfolding and our churches are divided.'
'Our churches are now divided and a permanent division exists around the world. The sleeping giant of evangelical and orthodox Anglicanism has been roused in Canada and the US.'"
Saturday, June 28, 2008
War on Abstinence
Ryan T. Anderson - First Things blog- was startled to discover an alarming trend that has gone unreported:
"The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have teamed up in an aggressive campaign over the past several years -- a campaign to pressure states to eliminate abstinence education and to reject federal funding for these programs.
"And though their work hasn't drawn much attention, it has been remarkably successful. A year ago, only four states refused federal abstinence-education funding. Today the number is seventeen. The goal is to get enough states to refuse the federal abstinence-education funding to the point where the ACLU and Planned Parenthood can convince Congress to eliminate such funding entirely.
"All this is happening, by the way, as fresh reports arrive almost every month about the benefits of teen abstinence and the effectiveness of abstinence programs."
Too many public schools, esepcially in California, are supporting abortion by denying the voice of abstinence only proponents. Parents beware!
"The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have teamed up in an aggressive campaign over the past several years -- a campaign to pressure states to eliminate abstinence education and to reject federal funding for these programs.
"And though their work hasn't drawn much attention, it has been remarkably successful. A year ago, only four states refused federal abstinence-education funding. Today the number is seventeen. The goal is to get enough states to refuse the federal abstinence-education funding to the point where the ACLU and Planned Parenthood can convince Congress to eliminate such funding entirely.
"All this is happening, by the way, as fresh reports arrive almost every month about the benefits of teen abstinence and the effectiveness of abstinence programs."
Too many public schools, esepcially in California, are supporting abortion by denying the voice of abstinence only proponents. Parents beware!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Archbishop Burke to Rome!
It's St. Louis' and America's loss, but (Holy) Father knows best...The great Archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Burke, has been appointed as Prefect of the Appostolic Signatura in Rome. Readers of this blog know how highly we think of His Excellency. That's why we have a permanent link to his website at the right.
Catholic News Agency describes his new post:
"In his new position, Archbishop Burke will serve as the head of the Church’s supreme tribunal, which ensures that justice is correctly administered.
Also known as the Church’s Supreme Court, the Tribunal also oversees the administration of justice within the Church, examining administrative matters referred to it by the Congregations of the Roman Curia, as well as questions committed to it by the Holy Father."
We commiserate with our brothers and sisters in St. Louis who have lost such a fine shepherd, but we think His Excellency has so ably led their Archdiocese that we feel confident the incoming man will be great as well.
The St. Louis Catholic website has a long post about the Archbishop. Here is one of the quotataions:
"When asked about his usually outspoken manner in controversial issues, he responded, "Is there something unusual about a bishop saying that it’s wrong to be in favor of procured abortion? I’m a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. What else would you expect me to say?"
God Bless you, dear Archbishop! May Mary Help of Christians aid you as you take on your new responsibilities!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Pray for Tolerance?
First a little T.S. Eliot:
"It is hard for those who have never known persecution,
And who have never known a Christian,
To believe these tales of Christian persecution.
It is hard for those who live near a Bank
To doubt the security of their money.
It is hard for those who live near a Police Station
To believe in the triumph of violence.
Do you think that Faith has conquered the World
And that lions no longer need keepers?"
I thought of this when a friend told me they had been at mass at St. Dominic's in San Francisco last Sunday and that one of the prayers of the faithful was something like "During this Gay Pride week let us pray for tolerance for Lesbian Gay Bisexual etc. etc...."
I rather think we'd better start praying for tolerance for the Church of God!
It also made me remember a young man who interviewed me about Fr. Malloy right after he had finished his term as Pastor at SS. Peter and Paul. The young man was doing a story about Father's forthright upholding of the Church's teaching on sexuality. One of the questions he asked was if we had ever run into any opposition from any "gay activist groups." When he asked that, I realized: there are no "gay activist groups" in San Francisco. The "gay activists" are now the entire power structure of the city.
"It is hard for those who have never known persecution,
And who have never known a Christian,
To believe these tales of Christian persecution.
It is hard for those who live near a Bank
To doubt the security of their money.
It is hard for those who live near a Police Station
To believe in the triumph of violence.
Do you think that Faith has conquered the World
And that lions no longer need keepers?"
I thought of this when a friend told me they had been at mass at St. Dominic's in San Francisco last Sunday and that one of the prayers of the faithful was something like "During this Gay Pride week let us pray for tolerance for Lesbian Gay Bisexual etc. etc...."
I rather think we'd better start praying for tolerance for the Church of God!
It also made me remember a young man who interviewed me about Fr. Malloy right after he had finished his term as Pastor at SS. Peter and Paul. The young man was doing a story about Father's forthright upholding of the Church's teaching on sexuality. One of the questions he asked was if we had ever run into any opposition from any "gay activist groups." When he asked that, I realized: there are no "gay activist groups" in San Francisco. The "gay activists" are now the entire power structure of the city.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who celebrates same-sex "marriages";
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who voted 11-0 to condemn the Catholic Church as "hateful" for daring to state that adoptive children should be only placed with natural families;
The San Francisco Police Department, who last year had a recruiting booth at the insane Folsom Street Fair, where the worst kind of illegal sexual immorality takes place in public;
The San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and Department of the Environment who use tax dollars to fund the Folsom Street Fair, where ditto;
The San Francisco Chronicle, whose website has an entire department in the "Entertainment" section devoted to "Gay" events, and whose entire datebook section of last week was devoted "Gay Pride" week;
It's also:
A.T. & T.
Bank of America
Wells Fargo Bank
Budweiser
Levi's
Comcast
Kaiser Permenante
Google
Macy's
Bass Ale
Safeway
Bacardi
Virgin America
the San Francisco Chronicle
Smirnoff Vodka
Showtime
all of whom are sponsors of this week's "Gay Pride" parade.
Who knew being untolerated paid so well? Anyway, as Catholics, we're not called to tolerate, but to love. Which means you care about people and what they do and the good of their souls.
*For the origin of the "Gay Rome" tag, go here. It's at about 1:14 into this audio of a USF seminar, sponsored by the Lane Center, and held at (where else?) Most Holy Redeemer.
Posted by Gibbons J. CooneyWHY Lord?
A mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Iraq ? '
A mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Saudi Arabia ?'
A mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Kuwait?'
Another mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Vietnam?'
Another mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Korea?'
Another mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die on Iwo Jima?'
Another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die on a battlefield in France?'
Yet another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?'
And yet another mother asked President.. 'Why did my son have to die on a frozen field near Valley Forge?'
Then long, long ago, a mother asked...'Heavenly Father .. why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?'
'The answer is always the same... 'So that others may live and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom.'
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Adult Stem Cell Update!
It's one of our mantras here at "A Shepherd's Voice": Are California voters having second thoughts yet about shelling out $3 billion + for immoral & unproven embryonic stem cell research, which has yet to show a single cure, while adult stem cells are curing people left and right?
The latest, from Catholic News Agency:
Pfizer to invest in adult stem-cell treatment for eyes
"The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced that it is funding a new adult stem-cell treatment that could treat diabetes-induced retinal damage, a leading cause of blindness.
Forbes Magazine says that Pfizer is funding the creation of a San Diego biotech company named EyeCyte to develop stem-cell treatments for eye diseases. The company will base its work upon Scripps Research Institute ophthalmologist Martin Friedlander’s research involving stem-cells from blood and bone marrow. EyeCyte will receive about $3 million from Pfizer, which in return has the right of first refusal regarding the new company’s products . . .
In animal experiments, adult stem-cells have shown a remarkable ability to target and repair damaged blood vessels in the eye, which are a key problem in diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration.
"It is unbelievable. These cells know where to go and they target the site of injury," said Friedlander, according to Forbes. He said that in his lab he has cured mice “10 times over,” but noted it is unknown whether the treatment will help people."
Now, those guys over at Pfizer aren't investing $3 million as charity. There doing it because they think this process has serious potential to help cure blindness in human beings, and thus enable their investment to be profitable. Nothing wrong with that. Pray God the treatment works! But when's the last time you heard of ANY breakthrough from embryonic stem-cells that would induce investors to shell out their own money? What happened was the backers of Proposition 71 sold the voters pie-in-the-sky stories about ESCR, then they got $3 billion of your money, taxpayer's money, to do heaven knows what.
The breakthroughs in adult & cord blood stem cells are coming so fast that it seems that even the scientists can't keep up with them. Make sure to check out the website of Mr. Don Margolis. He seems to be right on top of the various new treatments. Just in the last two days he has posted about adult stem-cell treatments for cerebral palsy and epilepsy, pulmonary hypertension, and sickle-cell anemia.
The latest, from Catholic News Agency:
Pfizer to invest in adult stem-cell treatment for eyes
"The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced that it is funding a new adult stem-cell treatment that could treat diabetes-induced retinal damage, a leading cause of blindness.
Forbes Magazine says that Pfizer is funding the creation of a San Diego biotech company named EyeCyte to develop stem-cell treatments for eye diseases. The company will base its work upon Scripps Research Institute ophthalmologist Martin Friedlander’s research involving stem-cells from blood and bone marrow. EyeCyte will receive about $3 million from Pfizer, which in return has the right of first refusal regarding the new company’s products . . .
In animal experiments, adult stem-cells have shown a remarkable ability to target and repair damaged blood vessels in the eye, which are a key problem in diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration.
"It is unbelievable. These cells know where to go and they target the site of injury," said Friedlander, according to Forbes. He said that in his lab he has cured mice “10 times over,” but noted it is unknown whether the treatment will help people."
Now, those guys over at Pfizer aren't investing $3 million as charity. There doing it because they think this process has serious potential to help cure blindness in human beings, and thus enable their investment to be profitable. Nothing wrong with that. Pray God the treatment works! But when's the last time you heard of ANY breakthrough from embryonic stem-cells that would induce investors to shell out their own money? What happened was the backers of Proposition 71 sold the voters pie-in-the-sky stories about ESCR, then they got $3 billion of your money, taxpayer's money, to do heaven knows what.
The breakthroughs in adult & cord blood stem cells are coming so fast that it seems that even the scientists can't keep up with them. Make sure to check out the website of Mr. Don Margolis. He seems to be right on top of the various new treatments. Just in the last two days he has posted about adult stem-cell treatments for cerebral palsy and epilepsy, pulmonary hypertension, and sickle-cell anemia.
Good News on AB2747!
We've just received an email from Bill May of "Catholics for the Common Good" on California Assembly Bill 2747, that contained provisions that rendered it an "Assisted Suicide" bill. The good news is that due to intense opposition, those objectionable provisions have been removed.
AB2747 Objectionable Language Removed No Need to Call Senators or Attend Hearing on Thursday 6/26.
CCG is Now Withdrawing Opposition
"In order to get enough votes to pass the Senate Health Committee, the author agreed to remove all of the objectionable language that made AB2747 a platform for assisted suicide. They removed starvation and dehydration as a medical option. They removed mention of rarely used palliative sedation that renders a patient unconscious.
This could not have happened without your phone calls that brought attention to the sinister language in the bill to State Senators. It could not have happened without the people who demonstrated in front of the State Capitol building today and expressed their opposition at the hearing."
We'll add: it could not have happened without the hard work and dedicated leadership of the folks over at Catholics for the Common Good. They work hard, but they can always use our and your help. The Culture of Death has tons of money. Catholics for the Common Good doesn't. Let's help them out if we can:
Catholics for the Common Good Donations page.
AB2747 Objectionable Language Removed No Need to Call Senators or Attend Hearing on Thursday 6/26.
CCG is Now Withdrawing Opposition
"In order to get enough votes to pass the Senate Health Committee, the author agreed to remove all of the objectionable language that made AB2747 a platform for assisted suicide. They removed starvation and dehydration as a medical option. They removed mention of rarely used palliative sedation that renders a patient unconscious.
This could not have happened without your phone calls that brought attention to the sinister language in the bill to State Senators. It could not have happened without the people who demonstrated in front of the State Capitol building today and expressed their opposition at the hearing."
We'll add: it could not have happened without the hard work and dedicated leadership of the folks over at Catholics for the Common Good. They work hard, but they can always use our and your help. The Culture of Death has tons of money. Catholics for the Common Good doesn't. Let's help them out if we can:
Catholics for the Common Good Donations page.
"An LGBT Pride Service is Really Inimical to the Teachings of the Catholic Church"
It shows how far we have fallen that such a thing even needs to be said. But it does need to be said, in every diocese in the world, and God Bless Archbishop Nienstadt for his leadership!
From the Catholic News Agency
"The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has forbidden one of its parishes, St. Joan of Arc Church, from holding a “gay pride” prayer service because the event violates the teachings of the Church.
St. Joan of Arc Church has held the service for several years in conjunction with the Twin Cities Pride Celebration, according to the Associated Press. After discussions between the parish’s associate pastor and the archdiocese, the parish will hold a 'peace' service in its place. An announcement last week in the St. Joan of Arc parish bulletin said that a prayer service had been scheduled in the church for Wednesday at 7 p.m. 'to celebrate and give thanks for the gifts of our Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered community.'
'This service is part of Pride week in the Twin Cities,' the announcement continued.
Archdiocesan spokesman Dennis McGrath said that the service’s use of the descriptor 'LGBT' was 'not possible on church property . . . The reason is quite simply because it was a LGBT pride prayer service, and that is really inimical to the teachings of the Catholic Church.'. . .
According to the Associated Press, McGrath said Archbishop Nienstedt is following Catholic doctrine, adding 'the church welcomes people with same-sex attractions among its worshippers.'
'The distinction is people who fully adapt to the GLBT lifestyle are not permitted to receive the sacraments or be the subject of a prayer service that endorses that lifestyle,' McGrath said."
It's exactly what we've been objecing to for years at Most Holy Redeemer. Of course at MHR, the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
Or right on Most Holy Redeemer's own website:
Gay Pride 2003
Gay Pride 2006
Gay Pride 2007
Posted by Gibbons
From the Catholic News Agency
"The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has forbidden one of its parishes, St. Joan of Arc Church, from holding a “gay pride” prayer service because the event violates the teachings of the Church.
St. Joan of Arc Church has held the service for several years in conjunction with the Twin Cities Pride Celebration, according to the Associated Press. After discussions between the parish’s associate pastor and the archdiocese, the parish will hold a 'peace' service in its place. An announcement last week in the St. Joan of Arc parish bulletin said that a prayer service had been scheduled in the church for Wednesday at 7 p.m. 'to celebrate and give thanks for the gifts of our Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered community.'
'This service is part of Pride week in the Twin Cities,' the announcement continued.
Archdiocesan spokesman Dennis McGrath said that the service’s use of the descriptor 'LGBT' was 'not possible on church property . . . The reason is quite simply because it was a LGBT pride prayer service, and that is really inimical to the teachings of the Catholic Church.'. . .
According to the Associated Press, McGrath said Archbishop Nienstedt is following Catholic doctrine, adding 'the church welcomes people with same-sex attractions among its worshippers.'
'The distinction is people who fully adapt to the GLBT lifestyle are not permitted to receive the sacraments or be the subject of a prayer service that endorses that lifestyle,' McGrath said."
It's exactly what we've been objecing to for years at Most Holy Redeemer. Of course at MHR, the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
Or right on Most Holy Redeemer's own website:
Gay Pride 2003
Gay Pride 2006
Gay Pride 2007
Posted by Gibbons
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