California priest reads letter supporting same-sex ‘marriage’ during homily

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:46 EST | by Johanna Dasteel

[topher]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Days after the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions that delivered a significant blow to traditional marriage, a priest at the University of San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Catholic Church took the pulpit where he read a letter in support of same-sex “marriage” during his homily.

The letter “Why am I in the parade?” was penned by Jesuit Fr. John Whitney, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Seattle, WA, for his parish’s bulletin. It explains Fr. Whitney’s reasons for participating in the nation’s largest demonstration in support of homosexual activity, the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration. Fr. Gregory Bonfiglio

According to California Catholic Daily, the reading of the letter by Fr. Gregory Bonfiglio rendered the faithful of St. Ignatius at the June 30th Sunday Mass silent, with one parishioner leaving the sanctuary in tears saying, “It’s not his Church! It’s the Catholic Church! I should be able to just go to church! I want to go to a Catholic church!”

[topher]

One Catholic Church has ROCK MUSIC at some of the Masses. However, this is South Louisiana, and there are quite a few good Catholic Churches around.

I actually attend a Vietnamese Mass the most often because of the piety of the community. The priest provides his homily as a handout in English.

Before Mass, they CHANT the Ten Commandments (but first they say the Angelus [or Regina Caeli]) and they CHANT after Mass (as a community).

So this place is a very prayerful and soothing place to go to Mass.

The Vietnamese Chant and Singing is very beautiful (and different to me).

[freeangel]

He’s a Jesuit. What can one expect? They never have been much for following the Law.

[Secret Agent Man]

tell me, why not just walk out? don’t have to make a scene, people get up and walk out all te time, just don’t go back in?

i have no qualms about walking out of a church where unbiblical sin is being rationalized and promoted as nothing different than anyone else’s sin.

we don’t celebrate any of our other sins. we don’t have adultery pride parades, or a pickpocket month, or a happy murderer’s day. we hide sin, because we know it is sin, we are embarrassed and ashamed of our failings, we do not parade them around and ask others to affirm it and tell us we’re just flipping awesome for doing it, and to keep on doing it because God made you that way and He’s happy you’re that way.

[forgotten man]

There is a former Jesuit priest teaching “gay parenting” at University of San Francisco. It is a Jesuit school.

[topher]

This clown should read the Bible, not a “letter”.

And not a letter by a LIBERAL, JESUIT priest (the one who wrote the letter).

There are some Jesuits giving all the Jesuits a bad name.

[Note: Pope Francis is a Jesuit]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m a dedicated Catholic whose been going to a local Baptist Church because I just can’t take our priest.

Once a month we drive to another town (about 75 miles) to go to a decent Church.

Have you tried going to your local Bishop to complain? I know many people who have, including my Pastor (who filed a complaint about another Priest whom he said was "insane" and "a heretic")

[matginzac]

We used to boot a predominately black Catholic Church where most voted for Obozo but left the politics at the door. We then got a Scottish priest as pastor who, on the Feast of the King Sunday, opened Mass by slamming Bush and Cheney by name.
I talked to him politely after Mass, pointing out how the Bush admin was more in line with Catholic teachings than Mr. Infanticide who just got elected. He was appalled he had been challenged and huffed away.
We never went back....
I heard he lasted a year with the Diocese...but I’m sure the parishioners loved him.

[matginzac]

That’s: “...used to go to....” (IPad eff up)

[DesScorp]

Example #25643 of the Jesuits not only being anti-Catholic, but anti-Christian. Jesuits are antimatter to Catholicism’s matter.

[topher]

A story to read:

Brazilian priest excommunicated for ‘heresy’ for denying Catholic teaching on homosexuality

Now in the case of this Brazilian priest, it was his bishop that ex-communicated him.

Once ex-communicated, he would only be able to appeal to the Pope.

Just need to get the Archbishop of San Francisco to ex-communicate the priest.

And if this priest is a Jesuit, then the Provincial should do something about this as well.

[AppyPappy]

I’m a firm believer in challenging the pastor when he ventures into politics from the pulpit.
And I don’t leave because I feel obligated to correct him whenever needed. I’m sure he appreciates it.

[mware]

I take a 45minute drive every Sunday to get a decent homily and Mass.

Yesterday one of our parishioners from Nigeria, had a visit from the Archbishop of her parish back home.

He unexpectedly came to Mass at our parish, and Fr.invited him to co-celebrate with him.

After the Mass, he was invited to speak,and he said that this was the first Catholic Church he attended in the US where he felt like he was in a true Catholic Church, like he was use to in his own youth.

[topher]

Pope Francis is a Jesuit. Also, Father Mitch Pacwa on EWTN.

Not all are bad, and I guess the bad ones seem to end up in Universities in the US.

[A.A. Cunningham]

One would think that an insider at the Vatican would be a lot smarter than you come across as. Is your MO here just an act trying to throw people off?

[Graybeard58]

Had I been in that church, I’d have stood up and shouted: “BLASPHEMER!!!”

If I ever heard such clap trap in my Baptist church, I be one standing up and shouting. There are rogues in all denominations, I just haven't heard anything like this yet, in a Baptist church.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We then got a Scottish priest as pastor

Scotland is pursuing independence from Great Britain. If they get it they will end up somewhere between Cuba and North Korea on the world political continuum.

[jtal]

May I suggest, from the web site ecclesiadei.org, the following Traditional Latin masses (NOT SSPX but in communion with the universal church):

Santa Clara, NM
Santa Clara Church
Sunday: 10:00 AM

Albuquerque, NM
San Ignacio Catholic Church
Sunday: Noon

Santa Fe, NM
San Miguel Mission Church
Sunday: 2:00 pm

You are guaranteed not to hear such foolishness at the Traditional Latin Mass / Extraordinary Form.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My late great uncle was a Jesuit.
He would have been mortified by any of this stuff.

[topher]

Article from Catholic Newspaper (perhaps the Archdiocesan Newspaper of San Francisco):

Gay pride Sunday – parishioner in tears: Following Prop 8 decision, Jesuit priest celebrates homosexuality

Link was in the article

[mware]

MY parish priest had the first 15 years of his formation under the Jesuits, but mind you he was in Malta, Not the US, where homosexual tendencies were rampant during the 60’s and 70’s