Posted on 07/17/2013 11:43:12 AM PDT by 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!”
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The release of this story appears to have CRASHED the website of the Archdiocese of San Francisco...
Heretic should be excommunicated and only repatriated back to the church after a month on the steps of the church in sack cloth and ashes.
My uncle was Old School. Seminary in the 1930’s.
Spent most of his life in missions overseas.
Did part of them rejoin the Catholic Church?
Oh yeah, that is real Old School.
We had a visiting priest from Cameroon a while back. He was blissfully ignorant of much of the PC stuff here. He gave one sermon in particular on the sanctity of marriage and got a spontaneous standing ovation when he was done. He was extremely surprised by the reaction he got as he believed he was simply teaching as a disciple of Christ. It began as a humorous story about accidentally wearing two different shoes, and got deadly serious in short order.
Please post the instances in which Nancy Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, or a host of other raving liberals were ever denied communion or excommunicated.
I’ll wait, but not too long.
That priest's only hope would be to appeal to Pope Francis, who I think is more conservative than Pope Benedict!!!
He’s a Jesuit, not a Catholic. Jesuits masquerade as Catholics - “you can fool some of the people,...”.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
I am saddened to report that the restoration to full regular status derailed in April/May of 2012 after being tantalizingly close to reconciliation.
There are conflicting reports all around as to what happened, whom to blame etc. so I won’t comment on that.
There are orders of priests, such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) that left the SSPX in 1988 to reconcile with the universal church. These orders, as you may suspect, are thriving. I myself attend a FSSP parish.
My parish priest who has been in our diocese for over 33 years, has not been elevated to monsignorer. The Archbishop who heard his homily and saw how he conducted his Mass, actually was shocked that he was not a least a monsignor, and spoke it openly. To paraphrase, "Doesn't your diocese send people out to observe their priest?"
Ping for later.
The saddest thing is that observers probably WERE sent. That's very likely why he isn't monsignor.
The diocesan bureaucracies (not necessarily the ordinary himself) in the US are largely in the hands of the enemy (IMHO).
I have a sister in St. Marys, KS that is part of that Church.
Some members of the SSPX community thought that Archbishop Lefebre (spelling?) should be canonized.
My problem is that he disobeyed the Catholic Church in such a significant way that I can't see how he become a saint.
Even on occasions when the Catholic Church was wrong, I have heard that the Virgin Mary did not go against the Church (part of some apparition) to show her obedience to the Church... I don't know where that story comes from.
I am glad you had the courage to say what I was afraid to say.
Now that you have said what is in my heart I will tell you, I think that is exactly what is happening in our diocese.
Again not the bishop himself but he is surrounded by those who are gay, and if you do not fit into their agenda, you do not go up the ladder.
There has been rumors of "a sisterhood" in our diocese for years. I think it does exist.
This.
Yeah, the Scots (like New England) have fallen very low.
Scotland has that bizarre "nationalist Communism" most everybody besides the US and Israel get. You know, the original Scots were socialist until the foreign English devils imposed capitalism, Karl Marx is the successor to William Wallace, etc.
Albuquerque is about 3 hours . . . Sante Fe 4.5
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