BigFAG is starting to get what it deserves, nothing... throw the wretches out on their butt
Posted on 04/04/2013 4:06:35 PM PDT by Morgana
OCEANSIDE, NY, April 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic church on Long Island has removed a 47 year-old Long Island man from his role as the parish's confirmation teacher, lector, and altar server after learning he was “married” to another man.
Nicholas Coppola joined his partner, David Krespo, in a non-sacramental “wedding ceremony” last October. The service was attended by some of his fellow parishioners at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Oceanside. Bishop William Murphy. Bishop William Murphy.
Coppola claims that he had been an open homosexual in his parish for years. Even his pastor, he alleges, knew of his engagement in the homosexual lifestyle but permitted Coppola to serve in leadership positions, including as an altar server, religious education teacher for children preparing for confirmation, and lector.
Bishop William Murphy of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, received a written complaint about Coppola. A diocesan official passed it on to Coppola’s pastor saying, “While not on a witch hunt, I know it would be of concern to you if a catechist were, in fact, ‘married’ as described.”
Coppola’s pastor soon after pulled him aside to notify him that he was being removed from his public roles within the parish.
However, contrary to some reports, Coppola was never asked to leave the Church or cease worship at the parish.
“In this situation, the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage is that the sacrament of marriage is between one man and one woman,” diocesan Director of Communications, Sean Dolan explained to LifeSiteNews.com. “When this man became civilly married, it’s inconsistent with the Church’s teaching on marriage.”
“When you hold yourself to be a teacher, a public figure, lector or Eucharistic Minister, it sends an incorrect signal to people about the Church’s teaching on marriage,” he added.
Dolan responded to a question from LifeSiteNews by saying the church had not acted when it learned Coppola was a homosexual, because “he’s civilly married, and marriage is a public action.”
“When you’ve taken the step of publicly getting married, that raises the bar,” he said.
“We’re not singling out any community or individual in particular,” Dolan clarified. “Prohibition exists for people…who are currently in invalid heterosexual marriages as well.”
An example of this, he explained, would be the person who marries in the church, divorces, then remarries outside the Church.
That person, too, would be precluded from participating in educational or public roles in the Church.
Same-sex “marriage” is at center stage in the media, with the Supreme Court hearing arguments regarding California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
The Catholic Church has remained one of the most vocal defenders of marriage as between one man and one woman.
Some media outlets are questioning whether the Rockville Centre bishop and priest’s removal of Coppola from his volunteer positions is in contradiction to recent statements made by Cardinals Timothy Dolan and Donald Wuerl with respect to ministering more effectively to people with same-sex attractions.
However, the cardinal has maintained the Church’s position that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Finally Ping!
...you can't be a friggin' homo.
Good!
So, why wasn’t the complicit pastor removed, or at least disciplined?
I was speaking to a neighbor just a little while ago ,and he was telling me he took his little boy to join the Boy Scouts, but when he got there something looked fishy.
He found out that two of the little boys who were joining had been adopted by a couple of male Homo’s.
He decided his son did not need to belong to this troop.
Now some will say he was wrong in this,but then again, why take a chance with your child?
BigFAG is starting to get what it deserves, nothing... throw the wretches out on their butt
How can he even be allowed to continue as a member of the Church?
LOL!!!! Who writes this stuff? As if ever there could be a sacrament to endorse and promote sin?
“As if ever there could be a sacrament to endorse and promote sin? “
Explaining the wedding is false for those of you in Rio Linda ;)
And there ain’t a thing the Supreme Court can do about it.....
because the catholic pastor is probably gay as well.
It’s time for the pastor to be reminded of Canon 915, now that this story has appeared in the press, making the situation notorious.
http://tinyurl.com/canon915
http://tinyurl.com/pont915
>> So, why wasn’t the complicit pastor removed, or at least disciplined? >>
As the bishop said, “this is not a witch hunt.” We might be inclined to believe the gay dude’s claim, but it would be completely unseemly to bar someone from their profession on nothing more than an assertion. It might well be a completely different matter were the priest to write in his bulletin, “I’ve known Nick and David to be having gay sex with each other for years, and I think it’s just dandy!” Or if the priest had performed, blessed or in any way sanctioned the “marriage.”
I’d even go so far as to say that the gay dude may not be lying, and yet the priest could still be innocent. Being “open” need not mean being explicit, and a celibate’s naivete may be stunning; don’t forget that the confessional offers no basis for contextualizing.
So, why wasn’t the complicit pastor removed, or at least disciplined?
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My question, as well. Sounds like he was definitely in on this.
From the Catholic Catechism:
“1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
- by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
- by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
- by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
- by protecting evil-doers.”
To cover up a sin makes one a participant in it.
If the Church didn't allow sinners to belong, who would be there?
We are all sinners and when we sin we confess it and restore our state of grace.
A sinner is excommunicated if his sin is public and there is no public remedy. A classic example is people who are illicitly married (e.g. after a divorce, or it’s not even a marriage but the intent is a sexual union, like in gay “marriage”) and live together. That is because a public ceremony makes the sin public.
And believe me, there's always room in the Confessional line. That's one of the things I like about Pope Francis: one of his first talks --- I think it was to priests of the Diocese of Rome --- saying, "Keep your churches open. Let people know the Confessional is open. Then you'll see how many come!" They (we) need to be reminded to go to the Sacrament of Confession on a regular basis. (I've been trying to go once a month, and I really should move it up to once every 2 weeks.) They (we) need to hear the first word "Repent," before we hear "... and believe the Good News."
There's 2 or 3 pairs of female housemates in our parish that may be now (or may have been in the past) sexually/romantically involved, but I (being generally out of the gossip circuit) would have no idea, and I've been in the parish for 23 years. It's common enough for women to live together; if they don't wear rainbow scarves or entwined female-symbol earrings, most people wouldn't know.
The same may be true of guys too. Males can certainly share an apt without being sexually involved.
I would imaging there's ALWAYS been a lot of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," simply because people don't stick their noses into other people's household management.
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