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Los Angeles archbishop suspends faculties of ‘Catholics for Equality’ priest
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| September 14, 2012
| KATHLEEN GILBERT
Posted on 09/15/2012 1:30:36 PM PDT by NYer
Archbishop Gomez
LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A priest who helped found a gay ‘marriage’ advocacy group for Catholics has been suspended from distributing the sacraments or representing himself publicly as a cleric by his bishop.
The National Catholic Register reported Monday that Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles had spoken to Rev. Joseph Palacios, co-founder of “Catholics for Equality” (CFE), a small group created two years ago with strong connections to the Human Rights Campaign.
Palacios described the purpose of his outreach at Princeton University in February 2011, where he called the Church’s faithful the key target for effecting cultural shift in favor of homosexuality.
“The denominations are already lined up. The only group that isn’t lined up is the Catholics,” said Palacios, who was wearing a Roman collar. In Maine and California, where efforts at marriage redefinition failed, he said, “it was 3-5% of Catholics that could have been moved. If there had been a campaign to shift the Catholic movable middle, we would have won.”
He also noted that efforts would be made to recast marriage for homosexuals as a “pro-life” issue to reach young Catholics under the Jesuit value of cura personalis: “If we want to win Catholics over, ... pro-life means pro-gay, meaning pro your child, pro your family.”
Another priest who was openly gay, Tony Adams, was quietly removed from the CFE founding board that year after his remarks calling Pope Benedict XVI a “childish idiot” and closeted homosexual were revealed.
Palacios told the National Catholic Register that he and his bishop “mutually agreed” that the priest would not minister publicly while promoting a redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples. We agreed that I would stay on inactive status as long as I am politically active,” he said.
The priest, who is also on the Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign, appears as “Dr. Joseph Palacios” on the CFE website.
Tod Tamberg, director of media relations for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, told the Register that Palacios “is on inactive leave without faculties.”
“He should not be wearing a Roman collar, should not be celebrating Mass, nor may he present himself as a priest in public,” he said. Tamberg didn’t return calls from LifeSiteNews.com for further comment.
The Cardinal Newman Society reported in June that Palacios’ status as a priest has been uncertain ever since Palacios told the watchdog group he was a “retired” priest of Los Angeles and an ex-Jesuit, and wouldn’t elaborate.
Although Georgetown University told CNS that Palacios is no longer a member of the faculty at its sociology department, the former Jesuit is still listed on Georgetown’s website as teaching at least one summer sociology course.
TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: georgetown; homosexualagenda
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posted on
09/15/2012 1:30:40 PM PDT
by
NYer
To: NYer
And here in DC, the Archdiocese suspends the faculties of a holy priest who defends the consecrated Host. Compare and contrast.
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posted on
09/15/2012 1:45:59 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...
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posted on
09/15/2012 2:27:53 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
To: NYer
Videos available at The Sacred Place
2. Archbishop José Goméz (San Antonio)
Helpful sources:
--Archbishop Goméz's page at the Diocese of San Antonio's website.
--Catholic-Hierarchy.org
--Wikipedia
Archbishop Goméz was born in Mexico. He is one of five children--the only boy. He earned a degree in business and philosophy in 1975 at the National University in Mexico. He went on to the University of Navarre in Rome and graduated in 1978 with a degree in Theology. That same year he was ordained as a priest in the Prelature of Opus Dei. He eventually earned a doctorate in Theology in Spain at the University of Navarre.
For twelve years (1987-1999) he served as a priest at a parish in San Antonio. During these years Archbishop Goméz emerged as a highly regarded national leader among Hispanic priests in the US. He has served as regional representative, president and executive director of the Association of Hispanic Priests.
After serving as a priest in San Antonio, Archbishop Goméz worked in the Diocese of Denver. He was made an auxiliary bishop of Archbishop Chaput in 2001. There he helped to establish Denvers Centro San Juan Diego for Family and Pastoral Care, which provides care to immigrants in the community as well as formation for lay leaders. While in Denver he also served as Rector of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception as well as Moderator of the Curia and Vicar General for the Archdiocese of Denver.
In 2004, the then Bishop Goméz was appointed head of the archdiocese of San Antonio. In fact, his ties to the archdiocese long pre-date his earlier ministry there. His mother was apparently raised there and his maternal grandparents were married in the city.
Like Bishop Soto, Archbishop Goméz's work has been widely celebrated and he is recognized as one of the rising stars of the Hispanic hierarchy. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious "El Buen Pastor" award. In 2005 he appeared on
Time Magazines list of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States. The
article about him stated:
. . . Gomez is a natural conciliator admired for uniting rich and poor and Anglo and Hispanic Catholics behind Denver's Centro Juan Diego, a hybrid Latino religious-instruction and social-services center hailed as a national model.
In 2007 he was also featured on CNNs list of Notable Hispanics in a web special celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
He has also served on the board of directors of the National Catholic Council of Hispanic Ministry as well as on the steering committee for Encuentro 2000, which commemorated the Jubilee Year of 2000. The event took place in Los Angeles and was sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Archbishop Goméz has also been very much involved in priestly formation and in building community among priests. He has written a book on the spiritual formation of priests, entitled,
Men of Brave Heart: The Virtue of Courage in the Priestly Life (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009). He was instrumental in the founding of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Mexico in 2000, a seminary which trains priests who serve in the United States. He has served on the United States Council of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) committees for priestly formation and priestly affairs. In fact, Archbishop Goméz serves on a
number of distinguished committees. His own site lists the following:
Chair: Ad Hoc Committee on the Spanish Language Bible for the Church in America (USCCB), 2003 ‐
Chair: Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church (USCCB), 2008 ‐
Member: Committee on Doctrine (USCCB), 2003‐
Member: Committee on Catechesis (USCCB), 2005 ‐
Member: Subcommittee on Hispanics and the Liturgy (USCCB), 2005 ‐
Board Member: Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Board Member: Mexican American Cultural Center
Board Member: ENDOW Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women
Board of Trustees: The Catholic University of America
Board of Trustees: San Fernando Cathedral Historical Centre Foundation
Director: The John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation
Episcopal Moderator: National Association of Hispanic Priests
Episcopal Moderator: National Catholic Network de Pastoral Juvenil Hispana
Spiritual Advisor: Catholic Life Insurance
Founding Member: Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (C.A.L.L.)
Note that at the top of the list is his role as Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Spanish Language Bible for the Church in America. This is an especially important post. Archbishop Goméz is deeply committed to helping Spanish speaking Catholics read the Bible. In fact, he reads the Spanish reflections on the Sunday Readings produced the St. Paul Center each week. For more, go
here. These are
excellent.
This sort of thing is not unusual for the good prelate. Last year he also headed up the effort to bring a teaching segment to the local population on
AM radio.
The Bishop made national headlines last year when he expressed disappointment over the fact that a Catholic college in his diocese, St. Mary's University invited Hilary Clinton to speak. Bishop Gomez insisted, "Our Catholic institutions must promote the clear understanding of our deep moral convictions on an issue like abortion, an act that the Church calls an unspeakable crime and a non-negotiable issue" (
source). In addition, go
here to see a TV news report, with excerpts from an interview with the bishop.
I might also mention that I personally met Archbishop Goméz last year at
a conference I was invited to speak at in San Antonio (I have never met the other bishops I write about here). I was especially struck by his warmth. I thoroughly enjoyed a homily he gave at the conference as well as his keynote address at the Saturday night dinner. He's a great bishop and his flock loves him.
Here is
a link to a video of the Archbishop (which I cannot embed here) speaking about the Sacraments as something more than merely a cultural expression. In addition, take a look at this video in which he speaks about immigration--though once again I must add that the video does not fully explain the Archbishop's views (i.e., he believes that illegal immigrants should face penalties, though he urges that since deporation breaks up families, those who break immigration laws should be punished in
some other way).
I also like this short little clip of the beginning of a talk he gave to a Catholic women's conference:
The talk apparently went well--it led this woman to want to do Bible study:
Finally, there is this video he did on the special offering for the Church in Latin America as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America:
Videos available at The Sacred Place
2. Archbishop José Goméz (San Antonio)
Helpful sources:
--Archbishop Goméz's page at the Diocese of San Antonio's website.
--Catholic-Hierarchy.org
--Wikipedia
Archbishop Goméz was born in Mexico. He is one of five children--the only boy. He earned a degree in business and philosophy in 1975 at the National University in Mexico. He went on to the University of Navarre in Rome and graduated in 1978 with a degree in Theology. That same year he was ordained as a priest in the Prelature of Opus Dei. He eventually earned a doctorate in Theology in Spain at the University of Navarre.
For twelve years (1987-1999) he served as a priest at a parish in San Antonio. During these years Archbishop Goméz emerged as a highly regarded national leader among Hispanic priests in the US. He has served as regional representative, president and executive director of the Association of Hispanic Priests.
After serving as a priest in San Antonio, Archbishop Goméz worked in the Diocese of Denver. He was made an auxiliary bishop of Archbishop Chaput in 2001. There he helped to establish Denvers Centro San Juan Diego for Family and Pastoral Care, which provides care to immigrants in the community as well as formation for lay leaders. While in Denver he also served as Rector of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception as well as Moderator of the Curia and Vicar General for the Archdiocese of Denver.
In 2004, the then Bishop Goméz was appointed head of the archdiocese of San Antonio. In fact, his ties to the archdiocese long pre-date his earlier ministry there. His mother was apparently raised there and his maternal grandparents were married in the city.
Like Bishop Soto, Archbishop Goméz's work has been widely celebrated and he is recognized as one of the rising stars of the Hispanic hierarchy. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious "El Buen Pastor" award. In 2005 he appeared on
Time Magazines list of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States. The
article about him stated:
. . . Gomez is a natural conciliator admired for uniting rich and poor and Anglo and Hispanic Catholics behind Denver's Centro Juan Diego, a hybrid Latino religious-instruction and social-services center hailed as a national model.
In 2007 he was also featured on CNNs list of Notable Hispanics in a web special celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
He has also served on the board of directors of the National Catholic Council of Hispanic Ministry as well as on the steering committee for Encuentro 2000, which commemorated the Jubilee Year of 2000. The event took place in Los Angeles and was sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Archbishop Goméz has also been very much involved in priestly formation and in building community among priests. He has written a book on the spiritual formation of priests, entitled,
Men of Brave Heart: The Virtue of Courage in the Priestly Life (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009). He was instrumental in the founding of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Mexico in 2000, a seminary which trains priests who serve in the United States. He has served on the United States Council of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) committees for priestly formation and priestly affairs. In fact, Archbishop Goméz serves on a
number of distinguished committees. His own site lists the following:
Chair: Ad Hoc Committee on the Spanish Language Bible for the Church in America (USCCB), 2003 ‐
Chair: Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church (USCCB), 2008 ‐
Member: Committee on Doctrine (USCCB), 2003‐
Member: Committee on Catechesis (USCCB), 2005 ‐
Member: Subcommittee on Hispanics and the Liturgy (USCCB), 2005 ‐
Board Member: Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Board Member: Mexican American Cultural Center
Board Member: ENDOW Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women
Board of Trustees: The Catholic University of America
Board of Trustees: San Fernando Cathedral Historical Centre Foundation
Director: The John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation
Episcopal Moderator: National Association of Hispanic Priests
Episcopal Moderator: National Catholic Network de Pastoral Juvenil Hispana
Spiritual Advisor: Catholic Life Insurance
Founding Member: Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (C.A.L.L.)
Note that at the top of the list is his role as Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Spanish Language Bible for the Church in America. This is an especially important post. Archbishop Goméz is deeply committed to helping Spanish speaking Catholics read the Bible. In fact, he reads the Spanish reflections on the Sunday Readings produced the St. Paul Center each week. For more, go
here. These are
excellent.
This sort of thing is not unusual for the good prelate. Last year he also headed up the effort to bring a teaching segment to the local population on
AM radio.
The Bishop made national headlines last year when he expressed disappointment over the fact that a Catholic college in his diocese, St. Mary's University invited Hilary Clinton to speak. Bishop Gomez insisted, "Our Catholic institutions must promote the clear understanding of our deep moral convictions on an issue like abortion, an act that the Church calls an unspeakable crime and a non-negotiable issue" (
source). In addition, go
here to see a TV news report, with excerpts from an interview with the bishop.
I might also mention that I personally met Archbishop Goméz last year at
a conference I was invited to speak at in San Antonio (I have never met the other bishops I write about here). I was especially struck by his warmth. I thoroughly enjoyed a homily he gave at the conference as well as his keynote address at the Saturday night dinner. He's a great bishop and his flock loves him.
Here is
a link to a video of the Archbishop (which I cannot embed here) speaking about the Sacraments as something more than merely a cultural expression. In addition, take a look at this video in which he speaks about immigration--though once again I must add that the video does not fully explain the Archbishop's views (i.e., he believes that illegal immigrants should face penalties, though he urges that since deporation breaks up families, those who break immigration laws should be punished in
some other way).
I also like this short little clip of the beginning of a talk he gave to a Catholic women's conference:
The talk apparently went well--it led this woman to want to do Bible study:
Finally, there is this video he did on the special offering for the Church in Latin America as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America:
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:00:35 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: NYer
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:04:22 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: NYer
Like the spine pic, Amen and more of this should have and should be occurring in a church near you ever day now...
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:15:33 PM PDT
by
jafojeffsurf
(Return to the Constitution)
To: NYer
A priest who helped found a gay marriage advocacy group for Catholics has been suspended from distributing the sacraments or representing himself publicly as a cleric by his bishop. The National Catholic Register reported Monday that Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles had spoken to Rev. Joseph Palacios, co-founder of Catholics for Equality (CFE), a small group created two years ago with strong connections to the Human Rights Campaign.
Thank God for Archbishop Gomez! The Church needs hundreds more like him.
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:26:19 PM PDT
by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: NYer
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:47:33 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
To: ottbmare
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:49:39 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Too bad Archbishop Gomez didn’t get assigned to DC. We need someone here who understands Canon Law 915. Or who isn’t being blackmailed by the gay-lesbian-transwhatever lobby. Or whatever the explanation is for their behavior. (Do I sound bitter? Oh. Wonder why that would be...)
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posted on
09/15/2012 3:55:07 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: netmilsmom
I will become enraged and grief-stricken if I have to discuss the entire horror again, but, long tragic story short:
Father Marcel Guarnizo, a young priest from Virginia, was serving as parochial vicar at a suburban Maryland parish. Father Marcel is a holy young man, an ardent and effective anti-communist, a strong conservative, and a brilliant intellectual who had drawn attention by his outspoken, carefully-reasoned homilies about contraception, abortion, gay marriage, homosexuality, and other hot-button issues. He had also earned opprobrium from local liberals for daring to lead prayer meetings each Monday morning at a local abortion clinic where late-term abortions take place.
In late February he was ordered to perform a funeral mass for an elderly parishioner. The parishioner's daughter, an active lesbian, fallen-away Catholic, leftist, and declared Buddhist, was outraged that he was going to offer the funeral mass. She told him before the mass that she was a lesbian living with a woman she called her lover. Father attempted to tell her that she should not take communion unless she had confessed her sin and been absolved, but she defied him, and her (gay) brother and her lover physically prevented this small man from following her. At the mass, Father again told the gathered mourners gently (as is the usual practice at Catholic funerals) that only Catholic in a state of grace are to receive the Eucharist, but all others could come to the altar for a blessing. The lesbian woman came up to the altar and presented herself to receive the Host. To preserve her immortal soul from the grave sin of sacrilegious communion, Father whispered to her that because she was in a state of unrepented sin he could not give it to her. She stepped to one side and received it from the Eucharistic Minister standing next to him, who had not heard this very soft exchange.
The lesbian called the Washington Post the next morning to describe her grief and outrage at this terrible insult. There was international attention given to this incident. The media descended upon our parish; so did activists of various sorts. Father has continued to receive death threats for his actions. He was suspended, and eventually lost his faculties as a priest.
For details: The Persecution of Father Guarnizo, Explanation of Canon Law 915
Fortunately for the cause of Christ, Father Marcel remains in the DC area, working against the HHS mandate, against abortion, and against the leftist agenda he understands so well. He has continued to speak at large public gatherings and demonstrations in front of the HHS building in DC, in front of the US Supreme Court, and front of that demonic abortion "clinic." He has other speaking engagements coming up before the election. But he continues to be threatened for daring to defy a lesbian what she wanted.
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posted on
09/15/2012 5:00:17 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: NYer
“Your excellency, I’ve installed the trap door in your office, and the chute will take them right out to the duck pond next door. I threw in some flushing noises when you push the red button.”
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posted on
09/15/2012 5:14:19 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
To: ottbmare
Oh my Goodness!
I will be praying for that good Priest.
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posted on
09/15/2012 5:29:06 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
To: ottbmare
Too bad Archbishop Gomez didnt get assigned to DC. I, too, am no big fan of the current Ordinary here. But he is head-and-shoulders better than his predecessor.
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posted on
09/16/2012 1:38:03 AM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: ottbmare
And here in DC, the Archdiocese suspends the faculties of a holy priest who defends the consecrated Host. Compare and contrast. No kidding. And Gomez's treatment of the sodomite priest even seems awfully mild. So, he is suspended only AS LONG AS he is engaging in political activity? That's hardly any kind of repudiation.
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posted on
09/16/2012 6:20:53 AM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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