Posted on 07/04/2015 4:04:32 PM PDT by NYer
The chairman of the theology department at Fordham University has gotten marriedto another man.
The New York Times, which up until a few years ago, declined running wedding announcements involving same-sex couples, reported that J. Patrick Hornbeck II married Patrick Anthony Bergquist Saturday at St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The ceremony took place June 27, just a day after the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. That would not have been necessary legally, since New York State has allowed gay "marriage" since 2011. But the ceremony was conducted before the Episcopal Church in America voted this week to allow same-sex "marriage" rites in its churches.
When asked whether Fordham was concerned about having a professor of theology whose lifestyle choice is in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church about marriage, a spokesman for the university said Hornbeck has the right to get married.
While Catholic teachings do not support same-sex marriage, we wish Professor Hornbeck and his spouse a rich life filled with many blessings on the occasion of their wedding in the Episcopal Church, said Bob Howe, Fordham's senior director of communications. Professor Hornbeck is a member of the Fordham community, and like all University employees, students and alumni, is entitled to human dignity without regard to race, creed, gender, and sexual orientation.
Howe emphasized that same-sex unions are now the law of the land, and Professor Hornbeck has the same constitutional right to marriage as all Americans.
Hornbeck, 33, teaches medieval and reformation history at Fordham. He graduated from Georgetown. His mother is an administrative assistant at Brophy College Preparatory, a Jesuit high school for boys in Phoenix. Bergquist, 35, is director of children, youth and family ministries at St. Bartholomews, where the couple "married."
An automated email response from Hornbeck indicated that he would "be away from my email altogether from June 27
until July 5."
In 2014, Hornbeck participated in a symposium at Fordham titled Who Am I to Judge? How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church.
In the last 18 months Pope Francis has taken the Catholic world by storm, Hornbeck in promotional material for the symposium, which was to focus on the future of Catholicism as well as examine recent public statements from the pope on subjects that range from the role of LGBT persons in the church, to the restructuring of the Vatican Bank, to unmarried couples and divorce.
American Catholics and their church have not been on the same page for some time, said Hornbeck. But now the pope is opening up space for dialogue.
Meanwhile, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga., is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a former teacher whose employment was terminated in 2014 after the school found that he would be legally marrying his same-sex partner, the Cardinal Newman Society reported.
For marketing purposes only.
Dr Who spinoff that was darker and more violent than Who. High body count and a sharp looking Rover.
Their vaunted scholarship has been window dressing for socialism and social engineering for more than a century.
The Jesuits of South America have been associated with communism and Liberation Theology. When I read that the new pope was a Jesuit from their I knew the Catholic Church was in for a very rough patch.
And you've been proved right.
Just another one of many times when I wish I had been wrong.
I don’t care what THEY say it is, it IS NOT MARRIAGE.
Sickness is everywhere.
I'm sure most Catholic universities have divorced/remarried faculty.
Maybe satan has two sides to his kingdom that will only force to divide it-
A flesh in your face, you can’t help but see it, side-
And a counterfeit righteous religious side (within Judaism, Islam and especially Christianity) that will really take discernment to spot. Like watching a show.
Satan really created ‘religion’ and he owns the secular. A divided Kingdom will not stand, as our Savior said plainly.
And what is tough is to spot the counterfeit righteous because those tares may be really hard to spot until the very end..
“2. Not even Martin Luther went so far as sanctioning homosexuality.”
He might have if he were born in the 20th century, however.
True. As opposed to these gay marriage cases, which are easy to spot.
Yet another minion of the anti-Christ working for the Catholic Church.
well, Fordham sure ain’t Catholic no more! that’s for sure..
I think you’ve explained the utter impossibility of such a physical reality as “gay” sex. The parts do not fit; & what they do to accommodate it is painful & perverted. I’m at that place where I’m just realizing that some people have just gotten into a nasty, painful habit & expect the rest of us to celebrate it.
My neighbor married the family dog in a wedding to entertain her daughter. The difference is no one had to pretend it was real.
Ping to you after your claim that schools were “cleaned up.”
I retained enough of my actually Catholic moral formation to regard myself as privileged to represent more than a thousand "criminal" defendants (including Fr. Norman Weslin) in what was, in our state, mislabeled as Operation Rescue. Best work I ever did as a lawyer.
May God bless you and yours.
He might have if he were born in the 20th century, however."
Curious as to where you got this idea. I did a search and from what I gathered Luther was not approving of sodomy, clearly marking it as "against nature".
Luther approved of bigamy. As a radical who invented his own version of Christianity - one no one had ever heard of before - if he had lived in the 20th century, he probably would gone much further.
Our youngest daughter (rising senior in high school) wanted to go to Fordham and we visited recently. This is very disappointing news about the Jesuits. She really liked Fordham. It is out of our price range anyway, but how awful this is.
Thank you for your work defending the Oepration Rescue defendants.
This is the same order that raised up saints such as Bellarmine and Jogues - this is very upsetting news.
St. Ignatius Loyola ora pro nobis
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