California Catholic Daily reported that in 1998, then Bishop John Cummins expressed displeasure with Fr. Danielson and told him to stop talking to the press after news got out that he was allowing gay "marriages" at his parish, St. Elizabeth Seton.Posted on 10/09/2015 4:27:53 PM PDT by markomalley
On Monday, the Catholic Voice, the official publication of the diocese of Oakland, California, published a homily telling Catholics not to condemn active homosexual relationships.
Retired pastor Fr. Dan Danielson asserts in his homily — originally said on June 28, the Sunday following the U.S. Supreme Court's revolutionary ruling legalizing gay "marriage" in all 50 states — that some people are born gay and that "no one simply chooses" to be gay, despite overwhelming sociological evidence to the contrary. He insists that being gay is not "sinful or wrong" or even "bad."
He goes on to attack those who "discriminate" against homosexuals, saying that their so-called hateful behavior reveals "insecurities" about their own sexual identity.
Father Danielson admits that although a heterosexual marriage is the "best environment," there are also "many homosexual couples who raise children with great love." He says no one can judge the "stable" and "admirable" qualities of homosexual relationships, and that these relationships are "not to be simply condemned as sinful."
He says that while the Church's teaching on marriage is "generally correct," it "does not work out" in "many instances." He concludes that we must accept gay persons "as God accepts us all — without judgment or superiority."
Father Danielson has a long history of supporting gay "marriage" and suppressing authentic Catholic liturgy.
California Catholic Daily reported that in 1998, then Bishop John Cummins expressed displeasure with Fr. Danielson and told him to stop talking to the press after news got out that he was allowing gay "marriages" at his parish, St. Elizabeth Seton.
One lesbian wedding was attempted on May 9, 1998, but was canceled after a number of faithful Catholics publicly protested the event. At the time, Fr. Danielson bragged that he would simply continue blessing gay unions outside the church building.
This scandal was brought up again in 2009 by California Catholic Daily and Catholic News Agency (CNA) when it was announced that Fr. Danielson would become the new interim administrator for the Oakland diocese while Abp. Allen Vigneron was transferred from Oakland to Detroit. When CNA asked Mike Brown, the Oakland diocese director for communications, about this scandal, he denied that Fr. Danielson had performed any gay marriages, claiming he had merely tried to "pray over commitments of love." When CNA asked Brown whether the blessings of sinful unions was a public scandal, Brown punted. "That sounds like a theological question."
To this day, Fr. Danielson's old parish, St. Elizabeth Seton, does not refer to itself as a church but rather as "the Catholic Community of Pleasanton" per the wishes of Fr. Danielson, who once said in a homily, "This is not a church but a gathering space."
When the parish's new $5 million church building was completed, Fr. Danielson ordered that there be no statues, Stations of the Cross, kneelers, corpus on the crucifix, or tabernacle (the tabernacle was stored in a different building). He told his congregation, "There is no sanctuary because this is all holy ground now."
But that's not all. When Fr. Danielson retired from St. Elizabeth Seton in 2007, there was public outcry about the priest who was to be his replacement, Fr. Padraig Greene. Father Danielson defended Fr. Greene, despite the fact that he was arrested for lewd behavior at the public bathroom of a children’s park.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) protested, arguing that Fr. Greene "shouldn't be placed in positions in which he's in charge of Catholic kids." At the time, the diocese of Oakland reportedly responded that then-Oakland Abp. Allen Vigneron considered the arrest "a single isolated incident." Father Danielson also defended Fr. Greene, saying that SNAP's view was "understandable, but it can lead to a misinterpretation of the facts."
Now the Oakland diocesan paper has published Fr. Danielson's pro-gay homily. This situation is similar to a recent one in the Boston archdiocese; last month Churchmilitant.com broke a story about Msgr. Paul Garrity, who wrote a pro-homosexualist piece for the archdiocese of Boston's official newspaper, The Pilot. Some of the faithful wrote an open letter to Cdl. Sean O'Malley, head of the archdiocese, to retract the scandalous article.
The timing of these two pro-gay publications has not been lost on the faithful, who are asking: Is it pure coincidence that these dioceses are publishing such articles just as the Synod on the Family gets underway?
No, such is the descent of ONE SINNER.
“And so begins the final descent of the Catholic Church.”
Maybe....there is a VERY cold civil war brewing within the Roman Catholic Church.
Many lefties have most definitely infiltrated.However there are MANY more traditional Catholics who have awoken and are responding.
Who’s “Francie”? I know a Jewish lady of this name in my old neighborhood, but I’m thinking you don’t mean her.
“Please listen closely, as some of our policies have been changed, while other remain under review. Press 1. for Venial, press 2. for Mortal, press 3. for Without Sin, press 4. to hear these choices again, or you can just hang up.”
Pope Francis.
That is an outright fallacy of a premise. Since homosexuals are incapable of reproducing they cannot pass their 'genetic' makeup on to another generation. The population of homosexuals would disappear in no time. Its a choice not anything in the DNA.
Thank you.
I am not a Catholic, although sincere Catholics have my sincere respect, especially for their staunch support of life. Now, they have my sympathy and prayers as well. This must be a horrible time for them.
How do these clerics not see that sodomy too is part of the culture of death, that John Paul II so eloquently warned about.
there are no homosexual saints nor will there ever be.
It’s in the Catechism now. It appears that is about to change, possibly to make the Church a leading world proponent of homosexuality.
It seems someone has been studying how the US Supreme Court has been able to treat the Constitution as a “living document,” changeable when a majority of judges wish to. The Second Amendment is said to be only one justice away from disappearing. Perhaps the Synod already has the “votes”...
Clerics such as this one are likely sodimizers themselves.
wth is wrong with the church? they really need to be enlightened to what that 'lifestyle' and 'community' is all about
click the pic for a quick overview. remember, it's all done on public streets in plain view of children.
this is what they want for the entire country
Father Danielson is trying to normalize the abnormal. Trying to minimize the reality of how sexually confused kids can be.
This has a negative affect on children. The lesson of gay men abusing boys in the church seems to escape this guy.
Parents should keep their children far from the catholic church if this is not rejected by the pope.
Isolation and penitence --- the original historical roots of the word "penitentiary."
Theoretically, a homo could have sex with a normal hetero and the child would have a 50% chance of inheriting the homo gene...IF it existed.
However, the infamous “homo gene” has never been found...not unlike the infamous “missing link” that leftists continue to seek to disprove God’s existence.
It all gets back to God and how leftists continue to reject Him and His perfect wisdom. That wisdom includes stating the homosexual lifestyle is a choice and so eveil that it’s an obamanation.
Well, it’s out of place to call him “Francie.” I’m pretty sure “my” Francie would disapprove.
They are by no means incapable of reproducing.
Many a homosexual has kids of his or her own, that they got the old-fashioned way: by sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex. Many of these are people who were actually involved in normal (man-woman) marriages who later divorced, got custody of their children, and decided to form a new household with a new partner of the same sex.
That's sad and deeply disordered in itself, but it's even worse when gay people generate genetically-related offspring via the artificial reproduction technologies like artificial insemination, IVF, and surrogacy.
Surely you know that there are "fertility" clinics that cater almost exclusively to the lesbian clientele.
“no one simply chooses” to be gay.
I’ll wager that “homicidal ax wielding maniacs” don’t “choose” to be that way, so is it O.K. to chop people up?
“there are no homosexual saints nor will there ever be.”
Yeah, well, wait ten years then see.
Practically all forms of unnatural sexual practice --- whether we're talking about porn/masturbation, contraception, sodomy, sterilization, "sexual reassignment" surgeries, lesbianism -- are very much part of the "Culture of Death," because they turn our sexual design away from its healthy, natural, normal ---divinely-given ---- openness to Life.
This has been the catechetical teaching of the Catholic Church since at least the Didache (first catechism, ~95 AD) to this very day. And will be until Christ comes again. These anti-life perversions are sabotage against God's design.
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