"The Archdiocese of Albuquerque is currently hosting a conference run by a dissident priest organization with the full support of Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester. The conference, put on by the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP), is in full swing until June 28. It features Archbishop Wester as its Episcopal Moderator. AUSCP has advocated for homosexuals to be admitted to the priesthood contrary to Church teaching, championed the ordination of married men, and pressed for the ordination of women to the diaconate. The AUSCP is part of an “international coalition of heretical ‘church reform’ organizations called the International Church Reform Network,” reports Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute, who is at the event. Hichborn says that Wester is “playing host for heretics.”: US archbishop hosts conference put on by pro-homosexual priests who want to remake Church (06/27/2018)
Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester grew up in San Francisco during the 1960s. Despite his proximity to a hotbed of political activism during a turbulent period, he wasn’t active in any political or social cause as a youth. . .“I went to the seminary at the age of 13, but I turned 14 quickly,” Wester said in a recent interview at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. “The Vietnam War was raging, but I approached it from the lens of a child. I didn’t know much about it, and frankly I thought, well, if the United States is doing it, it must be good.”. . .As the spiritual leader of more than 323,000 Roman Catholics in New Mexico, Wester, 67, has become a voice for many hot-button issues, including immigrant rights, reducing poverty, the death penalty, workers’ rights and climate change.: Wester: The arch-activist