Wednesday, March 06, 2013

This is one of the more disturbing things I have read

Read the rest here.

This is a parish that urgently needs to be suppressed and a priest who needs to be assigned to some duty where he can do no harm until he has demonstrated a reasonable level of comprehension and submission to the doctrine of the church from which he draws his salary.


Chris Jones said...

The parish where this occurred, Most Holy Redeemer, is a gay-friendly parish in the heart of the Castro district, which is the center of the gay community in the country's most gay-friendly city. So it is hardly surprising that something like this would happen in such a parish.

You are right, of course, that the priest needs to teach the faith of the Church that ordained him and pays his salary; and that parishes like this should not be allowed to flout the teachings of the Roman Church. However, in the real world of the American RC Church, parishes like this have long existed, no one is doing anything about them, and they aren't going anywhere. It's too commonplace to be disturbing.

John (Ad Orientem) said...

It's too commonplace to be disturbing.

That in itself is incredibly disturbing.

Irene said...

And this is what some Orthodox want to friendly parishes...parishes run by spineless priests who follow societal mores and not the Gospels.