"Lennon said ... It’s just the way the priest has things running.
He’s so strict. He won’t loosen up about things.”
About time.
Good. At least this priest takes things seriously.
But Father, he's such a good boy.
Rev. Gary LaMoine bump!
Well, isn't that special. He could do that over at the local Unitarian Universalist congregation ... perhaps he would be more at home there?
Or perhaps he should repent of his support for institutionalized perversion. "Gay marriage" is an oxymoron, and a mockery of a Sacrament.
Kudos to Fr. LaMoine.
>>If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic.<<
Someone tell the Catholic Church. It is amazing the number of “Buffet Catholics” who actually take Communion.
They should call themselves Protestants and move on.
Good. I don’t see what’s the problem.
awesome
The cafeteria is closed.
They should move to Montgomery County Md. There is a parish there where a lesbian can get a priest fired because he has the gall to refuse her communion when she brings her “partner” along for the funeral mass for her mother.
“The decision by the Rev. Gary LaMoine to deny the religious rite of passage for Lennon Cihak in mid-October shocked his mother, who said her son has gone to church every week and volunteered around the community in preparation for his confirmation this year.”
hmm my mom would be even more shocked if I supported gay marriage, G-d forbid.
Probably named for John of Beatles fame.
Two lessons.
1. Glad to see a Catholic diocese step up for a change. If this little twerp support same-sex “marriage” and fancies himself a christian, he should become an Episcopalian. That’s “Catholic-lite”, and they tolerate anything.
2. If you are an active Catholic (like yours truly) and oppose church teachings on some issues (ditto) then don’t let the church know who you are!! They can’t excommunicate you or deny you communion if they don’t know your identity.
The Catholic church is going to start seeing dividends to not compromising its beliefs.
Trying to be all things to all people gives no spiritual strength or solace. But maintaining your doctrines and standards, insisting on them, creates a firm foothold, so that people can invest in their beliefs and faith.
Note how socialists are adamant that organizations must compromise their beliefs in some ways. They do this intentionally, to strip those organizations of credibility, that they are just contrivances of no real value. And socialists get extremely irritated, and attack, when people refuse to compromise their core beliefs and principles.
Good-— don’t wear the Catholic jersey while intending to play for the other team. The ultimate definition of a hypocrite.
Hurray for Father Gary LaMoine!!
Matthew 23:27-28,-— “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”
Confirmation is confirming you believe in the teachings of the faith (for those who were baptized too young to give conscious consent) given this teen clearly is advocating a position oposite of his faiths teaching he does not confirm to abide by the faith and was rightly denied to be confirmed as it would have been a false claim on his part to do so.
Why is this a news story or even shocking?
I predict that this priest will be “reassigned” shortly.
Confirmation at 17?