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N.J. Cardinal Offers Historic Welcome to LGBT Community
NJ.com ^ | 5/7/17 | Rev. Alexander Santora

Posted on 05/09/2017 5:07:53 PM PDT by marshmallow

Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

David Harvie was at a regional meeting in Brooklyn of the Interparish Collaborative, a group of about 15 Catholic parishes in the tri-state area that minister to the LGBT community. He was seated next to Redemptorist Father Francis Gargani and talked about how there are so many beautiful church edifices that deserve to be seen.

"I am a church architecture geek," Harvie said, mentioning, for example, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.

Gargani, who resides at the Redemptorist Provincial House in Brooklyn, said he would bring it up to the new Archbishop of Newark, Joseph Cardinal Tobin, also a Redemptorist, who was coming to dinner the next evening.

Soon after, Harvie would get the green light to have an LGBT pilgrimage to the cathedral on Sunday, May 21, with a Mass that Gargani will say in Our Lady Chapel, followed by a tour of the cathedral.

Harvie immediately created a colorful flier and for the first time used the initials LGBT in relationship to a Catholic institution in the Newark Archdiocese with the blessing of the cardinal.

"I am delighted that you and the LGBTQ brothers and sisters plan to visit our beautiful cathedral,'' Tobin wrote in an email to Gargani approving the flier. "You will be very welcome! The flier is fine; please circulate it."

Harvie was thrilled.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


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1 posted on 05/09/2017 5:07:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I’m starting to refer to them as the LGBTQZ (Zombie) community. Because Zombie is a gender, right?


2 posted on 05/09/2017 5:10:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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To: marshmallow

If you don’t tell them homosexuality is a sin and should not be celebrated, you’re just leading them into Hell.


3 posted on 05/09/2017 5:12:07 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

It’s a race.


4 posted on 05/09/2017 5:15:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: marshmallow

These characters see themselves as “prophetic” for playing fast and loose with Catholic teaching. I doubt real prophets would get accolades from the pagan media. But these guys would: 1 Kings 18.


5 posted on 05/09/2017 5:15:30 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: marshmallow

The Whips and Chains community and the serial killer community will be welcomed next.


6 posted on 05/09/2017 5:16:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: marshmallow
The Redemptorsists have apparently fallen as low as the Jesuits as an order. I know Holy Priests who serve God in both groups, I can not condemn the entire Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Nor the Society Of Jesus. I expect Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori is not pleased...
7 posted on 05/09/2017 5:24:26 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: marshmallow

Welcoming. — yes. But preaching must include morality to be a Christian church.


8 posted on 05/09/2017 5:29:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: marshmallow

Disgusting acquiescence to decadence. Difficult time for Catholics who must deal with leaders who do not inspire.


9 posted on 05/09/2017 7:15:24 PM PDT by allendale
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To: marshmallow

Disgusting acquiescence to decadence. Difficult time for Catholics who must deal with leaders who do not inspire.


10 posted on 05/09/2017 7:15:31 PM PDT by allendale
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To: marshmallow

“I am delighted that you and the LGBTQ brothers and sisters plan to visit our beautiful cathedral.”

Not cool. St. Ignatius, ora pro nobis. St. Alphonsus Ligouri, ora pro nobis. It takes prayer, fasting and sacrifices to see the LG (too lazy to spell the whole thing out) crowd for what it is: selfish, immature, needy, exhausting and a curse on good families.

What is LG repellant? Public rosary. The Cardinal should say a rosary in the church with others 1x or 2x daily with incense and bells.


11 posted on 05/09/2017 7:45:53 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: marshmallow
a group of about 15 Catholic parishes in the tri-state area that minister to the LGBT community.

This is what the interdict is for.

12 posted on 05/10/2017 1:18:33 AM PDT by Claud
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