Shouldn't the first question be, what is a lesbian and a Buddhist doing teaching at a CATHOLIC school? This is beyond ridiculous... And wasn't she given the communion later on by an extraordinary minister?
Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Maryland, the Freak state?
Yes! Who is making the decisions to let these agitators in? Based on what precept? I suppose with the same logic allowing a lesbian and Buddhist teach, if an Atheist wanted to be included the Catholic church would let them.
It's convoluted and ridiculous.
This story does not pass the smell test, but if true...
This filthy girl should have received communion if for no other reason then to cleanse her pathetic soul.
Why would a Buddist want to try to take communion unless she were wanting to make a political statement at her own mother’s funeral?
I’m a Christian, and I get a great deal of spiritual benefit from communion, but I know that the Catholic Church does not choose to give me communion. I would not ask for communion at a Catholic church, and I would not throw a fit if they refused to violate their beliefs and give me communion. Liberal activists disgust me.
Clogger? Clogging is a type of dance, especially cute when little children perform it.
She walked up to the priest right before Mass and introduced another woman as her ‘lover,’ according to sources familiar with the parish.
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It is disgusting that this person would use her own mother’s funeral for her political grandstanding.
It is also disgusting that the dicoese would abet her in her efforts.
Religious freedom. Oh how the Leftists hate it.
OK What would really torque her off would be if someone would tell her that everyone who sympathized with her make believe story would pray for her.
It sounds like she purposely sought employment in a Catholic school so that she could raise sexuality "issues" and is probably disappointed if she hasn't had a lot of response or negative reaction from parents.
So yes, of course she used her own mother's funeral as an opportunity for political grandstanding. She almost demanded that the priest refuse her Communion so that she could raise a ruckus about it. The poor man was between a rock and a hard place. She's a despicable human being.
I'm not Catholic and have attended exactly one funeral Mass in my life. The priest made it perfectly clear who could and could not receive Communion. Not every Catholic present opted to receive it that day so I didn't see that not receiving it was any great issue one way or the other for anyone.
“As a Buddhist, my role model of an enlightened, highly realized, and happy human being is Gautama Buddha.”
Buddha would never have behaved like this. In addition, Buddha was heterosexual, and, until the recent pressure of Western Liberal malcontents was successful, homosexual behavior was, in my ancient Tibetan tradition at least, considered non-virtuous, i.e. sure to result in negative karma. This woman does not represent Buddhism, but her Narcissism brings dishonor upon it - not a light karmic matter at all.
Those interested in my review/rant on Western Liberal Buddhist shenanigans (entitled, “the best minds of my generation . . . “) may want to look up that Amazon review from March 1, 2012 for the book, Shoes Outside the Door, by Michael Downing. Sorry, can’t link directly to the link of that review anymore, but it’s not hard to find.
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His Excellency, Bishop Barry Knestout
5001 Eastern Avenue
Hyattsville MD 20782-3447
Copy to:
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo
St. John Neumann Catholic Church
9000 Warfeld Road
Gaithersburg, MD 20882
Your Excellency:
I was disturbed when I read that Fr. Guarnizo had rudely refused Holy Communion to a woman at her mother’s funeral. It was only later that I realized that I had misjudged the situation by letting anti-Catholic secular press define it for me; that there was a lot more to the story; and that the lesbian Buddhist, Ms. Johnson, actually set a trap which many, including you, your Excellency, fell into.
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Here is the REST OF THE STORY about the homosexual pervert who was refused communion. She's not a Catholic, she's willfully and rebelliously engaged in sin, and she's an active advocate for perversion. Why is she teaching at a Catholic university, indeed. Interesting, she seems to not know or care that the Dalai Lama has said homosexuality is perverted and wrong! Some "Buddhist".
Ms. Johnson may call herself a Buddhist, but she truly is a disciple of Barack Obama. She respects only her own will to do as she pleases regardless (or perhaps for the expressed purpose) of harassing, damaging, humiliating or forcing her own will on others. She is the personification of exactly what 50 years of government overstepping its bounds produces. She is to be pitied, and unless or until she decides that she is not the ultimate being to be pleased, shunned.