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Archbishop Thomas Wenski preaches the homily at the annual Red Mass for the Miami Catholic Lawyers Guild. Credit: ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO / Florida Catholic Miami, Fla., Apr 26, 2013 / 12:04 am (CNA).- Discussing the push for same-sex “marriage,” Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami told judges and lawyers at the city's 2013 Red Mass that freedom and law must be based on reality and objective truth. “When a democracy bases itself on moral relativism and when it considers every ethical principle or value to be negotiable … it is already, and in spite of its formal rules, on its...

VATICAN CITY, April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Florida, to become the next metropolitan archbishop of Miami, which has gained a reputation as a "gay-friendly" diocese for hosting homosexualist events.Wenski will replace Archbishop John Favalora, whose resignation was accepted by the Vatican on Tuesday. Although Favalora will not turn 75, the usual age for requesting retirement, until this December, the Vatican did not give a reason for allowing the early resignation. He led the archdiocese for 16 years.Archbishop-elect Wenski, who speaks English, Spanish and Creole and will serve a large Cuban...

Bishop Thomas Wenski Orlando, Fla., May 5, 2009 / 09:10 pm (CNA).- Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Florida led a Mass of Reparation on Sunday for Notre Dame’s invitation to President Barack Obama and “the sins and transgressions committed against the dignity and sacredness of human life.” Criticizing Catholic “complacency,” he urged the faithful to be “for the world” by living the Gospel. In his Sunday afternoon homily at the Cathedral of St. James, Bishop Wenski said the University of Notre Dame “chose to defy the Bishops of the United States” by granting him an honorary degree “despite his...

Bishop Thomas Wenski Orlando, Jul 1, 2008 / 06:27 am (CNA).- In a Sunday newspaper commentary Thomas Wenski, the Bishop of Orlando, Florida decried the California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a ban on same sex marriage, saying the act of “raw judicial activism” reminds us that “society’s culture wars are far from over.”Writing in the Ocala Star Banner, Bishop Wenski said advocates of homosexual marriage erroneously label their opponents as intolerant bigots. “To defend marriage as a monogamous union between one man and one woman is not bigotry,” Bishop Wenski wrote. “Nor are the efforts of those who...

U.S immigration policy outdated and unjust toward working immigrants – May 13, 2005 Last month’s round-up of 66 undocumented workers at a federal construction site in downtown Orlando reminds us that “ America's immigration system is…outdated -- unsuited to the needs of our economy and to the values of our country. We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people who want only to provide for their families.” The quote belongs to President George W. Bush and was spoken to Congress during his State of the Union address earlier this year. The arrests of these “hardworking people who...

Bishop Dorsey's Resignation Accepted, Bishop Wenski Succeeds In Orlando WASHINGTON (November 13, 2004) — Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey, CP, of Orlando, Florida. The Coadjutor Bishop, Thomas G. Wenski, now becomes head of the diocese. Thomas G. Wenski was born October 18, 1950, in West Palm Beach. He attended St. Vincent de Paul's Seminary in Boynton Beach and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Miami, May 15, 1976. Bishop Wenski earned an M.A. in Sociology at Fordham University, New York. Following ordination, he was parochial vicar in Corpus Christi...

Today, Easter Saturday, our parish had a blessing of the Easter foods service. During this mass, the future Bishop of Orlando, Thomas Wenski was at this event. The service was done in English and Polish. However, the Hymns song at this celebration was in Polish. As a Polish-American who can speak Polish, I was there with my family. What angered me at this service is the opening and closing Hymns! The people (and the Priest and Bishop) were singing about Christ rising from the dead. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we celebrate Christ rising from the dead on...