Gay Activists Welcomed in LA, Not in St. Paul or Chicago

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[marshmallow]

May. 16 (CWNews.com) - Homosexual activists of the Rainbow Sash movement were denied Communion in St. Paul, Minnesota, but welcomed at the cathedral in Los Angeles, during their annual Pentecost Sunday protest.

Each year, members of the Rainbow Sash movement stage major demonstrations on Pentecost Sunday, wearing their distinctive sashes to advertise their disagreement with Church teachings regarding the morality of homosexual acts. In 2004, the group had its most noteworthy confrontation in St. Paul, where Archbishop Harry Flynn administered the Eucharist to protestors wearing their sashes, over the protests of other Catholics at the cathedral. Later, in response to a query from an American journalist, Cardinal Francis Arinze (bio - news), the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, said that the protestors should not have been given Communion, since they were flaunting their rejection of Church teaching.

This year, Archbishop Flynn warned activists that they could not receive Communion if they were wearing sashes. In Chicago, Cardinal Francis George issued the same warning.

But in Los Angeles, a spokesman for Cardinal Roger Mahony issued a statement saying that members of the Rainbow Sash group would be welcomed into the cathedral. The archdiocesan statement did not directly address the question of whether protestors were welcome to receive Communion while wearing their sashes. The Rainbow Sash movement announced because of the "warm welcome" they had received from Cardinal Mahony, members chose not to wear their sashes during Mass at the cathedral there.

In Minnesota, however, the protestors pressed their point, and Father Michael Sklucazek, the celebrant for the Sunday Mass, issued a warning that those wearing sashes would not be able to receive Communion. About 100 protestors came forward nonetheless, and stood silently for several minutes, their hands outstretched, before returning to their pews as Mass ended.

[LadyDoc]

ah, but mother angelica gave him H... a couple years ago for a document on the "modern" mass...he tried to have her censored, but the vatican merely told her to retract here statement...which she did so sarcastically that I was lying on the floor laughting...

But then, saints outrank Popes in the RC church...

[murphE]

I remember that. God bless Mother Angelica.

[marshmallow]

Liberals love dissent.......unless, of course, you are dissenting from their position.

Uh oh.....then comes the smackdown.

Mahony has made a career of dissent....but let anyone dissent from his diktats.....then the smiley mask falls and the liberal thug appears in all its ugliness.

[patent]

>>>>So you saying Mahony outsmarted them?

Absolutely not. Mahoney is their ally. They take the sashes off so that they don't embarrass him with the Church heirarchy.

It benefits both of them to work this way. It allows Mahoney to say "well, they weren't using the sash and Communion to make political statements in my Church, that's why they can receive."

It allows the Sashers to claim there is a split in the Church, that some cardinals let them recieve, others deny them.

So both Mahoney and the Sashers benefit, scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Notice: Flynn said they couldn't receive only cause they were wearing the sash. They could have taken it off and received in MN too, and everyone would have still known who they were and that they did it.

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[WriteOn]

Ah.