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1 posted on 11/03/2008 11:42:38 AM PST by NYer
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Why wait ... they have been repeatedly warned. Shut them down.


2 posted on 11/03/2008 11:44:28 AM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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I don’t understand, isn’t it a hierchial system. Why excommunicate the entire parish instead of just change the leadership and excommunicate the errant priest.
(just my Southern Baptist opinion)


3 posted on 11/03/2008 11:50:12 AM PST by DannyTN (`)
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I don’t understand, isn’t it a hierchial system. Why excommunicate the entire parish instead of just change the leadership and excommunicate the errant priest.
(just my Southern Baptist opinion)


4 posted on 11/03/2008 11:50:18 AM PST by DannyTN (`)
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This guy sounds like he deserves excommunication based on the invalid baptisms alone. However, “openly gives communion to gays” seems a funny charge. Being homosexual is not a sin, but a disorder. It is only homosexual activity that is sinful, and if engaged in with full knowledge of its sinfulness and consent, would be a mortal sin. Therefore, withholding communion would not necessarily be appropriate for someone who was apparently or claimed to “be gay” unless, as with the rainbow sashers, individuals were publicly and unrepentantly dissenting from Church teaching on homosexuality.


5 posted on 11/03/2008 11:50:41 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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Wonder what these priests would have changed back in Sodom and Gomorrah days to "reflect the changing community"?

Father Kennedy, 71, who has refused all media interviews until the weekend, said he was making a stand on behalf of what he called "recovering Catholics".

If I join the Catholic Faith, then consider me a resurgent Catholic! One who sees the value in holding on to at least SOME traditions.

9 posted on 11/03/2008 12:00:50 PM PST by Clock King (By any means neccessary...)
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If a homosexual is not having sex, can they receive the sacraments?


10 posted on 11/03/2008 12:05:16 PM PST by nufsed
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“Father Kennedy said the practices at St Mary’s had evolved over the years from the community. He strongly criticised what he called the hierarchical approach of the Vatican in dictating what should be said in every parish in the world.”

Idiot, what part of Caholic Church don’t you understand?


18 posted on 11/03/2008 12:58:10 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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“Father Kennedy said the practices at St Mary’s had evolved over the years from the community. He strongly criticised what he called the hierarchical approach of the Vatican in dictating what should be said in every parish in the world.”

Idiot, what part of Catholic in Catholic Church don’t you understand?


19 posted on 11/03/2008 12:58:59 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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