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Pro-gay marriage priest defrocked
The Tablet (UK) ^
| 16 April 2013
| The Tablet staff
Posted on 04/16/2013 1:22:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
A priest in Argentina has been defrocked after voicing support in public for gay marriage. Nicolás Alessio was suspended in 2010 when the Government's same-sex marriage legislation was being debated. The legislation was bitterly opposed by the Church in Argentina, led by the then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio who was elected Pope last month.
A statement from Mr Alessio's local archdiocese of Córdoba said the decision to defrock him was made by the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy in February, during the pontificate of Benedict XVI. "Thirty years of service to God's people mean nothing," Mr Alessio said in response. "I had a different opinion from the archbishop [of Córdoba, Carlos José Ñáñez] and so they have chucked me out."
TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: argentina; catholic; dismissal; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; nosuchthing
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Oh Lordy, is that a rainbow stole?
You need to give back that stole, Mr. Alessio.
And while you're at it, give back the rainbow.
To: Mrs. Don-o
I had a different opinion from the archbishop No, you dingbat, you had a different opinion from GOD! That's why you got chucked out.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:23:33 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ArrogantBustard
The stupidity burns. How can a person so educated in the Bible be so blind?
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:27:11 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Everything’s an “opinion” now.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:27:57 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:28:32 PM PDT
by
Fido969
To: Mrs. Don-o
"Thirty years of service to God's people mean nothing," Mr Alessio said in response. "I had a different opinion from the archbishop [of Córdoba, Carlos José Ñáñez] and so they have chucked me out. Catholic doctrine ain't opinion.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:28:52 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
To: driftdiver
I have no idea ...
May God grant this poor soul the grace of repentance and conversion.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:28:58 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:30:17 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
(drinking tea leads to right wing racism. gospel according to chrissy the sissy matthews)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I don’t think it’s a “rainbow stole” in the queer sodomite sense of “rainbow”. I think it’s just a plug-ugly stole ...
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:30:23 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: BlueDragon
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:34:37 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("All the way to heaven is heaven, because Christ said, 'I am the Way.'" - St. Catherine of Siena)
To: Mrs. Don-o
>>>”I had a different opinion from the archbishop [of Córdoba, Carlos José Ñáñez] and so they have chucked me out.”>>>
This defrocked priest sounds as though he thinks HE makes the rules. Good for B16 and the archbishop who was his superior at the time.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:42:02 PM PDT
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I wish journalists would learn that there is no such term as "defrocked" in the Catholic Church. I think they mean "laicized." This guy must have been an absolute whack-job and obstinate campaigner. No other type ever gets disciplined.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:44:51 PM PDT
by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: BlueDragon
I had no idea that Ray Stevens was even still alive, much less that he seems to be
one of 'us'.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:49:17 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I guess somewhere he assumed that he was Jesus, and thus a free agent.
He can go start his own church, and preach all types of “cool” lefty religions.
To: driftdiver
He certainly got through Romans: 1 without reading comprehension.
CC
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:54:55 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Hey liberals, what part of "unalienable" don't you understand?)
To: Celtic Conservative
He seems to have gotten through Leviticus 18 without reading comprehension.
He seems to have gotten through Matthew 19 without reading comprehension.
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:57:42 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: fwdude
To: Mrs. Don-o
I don’t think he had so much a difference of opinion with the Archbishop of Cordoba as with a ‘higher authority’
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posted on
04/16/2013 1:59:45 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: ArrogantBustard
I noticed that too. Watched a couple of them.
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posted on
04/16/2013 2:01:48 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
(drinking tea leads to right wing racism. gospel according to chrissy the sissy matthews)
To: ArrogantBustard
I'll add those to the list, thanks.
CC
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posted on
04/16/2013 2:02:02 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Hey liberals, what part of "unalienable" don't you understand?)
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