Posted on 01/09/2020 5:51:01 PM PST by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO, Brazil - A priest was suspended from his duties in the city of Assis, in Brazil, after blessing a homosexual union early in December.
Father Vicente Paula Gomes took part at the celebration that happened on December 7 and blessed the union of two men. On Dec. 11, the Diocese of Assis issued a precautionary measure decree against him.
“Considering the serious allegations against Father Vicente Paula Gomes, who has celebrated a homosexual union […], an act performed at a party hall in the city of Assis, […] I decree the suspension of order ad cautelam,” read the document signed by Bishop Argemiro de Azevedo and by the diocesan chancellor, Father David José Martins.
The document states that after the stage of initial investigations and of the penal suit, the precautionary measure will lose its validity. The statement was released on Dec. 12 and went into force the same day.
A video clip published by the local news website AssisCity shows parts of Gomes’s speech during the ceremony: “We think that [at] home a man and a woman are enough. [But] family is not only that. To nucleate a family means to create conditions for a dignified life. That’s why I’m happy to be here,” the priest said.
Gomes then humorously admitted he was “trembling a bit” given that it was the first time he would give such a blessing.
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Francis will reinstitute him.
Suspended?
Hanging’s too good for him.
Excommunication is the only response.
Whether ecumenical or by the laity.
We survived the Medicis.
We WILL survive THIS usurper. Francis the FRAUD, as I personally refer to him.
Who was he to judge?
How can any church justify this by God?
Any church that does is of Satan.
Looks like the church didn’t justify it, just saying.
Yep.
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