"Plishka said that a few days after the incident he called the Basilica of the National Shrine, where he has attended Sunday noon Mass for at least a decade. He didn’t know any priests but asked for one on duty to call him back, Plishka said. The priest agreed with the chaplain, Plishka said."
"'He said, he can't give you [Communion] if you continue that lifestyle, if you're an active participant,' he said."
This is an indication of the state of the soul of this homosexual patient, who is now using a sympathetic press to club a good priest.
Sounds like Father was hearing his Confession and could not give Absolution and told him why.Father offered to pray with the gay man but he refused.This gay guy is no too bright.As a Chaplin Father will pray and offer comfort to all patients but as a Catholic priest you must be in a state of grace to receive Communion which at some point the man said he was not sorry and Father could not absolve him.
Prayers up for this priest and for all of our priests, who must be under serious assault by these demons right now. May our Blessed Lord keep them safe and faithful.
The priest was telling him he had to get right with the Lord, that he had to resolve to “get rid of that other woman,” so to speak. The same kind of thing he would say to a man living with a woman not his wife. That’s a life-style, too. And that is what they are after: they want us all to affirm the rightness of what they are doing.
Ping!
How do you go to the Basilica for a decade and not know any priests?
It just struck me how this is the perfect way to malign priests: because they can't comment or defend themselves, under pain of excommunication.
Expect a lot more of this.