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Montana Gay Couple Denied Communion After Roman Catholic Priest Learns of Marriage
Fox News ^ | 7/19/14 | AP

Posted on 09/19/2014 6:12:03 PM PDT by marshmallow

BILLINGS, Mont. – A gay couple has been told they can no longer receive Communion or participate in church ministry after the new priest at a Roman Catholic church in central Montana learned they had been married in a civil ceremony more than a year ago.

The decision set off a split that has cut attendance at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Lewistown, population 5,900. It has prompted an upcoming visit from the bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; romancatholic
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

The best thing I’ve found written on the Catholic take on marriage:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum_en.html

Every Catholic should give that a gander. Pope Leo XIII wrote it 130 years ago.

Freegards


21 posted on 09/19/2014 7:46:12 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: marshmallow

It cut attendance? By how much & when did this actually happen?


22 posted on 09/19/2014 7:52:05 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: marshmallow
It's not targeting the gays.

Wife and I were married, but not by the church, and we are denied communion until our marriage is sanctified this coming October.

23 posted on 09/19/2014 7:52:07 PM PDT by chemicalman (People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.)
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To: marshmallow

So a Catholic church is following Biblical teaching? Why is this news?


24 posted on 09/19/2014 7:58:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: marshmallow

God bless the priest and bishop. Hopefully they’ll withstand the resultant lawsuits.


25 posted on 09/19/2014 7:59:51 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: marshmallow
The decision set off a split that has cut attendance...

As if the Church were a form of popular entertainment.

26 posted on 09/19/2014 8:07:14 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: marshmallow

why wuld it cut attendance....the jackasses who stayed away from Mass there need to think of what they are doing...the church is absolutely correct in denying the Eucharist to those who are actively participating in mortal sin. Those who ignore the churches authority to uphold biblical teachings are on thin ice themselves....so be it, come down on the side of rightousness or sin...whatever.


27 posted on 09/19/2014 8:18:39 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: doc1019

I don’t think they will do it - not at this stage anyway - there is plenty of hate out there for the Catholic/Christian church but I don’t know that they are ready yet to attack something so sacrosanct to Christianity - it would be great to be able to force their hand at this point and it would have the effect of separating the sheep from the goats in the congregations.


28 posted on 09/19/2014 8:36:36 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: marshmallow

29 posted on 09/19/2014 8:42:59 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: melsec

Sounds like you doubt how far these perverts will go to achieve their goal. There is a certain bakery in the north west that would beg to differ.

Usually they take small bites of the perversion/legal apple, with this one they are going for the whole apple.

Look what the Catholic church has had to go through over birth control and Obamacare ...


30 posted on 09/19/2014 8:44:03 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: marshmallow
"The bishop he says he must uphold church teachings."

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It's big news when Catholic teaching is occasionally upheld, such is the current climate.

Yes, indeed, BIG news.

31 posted on 09/19/2014 9:32:43 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: doc1019

Nah I just doubt the timing - they will eventually - they have to build up to these things within the public mindset. Twenty years ago Joe Schmoe would not have accepted the anti-Christian pro-homo mindset that currently exists - ten years from now it might be considered a good thing that Christians are imprisoned or beheaded. I think the general population would still consider it is a churches business what happens with it’s own rites (except marriage) v’s what a business is entitled to do or not. Give them time though. I just think that Communion would be overreaching for them atm.


32 posted on 09/19/2014 9:44:56 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey
Divorce IS allowed in the Catholic Church. Remarriage is not.
33 posted on 09/19/2014 9:49:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Viennacon

Excommunicate. That’s the answer.


34 posted on 09/19/2014 10:08:27 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: marshmallow

I used to live in Lewistown. St Leo’s is the biggest church in town but I think the men may be very popular around this small rural town and the parishioners have decided to support them instead of being loyal to Biblical teaching. The Episcopal church is tiny there but would of course welcome them with open arms.


35 posted on 09/20/2014 1:38:36 AM PDT by tinamina
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To: marshmallow

....”The decision set off a split”....

Goats from the sheep....God is working at flushing them out! Unfortunately the wrong ones will remain in the church in time.


36 posted on 09/20/2014 1:56:48 AM PDT by caww
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To: Rome2000

...”think they are going to get the Diocese to back down”....

Heavy hitters in every denomination and church today....don’t be so sure they won’t be appeased sufficient enough to remain and grow within like the cancer they are.... That is how things “work” to not work now for Christian Morality to become the minority in play..


37 posted on 09/20/2014 2:00:38 AM PDT by caww
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To: Rome2000
The evil faggots can go jump in a lake and take the clueless congregation with them I’m amazed that people that go to a Catholic Church don’t understand that queers getting married means no communion, and think they are going to get the Diocese to back down LOL

Just curious - could the sin be forgiven? Is it as bad as murder or rape? What constitutes a "need to send them to Hell to burn situation vs. a "Let's try to love them and help them see the Love of God and how their actions conflict with Him?

I wonder how many stone throwers actually deserve the honor of casting the stones they seem to be pelting all the "sinners" with.

38 posted on 09/20/2014 3:38:51 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...

Ping!


39 posted on 09/20/2014 4:14:01 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: marshmallow
Poorly catechized Catholics in a state of mortal sin march up to receive Holy Communion. Why do they think they are entitled to the Sacrament?

50 years of failing to instruct the faithful in the faith has consequences.

40 posted on 09/20/2014 4:29:02 AM PDT by Oratam
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