Posted on 02/15/2021 5:33:32 PM PST by marshmallow
TRAVERSE CITY — Jan Renollet Chapman grew up in the Catholic faith and is a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in downtown Traverse City.
Chapman, 73, no longer goes to Mass every Sunday and calls herself a lapsed Catholic. She was not at the Thursday morning Mass celebrated Jan. 26 by the Rev. Mitchel Roman, but watched it online. She listened as Roman in his sermon criticized Pres. Joe Biden, who is Catholic, abortion and today’s cancel culture.
But Chapman said she was enraged when Roman took aim at the LGBTQ community, suggesting that a person cannot be gay and also be Catholic.
“I saw hatred,” Chapman said. “Discrimination in any form is wrong. The Catholic thinking is love and promotes dignity for every human being.”
Roman’s sermon departed from the Catholic faith, she said.
“You don’t go to church to be judged,” Chapman said. “How can you do a sermon like that?”
St. Francis posts its church services on its Facebook page; the Jan. 26 Mass was posted, but has since been taken down.
Another church member, Sherri Glezman, said she was appalled at the sermon.
“It is upsetting and offensive that Fr. Roman used his platform to voice his political opinion about the Biden administration and it is deeply disturbing that he went even further to purposefully single out the LGBTQ+ community,” Glezman said in a written statement to the Record-Eagle.
“I am the proud mother of a gay son and I am appalled that Fr. Roman is now insinuating that my own son, his husband, and therefore my family are now unwelcome in the church. His message is insulting to the LGBTQ+ community and to those who love and support them, as God would ask us to. Aren’t we all suppose to ‘love thy......
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You will be hated by everyone because of Me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. Matthew 10:22
He didnt judge any particular individual
He judged sin, a sinful lifestyle, and correctly
Itchy ears only wanting to hear what they want to hear
In her view is their any sins that can be condemned?
In all likelihood he wasn’t criticizing individuals who think they are gay, he was criticizing what practicing gays do.
This is my town and what they are doing to Fr. Rowan is horrid. He is a wonderful priest. Please pray for him.
Another church member, Sherri Glezman, said she was appalled at the sermon.
Sodomite propagandist Patti Brandt Burgess fails to mention that "Sherri Glezman" is Pete Buttgiggity's MOTHER-IN-LAW.
That's right - her poofter son is "married" to Buttgiggity, and she's got a BIG dog in this fight.
Guess that little factoid kind of slipped Patti Burgess' mind...
Now, unfortunately they stay Catholic and attempt to change the church's teachings to fit their own. If they have any success the faithful will leave the church and that will be the worse thing that could ever happen.
This Priest owes nobody an apology.
Yup
Well said & true!!!
Barf Alert Ping
I don’t know what they’re doing, but I am trying to show support on local forums. The hate is about 9 out of 10 comments. Very sad.
I will pray for him.
Ah, very interesting bit of information.
Well said.
As much as I did not want to give the site any traffic, I went to the article just to see how much of the priest’s comments during the sermon were printed. The answer is zero. Surprise! Surprise!
Thank you!
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