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  • Bishop Corrects Catholic College for Inviting Gay "Marriage" Advocate

    02/17/2009 5:01:09 PM PST · by tcg · 5 replies · 781+ views
    Catholic Online ^ | 2/18/09 | Deacon Keith Fournier
    Statement of the Diocese of Scranton in Response to Misericordia University’s Plans to Host Speaker Keith Boykin "Misericordia University’s Diversity Institute is twice providing at the University on February 17, 2009, a platform for Keith Boykin. "Mr. Boykin has authored three books and all three have been nominated for a Lambda Literary award. Lambda is a legal advocacy effort for homosexual causes. Mr. Boykin is an avid supporter of same sex marriage and is an activist for positions disturbingly opposed to Catholic moral teaching. "Bishop Martino wants Catholics of the Diocese of Scranton to know of his absolute disapproval of...
  • Earlier accuser part of abuse suit

    01/13/2004 7:55:59 PM PST · by Land of the Irish · 5 replies · 160+ views
    TimesLeader.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2004 | MARK GUYDISH
    In a deposition, former Minn. seminary student alleges misconduct by area priest. By MARK GUYDISH markg@leader.net EXCLUSIVE SCRANTON - Explicit testimony of alleged sexual misconduct by an area priest - including sleeping with young men and fondling genitalia - has surfaced in paperwork in federal court. In a pre-trial deposition, a young man said he was sleeping near the priest and awoke to find the priest fondling his genital area. He said a second priest later tried to explain it away as a medical diagnostic technique. The man also said under oath that at one point, when he told the...