A priest who helped found a gay ‘marriage’ advocacy group for Catholics has been suspended from distributing the sacraments or representing himself publicly as a cleric by his bishop.
The National Catholic Register reported Monday that Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles had spoken to Rev. Joseph Palacios, co-founder of “Catholics for Equality” (CFE), a small group created two years ago with strong connections to the Human Rights Campaign.
Palacios described the purpose of his outreach at Princeton University in February 2011, where he called the Church’s faithful the key target for effecting cultural shift in favor of homosexuality.
“The denominations are already lined up. The only group that isn’t lined up is the Catholics,” said Palacios, who was wearing a Roman collar. In Maine and California, where efforts at marriage redefinition failed, he said, “it was 3-5% of Catholics that could have been moved. If there had been a campaign to shift the Catholic movable middle, we would have won.”
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I think that will do more to boost vocations and morale than simply allowing "whatever". The Church is on the ropes, She has to begin drawing the line in the sand, or... defending the one that is there. Either that or we are doomed to become Episcopalian (some of us splintering, though with the Pope, for my part).
I am concerned for his health, every day. Pope Benedict has... changed things for the better. Installing right men for the right positions. Restoring things. But without more force then needed. I do pray for him, for the rest, for the Church, and for the continuation of this.
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