Exclusive: Inside sources provide new info on priest censured for denying lesbian Communion
Exclusive: Inside sources provide new info on priest censured for denying lesbian Communion GAITHERSBURG, MD, March 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews) - In the wake of international press coverage of a priest’s …More
Exclusive: Inside sources provide new info on priest censured for denying lesbian Communion
GAITHERSBURG, MD, March 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews) - In the wake of international press coverage of a priest’s decision to deny a lesbian communion, and the woman’s subsequent demands that he be removed from the parish, a source close to the incident contacted LifeSiteNews with new information that he says will set the record straight.
Among other things, the new information indicates that the woman did actually receive Communion at the Mass – but from an Extraordinary minister rather than the priest.
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was reprimanded by the Archdiocese of Washington this week after denying communion to Johnson at her mother’s funeral. Johnson had informed the priest before the Mass that she was a lesbian, and was denied communion when she presented herself in line.
LifeSiteNews spoke today with Diego von Stauffenberg, a source who is …More
GAITHERSBURG, MD, March 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews) - In the wake of international press coverage of a priest’s decision to deny a lesbian communion, and the woman’s subsequent demands that he be removed from the parish, a source close to the incident contacted LifeSiteNews with new information that he says will set the record straight.
Among other things, the new information indicates that the woman did actually receive Communion at the Mass – but from an Extraordinary minister rather than the priest.
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was reprimanded by the Archdiocese of Washington this week after denying communion to Johnson at her mother’s funeral. Johnson had informed the priest before the Mass that she was a lesbian, and was denied communion when she presented herself in line.
LifeSiteNews spoke today with Diego von Stauffenberg, a source who is …More
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St. Therese knew of a hardened criminal going to the gallows unrepentant. She prayed for him, and at the last moment the man converted.
Anecdotal and another case that is impossible to prove.
Without condemnation. Sr. Josefa Menendez suffered the very fires of hell to convert sinners. She never sent them letters from her convent, calling them names, however.
It wasn't her business to do so. This …More
St. Therese knew of a hardened criminal going to the gallows unrepentant. She prayed for him, and at the last moment the man converted.
Anecdotal and another case that is impossible to prove.
Without condemnation. Sr. Josefa Menendez suffered the very fires of hell to convert sinners. She never sent them letters from her convent, calling them names, however.
It wasn't her business to do so. This is no longer the beginning of the 20th century. Today she might be writing letters to priests, bishops, cardinals and even popes reprimanding them for the ineffectiveness, cowardice and complacency.
I certainly have not heard one single story, of a layman calling names and wishing evil to someone on an internet forum, converting a sinner.
Grow up and come down from your illusionary ivory tower. There are NO conversions on the internet. You being a modernist and an idealist have visions of sugarplums dancing in your skull where you believe that soft words will accomplish some kind of "conversion" with obstinate sinners.
Your soft words accomplish nothing other than to demonstrate your weakness to the enemies of the faith. They respond with even more venom and further attacks on the King you claim to serve and his priests.
You have conveniently and predictably ignored my earlier post because it destroys your modernist notion that "harsh" words are to be avoided. For that reason, I will post it again with the slim hope that perhaps this time you will read and attempt to understand what is written.
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St. John the Baptist calls the Pharisees a "race of vipers"; Jesus Christ, Our Divine Savior, hurls at them the epithets "hypocrites, whitened sepulchres, a perverse and adulterous generation." St. Paul criticizes the schismatic Cretians as "always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies." The same Apostle calls Elymas the magician a "seducer, full of guile and deceit, a child of the devil, and enemy of all justice."
The Fathers of the Church exercised the same vigorous castigation of heresy and heretics. The gentle St. Bernard did not honey his words when he attacked the enemies of the Faith. Addressing Arnold of Brescia, the great Liberal agitator of his times, he calls him in his letters, "seducer, vase of injuries, scorpion, cruel wolf."
The Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, forgets the calm of his cold syllogisms when he hurls his violent attacks against William of St. Amour, and his disciples; "Enemies of God, ministers of the devil, members of antichrist, ignorami, perverts, reprobates!"
Did St. Francis de Sales, purr softly over the heretics of his age and country? With the enemies of the Faith he preserved neither moderation nor consideration.
Asked by a Catholic, who desired to know if it were permissible to speak evil of a heretic who propagated false doctrines, he replied: "Yes, you can, on the condition that you adhere to the exact truth, to what you know of his bad conduct, presenting that which is doubtful as doubtful, according to the degree of doubt which you may have in this regard." In his _Introduction to the Devout Life_, he expresses himself again: 'If the declared enemies of God and of the Church, ought to be blamed and censured with all possible vigor, charity obliges us to cry 'wolf' when the wolf slips into the midst of the flock and in every way and place we may meet him."
www.ewtn.com/library/theology/libsin.htm
p.s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7GPMZ_61I
Anecdotal and another case that is impossible to prove.
Without condemnation. Sr. Josefa Menendez suffered the very fires of hell to convert sinners. She never sent them letters from her convent, calling them names, however.
It wasn't her business to do so. This is no longer the beginning of the 20th century. Today she might be writing letters to priests, bishops, cardinals and even popes reprimanding them for the ineffectiveness, cowardice and complacency.
I certainly have not heard one single story, of a layman calling names and wishing evil to someone on an internet forum, converting a sinner.
Grow up and come down from your illusionary ivory tower. There are NO conversions on the internet. You being a modernist and an idealist have visions of sugarplums dancing in your skull where you believe that soft words will accomplish some kind of "conversion" with obstinate sinners.
Your soft words accomplish nothing other than to demonstrate your weakness to the enemies of the faith. They respond with even more venom and further attacks on the King you claim to serve and his priests.
You have conveniently and predictably ignored my earlier post because it destroys your modernist notion that "harsh" words are to be avoided. For that reason, I will post it again with the slim hope that perhaps this time you will read and attempt to understand what is written.
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St. John the Baptist calls the Pharisees a "race of vipers"; Jesus Christ, Our Divine Savior, hurls at them the epithets "hypocrites, whitened sepulchres, a perverse and adulterous generation." St. Paul criticizes the schismatic Cretians as "always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies." The same Apostle calls Elymas the magician a "seducer, full of guile and deceit, a child of the devil, and enemy of all justice."
The Fathers of the Church exercised the same vigorous castigation of heresy and heretics. The gentle St. Bernard did not honey his words when he attacked the enemies of the Faith. Addressing Arnold of Brescia, the great Liberal agitator of his times, he calls him in his letters, "seducer, vase of injuries, scorpion, cruel wolf."
The Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, forgets the calm of his cold syllogisms when he hurls his violent attacks against William of St. Amour, and his disciples; "Enemies of God, ministers of the devil, members of antichrist, ignorami, perverts, reprobates!"
Did St. Francis de Sales, purr softly over the heretics of his age and country? With the enemies of the Faith he preserved neither moderation nor consideration.
Asked by a Catholic, who desired to know if it were permissible to speak evil of a heretic who propagated false doctrines, he replied: "Yes, you can, on the condition that you adhere to the exact truth, to what you know of his bad conduct, presenting that which is doubtful as doubtful, according to the degree of doubt which you may have in this regard." In his _Introduction to the Devout Life_, he expresses himself again: 'If the declared enemies of God and of the Church, ought to be blamed and censured with all possible vigor, charity obliges us to cry 'wolf' when the wolf slips into the midst of the flock and in every way and place we may meet him."
www.ewtn.com/library/theology/libsin.htm
p.s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7GPMZ_61I