Homosexual Activists Confront Archbishop at College Mass

[Holly3278]

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — When St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt was invited to celebrate Mass at St. John’s University’s Abbey Church on Sept. 26, the last thing he expected was a protest.

A protest is what he got.

In response, the archbishop upheld Church teaching, just as his predecessor Archbishop Harry Flynn did, by denying homosexual activists holy Communion and choosing to bless them instead.

ncregister.com/register_exclusives/homosexual-activists-confront-archbishop-at-college-mass/

Praise be to God that Archbishop John Nienstedt had the courage to deny these homosexual activists the Eucharist! :extrahappy: If only more bishops and priests would deny the Eucharist to those who they know to be in a state of deliberate opposition to the Church. I can think of at least one more person than just these homosexual activists who need to be denied the Eucharist though… Nancy Pelosi! She is very much a pro-abortion person and yet she also claims to be Catholic at the same time. Well, I hate to tell you this Nancy, but what you are doing is wrong. You cannot be both Catholic and pro-abortion!

That said, it seems to me that all of these people who choose to come to Mass to protest a teaching of the Church need to be disciplined. For the worst cases, excommunication would be a good idea. I, for one, think Nancy Pelosi should have been excommunicated a long time ago. And no, I do not say this out of contempt or hatred for her. I say that out of love for her. After all, excommunication is a remedial action, not a punishing one.

 

[Holly3278]

Oh, I forgot to add… the article is a couple of weeks old but I didn’t think anyone had discussed this yet and I thought it would make for an interesting discussion so I posted it.

 

[JRKH]

An unfortunate incident, but enlightening…

I noted something that others might find interesting. The “vice president of PRiSM” is quoted from an e-mail:
“We did not act in a political manner,” said Elizabeth Gleich, vice president of PRiSM via e-mail. “The second Archbishop Nienstedt denied us Communion he made it political.” (Bolding mine)
But then this same person tells the campus newspaper:“We did this because we needed to … make a statement.”

So - I wonder, what this “statement” was if not “political”…

Regardless of the label these people try to attach to it, their action (political and not spiritual) required a certain response. The Archbishop did precisely what he needed to do. He upheld the sanctity of the Eucharist by denying it to those who purposely and visibly opposed clear and unequivical Church teaching.

As to much of the other things going on at the abbey and college, it appears that this place needs a good “housecleaning” if not closed altogether…

Peace
James

 

[markomalley]

Oh, I forgot to add… the article is a couple of weeks old but I didn’t think anyone had discussed this yet and I thought it would make for an interesting discussion so I posted it.

See the following (for a sample):

**Disobedient Catholics Meet Resilient Bishops
**Gay activists denied communion
**Nienstedt Denies Communion to GLBT Button Students **

I’m sure there are a couple of others…but I always welcome more exposure of the agenda of the purple mafia.

 

[Holly3278]

An unfortunate incident, but enlightening…

I noted something that others might find interesting. The “vice president of PRiSM” is quoted from an e-mail:“We did not act in a political manner,” said Elizabeth Gleich, vice president of PRiSM via e-mail. “The second Archbishop Nienstedt denied us Communion he made it political.” (Bolding mine)But then this same person tells the campus newspaper:“We did this because we needed to … make a statement.”
So - I wonder, what this “statement” was if not “political”…

Regardless of the label these people try to attach to it, their action (political and not spiritual) required a certain response. The Archbishop did precisely what he needed to do. He upheld the sanctity of the Eucharist by denying it to those who purposely and visibly opposed clear and unequivical Church teaching.

As to much of the other things going on at the abbey and college, it appears that this place needs a good “housecleaning” if not closed altogether…

Peace
James

Yeah, it seems to me that if anyone was trying to be political, it was the gay activists, not the Bishop. The Bishop only did what he should have done. The activists, on the other hand, did the opposite of course.

See the following (for a sample):

Disobedient Catholics Meet Resilient Bishops
Gay activists denied communion
Nienstedt Denies Communion to GLBT Button Students

I’m sure there are a couple of others…but I always welcome more exposure of the agenda of the purple mafia.

Oh, I’m sorry. I did not realize that there were other threads on this. Anyway, what is the “purple mafia”?

 

[markomalley]

Yeah, it seems to me that if anyone was trying to be political, it was the gay activists, not the Bishop. The Bishop only did what he should have done. The activists, on the other hand, did the opposite of course.

Oh, I’m sorry. I did not realize that there were other threads on this. Anyway, what is the “purple mafia”?

Probably should have said “lavender mafia”…sorry. Lavender Mafia is the pro-homosexual elements that can be found in a lot of diocesan chanceries, religious orders, and among not a few parishes. In fact, one of the more famous ones was in Archbishop Nienstedt’s diocese (its pro-GLBT activities were suppressed by the good Archbishop a couple of years ago, though). They tend to appear to wield a lot of influence which could result in the watering down of solid moral positions by the Church.

 

[BobCatholic]

More diSSenters who want to force the Catholic Church to change her doctrine.

What ever happened to freedom of thought? Oh yeah, the left doesn’t believe in that if one disagrees with them.