Italian priest performs same-sex civil union ceremony - resigns as parish pastor

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His bishop told him to take a “reasonable period of reflection” and then they’ll decide next steps. The bishop said “Let’s take a year and see.” The priest agreed to this, according to the bishop.
 
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Hm, reading the article, I think the official response to this event has actually been pretty good. Both clarifying for the faithful and merciful to the priest.

I pray that God will bless this priest (and the bishop helping him) during this year away.
 
Sadly, the Priest has something in common with one of the two men who will lead this country for the next four years.
 
You quoted me as writing something I didn’t write. It was in the article. As @Tis_Bearself said, it could be a year, it could be more or he might never return.
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Sadly, the Priest has something in common with one of the two men who will lead this country for the next four years.
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What country? Italy?
 
I’ve noticed he’s not tub-thumping his Catholicism too hard this time around.
He realizes the practicing Catholics won’t buy it and it would also hurt him with all the pro-abortion and anti-Christian types who make up his current base.
For all we know, his pastor or bishop may have had a talk with him as well.
 
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Yes, he has been quiet about that. Like you said, I suspect it doesn’t play well with the voters he needs, and given some of his recent positions and shift leftward, the cat is likely out of the bag on that one with Catholic voters. Not sure it matters to anyone at all any more anyway. The last two times a Catholic was on the ticket at the top, I couldn’t stand them (2020 and 2004).
 
I liked Kerry okay, though I figured he probably wasn’t a very good Catholic.
I would have voted for just about anything short of a Communist runnning against Dubya though.
 
I have a particular disdain for politicans waving their Catholic credentials around and seemingly not actually caring about what our faith teaches. That goes beyond someone I simply disagree with on policy. I have a higher standard for Catholic politicians, which is probably not realistic these days.
 
Joe arguably took a giant step out of the “Democrat Catholic” box when he performed the marriages himself.
A lot of Catholics would be happy for the gay couple, send a gift, maybe even go to the civil ceremony. However, far fewer of them would officiate at the ceremony.
 
I love the way that (this is not directed at you personally) particular political parties play the either-or game. As if only Democrats “love one another, compassion, empathy” and republicans do nothing of the kind. Or painting Republicans as oh-so-subtly ‘anti’ (anti abortion the term instead of pro-life), and “living in a fantasy world “(Mayberry was a town on a TV show.

Ask most people if they want to help people and be ‘real’ and loving, or if they want to be imposing their beliefs on others and trying to build a fantasy land from the past; most people will say the former.

But if you asked people if they wanted to help people become self-sufficient, have respect for others, be polite and kind, OR if they wanted to impose their beliefs on you, were all for ‘terminating’ elderly and children for lack of ‘quality’, and who were all for free speech including profanity and porn. . .hmm, I think more people would align with the first group HERE.

Not that I am saying all republicans are involved in all the things that are attributed to them, or all democrats. I have been told by people on the forms that there exist Democrats for Life, and I certainly have seen republicans whose ‘working for life’ turns into a loud, “who am I to impose MY morality’ trope, but I’d just urge people to be really careful when they look at ‘platforms’.

Because people can put a spin on words and concepts and make it look as if group A is all for ‘good’ things when they’re aren’t, or that group B is after nothing but evil, when THEY aren’t.
 
Of course. It’s all about how you word it.

Pro-life and pro-choice both sound positive, don’t they? Yet the two views/groups diametrically oppose each other.
 
True. But you can truly count on one hand the number of times you hear the term ‘pro-life’ outside Catholics sources like this. When it comes to mainstream media, the term they use is constantly and consistently “anti-abortion”, coupled with pro choice.
 
What circumstances would warrant this priest ever returning to ministry? He repents, fine. He changes his ways and becomes a voice for why what he did was wrong? Ok. But that doesn’t really mean this priest should be given the keys to be the spiritual leader of a group of people again.
 
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I’ve noticed he’s not tub-thumping his Catholicism too hard this time around.
He realizes the practicing Catholics won’t buy it and it would also hurt him with all the pro-abortion and anti-Christian types who make up his current base.
For all we know, his pastor or bishop may have had a talk with him as well.
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He certainly didn’t mind inserting a fervently praying Catholic priest near a hospital bedside, in his latest campaign propo, “Crossroads”.
 
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