Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin issues a warning to Catholics that are not free to “endorse or ignore immoral or destructive behavior,” and advises against attending any gay weddings now that same-sex marriage has been legalized in Rhode Island.
by Gerry Braiden - Senior Reporter at The Herald Scotland
Friends of the cleric have said he has been told by Rome to shelve his plans to retire to a church-owned cottage in East Lothian and instead leave the country.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has asked Catholics to pray, fast, and abstain from meat on May 3 “for the justices of the US Supreme Court, that they would respect the authentic meaning of marriage by upholding California’s Proposition 8.”
by Ross Murray - GLAAD Director of News and Faith Initiatives
Nicholas Coppola, the Catholic man stripped of all volunteer duties after he married his husband, has launched a Change.org petition, inviting Cardinal Timothy Dolan to dinner and conversation about the relationship between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and LGBT people.
by Ross Murray - GLAAD Director of News and Faith Initiatives
Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre refuses to meet with Nicholas Coppola, the gay man who was stripped of his involvement with his local parish after he got married.
by Ross Murray - GLAAD Director of News and Faith Initiatives
On one hand, Cardinal Timothy Dolan is talking about having the Catholic Church open to all. Then a gay Catholic man is stripped of his roles and duties within his Long Island parish. What is wrong with this picture?
America’s most high-profile Catholic official, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, says that gays and lesbians are “entitled to friendship” with each other, but that “sexual love” is intended only between a man and a woman.
San Francisco Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone explains that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting same-sex couples the freedom to marry would have horrible consequences “for generations to come.”
Just as I was forced to look at my own propaganda about Catholics in Ireland in the 1980s and face some of my own prejudices and demons, I hope Catholics will continue to examine their relationships with their own LGBT children, neighbors and allies.
