Los Angeles archbishop suspends faculties of ‘Catholics for Equality’ priest
LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - 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. Archbishop Gomez 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 hav