Priest who defended homosexual ‘marriage,’ transgenderism defrocked by Vatican
April 18, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - An Argentinean priest who has been an outspoken supporter of homosexual "marriage" and gender ideology has been removed from the clerical state permanently by the Vatican 's Congregation of the Clergy, according to the Archdiocese of Cordoba , where the cleric was stationed. Fr. Alessio. The Archdiocese reports that the decision to laicize Fr. Jose Nicolas Alessio was officially issued on February 6, and that the priest is "excluded from all exercise of sacred ministry, in accordance with the norms that obligate priests that have been dismissed." "This dismissal is not subject to any appeal," the archdiocese added. Cordoba's Archbishop Carlos Jose Nanez began a canonical prosecution of Alessio in 2010 and temporarily suspended him from his duties, when the media published statements attributed to him in favor of "marriage" between people of the same sex. The affirmations by the prie