El Paso priest: failing to oppose homosexual agenda ‘a grave sin of omission’
EL PASO, TX , Fr. Michael Rodriguez, the Texas priest who was transferred out of his El Paso parish after publishing opinion pieces condemning the homosexual lifestyle, discussed the controversy surrounding his situation in an interview with The Remnant last week. Image via Wikipedia Rodriguez’s essays, published as paid ads in the El Paso Times, explained the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and urged Catholics to support a local effort to oust El Paso politicians who he said had supported “public recognition and legitimization of homosexual unions.” The diocese of El Paso announced shortly after the ads were published that the priest would be transferred from his current assignment at San Juan Bautista parish, citing IRS regulations that forbid intervention in the political process by religious organizations. Fr. Michael Rodriguez The priest was reassigned to Santa Teresa Catholic Church in Presidio, Texas , which he said in last week’s interview is located “out in the rura