San Diego parish priest says furor over funeral for gay bar owner was a ‘set-up’: report
Image via Wikipedia An associate pastor at the San Diego Catholic church that cancelled a funeral Mass for the owner of a gay lounge earlier this week has reportedly said the controversy surrounding the events was a “set-up” by homosexual activists. A parishioner from Our Lady of the Rosary parish reported that the associate pastor, Rev. Louis M. Solcia, spoke about the controversy during a noon Mass on Tuesday, according to the California Daily Catholic . In those remarks Rev. Solcia confirmed that the priests at the parish had decided that a funeral service , rather than a Mass, would be appropriate, given that the deceased, John Sanfilippo, was not practicing his Catholic faith , nor had he been to confession or received Last Rites before his death. The parish reportedly came to this decision after receiving a phone call from Sanfilippo’s homosexual partner, with whom he had been in a relationship with for many years. After the priests informed the family of the decisio