Another priest removed for explaining church teaching on homosexuality, now in Texas
Just after news broke that a priest in Canada had been suspended from active ministry for speaking out against abortion and homosexual behavior, news has also broken that a Texas priest who stirred controversy last month by Image via Wikipedia publishing essays that condemned the homosexual lifestyle is being removed from his parish, ABC-7 reports . However, unlike the situation in Canada, where the priest was removed from active ministry altogether, the Texas priest is being transferred to another parish. Rev. Michael Rodriguez Rev. Michael Rodriguez published four opinion pieces in the El Paso Times last month explaining the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, and exhorting Catholics to oppose efforts to legalize same-sex unions. The Times has revealed that the essays, which were run as paid advertisements, were funded by a couple from Plano, Texas . The advertisements were run in the midst of controversy over a local recall petition aimed at removing three El Paso officials fo