Crowd of militant homosexual activists demonstrate outside Italian archbishop’s house
TRIESTE, January 28, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Earlier this month about two hundred homosexualist activists, including a number of local politicians, demonstrated in front of the residence and offices of the Catholic bishop of Trieste . The bishop later told an interviewer that he spent the afternoon, effectively barricaded in his own house, reading and catching up on correspondence. Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi told the diocesan newspaper Vita Nuova (New Life) he was reading a book by American sociologist, Rodney Stark , titled The Triumph of Christianity , “which analyzes, among other things, the many persecutions suffered by Christians in two thousand years of history”. The book, he said, “demonstrates...that in the end, the persecutors pass and Christians continue, because the persecutions purify them and make them stronger. It’s a book that I recommend.” His offence was having publicly defended the Catholic Church ’s teaching on the nature of marriage in the dioce