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Liberal writer: Deny bishop a Catholic funeral if he won’t give them to people in gay ‘marriages’

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A  National Catholic Reporter  writer argued that Bishop Thomas Paprocki should be sacked and denied a Catholic funeral because of new guidelines he released that stipulate Catholic funerals are not for unrepentant people in same-sex "marriages." Michael Sean Winters called the decree "unhinged" and argued that it's in conflict with Pope 's document on marriage,  Amoris Laetitia . Winters also wrote that if he knew he'd die in six months, he would enter into a same-sex "marriage" with his former roommate because it would make things easier on his dog.  Winters began his article by stating that Paprocki should be "sacked." "The decree is so completely at odds with the direction Pope Francis is trying to take the church, so excessive in its perception of the cultural significance of gay marriage , and so unlike the example of Jesus presented in the Gospels, it warrants the extreme sanction of removal from office prop...

Bishops should act: moral leadership required against Gay Agenda

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Image via Wikipedia The cultural warfare about the “normalization” of same-sex “marriage” and the homosexual lifestyle in Ontario ’s schools is coming to a head. Our main feature in Catholic Insight’s July/August edition, “ Canada’s public and Catholic schools under siege ” provides a record, however inadequate, of what has transpired so far in Ontario. It also sets this battle in the context of international events which are rushing towards the same abyss. Finally, it documents Premier McGuinty’s personal efforts in how to subvert Canada’s school system. Many Canadians continue to underestimate the willful determination, intolerance and even rage with which the partisans of “same-sex marriage” are determined to claim equality and thereby trounce traditional marriage.  Alas they meet feeble resistance, not to mention open co-operation.  Why is the Church’s voice so weak? Within the Church there is the destruction wrought by 50 years of dissenting theologians, priests and bi...