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Exclusive: Inside sources provide new info on priest censured for denying lesbian Communion

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(Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story identified Barabara Johnson as the partner of Kathleen DeBold and written up in Metro Weekly . A homosexual activist organization contacted LSN to note that it is a different Barbara Johnson identified in the newspaper. We are investigating the matter.) GAITHERSBURG, MD , March 1, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - In the wake of international press coverage of a priest’s decision to deny a lesbian communion, and the woman’s subsequent demands that he be removed from the parish, a source close to the incident contacted LifeSiteNews with new information that he says will set the record straight. Among other things, the new information indicates that the woman did actually receive Communion at the Mass – but from an Extraordinary minister rather than the priest. Fr. Marcel Guarnizo Fr. Marcel Guarnizo of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland,  was reprimanded  by the Archdiocese of Washington this week after...