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English Catholic congregation shocked as gay activist disrupts Mass with video cam

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ROME, March 15, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A homosexualist activist disrupted a Mass held in a parish in Teignmouth, Devon , with a video camera last week as a priest prepared to read a letter from the country’s bishops conference opposing government efforts to legalize same-sex “marriage.” The incident has prompted concerns that anti-Christian activists are becoming more bold and aggressive as the Church continues to oppose same-sex “marriage.” A video, posted to YouTube , shows the priest hesitating after announcing that the letter would be read out on the request of the bishops conference. The priest, dressed in Mass vestments and standing in the pulpit, faces the camera and asks, “What’s that for?” The activist replies, “Do go on. It’s a record of what you’re about to say.” The priest asks the activist to sit down, but when he hears that the video is to be posted on the internet, declines to read the letter for fear of further disruption. After the priest offers to have th...
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Image via Wikipedia Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has called on Catholic schools and parishes not to invite state legislators to speak at or attend any events, and to refuse any honors bestowed on them by the governor or any legislator responsible for the bill’s passage.  The sanctions, however, do not include refusing Governor Cuomo or other Catholic politicians who supported the passage of same-sex ‘marriage’ Holy Communion . Msgr. Kieran Harrington, Vicar for Communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn , told LifeSiteNews that “there are no plans to deny Holy Communion to elected officials at this point.” New York became the 6th and largest state in the country to permit same-sex marriage last month, when Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law just before midnight on June 24th, less than two hours after the bill was passed out of the State Senate. In his strong statement decrying the bill’s passage, Bishop DiMarzio said: “Governor Andrew Cuom...