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CHILLICOTHE, MO, – A Missouri priest ordained last May is being raked over the media coals for upholding Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality after he denied Communion to a woman that he discovered has been in a long-term lesbian relationship. Father Benjamin Kneib of Saint Columban Catholic Church in Chillicothe found out that two women in his parish, Carol Parker and Josephine Martin, were lesbians and had cohabited for nearly twenty years when he saw the obituary notice for Parker’s mother. The obituary said she was survived by a son, a daughter and her “daughter’s partner.” Fr. Kneib (r) with Bishop Robert Finn. Credit: St. Columban Catholic Church Parker told a local TV station that Father Kneib had called her the day before the funeral to tell her he could not offer her Communion.“ He had called me the day of the rosary and said he wouldn’t be able to give us communion because of our same-sex relationship,” Parker told  Fox4KC .  Parker said that ...

GAITHERSBURG , March 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The Maryland priest who denied communion to a lesbian at her mother’s funeral is being stripped of his priestly faculties and “placed on administrative leave,” according to a letter from the Archdiocese signed by auxiliary Bishop Barry Knestout. Fr. Marcel Guarnizo  was previously censured  by the Archdiocese after denying communion to Barbara Johnson , who had reportedly introduced her lesbian “lover” to the priest in the sacristy right before her mother’s funeral Mass . Fr. Marcel Guarnizo According to  a source close to the incident who spoke with LifeSiteNews, Johnson’s lesbian lover physically blocked Fr. Guarnizo from speaking further with Johnson when she abruptly left the sacristy following this introduction. When Johnson presented herself for Communion, the priest refused to give it to her, although she ended up receiving from an extraordinary minister. It was later revealed that Johnson is also a Buddhist...

(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...

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND , February 29, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A parish priest in Maryland, who denied communion to a woman who identified herself as a lesbian, has been publicly rebuked by the Archdiocese of Washington . Barbara Johnson attended her mother’s funeral last Saturday and introduced her lesbian partner to the priest before Mass. Fr. Marcel Guarnizo of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, covered the Host as she approached and told her, “I can’t give you Communion because you live with a woman, and in the eyes of the Church, that is a sin.”  Afterwards, she wrote him a letter telling him, “I will do everything in my power to see that you are removed from parish life so that you will not be permitted to harm any more families.” Auxiliary Bishop Barry Knestout wrote a formal  letter of apology  telling Johnson, “I am sorry that what s...

Image via Wikipedia The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) warned Catholics this week against the self-identified “Catholic” group New Ways Ministry ’s position on homosexuality. In a statement from the USCCB, Cardinal Donald Wuerl , Archbishop of Washington and chairman of the Committee on Doctrine, condemned the group’s newly published booklet entitled “ Marriage Equality : A Positive Catholic Approach,” written by the group’s executive director Francis DeBernardo. “In no manner is the position proposed by New Ways Ministry in conformity with Catholic teaching, and in no manner is this organization authorized to speak on behalf of the Catholic Church or to identify itself as a Catholic organization,” wrote Wuerl. Archbishop Wuerl affirmed Cardinal Francis George ’s statement of last year, while he was acting as president of the USCCB, regarding New Ways Ministry.  “I wish to make it clear that, like other groups that claim to be Catholic but deny central aspects ...