ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine withdrew its invitation Wednesday for the Episcopalian Diocese to use one of its churches for a ceremony because the pro-gay leader of the Episcopalian Church was slated to attend.
The local Catholic diocese rescinded the invitation after Frank Griswold, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, defended in a news article the church’s confirmation of a gay bishop and argued that the Bible does not condemn same-sex relationships.
Bishop Victor Galeone “felt a good number of his people would be offended to learn that an Episcopalian bishop, that holds a position that is radically opposed to what both the church and scripture teach about homosexuality, is using one of our facilities,” Kathleen Bagg-Morgan, a spokeswoman for the local Catholic diocese said in a statement.
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My Bishop, Victor Galeone, keeps impressing me. This is excellent that he was concerned about scandalizing the faithful and prevented it from happening. I have been a couple of times to the Church they were going to use. It is fairly large with a beautiful golden dome and a large tabernacle. Unfortunately they have no crucifix in the sanctuary, but a risen Jesus sans cross.
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If find this confusing. The entire Anglican Communion was set up specifically and precisely to refute and confound the authority of the Catholic Church. IOW, the very existence of the Episcopalian Church is radical opposition to what the Catholic Church and Sacred Scripture teach about the Church. If that’s not reason enough to keep Episcopalians from holding a ceremony in a Catholic Church, why is anything else?
That’s a risen Jesus? Are you sure? It’s pink and the feet are ummmm, different. Where do we get this lousy art?