Roman Catholics demanding that the
“I am the gentleman responsible for the filming of the whole thing,” said Anthony Gonzales, chief of the
Gonzales said he knew that he knew that the archbishop was going to be at the Most Holy Redeemer parish in the heart of the “Homosexual Street Fair” to be a “part of the celebration” of their immoral life-style, so I sent one of my men to see what the archbishop was going to do and film it.
Gonzales said that it has gotten to the point that “We can’t take our children to Mass any more. We can’t even go to our churches,” he said. “We want the Roman Catholic faithful to return, and are sick and tired of having to deal with these faithless men (referring to the archbishop and church leaders like him as well as civic leaders) who are our leaders. They come into positions of power because of other homosexuals, or are at least promoting them into positions of power.”
Speaking of the archbishop, Gonzales went on to say: “This guy has got to know he can’t continue to get away with his actions. He has played dumb before.” “He says that he didn’t recognize the two gay men dressed in drag coming up to receive Communion in clown makeup!”
The archbishop described the event which took place on Oct 7th as routine. He said: “The congregation was devout, and the liturgy was celebrated with reverence. I noticed no demonstration, no protest, and no disruption of the Eucharist. At Communion time, toward the end of line, two strangely dressed persons came to receive Communion. As I recall, one of them wore a large flowered hat or garland. I did not recognize either of them as wearing mock religious garb.”
But Gonzales, along with several other Church members, said that such incidents have long been occurring at the church and very likely the archbishop knew about them. “We are going to be submitting all of this information to
A spokesman for the archdiocese, Maurice Healy, said that the archbishop has a policy of reaching out to “those people”, but Gonzales disagreed, saying: “They don’t reach out to that community to call for repentance, healing and reconciliation with Christ. Instead they say “this is your life-style and we are here to give you approbation.’”
Gonzales said the incident with the gay group, “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, was the last straw. Gonzales said that Catholics in
It remains to be seen what, if any thing, the
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