Minnesota Catholic Bishop Says Gay Protesters Will Be Denied Communion!

[Itsthetruth]

Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Will Deny Communion to Protesters

National Catholic Register
May 15-21, 2005

by TIM DRAKE
Register Staff Writer

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Protesters who want the Church to change its teaching on the morality of homosexual acts will be denied Communion in the Cathedral of St. Paul if they step forward wearing a rainbow-colored garment Pentecost Sunday.

For the past four years members of the Rainbow Sash Alliance have donned multicolored sashes for Pentecost Sunday Mass at the St. Paul Cathedral and were given the Eucharist.

The organization is the U.S. affiliate of the international Rainbow Sash Movement. Because the movement’s actions have been perceived as a protest, St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn has told the local leader of the Rainbow Sash Alliance that those wearing sashes this Pentecost will not be permitted to receive Communion.

"You first wrote me in 2001 about the presence of people wearing the Rainbow Sash," said Archbishop Flynn in a May 2 letter that Brian McNeill, organizer of the Rainbow Sash Alliance USA, received a day later. "Because you assured me that the wearing of the sash was not a denial of Church teaching, I have not interfered with anyone’s desire to receive holy Communion. It has become apparent to me that the wearing of the sash is more and more perceived as a protest against Church teaching."


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[Itsthetruth]

1. This Is Outrageous!

Is this Bishop Flynn's Mothers Day gift to lesbian mothers?

[rodeodance]

2. so, this bishop just does not want the visible sash--the symbol of

resistance.

[rodeodance]

3. I have a brother who, after several years just got tired of working "withi

the Church-such as this Sash group is doing. So he finally left along with a lot others.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I'm heterosexual, but

if I were there, I'd wear a sash and go to his church.....but I guess Catholics don't allow non-Catholics to take communion--am I correct on this?

[Bellamia]

5. I believe you are correct........

but my question has always been, if you are an out of town visitor, how do they know you're not Catholic? When my Episcopalian son was in a Catholic Prep School, I, his Episcopalian mother,was never denied communion, nor was he. It warmed his Catholic father's heart and mine, to hear from the priests that it would be a greater sin to NOT welcome us. Jesus said " come ye all".......

[MichiganVote]

6. Might as well as eliminate a third of your US priests then Bishop