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Tuesday January 25, 2005
Vatican Official Affirms Rainbow Sash Gay Activists Not to be Admitted to Communion
St. Paul Minneapolis Archbishop caught in ‘exaggeration’
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ST PAUL, January 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Roman Catholic columnist, Barbara Kralis, thought there was something fishy. In December, Archbishop Harry Flynn, of St. Paul Minneapolis, claimed that the Vatican approved his giving communion to members of the homosexual activist group, Rainbow Sash Movement. Kralis has published a letter she received from the Vatican showing that Flynn’s claim of approval was exaggerated at best.
In December 2004, Archbishop Flynn said he met privately in early December with Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. CNS, the official press service of the US Catholic bishops’ conference reported, “(Flynn) said he got no sense that the Vatican was pushing for a single policy on this.”
The letter to Kralis from the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments, however, was devoid of ambiguity or passive verbs. It said bluntly, “Cardinal Arinze wants you to know that the report was not exact and does not show his stand. He has written Archbishop Flynn about it. Rainbow Sash wearers, the Cardinal says, are showing their opposition to Church teaching on a major issue of natural law and so disqualify themselves from being given Holy Communion.” The letter was signed by the Cardinal’s secretary.
Read Kralis’ column:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kralis/050123
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage of Archbishop Flynn:
Minneapolis Archbishop Claims Vatican Okay with Communion for Homosexual Activists
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04121502.html
St. Paul Minneapolis Bishop Accuses Priests Faithful to Catholic Teaching of Operating "Parallel Church"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04122007.html
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