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El Paso diocese backs away from priest’s stance against homosexuality

EL PASO, Texas, September 8, 2011 (LifeSitNews.com) – A priest’s exhortation to the faithful to reject homosexual activity and help homosexuals live chaste lives received no backing from the local diocese, which reportedly called the statements out of line with Church teaching. A report in the El Paso Times detailed the paid-advertisement columns authored by Fr. Michael Rodriguez of San Juan Bautista Catholic Church in the Diocese of El Paso. The essays begin by summarizing the teaching on homosexuality presented by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which calls homosexual acts a “grave depravity” and such an attraction “an objective […]
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