Thursday, August 12, 2010

ALASKA:Catholic parish to host Episcopal Church ordination of gay rights propone

ALASKA: Catholic parish to host Episcopal Church ordination of gay rights proponent

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7190
August 12, 2010

Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, will ordain an Episcopal cleric from New York State as the Episcopal bishop of Alaska on September 4. The ceremony will take place at a Catholic parish in Anchorage.

Until recently, the Rev. Mark Lattime was a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester's Committee for Gay and Lesbian Ministry, which "seeks to further the cause of recognition and legitimization of lesbian and gay relationships within the church and in civil society." Lattime is married and has three children.

"Catholic churches are consecrated or blessed buildings which have an important theological and liturgical significance for the Catholic community," the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity notes in its 1993 Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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