Alameda Priest Attacks Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality as “Hate”

ALAMEDA, January 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Catholic priest, pastor of a large church in Alameda California, announced to his parishioners at a Mass in September that he is a homosexual. The Tri-Valley Herald interviewed Fr. Rich Danyluk who attacked the Catholic Church saying that the institution and the Gospel were in conflict on the issue of homosexuality.

Danyluk declined to correct the Herald writer’s assertion that the Church teaches “gay men and women are objectively disordered.” Accompanied by photos depicting the priest in a saintly glow, the Herald quotes him saying, “One can only take so much of hearing how disordered you are. I wasn't baptized a disordered child of God. I was baptized like everyone else.”

According to Fr. Mark Wiesner, spokesman of the diocese of Oakland, the priest has misrepresented Catholic teaching. “The inclination, not the individual, is objectively disordered,” Wiesner told LifeSiteNews.com. . .

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