BATHURST, New Brunswick, September 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
The Catholic Diocese of Bathurst, New Brunswick has removed an elderly priest from active ministry after he caused a storm of controversy by denouncing homosexuality, cohabitation, and abortion in an August homily.
85-year-old Fr. Donat Gionet had retired to his home town of Caraquet in June to serve palliative care patients, and now laments that in his declining years he is being forced to celebrate Mass “in secret.”
Fr. Wesley Wade, the diocese’s vicar general, told Radio-Canada that Fr. Gionet’s comments were consistent with Church teaching, but lacked the proper “pastoral” sensitivity.
You see, the gay mayor of the town the parish is in is on the parish council. He was offended.This is an outrage, and shows what the gay agenda is after; silencing good holy priests.Canada is not alone, the same thing has happened to a bold priest in Texas who dared to speak the truth about homosexual sin, Fr Michael Rodriguez. God forgive us for hiding the truth from sinners in desperate need of it! We are endangering souls for the approval of Ceasar.
Here's my email to Fr Donat Gionet's bishop.
Most Rev. Valery Vienneau, Bishop of Bathurst,
I am writing in support of Fr. Donat Gionet, C.J.M. We need more priests like him, with the courage to tell sinners that they are walking over hell on a tightrope, not petting their egos by putting them on the parish council while they are living in sin.
The Prophet Isaiah said, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20.
If I love my children, and they are in sin, I will. as a mother, correct them with love. Of course, they might argue that my tone is harsh, not because it is, but because they are offended. "The sting in any rebuke is the truth." said Ben Franklin. Father Gionet was admonishing the sinner, a spiritual act of mercy. Please restore him to his parish, or you will be giving scandal to the entire diocese!
The openly homosexual mayor needs confession, not retribution against an elderly priest who is concerned for his immortal soul.
Your diocese needs more priests like this modern day St Jean Vianney! Satan said of him "with three more like him, I could lose the world!"
4 comments:
It's also been somewhat against the law in Canada to speak publicly in criticism of homosexuality, and the Church is not exempted.
I have been contacted by a radio station in Canada for comments. I notice no Canadian bloggers are commenting on this scandal. Maybe this is why they are afraid. We need to take note of this in the USA before the homosexualists silence us as well.
I'm Canadian and I commented on it. Canadian blogger Julie Culshaw from Concerned for Life also commented on it.
I've been reading the French press on this, and as I understand it, all he said was that homosexuals, women who've undergone abortion and cohabitating couples should not receive communion.
A leading gay activist in the United States has said: 'We will close churches which don't agree with us.' Street preachers here in the United Kingdom are arrested if they describe homosexual acts as sinful. How long before priests and ministers, inside their own churches, are forbidden to read passages from the Bible which are deemed to be offensive to gay people? Hate speech is wrong. Bigotry is wrong. But where is the freedom to dissent? I am an evangelical Christian and I find there is no place for me in the public forum. The real fundamentalists are the liberal fundamentalists. Poor Father Gionet. What would Pope Pius XII think of it all? Concerned Catholics ought to join Defeat Modernism, a good traditionalist forum on YouTube.
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