Catholic Church Priest Denied Communion To Lesbian Girl, While Still Giving It To Child Molestring Priest

The family of a Gaithersburg woman buried this weekend is describing what they call a “disgusting” scene at her funeral Mass, where the priest denied Communion to the woman’s lesbian daughter — beside the coffin — and then left the altar while she was delivering a eulogy.

The Rev. Marcel Guarnizo, a priest at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, put his hand over the cup and the wafers and told Barbara Johnson, a Mount Rainier artist, that she could not receive Communion “because she was living with a woman in a state of sin,” Larry Johnson said of the incident involving his sister.


“She just walked away, clearly stunned,” he recalled.

The scene at the Saturday morning funeral of Loetta Schoenholz Johnson has picked up fast fuel around the blogosphere, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is commenting only with a brief statement that says the priest’s actions were against “policy” and that officials would be looking into the incident as a personnel issue.

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I Am Not a Catholic, I Am A Slave That The Catholic Church Owned.

I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but today, I call myself a Catholic. Why? Because the state is telling the Catholic Church to violate its principles and teachings. So if you are a person of faith, you must call yourself a Catholic.

Today, the Catholic Church is defending a historic American freedom. We tend to forget that many of America’s earliest European settlers were religious refugees. Europe was not a kind place to the faithful if the state didn’t approve: Jews in Spain, Puritans in England, Protestants in France and so on. You were cast out, or worse.

Our Founding Fathers remembered this. They knew if you can’t serve God as you choose, you are not free. And so they enshrined that right in the First Amendment of the Constitution: The state “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

This is why Americans are offended by the ruling from the White House that would force church-run institutions to pay for birth control and morning-after pills, which are tantamount to abortion. The so-called compromise is no compromise – under government-approved health insurance plans that the church pays for, abortifacients would be covered. Sin by proxy – that’s the compromise.



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Catholic Chruch Talking More About Contraception, But Hide Sexual Abuse Cases

The standoff between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church intensified Monday, as a leading clergyman freshly urged Catholics and worshippers in other religions to protest a federal policy that the White House indicated it is not inclined to revise further.

"People need to speak up," Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, said during an appearance Monday on the Fox News program

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Woman Claims Her Own Blessing By Embezzling A Million From Church.

A 67-year-old woman with a criminal record for theft has been charged with siphoning $1 million in donations while working in a finance office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, church officials announced Monday (Jan. 30).

The archdiocese said it did not conduct a criminal background check when the employee, Anita Collins, was hired in 2003. Collins' complex scheme drained money from an education fund at the same time the church was closing Catholic schools.

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