Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Lesbians Go Ballistic About Refusal at Communion by Roman Priest

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/28457

Catholic Priest Denies Communion to Unrepentant Lesbian, Rage Ensues

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 • 1:13 pm


What a painful but faithful decision this priest made, denying communion to an unrepentant lesbian at her mother’s funeral. He may have saved her life (1 Cor 11:27-32) and I pray God uses his witness to save her soul. Various revisionist activists are, of course, enraged. Here’s the story:
Several left-wing blogs decided to attack a Catholic priest yesterday because it seems that he may have denied holy communion to an openly ‘active’ lesbian during her mother’s funeral Mass on Saturday. The priest is called Father Marcel Guarnizo, and I am sure he could do with some prayers now that so many of the Church’s internal and external enemies have decided to launch this assault against him.
Father Guarnizo is being vilified in a most virulent and unjust way on the comment threads at seemingly anti-Catholic sites such as The New Civil Rights Movement, Huffington Post, and Addicting Info (where the story originated).

Although the facts concerning what happened at this Requiem Mass last Saturday remain sketchy, and all we have to go on is what we’ve been told by Ann Werner in her apparently biased blog post at Addicting Info, it seems that the baying wolves amongst modernist Catholics and left-wing secularists have already pronounced Guarnizo guilty of some heinous crime.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am a Catholic who sometimes reads your blog. Thank you for your supportive words about Father Guarnizo. I know him to be a fine priest.