Catholic families plan prayer vigil over no-communion stance

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Farmington Hills residents Linda Karle-Nelson, 72, and Tom Nelson, 83, and other Catholics plan a prayer vigil today in front of the Archdiocese of Detroit headquarters downtown. / Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press

May 2, 2013
By Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Tom Nelson and Linda Karle-Nelson, lifelong Catholics, are the parents of gay adult children who are in committed relationships.

At mass Sunday, Nelson and Karle-Nelson received communion.

And they intend to do so again this weekend, even after Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron’s statements in April that Catholics who support gay unions or marriage should abstain from receiving communion.

“He’s not going to keep me from the Eucharist,” said Nelson, 83, a retired engineer from Farmington Hills. “Somebody’s got to stand up and say, ‘Enough.’ ”

http://www.freep.com/article/20130502/NEWS05/305020049/Gay-Catholic-Archdiocese-Vigneron-Marriage

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. Sorry, your archbishopship, but you are full of crap

Loving your fellow humans is a reason for taking communion, not for abstaining from it. I would question whether or not YOU should abstain from the Eucharist.

[IrishAyes]

2. Amen to that.

I already belong to Catholics for Obama. Maybe I should join Catholics4MarriageEquality too. Wouldn't that put a twist in people's shorts here in RedNeckLand?

[47of74]

3. The Good Archbishop is in serious danger of becoming like the Pharisees of Matthew 23

I was thinking of this today how those who engage in this sort of stuff are just like the Pharisees in Matthew 23:13.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to."