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5. This doesn't smell right.

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 03:12 PM

Feb 2014

Officials with the LGBT Catholic organizations Dignity U.S.A. and Dignity Washington expressed disbelief that a priest would refuse to offer last rites and communion to a patient in need.

“This is just abhorrent and not Christ-like at all,” said Dignity Washington President Daniel Barutta. “I can’t imagine where that priest is coming from.”

Henry Huot, a retired Catholic priest who serves as chair of Dignity Washington’s Pastoral Ministry Committee, said longstanding Catholic practice calls for priests to provide the sacraments to people in situations similar to Plishka.

“Any baptized Christian ought not to be denied the sacraments at his or her request,” Huot said. “And that is a cardinal rule of pastoral care. So I don’t know what was going through the mind of this hospital chaplain to deny this man the sacraments,” he said. “It violates this cardinal rule.”

Is there any corroboration?

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Gay man says priest refused to give last rites [View all] William769 Feb 2014 OP

I wouldn't be surprised gopiscrap Feb 2014 #1

Uh-oh, someone needs to call the bishop shenmue Feb 2014 #2

Assholes need to get thier priorities straight. NCTraveler Feb 2014 #3

Perhaps someone could explain this to me. LiberalAndProud Feb 2014 #4

Sorry, but I have to say no shenmue Feb 2014 #7

The current Pope has also called same sex marriage 'a destructive attack on Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #8

What I am doing? shenmue Feb 2014 #9

I will back you on this rurallib Feb 2014 #27

Thank you. shenmue Feb 2014 #28

No. hunter Feb 2014 #10

This doesn't smell right. rug Feb 2014 #5

I think this is pretty self explanatory. William769 Feb 2014 #6

That's not surprising but the Hospital couldn't confirm or deny the report either. rug Feb 2014 #12

That's not Catholic doctrine Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #11

It's no longer called Extreme Unction; it is called the Anointing of the Sick now. rug Feb 2014 #13

You're right, being gay is not a sin Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #14

I wouldn't ask him about wet dreams . . . . rug Feb 2014 #15

The priest? Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #26

Unction (or Last Rites) includes Drahthaardogs Feb 2014 #21

There is only one sacrament, and it is the same whether given during the course pnwmom Feb 2014 #25

This smacks of bullshit to me. badtoworse Feb 2014 #16

Really? You find that so hard to believe? theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #20

Your cite is about legitimizing gay marriage badtoworse Feb 2014 #29

I think you missed the point of my post theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #30

when my uncle was on his deathbed, my aunt ( nun) performed last rites. an hour later, a priest bettyellen Feb 2014 #17

A nun cannot administer last rites Drahthaardogs Feb 2014 #19

well, despite being a Catholic, my Aunt ignored lots of their more sexist rules and felt they were bettyellen Feb 2014 #22

I agree with you and I have an aunt who is a nun as well, but... Drahthaardogs Feb 2014 #23

all my 12 years in school, there were always nuns and priests skirting canon law, always bettyellen Feb 2014 #24

Journalist does not even know that the Drahthaardogs Feb 2014 #18