Cardinal Nichols Has a Place You Can Go

Still more reason to suspect the motivation behind allowing the "Gay Mass". To be sure, after listening to these candid interviews of the "gays" attending this Liturgy, Arcibishop Nichols would probably be just as defensive of it. It looks a lot more like tacit approval and hypocrisy than it does, Christian Charity.

Active homosexuals in the video would be welcome in the Church of England or the Old Catholics. It's not clear why they don't find a home there, but as long as prelates like Cardinal Pell in Australia, indeed, prelates all over the world, accomondate this stuff, they're not doing much for their credibility.

Surely, no one is surprised that Cardinal Nichols has a "gay Mass".

[BBC]As Britain prepares for a visit from the Pope, there is opposition from some gay people who believe the Roman Catholic church is intolerant of their sexuality. But in one London church homosexuals are attending a "gay Mass" with the blessing of senior clergy

Paul Brown had not been to church since his mother's funeral in 2002. Now he is back in the pews, courtesy of a Mass for lesbian and gay Catholics which is the only one of its kind in the UK.

"I searched for a Mass with a positive message about things you should do, not someone telling me all the things I shouldn't do," he says.

Paul, who sports a black leather biker's jacket, is one of a number who have transformed the church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory in London's West End.

They sing hymns at the top of their voices. Many are aged under 30. Some have dyed hair. Suddenly, Catholicism seems be all the rage in this part of central London.

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