Florida - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:17:37 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Florida - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Florida man crashes into church, sets it on fire with parishioners inside https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/07/16/florida-church-fire/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:51:24 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=128777 A Florida man was arrested Saturday after plowing his vehicle into a Catholic church and then setting the building on fire as parishioners were inside preparing for Mass, according to officials. The Marion County Sheriff's Office said Steven Anthony Shields, 24, crashed his van through the front doors of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Read more

Florida man crashes into church, sets it on fire with parishioners inside... Read more]]> A Florida man was arrested Saturday after plowing his vehicle into a Catholic church and then setting the building on fire as parishioners were inside preparing for Mass, according to officials.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office said Steven Anthony Shields, 24, crashed his van through the front doors of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala around 7:30 a.m. He got out, poured gasoline in the foyer area and set it on fire, authorities said.

Shields then drove off but was spotted by Deputy Josue Gonzalez, who stopped the vehicle by hitting it with his patrol car, the sheriff's office said. Read more

Florida man crashes into church, sets it on fire with parishioners inside]]> 128777 Baby girl gets three-parent birth certificate https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/02/19/baby-girl-gets-three-parent-birth-certificate/ Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=39583 A two-year-old girl in Florida will have three parents on her birth certificate after a judge decided that a lesbian couple and a gay man are all her parents. The sperm-donor father, hair stylist Massimilano Gerina, went to court after the lesbian couple, both clients of his, said he would not have parental rights. After Read more

Baby girl gets three-parent birth certificate... Read more]]> A two-year-old girl in Florida will have three parents on her birth certificate after a judge decided that a lesbian couple and a gay man are all her parents.

The sperm-donor father, hair stylist Massimilano Gerina, went to court after the lesbian couple, both clients of his, said he would not have parental rights.

After two years of litigation, the parties agreed on visitation rights and a three-parent birth certificate.

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Baby girl gets three-parent birth certificate]]> 39583 Miami Vice: Story of Florida Archdiocese https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/08/02/miami-vice-story-of-florida-archdiocese/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:34:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=8278

Archbishop John C Favalora, until last year the Archbishop of the Miami, Florida, stands accused of running his diocese along the lines of a corrupt "homosexual super-culture". The Gawker report, written by former Miami New Times contributor and theatre critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive investigation by a group of South Florida Catholics calling Read more

Miami Vice: Story of Florida Archdiocese... Read more]]> Archbishop John C Favalora, until last year the Archbishop of the Miami, Florida, stands accused of running his diocese along the lines of a corrupt "homosexual super-culture".

The Gawker report, written by former Miami New Times contributor and theatre critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive investigation by a group of South Florida Catholics calling themselves "Christifidelis."

If Gawker's claims are to be believed, Favalora stands accused of

  • liking attractive young men to sit on his lap
  • allegedly treating them to trips in the Florida Keys
  • being part owner of a company that makes Yohimbe, an "all natural" erection-inducing beverage.

Christifidelis maintains Favalora cultivated a "homosexual super-culture" throughout the 195 churches, schools, missions, seminaries, and universities in the Miami Archdiocese by

  • rewarding his favourite homosexual 'sons'
  • forgiving his 'favoured sons' many indiscretions—rampant sex, hedonism, embezzlement, alcoholism
  • railroading chaste priests and
  • punishing those with the temerity to complain.

The Christifidelis report is cheekily titled "Miami Vice," and in 2005 they undertook an extensive investigation of priestly misbehaviour in the Archdiocese.

Christifidelis believe their findings resulted in Archbishop Favalora's early retirement last year, and his replacement by Thomas Wenski.

The leader of Christifidelis, an attorney named Sharon Bourassa, declined to comment, but it did not stop Gawker releasing portions of "Miami Vice" to the public.

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