Nicholas Coppola - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:09:32 +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 Nicholas Coppola - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Man in same-sex marriage wants to keep parish posts https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/04/16/man-in-same-sex-marriage-wants-to-keep-parish-posts/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:02:29 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=42832 An openly homosexual man who was removed from his positions of reader and religious-education instructor in his New York parish after he entered into a same-sex marriage is petitioning to be reinstated. Nicholas Coppola has presented a petition signed by 18,000 people to Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center diocese. The diocese released a statement Read more

Man in same-sex marriage wants to keep parish posts... Read more]]> An openly homosexual man who was removed from his positions of reader and religious-education instructor in his New York parish after he entered into a same-sex marriage is petitioning to be reinstated.

Nicholas Coppola has presented a petition signed by 18,000 people to Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center diocese.

The diocese released a statement saying it "respects those who may have signed a petition" but that it cannot change Church teaching and expects others to respect that position.

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