From England-England’s leading Catholic prelate has called an end to the “Soho Masses” that had drawn homosexuals to a London church, and announced that the church will be dedicated to the Anglican ordinariate of Our Lady of Walshingham.
Apparently taking action under pressure from Rome, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster said that the ‘Soho Masses,” which were organized to welcome lesbians and homosexuals, would be stopped. In a statement explaining his decision, the archbishop noted that the Church insists “a person must not be identified by their sexual orientation,” and the Mass should be a universal celebration, open to all.
The ‘Soho Masses’ had been heavily criticized for appearing to offer Church approval to homosexual relationships. Last year Archbishop Nichols had shrugged aside that criticism, saying that the special Masses “are not occasions for confusion or opposition concerning the positive teaching of the Church on the meaning of human sexuality or the moral imperatives that flow from that teaching." However the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had reportedly investigated the practice, and pushed for action by the Westminster diocese.
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