Meet a Catholic priest who performs same-sex unions
Farrah Fazal, KSDK 11:51 p.m. EST March 5, 2014
ST. LOUIS - The stained glass walls of the old, deeply traditional German-inspired sanctuary date back to the 1800s. The Ash Wednesday service is just like every other one in Catholic churches across St. Louis. Life almost could stand still here, if it weren't for who sits in the pews, and who preaches from the pulpit at St. Catherine of Sienna on Jefferson and Potomac.
"Where we change is the practical way we embrace our Catholic faith: married clergy, female priests, gay and lesbian inclusion," Father Phillip Lichtenwalter said. "I might have a lesbian couple come to me and ask to be married in the church where as Rome would say no, we say yes. We do recognize it as a fully sacramental marriage blessed in the eyes of god and the church."
He's an ordained priest in the American National Catholic Church.
"I don't ask who you love, who you vote, I don't ask what your background was," he said.
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/03/05/catholic-priest-st-louis-same-sex-unions/6103345/
2:08 video at link.
http://www.saintcatherinestl.org/
http://americannationalcatholicchurch.org/
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