Gay priest fired from university job gets new post at New Jersey parishes

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A gay Catholic priest who was dismissed from his position as campus chaplain at Seton Hall University because of his work against anti-gay bullying has been named to a job serving two parishes after weeks of uncertainty over his fate.

The Rev. Warren Hall, whose firing by the archbishop of Newark, N.J., added to growing concerns about the church’s treatment of gay people, tweeted that he was “thrilled” with the posting at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken and its sister parish, St. Lawrence in neighboring Weehawken. Both parishes are on the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan.

Hall will serve as parochial vicar, which means he will assist the pastor of the two parishes, the Rev. Bob Meyer. Meyer and Hall have known each other for years and St. Lawrence was one of the churches where Hall already had been helping out after he lost his Seton Hall job.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/08/03/gay-priest-fired-university-job-gets-new-post-new-jersey-parishes/