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Article: Catholic bishop balks at plans for Episcopal installation.(USA)(Episcopal Bishop has opposing view on homosexuality)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 17, 2003
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- The Catholic bishop here has reneged on an agreement to allow Episcopalians to use a Catholic church for a bishop's installation ceremony if the nation's top Episcopal bishop intends to preside at the service. Bishop Victor Galeone said OCt. 2 that he cannot allow Episcopal Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold to preside in a Catholic church because of Griswold's views on homosexuality.
Griswold voted to confirm the church's first openly gay bishop, and has said "homosexuality, as we understand it as an orientation, is not mentioned in the Bible."
"Many of my people would be deeply offended ...