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Article: Symposium denied permission to hold Mass.(gay and lesbian Catholics)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 23, 2007
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The 500 attendees at a three-day symposium to discuss gay and lesbian Catholics and the sacraments couldn't celebrate one of those sacraments themselves.
Archbishop Harry Flynn of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese denied the group permission to have Mass during the event organized by New Ways Ministry. The gathering was scheduled to be held in a hotel in Minneapolis March 16-18.
Archdiocesan spokesman Dennis McGrath said March 14, that the archdiocese follows the Vatican's polices with regard to ministering to people with same-sex orientation, which doesn't mean, he said, "by the letter hit them over the knuckles with a ruler.... Our practice ...