{"id":6546,"date":"2006-08-11T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/san-diego-angle.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:24:25","slug":"san-diego-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/san-diego-angle.html","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Angle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerald of Closed Cafeteria notes an article on one of the Pittsburgh 12 making her mark in his neck of the woods.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2005, after her son graduated (both her sons are in college now), she began to tell more people and share a desire to start a parish \u201cfor all the Catholics who have fallen through the cracks.\u201d On Nov. 27, 2005, Via’s 58th birthday, the Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community held its first liturgy (its service schedule is at www.mmacc.org). At her side then and this past Sunday was Rod Stephens, who resigned his faculties as a Roman Catholic priest in the Orange County diocese in 2004 but still considers himself a priest. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Again, we beg the question, why <\/em>"Catholic?" Why not set up a community that does all this, but ditch the Catholic monikker, since you’re ditching the Catholic stuff anyway. Answer: no one would care.<\/p>\n

The other point relates to Rod Stephens, who wasn’t just a priest in Orange County, but the Director of Liturgy for the Diocese, left, is openly gay, runs a liturgical consulting business called Sacra Forma, and has been the subject of questions before by some. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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