They won’t take prisoners; there won’t be sanctuaries
by Renzo Puccetti, LifeSite:
I will begin with a true story.
Father Massimiliano Pusceddu is a young Catholic priest serving in the Sardinian diocese of Cagliari. During a sermon on May 28 wherein he defended natural marriage, he quoted St. Paul’s letter to the Romans (1:24-32) where the Apostle condemns same-sex acts. The day after the June 12 murder of 49 people at the gay bar in Orlando, an online petition to Pope Francis and Italian political authorities was launched to obtain the “immediate resignation” of Fr. Pusceddu.
It reached 31,000 signatures in only four days — now there are 44,806. What particularly triggered the reaction against the priest was the quotation of the Pauline phrase “all who practice such things deserve death,” which reached the headlines in the media and was used as proof of his support of the killing of ‘gay’ people.
Fr. Pusceddu immediately specified that St. Paul and he obviously meant spiritual death, but it was useless. The uproar did not cease. If the young priest was expecting a hint of public solidarity from his bishop, you can imagine his disappointment when he received none. Rather, on June 22, Archbishop Arrigo Miglio released a note in which he disavowed Fr. Pusceddu’s behavior and apologized to “all those who felt hurt” by his words.
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