{"id":6042,"date":"2005-08-09T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/08\/09\/laicized-homosexual-abuser-celebrates-mass-for-homosexual-dissident-group\/"},"modified":"2005-08-09T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T23:53:07","slug":"laicized-homosexual-abuser-celebrates-mass-for-homosexual-dissident-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/08\/laicized-homosexual-abuser-celebrates-mass-for-homosexual-dissident-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Laicized homosexual abuser celebrates mass for homosexual dissident group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">DETROIT, Aug. 9 (UPI) &#8212; Michigan prosecutors are trying to determine if a defrocked Catholic priest violated his probation by celebrating mass for a gay religious group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Harry Benjamin pleaded no contest in 2003 and served seven months in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy in the 1980s. The terms of his probation bar him from being around children or teens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The Detroit Free Press reports that Benjamin celebrated mass in Alexandria, Va., for Dignity, a group of gay Roman Catholics not recognized by the church. The Wayne County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office learned of this when the organization checked on Benjamin&#8217;s background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;We&#8217;re investigating what he has been doing in terms of his activities with Dignity, whether he&#8217;s been conducting masses and is in the presence of minors,&quot; a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said, adding that Benjamin&#8217;s probation does not bar him from participating in religious ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Benjamin moved to Virginia in 1991 after he was laicized by the Vatican, a step that completely removed him from the priesthood. [<a href=\"http:\/\/interestalert.com\/brand\/siteia.shtml?Story=st\/sn\/08090004aaa03e17.upi&#038;Sys=rmmiller&#038;Fid=NATIONAL&#038;Type=News&#038;Filter=National\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">It would be curious to know if Dignity was aware that this ex-priest was a homosexual abuser when they had him say Mass? I would not be surprised at all to find out that they did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT, Aug. 9 (UPI) &#8212; Michigan prosecutors are trying to determine if a defrocked Catholic priest violated his probation by celebrating mass for a gay religious group. Harry Benjamin pleaded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}