Pope accepts resignation of anti-gay Penn. bishop
Posted on September 3, 2009
Filed Under 365Gay, News
(Vatican City) Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early retirement of a U.S. bishop who has denounced nuns for sponsoring lectures by gay-rights advocates and directed priests to deny communion to abortion backers, the Vatican said Monday.
The brief announcement, keeping to Vatican tradition, did not say why the staunchly conservative …
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