ATL gay archbishop leads in Reformed Catholic Church

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ATL gay archbishop leads in Reformed Catholic Church
Congregations follow 'faith of Rome' but not its politics

By MATT SCHAFER
APR. 25, 2008

http://www.sovo.com/2008/4-25/news/localnews/8466.cfm

Archbishop Patrick Batuyong, wearing a clerical collar, sits in the small nave of St. Michael the Defender Catholic Church in East Point, a picture of priestly tradition. But Batuyong is openly gay, hardly a Roman Catholic tradition. Pope Benedict XVI, who toured the U.S. for the first time last week, wrote in 1986 as then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that homosexuality is "an intrinsic moral evil." More recently, in 2003, he drafted instructions for Catholic politicians, urging them to oppose gay marriage and adoption by gay couples.