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Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit headlined the event, called “U.S. Human Rights Policy, Iraq and Palestine/Israel.” He laid out a long list of religious and political objections...
...must commit ourselves to reject war. Our country must immediately enter negotiations to resolve this crisis,” Gumbleton said...
...Gumbleton has taken on an important role in the antiwar movement. He helped to organized an anti-war march in Washington, D.C. in October, which drew over 100,000 protesters...
...think this [report] speaks to a failure on the part of the church," Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit told the Associated Press. "Gay priests and heterosexual priests didn't know how to handle their sexuality, their sexual drive. And so they would handle it in ways that weren't healthy." And the church would turn a blind eye - creating a sort of double closet for priests who are dealing not only with the sin of their sexuality but the doubly shameful sin of homosexuality. And while numerous sex scandals involving priests and young boys have surfaced in recent years...
...apparent belief in a particular biblical scenario for the end of the world means that he might consider nuclear war a divine instrument. Accordingly, more than 100 religious figures, many from the antinuclear left (among them the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Pacifist Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton), held a Washington press conference last week to declare it "profoundly disturbing" that high political leaders "might identify with extremists who believe that nuclear war is inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that reconciliation with America's adversaries is ultimately futile." The statement was orchestrated...