UNITED STATES
Vatican Insider

The Archdiocese of Washington has placed a priest on administrative leave for engaging in intimidating behaviour. According to the U.S. bishops’ agency, the woman was actually a Buddhist

Mauro Pianta
Rome

Suspended. Or as the cold prose of ecclesiastical bureaucratese reads: “he has been placed on administrative leave until an inquiry into the priest’s actions is complete and the confusion in the parish, caused by his “intimidating behaviour”, dies down.

The future of Fr. Marcel Guarnizo – the parish priest of St. John Neumann (Gaithersbur, in Maryland) who refused to give communion to a lesbian during her mother’s funeral last 25 February – is hanging on these few sentences written by Fr. Marcel Guarnizo.