CLEVELAND (OH)
The Plain Dealer
By Michael O’Malley, The Plain Dealer
on July 18, 2013
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Austrian priest, recently banned from speaking at a Catholic church in Boston because of his challenges to church teachings, is scheduled to give two talks here next week.
The Rev. Helmut Schuller, who supports the ordination of women, married priests and empowering Catholic laity, is scheduled to lecture in Independence and Cleveland as part of a 15-city tour of the United States that began Tuesday in New York City.
The tour is sponsored by 10 U.S. liberal Catholic reform groups, including Lakewood-based FutureChurch.
Schuller of Vienna had been scheduled to speak Wednesday at St. Susanna Catholic Church in Boston, but Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley forbid the event, telling the Boston Globe that he will not allow anyone speaking on church property who advocates beliefs in conflict with church doctrine.
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