EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An East Grand Rapids priest says Catholic Church teachings required him to deny Holy Communion to a prominent Kent County judge who is gay.
“I’ve taught what all of the popes who have ever said something about the emergent family have said up to and including Pope Francis,” Rev. Scott Nolan told News 8 Wednesday.
At 33, Nolan, a Muskegon County native, is what the Catholic Church says it needs more of: young priests. Church leadership valued Nolan enough that three years after his ordination, he took the helm at the venerable 96-year-old St. Stephen in East Grand Rapids.
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