That's very strange... the article doesn't state a criticism or support of these gay friendly parishes... do you think its meant to make Catholics avoid those places? But couldn't it also work the opposite way, pushing Catholics with sympathetic views on gays towards those places?
i think the explicit intention is to identify these parishes to anti-gay catholics so they can protest gay-friendly churches. the original listing was meant to provide information for gay and gay-friendly catholics, and this "publication" hijacked the list for its own purposes.
it's weird but the place i'm working at is a publication of more than 150 years! It's very respected - the Archbishop of the Anglican Church wrote for it the other week for example. And they have some very progressive articles about acceptance of gays (which they view with "neutrality") and also women priests.
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