News Outlets Failed to Reveal Lesbian Denied Communion at Mother’s Funeral … is a Buddhist and Gay Rights Activist

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She was seeking communion with the Church but she only found rejection reported the Washington Post. CatholicVote reports: I didn’t get involved in the story of a lesbian woman denied communion at her mother’s funeral which theWashington Post plastered across its front page(“Seeking Communion, Finding Rejection“, in the lower right-hand corner) at first but the more I thought about the scenario the more it irked me. According to Barbara Johnson’s version of events, and the version of events unquestioningly passed on by the mainstream media, she was denied Communion at her own mother’s funeral by a priest who then proceeded to snub her departed mother by refusing to be present at the burial. Now Johnson is on a crusade to get the priest, Fr. Marcel Guarnizo, removed from ministry, telling thePost that Fr. Marcel “brought [his] politics, not [his] God into that Church yesterday” and that he will “pay dearly on the day of judgement for judging [her].” She continues: “I will pray for your soul, but first I will do everything in my power to see that you are removed from parish life so that you will not be permitted to harm any more families.” Strong words. But who brought their politics into this situation? Fr. Marcel, or Johnson? The internet is an amazing way to answer questions. It didn’t take me long to discover that Barbara Johnson hardly attempts to keep her private life (or views) private. For instance, she’s published on the question: “Coming Out in the Heteronormative and Homophobic World of Education” (which alone tells you a lot about her world view) where she shares this personal story: What’s that? Johnson is a self-professed Buddhist? No wonder she describes herself as a “student of … Buddhist philosophy” on her website. So what was she doing presenting herself for Communion at her mother’s funeral if she apostatized? Why has she failed to mention this important fact in all of her appearances on the media? Could it be, quite simply, because she herself has a political agenda? It’s very evident, for instance, that coming out is a big deal for Johnson. She insisted on coming out to the principal in the story mentioned above. All of which would add credence to the claims published inLifeSiteNews that Johnson came out to Fr. Marcel before the service began (the account given in LifeSiteNews also explains why Fr. Marcel did not attend the burial). Frankly, I think if any sort of deeper investigation was conducted into what actually happened a very different picture would emerge. Something closer to this. Prolix Patriot does a good job showing Johnson’s extensive political (and very public) activism on behalf of pro-gay and pro-abortion causes: “…a quick glance at the Facebook and Twitter pages of her art school (for children!) reveals a series of pro-abortion and pro-[gay]  links which are clearly and explicitly at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” One of my favorite tweets from Johnson’s art school is this one from January 27th which accuses the Maryland Catholic Conference of promoting an “anti-LGBT rights … rally”: This leads us into the curious timing of this denial of Communion incident. Just days prior to it, Maryland (the state where this incident occurred) voted to legalize gay marriage through its legislature. That bill is going to be appealed this November at the Maryland ballot box and the Maryland Catholic Conference (which we saw Johnson’s twitter account attack) is going to play a significant role in ensuring that gay marriage is voted down there. Is it any sort of stretch to see this attempt to maligne Fr. Marcel and by extension the Catholic Church in Maryland as a blatantly political attempt by Johnson to generate sympathy and support for gay marriage and to foment public judgement against the Church? I think not. I, for one, am tired of activists such as Barbara Johnson. A woman who used the very death of her mother for a political, anti-Catholic purpose. A woman who ran to the media with her story and an agenda while failing, for instance, to reveal that she no longer considers herself Catholic and evidently knows that this could pose a problem for her. And I’m sick and tired of the media playing along with these agenda-driven personal stories while exercising zero vetting because they coincide with the media’s agenda. Apparently, if a story paints the Catholic Church or a Catholic priest in a bad light, it gets green-lighted for publication with almost no due diligence. We Catholics deserve better. Why is it that Johnson feels so wounded to be denied communion with a group with which she is not (and cannot be) in full communion? Because it was embarrassing? Yes. Could she have stayed in her seat knowing that it might be disrespectful to Catholics to participate in something which is so sacred to them but in which you do not believe, yes. Was she reasonable in expecting religious indifferentism to be the prevailing doctrine in this Church? Yes. And this time, the priest got burned for it. Another interesting point, is that before the Mass started, Johnson went to the sacristy and made Father aware that she was a lesbian. Sounds a little sketchy to me...

She was seeking communion with the Church but she only found rejection reported the Washington Post. CatholicVote reports:

I didn’t get involved in the story of a lesbian woman denied communion at her mother’s funeral which theWashington Post plastered across its front page(“Seeking Communion, Finding Rejection“, in the lower right-hand corner) at first but the more I thought about the scenario the more it irked me.

According to Barbara Johnson’s version of events, and the version of events unquestioningly passed on by the mainstream media, she was denied Communion at her own mother’s funeral by a priest who then proceeded to snub her departed mother by refusing to be present at the burial.

Now Johnson is on a crusade to get the priest, Fr. Marcel Guarnizo, removed from ministry, telling thePost that Fr. Marcel “brought [his] politics, not [his] God into that Church yesterday” and that he will “pay dearly on the day of judgement for judging [her].” She continues:

“I will pray for your soul, but first I will do everything in my power to see that you are removed from parish life so that you will not be permitted to harm any more families.”

Strong words. But who brought their politics into this situation? Fr. Marcel, or Johnson?

The internet is an amazing way to answer questions. It didn’t take me long to discover that Barbara Johnson hardly attempts to keep her private life (or views) private.

For instance, she’s published on the question: “Coming Out in the Heteronormative and Homophobic World of Education” (which alone tells you a lot about her world view) where she shares this personal story:

What’s that? Johnson is a self-professed Buddhist? No wonder she describes herself as a “student of … Buddhist philosophy” on her website.

So what was she doing presenting herself for Communion at her mother’s funeral if she apostatized? Why has she failed to mention this important fact in all of her appearances on the media?

Could it be, quite simply, because she herself has a political agenda?

It’s very evident, for instance, that coming out is a big deal for Johnson. She insisted on coming out to the principal in the story mentioned above. All of which would add credence to the claims published inLifeSiteNews that Johnson came out to Fr. Marcel before the service began (the account given in LifeSiteNews also explains why Fr. Marcel did not attend the burial). Frankly, I think if any sort of deeper investigation was conducted into what actually happened a very different picture would emerge. Something closer to this.

Prolix Patriot does a good job showing Johnson’s extensive political (and very public) activism on behalf of pro-gay and pro-abortion causes:

“…a quick glance at the Facebook and Twitter pages of her art school (for children!) reveals a series of pro-abortion and pro-[gay]  links which are clearly and explicitly at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

One of my favorite tweets from Johnson’s art school is this one from January 27th which accuses the Maryland Catholic Conference of promoting an “anti-LGBT rights … rally”:

This leads us into the curious timing of this denial of Communion incident. Just days prior to it, Maryland (the state where this incident occurred) voted to legalize gay marriage through its legislature. That bill is going to be appealed this November at the Maryland ballot box and the Maryland Catholic Conference (which we saw Johnson’s twitter account attack) is going to play a significant role in ensuring that gay marriage is voted down there.

Is it any sort of stretch to see this attempt to maligne Fr. Marcel and by extension the Catholic Church in Maryland as a blatantly political attempt by Johnson to generate sympathy and support for gay marriage and to foment public judgement against the Church? I think not.

I, for one, am tired of activists such as Barbara Johnson. A woman who used the very death of her mother for a political, anti-Catholic purpose. A woman who ran to the media with her story and an agenda while failing, for instance, to reveal that she no longer considers herself Catholic and evidently knows that this could pose a problem for her.

And I’m sick and tired of the media playing along with these agenda-driven personal stories while exercising zero vetting because they coincide with the media’s agenda.

Apparently, if a story paints the Catholic Church or a Catholic priest in a bad light, it gets green-lighted for publication with almost no due diligence. We Catholics deserve better.

Why is it that Johnson feels so wounded to be denied communion with a group with which she is not (and cannot be) in full communion? Because it was embarrassing? Yes. Could she have stayed in her seat knowing that it might be disrespectful to Catholics to participate in something which is so sacred to them but in which you do not believe, yes. Was she reasonable in expecting religious indifferentism to be the prevailing doctrine in this Church? Yes. And this time, the priest got burned for it.

Another interesting point, is that before the Mass started, Johnson went to the sacristy and made Father aware that she was a lesbian. Sounds a little sketchy to me...