National Coming Out Day Mass to be Celebrated at Catholic Basilica?
By Hilary White

ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, United Press International reported that Dignity Twin Cities, a homosexual organization that lobbies the Catholic Church to change its teachings on sexual purity, would be sponsoring "National Coming Out Day" with a Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. The report said that the event is being co-sponsored with Dignity Twin Cities and the notoriously pro-homosexual parish of St. Joan of Arc, with the festivities to be presided over by St. Mary’s pastor, Fr. Michael O'Connell.

LifeSiteNews.com contacted St. Mary’s Basilica and spoke with Janice Andersen, the parish Director of Christian Life. She flatly denied the story, saying that there was no such service scheduled at St. Mary’s for either Sunday or Tuesday, October tenth. She said that the parish does not co-sponsor events with Dignity Twin Cities or St. Joan of Arc parish. Neither Dignity Twin Cities nor Joan of Arc parish could be reached for comment.

The parish of St. Mary’s does, however, have a lively and active homosexual organization that has in the past sponsored National Coming Out Day Masses featuring the pastor, Fr. Michael O’Connell. the rest