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Monday, May 09, 2005

Warning for Longmont Roman Catholics

I debated with myself for a while as to whether I should bring this up or not. I've decided to bring it up as a warning. Someone calling themselves Fr. Scott Jenkins is starting a new mass at the Longmont Senior Center. They claim to be catholic with and
"an independent Catholic faith community that seeks to make the richness of Catholic spirituality and tradition available and accessible to the many people who, for some reason, have felt excluded from the Roman Catholic Church"
I googled the Pastor, Fr. Scott Jenkins, and came up with this:
"Early in 1996, a former Lutheran pastor, Fr. Scott Jenkins, and his wife, Kris, joined our church. Bishop Peter ordained Scott a deacon on Pentecost Sunday of 1996. Deacon Scott served at Saint Matthew until August of 1997 when he moved to Colorado to work with Christ the King American Catholic Church. Deacon Scott was ordained a priest shortly thereafter. He became the founding pastor of a new independent Catholic faith community in Colorado called Church of the Holy Family."
at some place called Saint Matthew Church.

So the bottom line is that this new so called catholic church in Longmont is not a Roman Catholic Church. They are either "Ecumenical Catholic Communion" or a "Christ the King American Catholic Church" but certainly not a Roman Catholic Church in Communion with the Holy See. If you are Roman Catholic then I advise you to stay away, far way.

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