More than 50 gay rights activists wearing rainbow-colored sashes were denied Holy Communion at a Pentecost service yesterday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in St. Paul, Minn., parishioners and ...

Rainbow Sash group denied Communion at St. Paul Cathedral St. Paul, Minn., May 15, 2005 / 22:00 pm The archbishop of St. Paul refused to have the Eucharist become a sign of protest.

Although rainbow-sash wearers have been denied Communion in Melbourne, Australia, and some dioceses in the United States, they had not been barred at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A Roman Catholic priest denied communion to more than 100 people Sunday, saying they could not receive the sacrament because they wore rainbow-colored sashes to church to show ...

Roman Catholic gay-rights supporters wearing rainbow-colored sashes to Mass were denied communion Sunday, while dozens in Minnesota had to walk around protesters to receive the holy sacrament.

CHICAGO -- Roman Catholic gay-rights supporters wearing rainbow-colored sashes were denied communion at Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday, while dozens in Minnesota had to walk around protesters to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest denied communion to more than 100 people Sunday, saying they could not receive the sacrament because they wore rainbow-colored sashes to ...

The confrontation was the first for the Rainbow Sash Alliance of the Twin Cities, which has worn the rainbow sashes to the St. Paul Cathedral on Pentecost Sunday since 2001.

No one wearing the sash will be permitted to receive the Blessed Sacrament.'' McNeill said he was disappointed but that the group was determined to go up for communion, sashes and all.

“You don’t use Communion to say anything except, ‘Here is Jesus Christ,’” he said. The protesters were part of the Rainbow Sash Movement, which protests at the altar annually on ...

Roman Catholic gay rights supporters wearing rainbow-colored sashes to Mass were denied communion in Chicago, while dozens of people in Minnesota had to walk around protesters to receive the holy ...