New Mexico Archbishop Reinstated, Promoted, and Lives with Priest who Spent 10 Years in Registered Homosexual Relationship

Archbishop John Wester, the local ordinary for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, NM, reinstated the faculties of a priest who spent ten years in San Francisco as a registered “domestic partner” to another man. According to Fr. Steve Rosera’s official bio, Abp. Wester reinstated him to the priesthood on 20 January 2021. The official Archdiocese of Santa Fe facebook page indicates that Fr. Rosera took a “leave of absence” twenty-eight years earlier, meaning he had been away from the priesthood since 1993. During this time, Rosera spent ten years in a committed homosexual relationship (officially registered with California courts), heavily advocated for same-sex “marriage,” and played an active role in the LGBT “rights” movement – an activism which he still maintains to this day.

Even more scandalous than restoring Rosera’s priestly faculties, however, Abp. Wester also made him the pastor of a parish, the dean of a deanery of priests in the archdiocese, and placed him on the Archdiocesan Tribunal, where he works as a judge and Defender of the Bond. Abp. Wester currently lives with Rosera in the same residence.

Abp. Wester’s bizarre elevation of Fr. Rosera immediately calls into question his judgment and conscience formation. While weighing the facts of this case, the reader should bear in mind that Abp. Wester:

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