"New Mexico archbishop reinstates priest who lived in homosexual ‘partnership’ for a decade"

Archbishop John Wester, the local ordinary for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, reinstated the faculties of a priest who spent ten years in San Francisco as a registered “domestic partner” to another man.

According to Father Steve Rosera’s official bio, Abp. Wester reinstated him to the priesthood on January 20, 2021. The official Archdiocese of Santa Fe facebook page indicates that Fr. Rosera took a “leave of absence” 28 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:

Is the episcopal moderator for the heretical Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP).
Defended a Catholic Relief Services program that openly promoted masturbation as a form of “safe sex.”
Defended the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, despite its long and open history of funding pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, Marxist organizations.

Appointed as head of the diocesan CCHD a former candidate for attorney general in the state of Utah who received campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood, supported same-sex “marriage,” and promoted contraception in schools.