Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Joseph Anthony Ferrario" in Galician language version.
1978, January 13, at Honolulu, Hawaii, Exhibition Hall of the Neal Blaisdell Center. John Joseph Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu, assisted by John Raphael Quinn, Archbishop of San Francisco, and James Clifford Timlin, Titular Bishop of Gunugus, consecrated Joseph Anthony Ferrario, Titular Bishop of Cuse [...]
Bishop Ferrario has strongly and openly advocated "gay-rights" legislation in Hawaii. He is overprotective with homosexual priests, of whom his diocese seems to have a good number — while at the same time being extremely negative, even vindictive towards orthodox priests [...]
By 1985, Catholics on the island were traveling to Rome with some regularity to report on various aspects of his egregious misrule, such as his punitive actions against good priests, his tolerance and promotion of liturgical abuses, selling-off of Church properties, the recruitment of homosexuals into the priesthood and the favoring of homosexual clergy for important positions, the gutting of churches, and the closing of schools.
On August 8, 1991, a federal lawsuit was filed against Ferrario by Maui attorney James Kreuger and Jeffrey Anderson of St. Paul.
Retired Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, who led the Catholic diocese of Honolulu for 11 years, preaching tolerance and community outreach, died Friday night at St. Francis Medical Center in Liliha.
