Posted on 12/15/2017 11:41:48 AM PST by ebb tide
Pro-homosexual priest and Vatican adviser Fr. James Martin tweeted an immodest mockery of Our Lady of Guadalupe earlier this week that Mexican Catholics are calling “highly offensive” and “blasphemous.”
The Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America Magazine tweeted three images based on the supernatural image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that were created by a feminist who “questioned this common icon of the ideal woman.”
One of the images tweeted by Fr. Martin depicts a woman with a hiked up skirt that reveals her thighs. She brandishes a serpent in her right hand. LifeSiteNews has pixelated the depiction.
“Mira! Look at these beautiful images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, reimagined as contemporary women. Remember that Our Lady lived a real life in Nazareth,” tweeted Fr. Martin.
The tweet appeared on December 12, a day celebrated by Catholics around the world as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Catholics expressed outrage over Fr. Martin’s tweet.
The images were created by Yolanda Lopez, an American painter. She achieved international fame in the 1970s for her appropriation of the sacred image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Lopez stated that in creating her 1978 self-portrait, “Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she was “questioning this common icon of the ideal woman in the Chicano culture.” She wished her audience to consider types of role models other than the Mother of God.
In her image of a woman brandishing a snake and treading on an angel, Lopez wished to emphasize “strength and power” through the depiction of muscular thighs. The snake represents sexuality. The angel underfoot represents the patriarchy.
Martin must be a homosexual, because homosexuals can not help themselves finding perversion interesting and amusing.
Why hasn’t this poor excuse for a priest been defrocked?
Another one of those posts where all I have to say is: ‘read my tag line’.
Because we have poor excuse for a pope, who protects and cuddles such perverts as Martin.
Wolf in Jesuit clothing.
Not just homosexual, a militant homosexual.
Any priest who refuses to identify his own sexual orientation is, in my opinion, a homo.
So she brandishes SATAN in her hand, and tramples on an ANGEL. (Who, I notice, bears America’s red, white and blue.)
Some of it is not bad at all: decent, respectful, almost popular-devotional.
Some of it is clearly militant, comparable to Artemisia Gentileschi's many iterations of Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes. OK. Biblical-militant.
Some is probably demonic.
Look, think, judge.
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