Posted on 10/24/2020 2:26:18 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY, October 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Just a few hours ago, a group of young Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, asking Pope Francis “for clarity on same-sex unions.” In a documentary released earlier this week, the Holy Father had expressed his support for homosexual civil unions.
Led by Alexander Tschugguel, known as the Pachamama dunker, the young people of Austria’s St. Boniface Institute gathered in St. Peter’s Square today with a banner reading, “Holy Father, we ask for clarity on same-sex unions.”
They were joined by a number of Catholics from other countries who knelt in the piazza, silently praying the rosary together.
After Roman police asked Tschugguel to put away the banner, he joined the others in prayer and led them in the “Salve Regina.” Then, a priest led the group in the Angelus prayer.
Vatican police confront @ATschugguel for holding up a banner that reads, "Holy Father, we ask for clarity on same-sex unions." pic.twitter.com/6ttLTmq9YB
— LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) October 24, 2020
One of the faithful praying in the square told LifeSiteNews that Tschugguel and many of the other Austrians had driven all night to reach the Vatican today.
Tschugguel, 27, is famous among Catholics for an event at the Ponte Sant’Angelo, a short walk from the Vatican, last October: Horrified by the presence of a number of statues identified with the pagan earth goddess Pachamama in a Catholic church near the Vatican, Tschugguel carried them out, took them to the bridge, and threw them in the Tiber.
The statues were also involved in several religious ceremonies and events with Pope Francis present.
Earlier today, Tschugguel told reporters that this time, he and the St. Boniface Institute were there for a completely different reason.
“Today, we find ourselves here in front of the Holy Angel’s Bridge in front of the Castel Sant’Angelo again,” he said. “This year, I am standing here because there was an interview published where the Holy Father asked for the introduction of civil unions in different political states.”
Tschugguel said such interviews have been a problem since the beginning of the present pontificate for faithful Catholics because the enemies of the Church use them to fight against the faith and advance an anti-Catholic agenda.
“This has happened again here,” he said.
.@ATschugguel speaking in St. Peter's Square on why he and other young Catholics are asking the Pope to clarify remarks on civil unions. pic.twitter.com/IqIq2ufErw
— LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) October 24, 2020
“For example, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that now, encouraged through these words of the Holy Father, he’s going to introduce homosexual ‘marriage’ in Venezuela,” he continued.
“An Austrian bishop said that he’s very happy that the pope is [commending] something that is 100% introduced in Austria already. By that I think he means homosexual ‘marriage,’ which was introduced last year.”
In America, Tschugguel added, “infamous” Fr. James Martin, SJ, said that this “was a very big step” in supporting “LGBT people.”
The young Austrian asked for clarity, reflecting on the controversy around the documentary “Francesco,” which apparently featured the Pope’s approval of same-sex civil unions, but was allegedly also selectively edited. Some have argued the pontiff’s remarks were not translated correctly, either.
“We don’t know what the Holy Father really said, but now we are here to ask the Holy Father: Please, please, bring us clarity on homosexual unions. Please go out to the cameras, please go out to the microphones to explain to the people how you really meant this and what the context of … this interview was, and how the Catholic teaching is still the Catholic teaching.”
He added, “We ask you, Holy Father, what is the Catholic teaching on homosexual civil unions?”
Tschugguel told LifeSiteNews that some the Austrian bishops support the activities of the St. Boniface Institute, while others do not.
“But that’s not really a problem for us,” he laughed. “We think that to serve God’s will we have to do what is right and lawful. And also, what I do now, today, here, is not about me as a person … but about the One True Faith.”
— LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) October 24, 2020
The young man said that he has a lot of support among young Austrian Catholics and Austrian priests.
“Many people come up to me and tell me, sometimes very publicly, that [they] want to be friends with [me] or invite me to give speeches. I travel quite frequently to give speeches.”
Others are a little more cautious, telling Tschugguel that they are big fans of what he does, while asking him not to tell anyone else.
Developing …
“For example, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that now, encouraged through these words of the Holy Father, he’s going to introduce homosexual ‘marriage’ in Venezuela,” he continued.
“An Austrian bishop said that he’s very happy that the pope is [commending] something that is 100% introduced in Austria already. By that I think he means homosexual ‘marriage,’ which was introduced last year.”
In America, Tschugguel added, “infamous” Fr. James Martin, SJ, said that this “was a very big step” in supporting “LGBT people.”
The apostate pope has accomplished that which he intended.
Ping
“We don’t know what the Holy Father really said, but now we are here to ask the Holy Father: Please, please, bring us clarity on homosexual unions.”
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He’ll go full gay soon enough, in the meantime he keeps floating gay trial balloons to see how much he can get by with in on the way to achieving full Church gay.
Is there significance to the banner being in English?
Clarity hah. He said what he means.
So the Pope tells the faithful that the Bible is nothing but rubbish. Then the Catholic religion needs to do away with the Pope or the Bible. They cannot co-exist without serious repercussions and the eventual total destruction of the Catholic religion itself.
probably lingua franca
But if it is to the Pope, it should be facing St. Peter’s.
” HOLY FATHER “ was their first mistake.
An actual Communist country that isn't socially conservative?
One less place to escape to.
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