Posted on 06/08/2023 10:21:34 AM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating “Pride Month” is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom the month of June is traditionally dedicated in Catholic devotion.
“This blasphemy must stop, God loves every person even the most sinful, but saying sinful acts are compatible with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ contradicts Christ’s call to go & sin no more.”
Strickland’s comment came in response to a series of tweets by Martin that were highlighted in an article on Breitbart that underlined the incompatibility of the dissident priest’s tweets with Catholic moral teaching on marriage, sexuality, sin, and repentance.
READ: Bp. Strickland: Catholics must fearlessly defend the truth and oppose woke culture
Martin wrote on Twitter, “In June, Catholics celebrate the Month of the Sacred Heart. LGBTQ people celebrate #PrideMonth. LGBTQ Catholics celebrate both. One shows us how Jesus loves. The other shows us whom Jesus calls us to love today.” In a second tweet, Martin wrote, “Where would the Sacred Heart be today? It would be poured out in love on these people who seek love and acceptance.”
Martin’s comments come as Catholics in Florida have raised billboards across the state that read: “June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Christ is King.”
READ: Catholics place billboards in Florida ‘dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus’ in June
On June 16, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Strickland will lead Catholics in a Eucharistic procession from the Cathedral of Our Lady Queen of the Angels to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, where the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic group of drag “nuns,” will be honored during “Pride Night.”
The procession, first announced by Catholics for Catholics, will be offered “in reparation for offenses committed against Jesus Christ and all Christians by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (Drag Queens impersonating nuns and performing blasphemous shows).” LifeSiteNews co-founder and editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen will attend and speak at a prayer rally and the procession in protest of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ scandalous promotion of anti-Catholic drag “nuns.”
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My understanding is that RC Bishops have authority to excommunicated & defrock. So, in the case of Martin & every other unrepentant anti-Christian, what are they waiting for?
Fr. Martin is a Jesuit so he is not directly subject to any particular bishop, only his Jesuit superiors who are apparently in sympathy with him.
Specifically, a bishop has authority only over the goings-on within his diocese, and there are even limits to that.
Somebody has authority over Jimmy Martin, but that somebody is not Bishop Strickland. It’s probably the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, currently Arturo Sosa, a native of Venezuela.
The pope like James Martin. Let’s hope he doesn’t remove Bishop Strickland because of his attacks on Fr. Martin. Not long ago he removed a bishop in Puerto Rico.
He SHOULD have been DEFROCKED YEARS AGO!
I was really hoping OKeefe would’ve done a set up with Martin and some uh, person he is always defending. I’m sure it wouldn’t be too hard to do.
The above was penned 3-13-2013; the very day he was elected with the influence of the St. Gallen mafia.
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