Posted on 09/04/2014 3:01:39 PM PDT by markomalley
A day after the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade announced a step toward LGBT inclusion, a pastor at the Archdiocese of Washington said that it is time to end such events altogether as they have been “hijacked.”
Instead of wearing green and attending St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, Monsignor Charles Pope, said Catholics should “enter their churches and get down on their knees on St. Patrick’s Day to pray in reparation for the foolishness, and to pray for this confused world to return to its senses.”
The statements were published on Pope’s designated blog on the Archdiocese of Washington’s website, but the post was apparently removed from the site shortly after BuzzFeed inquired about the post to a spokesperson. The original link to the post now leads to an error page.
“Now the St. Patrick’s Parade is becoming of parade of disorder, chaos, and fake unity,” Pope wrote in the blog post. “Let’s be honest: St. Patrick’s Day nationally has become a disgraceful display of drunkenness and foolishness in the middle of Lent that more often embarrasses the memory of Patrick than honors it.”
Pope also decried the Al Smith Dinner Memorial Foundation Dinner as “a night of frivolity.” Additionally, he said attendees celebrate along “with those who think it is acceptable to abort children by the millions each year, with those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as an expression of love and that LGBTQIA… (I=intersexual, A= Asexual) is actually a form of sanity to which we should tip our hat, and with those who stand four-square against us over religious liberty.”
On Wednesday, organizers at the annual New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade said they are allowing an LGBT group to march under its banner for the first time — lifting a long held and controversial ban. Pope contends the event, the largest of its kind, “is devolving into a farcical and hateful ridicule of the faith that St. Patrick preached.”
Pope’s blog comes even after New York’s Roman Catholic Archbishop, Timothy Dolan, promptly issued a statement expressing support for the decision to include the LGBT group — and possibly more LGBT groups in future years — by parade organizers.
Pope went on to say that St. Patrick’s Day parades and the Al Smith Dinner should no longer be held.
“End the St Patrick’s parade,” he wrote. “End the Al Smith Dinner and all other such compromised events. Enough now, back to Church! Wear the purple of Lent and if there is going to be a procession, let it be Eucharistic and penitential for the sins of this age.”
A request was left with the communications department at the Archdiocese of Washington seeking comment, specifically, as to whether or not the Archdiocese shares Pope’s views. A spokesperson said they were unable to immediately comment.
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The parade in NYC should end. They’ve opened it up to other groups so that those groups can promote their agenda. It’s now a general parade.
Besides, St Patricks Day has become a carnival complete with mardi gras beads and paddywackery.
Msgr. Pope’s article made sense to me.
Dolan is a buffoon. But he is a big nasty vindictive buffoon. Don't be surprised if this is the end of Msgr. Pope's blogging on the archdiocesan website.
No, I do not think so. Not really.
Msgr. Pope ping.
Please read his blog that was removed and then read the post about it being pulled.
Here is a link to his blog as posted on FR this morning:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3200310/posts
O'Connor had to be dead for the Clintons to get into the church.
Dolan is a buffoon. But he is a big nasty vindictive buffoon. Don't be surprised if this is the end of Msgr. Pope's blogging on the archdiocesan website.Vindictive indeed! As Our Lady of Akita stated in 1973, "The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres..." http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/akita.htm
More and more people in the church - and I do not limit this to Catholicism - are going to have to choose between this sex-laden, abortion-touting secularist culture, and traditional Christian. In some cases, they are being FORCED to choose, as when government demands Christian cooperation in sinful activities. It only remains to be seen how far this will go, whether actual persecution will be confined to the margins, or will become full-blown, aggressive, and widespread.
I think the whole Archdiocese of Washington website, it looks like it was hacked.
It could very well lead to a violent revolt by those traditional Christians who have in the last number of years have been buy both guns and ammo.
Whoops: “ . . . and traditional Christian.” s/b “ . . . and traditional Christian values.”
Was there not a saying that the road to hades is paved with bishops skulls?
You mean it’s not to chug green beer and act like a total idiot? Who knew??
GOOD question.
“Msgr. Pope’s article made sense to me.”
Me, too.
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