Posted on 05/31/2019 7:45:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Italy’s Minister for the Family has openly endorsed a “Procession of Reparation to the Sacred Heart” being held in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday, June 1. The aim of the procession is to atone for a “gay pride” event being held in the city the same day.
Asked about the event in a recent video interview, Lorenzo Fontana, Minister for the Family and vice-secretary for Italy’s Northern League party, said he “absolutely agrees” with the procession.
“I am happy that you all are doing this, and I wish you good luck,” Fontana told organizers. “Let’s hope that no one thinks he can prevent a public demonstration, which is democratic. I hope that you will be able to do your best, because certain Christian values are the foundation of our history, our identity and our tradition, and we need to uphold them.”
LifeSite spoke to one of the key organizers, Cristiano Lugli, ahead of the procession. Lugli, a young layman, talked about the importance of this public act of reparation, particularly in light of the “LGBT” lobby’s tightening grip on Italian school children through the promotion of gender theory in the classroom.
Lugli also discussed the need for the Vatican to speak out. “The Holy See sometimes speaks against gender theory,” he said, “but then it receives ‘LGBT’ activists. This is a very serious matter.”
He said that he and other organizers have received “every kind of insult” and “even death threats” for organizing the procession.
“We are not surprised by the gays or atheists who insult us,” he noted, “but by those ‘Catholics’ who tell us that we will burn in hell for having organized a reparation procession.”
Many people, he said, have even invoked Pope Francis’s words to criticize the procession, telling organizers: “Who are you to judge?”
“Unfortunately,” Lugli said, “the Church of Rome also has a great responsibility, since it has stopped teaching the Catechism and opened itself to the ideas of the world for fear of being judged. But it is the Church that has always judged the world, not vice versa.”
“If the Church no longer stands as the guardian of the one Truth who is Jesus Christ, then everything becomes relative.”
Francis can't even control the faithful Catholics in Italy.
Forza Italia!
Soli Deo Gratia!
They can do without my money on that cruise.
Looks like Alaska...
Gay pride in Italy, abortion in Ireland and Poland. So much for catholic values. And they have a Communist pope too.
With all due respect, people living in glass Cathedrals shouldn’t throw stones.
While Ireland and the Pope certainly have problems, did you read the article? It doesn’t sound that the Italians who are in conflict with the secularists and the Pope have opted to counter the Gay Pride stuff by opting to join His Holiness in the Franky Goes to Wittenberg—Relax, Just Do It tour.
Likewise, are you up on Poland and Abortion? https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/08/poland-is-trying-to-make-abortion-dangerous-illegal-and-impossible/
Poland’s negative history on abortion is due primarily to the conclave held in Yalta many years ago, and while Stalin was an ex-seminarian, he had been an Orthodox seminarian, not Catholic (and I don’t hold it against the Orthodox.
And, given your screen name, I would ask what pointers Sweden might pass on to the three countries you named in successfully battling the culture wars.
I fully understand what is article about. You certainly wouldn’t need to organize against gay ‘pride’ if it wasn’t portrayed in the first place.
And the gay pride thing was all organized by fervent Catholics? Got it. Those in the hierarchy with a problem have at least had the shame to keep it in the closet for many decades. Sweden first legalized it in 1944. Why don’t you get back into your long boat and take Franky with you?
“” “” And the gay pride thing was all organized by fervent Catholics? Got it. “” “”
Is there anyone with a slight sense of irony left?
Pride is a deadly sin.
And Gay Pride is two sins at once.
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