Posted on 06/06/2019 6:22:16 AM PDT by ebb tide
une 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Newark is hosting its second annual Mass associated with gay pride events later this month.
Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken, New Jersey, along with its merged parish St. Joseph, is advertising its “2nd Annual Pride Mass in Support of Our LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters.”
The Mass is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday, June 30. Advertisements on the Out in New Jersey website and on NJ.com indicate that the parish is encouraging participants in the Mass to then attend the gay pride march in New York City later that day.
LifeSiteNews inquired with the parish to confirm whether it is encouraging participants to take part in the New York City march and if the parish’s event, whether in the Mass or otherwise, will inform participants of the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexuality. No response had arrived by press time.
Pride events, in particular parades, are known for extremely vulgar dress and behavior, often including public sex acts. Children are also frequently present and exposed to the morally averse displays.
The Catholic Church holds that while same-sex attraction is not a sin, homosexual acts are sinful. Church teaching further states that “homosexual persons are called to chastity” (CCC 2359), which is also what its teaching says about all people, since sexual relations are reserved for marriage, which is between a man and woman (CCC 2360).
Our Lady of Grace parish is located in the Archdiocese of Newark, which is led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin.
The parish held a “pride Mass” last year in June as well.
Pastor Fr. Alexander Santora announced at the beginning of that Mass that he would confer a special blessing for those marching in the New York City gay pride parade, also taking place on the same day.
Santora, a priest in the Newark archdiocese, also writes for NJ.com, discussing LGBT issues favorably in his column.
Last year, as Joseph Sciambra reported, before Santora gave his homily, a candle was lit and put upon the rainbow flag in memory of those gay and lesbian parishioners who “[lived] a life of fear because the Church and society rejected them.”
Santora’s homily suggested that the Catholic Church needs to “move forward” from its teaching on human sexuality.
“If we look at the history of the Church there is an official teaching Church, which still doesn’t quite understand how we have to move forward,” he said.
In May 2017, Cardinal Joseph Tobin personally received a group of individuals identifying as LGBT at Newark’s Cathedral-Basilica of the Sacred Heart in conjunction with an inaugural “LGBT Pilgrimage” to the cathedral. Tobin had said he was delighted to welcome the LGBT group and personally approved their flyer for the event.
When asked at the time by the New York Times if he should have taken the opportunity at the event to call the “LGBT pilgrims” out of sin, he responded, “That sounds a little backhanded to me.”
Tobin, a 2016 Pope Francis appointee to the cardinalate, is among a handful of Church leaders to endorse LGBT-affirming Father James Martin’s controversial Building a Bridge book.
Last year, following six priests having anonymously reported a homosexual subculture in the Newark archdiocese, the cardinal sent the priests of the archdiocese a letter encouraging them to remain silent should the media contact them. He also denied that anyone “has ever spoken to me about a ‘gay sub-culture’ in the Archdiocese of Newark.”
The Archdiocese of Newark is one of the New Jersey dioceses that paid settlements to former priest victims of disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of Tobin’s predecessors. Questions remain about who in the U.S. Church hierarchy knew about McCarrick’s predation of boys and men.
To respectfully express concern about the pride Mass:
Church of Our Lady of Grace
400 Willow Ave.
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-659-0369
Email olgrace@optonline.net
Archdiocese of Newark
171 Clifton Avenue
P.O. BOX 9500
Newark, NJ 07104
(973) 497-4000
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People who go around proclaiming their “pride” are really very ashamed of themselves, and like being with other people who are ashamed of themselves but tell each other how proud they are.
Pride.
Two deadly sins at once.
Diversity!
Heretics.
Apparently the diocese and the Vatican are copacetic with this.
Someone needs excommunicating.
Celebrating faggies & their behavior, which is condemned in both the Old and New Testaments, that’s heresy. It’s also leading children astray, and we know what Jesus said should be done with those who do.
Find another parish, quick!
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
And these ding bats thinks they are going to help them by wallowing in the sin with them?.
Gluttony, sloth, greed, and envy masses are planned for later in the year.
This is awful! Who celebrates people doing something wrong with a Catholic Mass? Homosexuals are people doing something wrong. They are committing sexual perversion. They are playing with something nature has made for procreation without any responsibility for the outcome. They are people who should be admonished, not celebrated. It is their choice to be the way they are. Nobody is born queer. They choose it.
Heretics and blasphemers, that's who.
The sodomites have gutted the Church.
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