Posted on 06/14/2021 12:34:42 PM PDT by ebb tide
Newark's pro-gay Cdl. Joseph Tobin permits a so-called Pride Mass to occur annually in the archdiocese. According to a promotional flier, the event supports so-called "LGBTQ brothers and sisters." Church Militant's William Mahoney has more on this year's pro-gay event and other events like it, possibly in a parish near you.
Named in honor of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken, New Jersey, is now known better for its controversial "Pride Mass" than for the Blessed Virgin.
Slated for the end of this month, this year's so-called Pride Mass is the parish's fourth, the first one having been held in 2018.
That first year, Fr. Alexander Santora, the pastor, preached in his homily, "one's orientation is given. It's not a choice. ... And so, oppressing one's orientation is not healthy or good. But somehow our theology has to catch up with where the world is."
And Santora is not a lone wolf.
Just across the Hudson River in Midtown Manhattan, St. Paul the Apostle Church is prepping for its so-called Pride Mass on the feast of St. John the Baptist, June 24.
Run by the Paulist Fathers with Fr. Rick Walsh as the pastor, the church also has a gay-friendly Mass every Sunday evening.
Other pro-gay churches in New York City include St. Francis of Assisi in Midtown, St. Ignatius Loyola on the Upper East Side and St. Francis Xavier in Chelsea.
Parishioners from some of these churches also march each June in the Pride Parade.
All this goes on under New York's Cdl. Timothy Dolan, who, in 2014, serving as grand marshall of the St. Patrick's Day parade, formally allowed, for the first time, a homosexual group to march in the parade.
These pro-gay pastors on the East Coast are not a lone pack.
Over in Lexington, Kentucky, under Bp. John Stowe, those in charge of the historic St. Paul Church in downtown Lexington have decorated the lawn with rainbow-colored doors and a sign that reads "Come out and come in."
JR Zerkowski: "We thought if we can do an installation that would become a topic of conversation, it wouldn’t just be a one-time event. ... The Catholic Church has not had a good record with LGBTQ persons."
Stowe himself kicked off Pride Month with a blessing service for so-called LGBTQ Catholics.
Bp. John Stowe: "Dear friends in the LGBTQ community, I offer a prayer of blessing for each of you during this annual celebration of pride."
While these priests and prelates celebrate gay pride, many Catholics are offering reparation to Jesus in this month dedicated to His Sacred Heart.
Wayward clerics also substitute the rainbow flag for the cross by establishing so-called LGBTQ faith-sharing groups at the parish. Bishops will permit the existence of these groups despite vociferous complaints from faithful Catholics.
Over in Lexington, Kentucky, under Bp. John Stowe, those in charge of the historic St. Paul Church in downtown Lexington have decorated the lawn with rainbow-colored doors and a sign that reads "Come out and come in."
Ping
Gay guy exclaims, “I’m FULL of pride!”
Gay guy behind him, “That’s my arm.”
ROTFLMChristianFreeAmericanHairyWhiteUnsodomizedAO!!
The Bible speaks about orientation. It says we're born sinners, and it says to seek Jesus for forgiveness all while telling us to repent.
I’m tired. Wake me up for the sloth mass.
Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
I imagine the “Sign of Peace” Mass segment could go on for a long time!
Yep, gay St. Paul parish, where the parish council president is out and proud. He was grinning on the cover of the diocese news magazine a couple months back.
I don’t dare attend a Mass at that parish or any Mass where Bp. Stowe is present for fear of lightning strikes.
People are “just born with” birth defects, down syndrome, club feet, schizophrenia, blindness... various abnormalities. That doesn’t mean we emphasis and exaggerate those conditions instead of trying to help, comfort and direct those unfortunates.
Instead of trying to deliver these people from their sin, these churches have celebrated and embraced their sin. Laodicea?
Surely the pastor knows that the Church teaches that the homosexual orientation is not sinful but disordered. It’s only when they act on it that sinfulness enters in. The sad thing about implicitly telling people to have “Pride” in engaging in unnatural acts is that absent repentance and healing they actually become filled with self-loathing, hating themselves, others, and God.
The professional liberals actually know that there is no evidence that the homosexual orientation is a genetic condition one is born with. They also know that the orientation tends to result from grave early problems such as sexual abuse or an inability to be affirmed in one’s God-given gender by an absent, weak or abusive parent. A weak body image, rejection by one’s peers and loneliness can also play a part in Gender Identity Disorder. The professional liberals cover all this up in order to enslave people to disorder and compulsion for political power.
I agree wholeheartedly. Homosexuality itself may not be any more of a sin than other sins. But defining yourself by the sin with pride entrenches the sin more into your being, and more into society as a whole.
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