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Italian Bishops Join Dissident ‘Catholic’ Groups for Ecumenical LGBT ‘Prayer Vigils’
LifeSite News ^ | 5/17/22 | Michael Haynes

Posted on 05/23/2022 7:07:30 PM PDT by marshmallow

Three Italian prelates joined in supporting the pro-LGBT ecumenical ‘prayer vigil’ movement, with Archbishop Corrado Lorefice of Palermo speaking of God's ‘fatherly womb.’

(LifeSiteNews) – As part of events to mark the “International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia” (IDAHOT), three Italian prelates have joined with dissident “Catholic” LGBT organizations to create “sanctuaries of welcome and support for LGBT people.”

The events comprise a number of ecumenical prayer services held in churches, Catholic and evangelical, all across Europe, starting May 15 and continuing through June 6, with a large number of such vigils taking place on May 17 – the “International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.”

May 15 saw one of the opening “Prayer Vigil for Overcoming Homophobia, Transphobia and Intolerance” events held in the Catholic Basilica of St. Peter ad Aram, Naples, which holds the altar on which St. Peter prayed during his stay. It was organized by Ponti da Costruire, a group of LGBT Christians from Campania.

The entire series of pro-LGBT events is jointly co-ordinated by the ecumenical Italian group La Tenda di Gionata along with a number of dissident “Catholic” and non-Catholic LGBT groups including “the Faith, Gender and Sexuality Commission of the Baptist, Methodist and Waldensian churches, the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics, the European Forum of LGBT Christian Group, Gay Christian Africa and the English ecumenical association OneBodyOneFaith.”

Archbishop Corrado Lorefice of Palermo, appointed by Francis in 2015, composed a prayer for the series of events, urging people to “assume and imitate the style of God that Jesus of Nazareth manifested to us: he leaves no one behind, no one is a stranger to him, all reach out, all welcome, all are recipients of his compassionate love, of the quivering of his fatherly womb.”

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1 posted on 05/23/2022 7:07:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Blasphemy.


2 posted on 05/23/2022 7:39:20 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: marshmallow

Anti-Christian Satanists.


3 posted on 05/24/2022 6:22:26 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: marshmallow

All from Communist southern Italy.


4 posted on 05/24/2022 6:34:30 AM PDT by Mashood
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