Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in private audience Posted on 06/16/2022 2:18:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
According to the Jesuit priest, ‘many LGBTQ people aren’t doing anything at all against church teaching.’
Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in private audience
(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin doubled down on his support for the LGBT agenda in a Tuesday article in which he asserted that the Catholic liturgical calendar’s June devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is actually “complementary” with “Pride Month,” which celebrates people who engage in homosexual lifestyles.
In an article published by Martin’s newly founded organization Outreach, which bills itself as “an LGBTQ+ Catholic Resource,” Martin argued that Catholics can celebrate “Pride Month” if they understand “pride” to mean “a consciousness of one’s own dignity.”
According to Martin, “the two celebrations — the Month of the Sacred Heart and Pride Month,” are “not only not in conflict, but deeply complementary. One … shows us how Jesus loved. The other shows us whom Jesus calls us to love. “
Martin noted that Catholics often object to the celebration of “Pride Month” during the month of June for two reasons. The first reason, he stated, is that “pride is a sin, and sin should never be celebrated.” Others also object, according to Martin, because they believe “LGBTQ people are simply sinful or are always in conflict with church teaching.”
Answering the first objection, Martin asserted that “there are two kinds of pride,” and while one is “the opposite of humility,” the other (which he argued is “closer to what Pride Month is meant to be for the LGBTQ community”) amounts to “a recognition of the human dignity of a group of people who have, for centuries, been treated with contempt, rejection and violence.”
Taking on the second objection, the controversial priest — who recently made a statement seeming to defend puberty-blocking drugs for children — asserted that “many LGBTQ people aren’t doing anything at all against church teaching.”
“Imagine a young LGBTQ person who is not in any sort of sexual relationship but simply wants to be accepted,” Martin suggested. “Where is the sin?”
The priest went on to suggest that harboring objections to the public celebration of homosexual lifestyles is “false” because “it ignores the fact that all of us are sinful. Who among us has not sinned?”
Despite Martin’s depiction of a chaste young person who identifies as LGBTQ+, public celebrations of “pride” during the month of June do not tend to support Christian chastity. Instead, drag shows, pride parades, and even commercials promoting “pride” often definitionally advocate homosexual lifestyles and many feature sexually explicit content, including content enacted in front of or specifically targeted at children.
Moreover, with the ascendency of transgender ideology, “pride” celebrations have also placed strong focus on affirming the notion that people can change their God-given sex, a radical idea that Fr. Terrance Chartier of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate recently asserted violates at least four of the 10 commandments.
Later in his article, Fr. Martin compared expressing love and support for people who identify as LGBTQ+ with several of Jesus’ interactions with individuals in the Gospels, including His conversation with a Samaritan woman as recounted in the Gospel of John.
“She has been married five times and is living with a man who is not her husband. In other words, she has an irregular sexual past and present,” Martin said of the Samaritan woman in the Gospel, adding that “Jesus treats her with infinite love, engaging with her in one of the longest conversations in the Gospels, revealing himself to her as the ‘Living Water’ and commissioning her to spread the Good News among the Samaritan people.”
Martin did not note that Jesus’ expression of “infinite love” for the Samaritan woman included making clear to her the wrongfulness of her lifestyle by telling her: “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true” (Jn. 4:17-18).
Earlier in John’s gospel, Jesus had told the woman caught in adultery to “go and sin no more.”
In a 2019 piece for The Catholic Spirit, Fr. Erich Rutten pointed out that while Jesus “does not wish to condemn us,” He “clearly urges us to go and sin no more that we might have true life.”
“In John 3:17, we are told that God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn the world. But neither does Jesus leave us in our dysfunction and sin,” Rutten said. “He comes to show us the way out. He is ‘the way, the truth and the life’ (Jn 14:6). He comes to save us from ourselves and our sin.”
Fr. Martin’s “Outreach” organization is planning to host a conference on June 24-25 at the nominally-Catholic Fordham University in New York City.
The event will feature a lineup of various homosexuality and transgender advocates, including so-called “gender doctor” Dr. Colt St. Amand (a woman who presents herself as a “transgender” man) whose bio on her website reads: “Openly transgenderqueer Two Spirit man who works with LGBTQI+ children, teens, adults and their loved ones.”
Later in his article, Fr. Martin compared expressing love and support for people who identify as LGBTQ+ with several of Jesus’ interactions with individuals in the Gospels, including His conversation with a Samaritan woman as recounted in the Gospel of John.
“She has been married five times and is living with a man who is not her husband. In other words, she has an irregular sexual past and present,” Martin said of the Samaritan woman in the Gospel, adding that “Jesus treats her with infinite love, engaging with her in one of the longest conversations in the Gospels, revealing himself to her as the ‘Living Water’ and commissioning her to spread the Good News among the Samaritan people.”
Martin did not note that Jesus’ expression of “infinite love” for the Samaritan woman included making clear to her the wrongfulness of her lifestyle by telling her: “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true” (Jn. 4:17-18).
Earlier in John’s gospel, Jesus had told the woman caught in adultery to “go and sin no more.”
In a 2019 piece for The Catholic Spirit, Fr. Erich Rutten pointed out that while Jesus “does not wish to condemn us,” He “clearly urges us to go and sin no more that we might have true life.”
“In John 3:17, we are told that God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn the world. But neither does Jesus leave us in our dysfunction and sin,” Rutten said. “He comes to show us the way out. He is ‘the way, the truth and the life’ (Jn 14:6). He comes to save us from ourselves and our sin.”
Fr. Martin’s “Outreach” organization is planning to host a conference on June 24-25 at the nominally-Catholic Fordham University in New York City.
The event will feature a lineup of various homosexuality and transgender advocates, including so-called “gender doctor” Dr. Colt St. Amand (a woman who presents herself as a “transgender” man) whose bio on her website reads: “Openly transgenderqueer Two Spirit man who works with LGBTQI+ children, teens, adults and their loved ones.”
Frankenchurch Ping
Sacred Heart month is a devotion to the sacrificial and salvific love of God for we His people.
Pride month is a demonic celebration of deadly sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
Jimmy Martin can’t tell the difference? Jimmy Martin thinks they’re compatible? Jimmy Martin needs to repent. Now. While he’s still alive.
Obviously this guy didn’t read the story about Sodom and Gomorrah.
And Humble Jorge fully supports Jimmy Martin.
....the “S.J.” behind his name is all you need to know about this guy....so-called “pride month” is a celebration of perversity and nothing less; it was so disgusting to see our Dementia-in-Chief Biden crow that “Pride is back in the White House...!” the other day.... a celebration of perverse acts by perverse people....
I wonder if he knows the difference between boys and girls ... or finds them equally, er, interesting.
Agreed. This is exactly what the Apostle Paul preached about in the N.T. letters. Exactly!
One reason why I left the church years ago. But a popular church here in my city was being sued by men who were molested by priests, (one of them married my husband and I), when they were altar boys in that particular Catholic Church. This church along with other churches across the nation became a big scandal and an embarrassment for the Vatican. The church ended up paying through the nose. I guess the church forgot about that little detail! Don’t know how true but if they were molesting young boys then I would think the majority were practicing homosexuals.
Homosexuals are cordially invited to join the church. As is anyone who seeks to accept the church’s moral teachings and pursues faith.
What is so disturbing about this priest rattling around inviting homosexuals into the church is that there’s almost never any mention of morals (or seeking faith) in his statements.
Reminds one of the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing,
“ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (attributed to Jesus at Matthew 7:15)
Pride is the first and worst of the seven deadly sins.
Its your church too. It doesn't belong to the perverts.
Quick story. I knew a priest who oversaw all of the local Catholic high schools in our midwest-city diocese. Former WWII Marine, was in Iwo Jima. I knew him later in life. Quiet, no-nonsense guy
One story I was told after his death: He got reports of another priest in a high school who was acting strangely - one story I heard was this priest offered boys to wrestle him instead of being punished for some school infraction. Regarded as a weirdo from friends who attended that school.
My priest friend called this offending younger priest into his office for a private meeting. He told him: "if I hear one more story like this, I will personally beat the shit out of you."
The offending priest left the priesthood six months later. Yes, he came out as an open homosexual.
And there was never any scandal among any of the schools in the many years which my friend oversaw them. His funeral was attended by several hundred people.
This evening I will attend an event at my parish introducing a group of LGBTQ Catholics called One Love. I do not have any agenda except to listen, because my Gen Z daughter, who has gay friends, asked me to. I am not sure what to say or whether to say anything at all. I will pray before I go. Anyone’s words of wisdom on this matter would be welcome. (But please nothing snarky)
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us. God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, formed in the womb of the Virgin Mother by the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, united substantially with the word of God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, glowing furnace of charity, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, vessel of justice and love, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, patient and rich in mercy, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, rich to all who invoke Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, fount of life and holiness, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, saturated with revilings, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, crushed for our iniquities, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, made obedient unto death, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, delight of all saints, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord,
Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
V. Jesus, meek and humble of Heart.
R. Make our hearts like unto Thine.
Let us pray
Almighty and everlasting God, look upon the Heart of Thy well-beloved Son and upon the acts of praise and satisfaction which He renders unto Thee in the name of sinners; and do Thou, in Thy great goodness, grant pardon to them who seek Thy mercy, in the name of the same Thy Son, Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, world without end. Amen.
Using Gods colors to promote gay sex isn’t going to turn out so well for him. I can almost smell the sulfur.
Thanks ❤️
No conflict, different masters.
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