Posted on 06/06/2023 12:56:12 AM PDT by Morgana
CLEVELAND (LifeSiteNews) — An Ohio priest is facing outrage in his parish after he publicly denounced the Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring anti-Catholic drag “nuns.”
During a Sunday homily on May 28, Fr. Timothy W. Gareau of St. Raphael Church in Cleveland was confronted by a “transgender” individual after Gareau called out the Dodgers for honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a blasphemous anti-Catholic group of drag “nuns,” with the Community Hero Award.
“Look at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Look what’s happening. Defaming the name of Jesus Christ. Defaming the name of every Christian here on Earth. It just burns a hole in my heart, angers me and embitters me. And it should you,” he said.
“I don’t want to give these people a name,” Gareau explained. “I don’t want to give them that much credit. But it’s happening. And it’s also being affirmed. I want to cry. But we have the Spirit. We have the Spirit of the living God, Who is upon us, Who is with us, Who is among us and within us.”
The livestream of the Mass has since been removed from the parish website.
According to The Plain Dealer, after Gareau’s homily, a ‘transgender’ protester going by the name of “Avery” went up to the microphone and declared, “Queer and trans people also carry the Holy Spirit, and that was really painful to hear. That was really hurtful.”
“Avery,” a former parishioner, continued, “You baptized me. I carry the Holy Spirit within me. I know you’re talking about the Sisters of Indulgence, and I understand that from the outside it looks like they are defaming the Catholic faith. … There are queer children here. The spirit of God moves through all people.”
The protester had to be removed from the altar by three men at Mass. The police were called to the parish for a “a possible assault in progress.”
While LGBT activists and some parishioners are bashing Gareau for his condemnation of the drag group, the Diocese of Cleveland fully supports Gareau’s actions.
“The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland applauds Father Gareau for his courage and fully supports him in calling on Catholics to speak out when others disparage our faith and to fight hatred, not with violence, but by embodying Christ’s love and boldly proclaiming the Gospel,” the diocese said in a statement.
On June 16, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Major League Baseball franchise plans to present the sacrilegious group, which engages in deliberately offensive sexualized burlesque mockeries of Catholicism, with an award at their “10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.”
The invitation to the group was initially revoked after backlash on social media from various religions, but the baseball franchise later backtracked and reinstated the invitation.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the group of “queer and trans nuns” have fundraised for HIV/AIDS research, the Gay Games (an LGBT-promoting athletic competition), and a proposition to legalize medical marijuana.
Gareau is not alone in standing up to the LGBT agenda, as many clergy have spoken out, along with many non-Catholic conservative voices.
Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas recently urged Catholics while speaking on the Bishop Strickland Show, to boycott events and companies that promote the LGBT agenda, including Target, Bud Light, and the upcoming Dodgers game.
On the day of the game, Strickland will lead a Eucharist procession to the stadium “in reparation for offenses committed against Jesus Christ and all Christians by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Thousands have petitioned the Dodgers to revoke the invitation to the blasphemous group.
Many conservatives have responded on social media by slamming the baseball team for caving.
“Yes, it is vital that the national pastime honor and support those who mock religion and decency,” Daily Wire co-founder and podcaster Ben Shapiro said in reaction.
“The Gay Mafia will always extract their payment for ‘protection,’” Crisis magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons said.
Some social media users hinted that the team should face similar backlash to beer company Bud Light, which is continuing to endure a massive boycott after its decision to promote transgender-identifying TikTok activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Similarly, while the Dodgers currently support the anti-Catholic group, the baseball franchise was formerly respectful of religion.
Former Dodgers great Sandy Koufax, a left-handed pitcher who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, famously refused to pitch during Game 1 of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the most important holy day in the Jewish calendar. He previously opted out of games that landed on Passover and Rosh Hashanah.
And Koufax wasn’t alone in living an active faith. Legendary announcer Vin Scully, the “Voice of the Dodgers” for 67 years, was a staunch Catholic. Scully, who passed away last year at age 94, was described by Catholic News Agency’s Jonah McKeown as “a devout Catholic who found in his faith a source of joy and comfort and sought to share it with others through personal kindness and philanthropy.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Scully was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and even narrated a two-CD audio recording of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2016.
To make your views respectfully known, readers can contact the LA Dodgers executive/administrative offices at 1-866-363-4377 ext. 9.
Father needs to do an exorcism on the freak he does not have the Holy Spirit anymore.
Since when does the minority rule ?
“The police were called to the parish for a “a possible assault in progress.””
This is it.
This is the magic phrase used to prep local police to commence the Damsel in Distress routine.
From that point forward the intended “victim” does everything possible to provoke a physical reaction to her behavior, at which time the police will either arrest the “offender” or hault him off to the country-level adult psych ward.
The “victim” then is asked if she wants to file for a Temporary Restraining Order.
It’s a script designed by lawyers and followed by all local police, local and county judiciary, social services (social workers), and all mental health professionals and other workers.
Please see #2.
It’s now a dyed-in-the-wool aspect of societal corruption.
A version of the Cloward Piven technique.
Minority Rules when they are promoted and supported by Pervert Politicians and PROTECTED by LEOs. LEOs, who are “just following orders” from the same Pervert Politicians.
Mental illness is rampant in society.
“— An Ohio priest is facing outrage in his parish after he publicly denounced the Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring anti-Catholic drag “nuns.”
The “outrage” consisted of a Trans parishioner who grabbed the microphone and objected to the Priest’s comments. Then of course the transie community chimed in.
]But the reporting on this group has been some of the most child sexual predator-enabling word salads ever tossed. Newsweek described them as “a pro-LGBTQ+ nonprofit in California comprised of an ‘order of queer and trans nuns.’” There are no “queer and trans nuns” like no male nuns.To CBS, they’re “a nonprofit organization that has been fundraising and volunteering for the LGBTQ+ community for over 30 years.” The San Francisco Gate called them a “charitable group of performance artists.” Pravda was harsher in describing Stalin during his lifetime.
They exist to mock Catholics, so does that mean Catholics can make fun of gays? Turnabout is, after all, the fairest of plays. So can we Catholics make a few good-natured AIDS jokes? B>How about making fun of people who get monkeypox from being a party pin cushion on Fire Island? Can we joke about lip wrists and scream like a girl at seeing a spider? Why is one group protected from being offended and another isn’t?
I couldn’t care less about these incontinent losers making fun of Catholicism or anything else; I resent the double standard. Of course, the left will tell you it’s because they’re “historically marginalized,” but who cares. We don’t live in the past, and these jackasses are old enough to have been victimized. And even if they were, still, who cares? They aren’t unique; they aren’t even important. And they aren’t worth protecting. If someone needs to be treated with kid gloves, lest their fragile existence comes crashing down around them, it’s going to happen sooner or later – better to deal with it now. Are people supposed to care more about someone coping with depression based on who they want to have sex with? No thanks. You either care about people, or you don’t. If you only care about specific people, you are the problem you claim to be fighting.
So screw the left, screw the LA Dodgers, and to hell with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. If that upsets their sensibilities, who cares? Call it “performance art,” get an NEA grant, and retire someplace nice with the money.
And AVERY needs an EXORCISM....he is possessed by SATAN!
So one sick freak complained, one.
Uganda has the right idea. I didn’t use to think so but outright banning the LGBT sickness by making it a death penalty might be what is required to make this far left listing ship right again.
The thing is the LGBT people themselves are what is making this a must. It was fine when they kept themselves and didn’t push the issue on others but now they do and by going after the children they crossed a big fat red line so yes, the death penalty should be on the table for these heinous child endangerment crimes.
“Outrage” is used in a manner to suggest that a major portion of the parish is incensed by the priest’s “insensitivity” to perverted agents of Satan when the reality seems to be that a few perverts don’t like to be informed that their boss is not nice and yell and scream like demons facing the possibility of expulsion.
The transvestite protestor has a spirit but it’s not the Holy Spirit
I concur ……
Reminds one of Germany late 1930s
IS a defined definite technique ……..
Time to watch the Nuremberg Trials again. All those special “laws” passed by the Nazis and SUPPORTED BY JUDGES!!!!
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