Sister Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, and colleagues meet with Pope Francis on October 17, 2023.
Posted on 07/12/2024 7:25:08 AM PDT by ebb tide
Sister Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, and colleagues meet with Pope Francis on October 17, 2023.
George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral issues including abortion and LGBTQ issues. But a more overt and focused assault on the teaching authority of the Catholic Church is now coming from a billionaire power couple—Tim Gill and Scott Miller—who are working to discredit Church teachings on sexual morality by directly attacking the Magisterium.
President Joe Biden thought so highly of the funding these two gay philanthropists have provided for LGBTQ initiatives that he appointed Scott Miller, the co-Chair of the Board of the Gill Foundation, to be the Ambassador to Switzerland. In their most recent filing on their 990 form for the IRS, the Gill Foundation described itself as “an organization that reaches out to corporations and mainstream corporate foundations to help them understand LGBTQ issues.”
The real agenda of the Gill Foundation, according to Jeff Walton, spokesman for The Institute on Religion and Democracy, is to “look out at society, and see where there is resistance to the agenda they seek to promote and how they can best change that.”
Focused on changing hearts and minds on issues like “same-sex marriage” and transgender advocacy, the Gill Foundation has long supported religious organizations in a subversive attempt to influence opinions and shape teachings.
In the past, beneficiaries have included the Episcopal Diocese in Colorado, and progressive inter-faith organizations including Faithful America. As far back as 2011, the Gill Foundation gave $25,000 to support Faithful America and Catholics United, which both began public attacks on Catholic teachings and have encouraged pro-LGBTQ Catholic political action.
In 2011, the Gill Foundation awarded $100,000 to Catholics United to help meet the goal of changing Catholic views of homosexuality—including same sex marriage.
In 2014, Faithful America—flush with cash from the Gill Foundation—began a campaign to garner signatures on Facebook and other social media urging Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco to cancel his appearance at the “March for Marriage” in Washington, D.C.
Claiming that Archbishop Cordileone was lending the Church’s authority to the “vitriol and hatred” of the pro-marriage march, and was “undermining Pope Francis’s call for a more compassionate church,” Faithful America demanded that he dissociate himself from the pro-marriage rally.
Apparently Gill Foundation seed money has been fruitful as Faithful America continues its attacks on Archbishop Cordileone, as yet another petition drive was instituted in January, 2024, designed to demand that the Archbishop revoke his partial ban on the pastoral LGBTQ blessings on “same-sex couples”.
Citing the controversial document Fiducia Supplicans, Faithful America described Archbishop Cordileone as a “notorious culture-warrior archbishop” who is “perpetuating hate” and “undermining the pope to deny spiritual care to queer Catholics.”
Ambassador Scott Miller and his “husband” Tim Gill , who have been “married” since 2009, have now apparently shifted their focus away from Faithful America to directly challenging Catholic teachings through providing huge grants to the dissident Catholic LGBTQ group, New Ways Ministry. In their most recent IRS filing, the Gill Foundation reported annual grants totaling more than $200,000 to New Ways Ministry, an organization that has been trying to undermine Catholic teachings on homosexuality and same sex marriage for more than four decades.
On May 14, 1999, Pope John Paul II approved a Notification, adopted in the Ordinary Session of the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which prohibited Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, the leaders of the New Ways Ministry from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons and as “ineligible for an undetermined period, for any office in their respective religious institutes.”
The Notification, issued by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stated that Sister Gramick and Father Nugent “do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area … the promotion of errors and ambiguities is not consistent with a Christian attitude of true respond and compassion: persons who are struggling with homosexuality no less than any others have the right to receive the authentic teaching of the Church from those who minister to them.”
Despite the Notification and the prohibitions that were placed on New Ways Ministry, the Gill Foundation has enabled New Ways Ministry to greatly expand its ministry and its outreach to Catholics. Unfortunately, adding to the confusion and the ambiguity of their ministry, in October, 2023, Pope Francis met with Sr. Gramick and the current leadership of New Ways Ministry.
While the topic of the meeting was not revealed, New Ways Ministry issued a statement claiming that Sr. Gramick thanked the Holy Father for his “openness to blessing same-sex unions, as well as for his opposition to the criminalization of LGBTQ people in civil society.” Claiming that the meeting with Pope Francis is “remarkable because it reflects the steady acceptance of Catholic officials to LGBTQ issues and ministry …this meeting now represents a new openness to the pastorally-motivated, justice seeking approach which Sr. Jeannine and her organization have long practiced.”
Responding to the meeting with Pope Francis, Jesuit priest and GLBTQ advocate, Rev James Martin, took to Twitter/X to congratulate Grammick and pronounce the historic meeting “a significant step forward in the Church’s outreach to LGBTQ Catholics.”
Gill Foundation money appears to have been well spent in terms of its goal to begin to change many Catholic hearts and minds regarding LGBTQ issues—including support for “same-sex marriage”. In December, the Associated Press published an article titled “Step by Step, Pope Francis Has Made the Catholic Church a More Welcoming Place for LGBTQ People.”
And even when Pope Francis recently made what appeared to be an “anti-gay slur” in a conversation about the unsuitability of allowing gay men into seminaries, Fr. Martin posted a long rejoinder on Facebook claiming that “the Holy Father said he has known many good, holy and celibate seminarians and priests with homosexual tendencies. Once again, he confirmed my ministry with LGBTQ people and showed his openness and love for the LGBTQ community.”
In his position as Ambassador to Switzerland, Miller and his Gill Foundation have the means and influence to help shape global public policy. It is notable that “same-sex marriage” became legal in Switzerland on July 1, 2022 after 64% of voters approved the change in the civil code in a 2021 referendum, as the Biden administration proves yet again that personnel is indeed policy.
Responding to the meeting with Pope Francis, Jesuit priest and GLBTQ advocate, Rev James Martin, took to Twitter/X to congratulate Grammick and pronounce the historic meeting “a significant step forward in the Church’s outreach to LGBTQ Catholics.”
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SICK!!! EVIL!!! The Pope is an Apostate......VERY SAD.
And they hate the Mass of the Ages. Or rather, they are scared witless of it.
Both.
Same as their master.
“Sister” Grammick in a habit looks a bit hypocritical.
IMO.
These foundations probably should be folded up and their money put to better use, such as student loan paydown.
Tim Gill started making his huge fortune 40 years ago, as the developer of the pioneering graphics layout app, Quark. Money poured in.
He was living in Colorado at the time, home of the (then conservative) Air Force Academy and the Christian-based Focus on the Family foundation — the mere presence of those two organizations triggered his ire against traditional values.
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