Posted on 08/01/2024 8:20:35 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis has once again sent a handwritten letter of support to Father James Martin SJ, expressing his closeness with the priest’s pro-LGBT Outreach conference being held this weekend.
Shortly before the commencement of its 2024 conference held in Georgetown University this weekend, Outreach published a photo of a hand-written letter sent from Pope Francis to Fr. Martin – the group’s founder.
Sent by Francis on July 11, the message reads:
Dear brother,
Thank you very much for your email.
I am glad that Cardinal Gregory will celebrate the Mass; I will be spiritually with him and with all of you, united in prayer.
Thank you for praying for me. I do the same for you.
May Jesus bless you and the Holy Virgin care for you.Fraternally,
Francis
The Pope’s letter came in response to a July 10 message sent to him by Martin, asking if the Pontiff had any message he wished to share with participants of the conference as has become custom in recent years.
Welcoming Francis’ letter, Martin told Outreach that “[w]e are honored by the Holy Father’s greetings and his promises of prayers and are grateful for his own outreach to LGBTQ Catholics over the years. We will be praying for his intentions this weekend as we gather together at Georgetown.”
This year’s Outreach conference is billed as drawing together “LGBTQ lay people, clergy, scholars, artists, educators, students and family members to build community, share best practices and worship together.”
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of D.C. and Fr. Martin will be the chief celebrants and the weekend’s two Masses. The advertised panel discussions for the 300-plus participants include:
Outreach itself operates “under the auspices of America Media,” which oversees the left-wing, Jesuit-run America Magazine. The group is the brainchild of Martin and his past pro-LGBT activities, as it aims to become a global resource center “where church leaders, both clergy and lay, can encounter the LGBTQ faithful, in their ‘joys and hopes’ and ‘griefs and anxieties’ as well as engage in respectful dialogue.”
Since its inception, Outreach has enjoyed a close relationship with Pope Francis, chiefly due to the personal friendship between Francis and Martin. Indeed, the Pope has now sent at least five publicly-known letters to Martin and the Outreach group in relation to the LGBT conferences they stage, although the first in 2021 was before Outreach was officially launched.
In 2021, just prior to Martin’s online LGBT conference, Francis wrote to the Jesuit thanking him for his “pastoral zeal” and “ability to be close to people, with that closeness that Jesus had and that reflects the closeness of God.” The Pope described Martin’s LGBT advocacy as being an imitation of the “style of God.”
Outreach was then launched on May 1, 2022, and only days later Francis replied to a letter Martin sent him in which he argued that a “selective” Church is “a sect,” and decrying what he styled as the Church’s “rejection” of “LGBT Catholic[s].”
Francis decried “rejection from the Church,” saying that for LGBT individuals “I would have them recognize it not as ‘the rejection of the Church,’ but instead of ‘people in the Church.’ The Church is a mother and calls together all her children.”
Following the June 2022 Outreach conference, Francis again wrote to Martin in August 2022 after the Jesuit priest had sent the Pontiff details about the 2022 event. Francis praised Martin for “working in the culture of encounter,” which, he said, “shortens distances and enriches us with our differences, just as Jesus did.”
Then for the 2023 event, Francis continued the established practice by sending another hand-written letter. He thanked Martin “for all the good you are doing,” and also expressed his closeness to all at the conference.
Martin has met with Francis privately on a number of occasions, and was personally selected by the Pope to participate in the current Synod on Synodality. He is also a papally appointed member of the Dicastery for Communications.
READ: Pope Francis meets with Fr. James Martin, reportedly affirms his LGBT activism
Martin’s favor with Pope Francis comes alongside his longstanding record of promoting LGBT ideology in apparent dissent from Catholic teaching. The Jesuit priest is described as “arguably the most prominent activist” in the Church for LGBT issues.
His record also includes promoting images drawn from a series of blasphemous works by homosexual artist Douglas Blanchard and describing viewing God as male as “damaging.” Martin has additionally promoted homosexual unions and called for openly homosexual individuals to kiss during the sign of peace at the Novus Ordo Mass.
In contrast to many affirmative styles of “outreach,” the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (CDF) 1986 document “On the pastoral care of homosexual persons” stipulates that a “truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”
“We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral,” wrote the Vatican’s doctrinal office. “Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the Church’s position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve.”
READ: Father James Martin says he knows ‘hundreds’ of homosexual priests: ‘They’ve been my mentors’
The CDF added how “special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not.”
Catholic morality further notes that a “truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”
Join faithful Catholics in prayerful protest to oppose Fr. James Martin’s summit titled “Outreach 2024: LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference” at Georgetown University.
When:
Saturday, August 3, 2024.
Where:
Georgetown University
37th St NW & O St NW
Washington, D.C.
Time:
12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM
Not only does Fr. Martin support transgenderism for children, but he also endorses blasphemous “Pride Masses,” blessings for sinful unions, and sacrilegious “rainbow rosaries.” In short, his message is this: “Accept homosexuality. Subvert the Church.”
Unfortunately, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., is scheduled to celebrate Mass at the pro-homosexual event.
-- Join this prayerful and peaceful protest.
-- Bring your rosary.
-- Bring a friend.
For more information, contact John at 717-495-5427.
More background:
10 Ways Fr. Martin is Harming the Faith
https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/fr-james-martin-is-harming-the-catholic-faith
20,570 Faithful Ask Card. Gregory to Cancel Fr. Martin's Pro-LGBT Conference
https://tfpstudentaction.org/petitions/fr-james-martin-lgbt-conference
Ping
The pope is a DOPE.
James Martin is like a non-stop satanic stick-in-the-eye of Christ and the Church.
The man is clearly a practicing homosexual, he’s clearly in grave sin and heresy, has been for many years, and he doesn’t stop.
Your invitation to join the ABOMINATION?
No thank you! Not ever.
The LGBTQ group mock God, Jesus, and all of us who don’t agree with their sinful ways and you want people to support them?
No thanks, not ever.
Still Not a word about the Olympic blasphemy. As expected
Well, if you don’t protect and support pedophiles you can’t be — ‘cause that is what he has done. His continued tacit approval of gay priests is also abominable, since they violate their oath to their Gawd.
Come on, Frankie. Go there in person. You can probably pick up a free “White Dudes For Harris” hat while you’re there.
Be careful what you wish for Pope.
This POS can’t doe soon enough.
Doe = Die
What happens if a group of them decide to embrace the TLM? Well Francis’ head explode?
churches have no business enabling evil
AFAIAC, a homosexual should indeed be welcomed into church if he’s sincerely repentant and seeks to mend his ways
but that’s very different from what these church “leaders” are doing
they’re showing contempt for our Creator’s word and should not be permitted to continue in clerical guise, imho
there’s nobody more dangerous than an enemy within (wolf in sheep’s garb)
Will the word "abomination" come up in that discussion?
More than 300 L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and their allies will gather at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. this weekend “to build community, share best practices and worship together,” according to the Outreach conference website. Conference organizers expect participants from 33 U.S. states and eight foreign countries—including Argentina, Italy, South Korea and Lithuania—to model an inclusive faith and discuss what it means to be an L.G.B.T.Q. person in the church today.
“We’re aiming to create a space where we celebrate, elevate and build up the L.G.B.T.Q. Catholic community,” said Michael J. O’Loughlin, the executive director of Outreach. “I hope that L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics, their friends and families, and those who minister alongside them will leave Outreach 2024 with a renewed sense that not only are they welcome in the church, but that the church needs their gifts, talents and witness.”
I thought there was already too much faggotry?
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