The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property protest a pro-LGBT conference led by the dissident Father James Martin, S.J. at Georgetown University.
Posted on 08/07/2024 3:49:31 PM PDT by ebb tide
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property protest a pro-LGBT conference led by the dissident Father James Martin, S.J. at Georgetown University.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) on Saturday held a rally of reparation and protest against a recent pro-LGBT conference led by the dissident Father James Martin, S.J. at Georgetown University.
“With rosaries in hand, standing shoulder to shoulder, we opposed Fr. Martin’s conference, designed to normalize unnatural sin within the Catholic Church,” John Ritchie, TFP director of student action, told LifeSiteNews in a statement. “True shepherds never promote sin, never wave pride flags, never bless sinful same-sex pairs, or favor gender ideology for innocent children. Only wolves do that.”
The pro-LGBT annual Outreach conference, held at Georgetown University from August 2 through August 4, received public support from Pope Francis despite speakers who have a record of heterodoxy in the area of Catholic sexual ethics. One of this year’s speakers, professor Amy-Jill Levine, who has described herself as a “Yankee Jewish feminist” and has stated that she is “not a believer in Jesus” as God, has heretically argued that God condones homosexual activity.
“If God declares that it is not good for the human being to be alone, if God says we should have a partner who fulfills us, then surely condemning gay people to lives of singleness and celibacy opposes divine will,” Levine wrote in 2017.
Outreach was founded in 2022 by Martin, who frequently makes scandalous statements regarding homosexuality that violate Catholic teaching on sexual morality. The organization aims to become a global resource center “where church leaders … can encounter the LGBTQ faithful, in their ‘joys and hopes’ and ‘griefs and anxieties’ as well as engage in respectful dialogue.”
Ritchie further noted to LifeSiteNews, “Faithful Catholics have a lot of unanswered questions about Fr. Martin. They want to know why he’s allowed to harm souls with confusion, error, and homoheresy. Why hasn’t he been excommunicated?”
“Those of us who had the privilege of standing at the gates of Georgetown echoed 2,000 years of Church teaching,” he continued. “You can’t be in better company. All the Apostles, every Doctor and Father of the Church, every holy theologian, every saintly Pope in history affirmed the same truth: unnatural vice is a grave sin.”
Ritchie explained that the “top priority” of the TFP protest “was to offer reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is attacked and wounded by the pride movement.”
“A secondary goal was to alert souls – especially young students – about the harmful errors that Fr. James Martin spreads,” said Ritchie, adding that his “track record is scandalous, blasphemous, and sacrilegious.”
“Faithful Catholics must resist the rainbow revolution inside the Church and boldly uphold Church teaching. Our Lord’s promise should also give us great courage and confidence to face the raging storm now assaulting the Barque of Peter, because ‘the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’ (Matt 16:18),” Ritchie concluded.
The Catholic Church teaches, with Sacred Scripture as its foundation, that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.”
The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued its 1986 document “On the pastoral care of homosexual persons,” in which it noted that while a homosexual inclination is not a sin in itself, it is nevertheless “a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
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Ping
There it is. First pope to condone faggotry (regardless what he says) it is only a matter of time until he comes out for abortion.
Jimmy Martin, SJ and Jorge Bergoglio, SJ are definitely birds of a feather.
Used to be if you asked an obvious question someone would answer Is the Pope Catholic?
No more. It is sad when the laity are clearer about the Faith than the Pope is.
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