Posted on 10/07/2025 8:03:46 AM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Athanasius Schneider urged the faithful during a talk on Saturday not to bow to the modern idols that have crept into the Catholic Church such as LGBT ideology or the climate change agenda.
Speaking at the Catholic Identity Conference (CIC) in Pittsburgh on October 4, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, emphasized that in a period when the First Commandment is often rejected even by the Church hierarchy, Catholics must cling to Our Lord Jesus Christ and not offer incense to modern idols such as political correctness, “Mother Earth,” icebergs, and the LGBT ideology. Schneider’s bold statement comes just over a month after the sacrilegious LGBT pilgrimage at the Vatican in early September that saw thousands of so-called “LGBT Catholics,” many with their same-sex “partners,” processing into St. Peter’s Basilica, and about a week after Pope Leo’s blessing of an iceberg during a Vatican “climate change” event.
“The First Commandment does not admit even the slightest ambiguity and vagueness. A Catholic can acknowledge only the worship of the Most Holy Trinity and of Christ the King, the Incarnated God. Therefore, a Catholic cannot participate even indirectly in any other religious cult,” the bishop said. “A Catholic cannot burn even the smallest grain of incense before the images of the new idols, for example, before the idol of a standard religion, before the idol of … public opinion, of political correctness before the idol of the so-called “Mother Earth” of the idol of climate change, of icebergs.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, during the Vatican’s “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” Conference at Castel Gandolfo in Italy last week, Pope Leo XIV blessed a block of ice from Greenland, raising eyebrows from several conservative Catholic commentators.
WATCH: Pope Leo blesses block of ice at Vatican ‘climate change’ event
During a press event ahead of the conference, pro-abortion and pro-LGBT actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger also called on every Catholic around the world to “be a crusader for the environment.”
Pope Leo’s Vatican has thus far wholly embraced his predecessor Pope Francis’ focus on climate change and “care for creation,” having issued a votive Mass inspired by Laudato Si, and opened an ecological training center on the grounds of the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo.
Schneider continued, noting that many now identify as “LGBT Catholics” and stressed that the faithful also must never bend the knee to that ideology.
“(Catholics can not bow) before the idol of the so-called LGBT ideology or ‘community’ even, which even absorbs the name ‘LGBT Catholics, presenting followers of such ideology as (the) ‘Catholic LGBT community,'” he said. “While ‘LGBTQ’ organizations in theory and in fact are unrepentant and proud, denying the Sixth Commandment of God, justifying sexual acts outside a valid marriage, concretely justifying the sin of sodomy, fornication, and promoting a lifestyle which contradicts the divinely created order and beauty of nature and reason.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, in early September, a Vatican-approved LGBT pilgrimage for the jubilee year, organized by “La Tenda di Gionata” (“The Tent of Jonathan”), a pro-LGBT group that has falsely claimed that Scripture does not condemn homosexual relationships and joined by Father James Martin’s Outreach, saw more than 1,000 “LGBT pilgrims” visit the Vatican.
During the pilgrimage, the group led by a rainbow cross, many with their same-sex “partners,” dressed in rainbow colors with some waving “LGBT pride” flags, processed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica. One photo showed an unidentified pilgrim wearing a backpack that said “F*** the rules.”
Schneider told LifeSiteNews that the LGBT pilgrimage was a “tragic” and “blasphemous” event that the faithful must make reparation for.
WATCH: Thousands of ‘LGBT Catholics’ process into St. Peter’s Basilica for Jubilee Year pilgrimage
“(The pilgrimage was) not only tragic, it was a blasphemous event in one of the most holy places of Christianity, which is the Basilica of St. Peter, the tomb of the Apostle St. Peter, and used as a promotion for legitimizing sodomy and other connotations with the tacit consent of the Holy See,” Schneider said. “This is so grievous that it cannot be left without asking God for forgiveness and reparation and expiation.”
Earlier in the conference, Schneider, along with Bishop Joseph Strickland, bishop emeritus of Tyler, Texas, Bishop Marian Eleganti, emeritus auxiliary bishop of Chur, Switzerland, and Bishop Robert Mutsaerts, auxiliary of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, led millions of faithful in person and virtually in praying an act of reparation for the “abomination” of the LGBT pilgrimage followed by the holy rosary.
Schneider further emphasized to LifeSiteNews the importance of Pope Leo making reparation for the Vatican LGBT pilgrimage.
“We pray that God may give (Pope Leo) the light and the strength and the courage to do this,” he said.
Bishop Eleganti agreed, telling LifeSite that whenever a grave sin, let alone sacrilege in a holy place, occurs, reparation must be made to God.
“Reparation is important. God is justice and truth; He is not only mercy. (God doesn’t) take this wound and say, ‘Forget it, everything is alright.'” he said. “(Abomination) needs an equilibrium, because behind everything is God’s truth and His justice, so it needs reparation.”
“It would be a strange world if a murderer would not be punished. We have the feeling of justice that needs reparation, (so) he has to go to prison. If not, life cannot continue in the normal way,” he added. “(What happened in the Vatican was) a devastation, a desecralization, so it needs an expiation, and so I think it makes sense to make an act of reparation.”
Bishop Mutsaerts echoed those sentiments.
“When something grave happens, you have to make reparations, and that’s what we did,” he said.
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But, but, the Pope just blessed a block of ice to combat climate change.
As a lifelong Catholic,I never expected to live long enough to see a Pope from America. Now I am sad at it all.
Viva Christo Rey!
And God has blessed us with a few courageous bishops saying “do not throw a pinch of incense on their fire”!
We cannot love them out of hell’s path by supporting their sin, nor of our own path alongside them for a wont against discomfort.
“Bishop Athanasius Schneider urged the faithful during a talk on Saturday not to bow to the modern idols that have crept into the Catholic Church such as LGBT ideology or the climate change agenda.” Perhaps this man should have been elected Pope.
Ahhhh, the CIC, aka the Clowns International Conference, a synod of apostates. Heresy much, ebby? And a synod to boot!
The Diocese of Pittsburgh and all other Catholic leaders have explicitly stated they do not endorse or support CIC, and discourage Catholics from attending due to the nature of its content and its challenge to Church authority.
Event materials, talk titles, and press releases frequently use combative rhetoric (e.g., “Francis’s War on God and History,” “Missionary Genocide,” “Crimes Against God and Humanity”). Some of these statements are considered inflammatory and even schismatic by mainstream Catholic observers.
If schneider is there, vig and Fired stricland can’t be far behind. ImagineThat!
Do you still believe in the deicide charge, ebby?
I believe you are not a Catholic in good standing.
Answer your questions, ebby:
#1-Are you an SSPXer?
#2-Do you still believe in the deicide charge?
I'm sure Leo's homo-chef, and his "husband", are keeping the ice block in a deep-freezer for him back at Castle Gandolfo.
I’m a Catholic.
You are not one.
Actually, your post (and many, many others) would call that in question. Your Clowns International synod is not recognized by the Catholic Church. In fact the diocese and the Church tell Catholics in good standing to stay away from this synod and group. That is not very Catholic, ebby! ImagineThat!
You continually label others with derogatory names, including liars. What keeps you from stating your full intentions? Straight forward - 1. are you an sspxer? If yes, why are you embarrassed to align yourself with a group you promote? 2. Do you still believe in the deicide charge? This seems true...
Amen! May God keep the brave and faithful conservative Bishops safe!
I don't live in the diocese of Pittsburgh: and that diocese does not represent or speak for the Catholic Church.
Most of those CIC speakers, including the good Bishop Strickland, come from outside the diocese of Pittsburgh and are Catholics in good standing.
Compare the diocese of Chicago (Cupich) to that of San Franciso (Cordileone) and I'm sure you would follow Cupcake's red tail straight into Hell.
is the new dance called the twist, ebby? Nice deflection but per usual my facts are correct and yours are questionable. Speaking of questions, you haven’t answered #1 and #2 above. Simple questions you are embarrassed to answer truthfully.
Let hear the answers.
No comment on Fired strickland other than it proves my point.
Well? Still waiting for your ‘honest” answers, ebby
Bishop Strickland is hero of the Catholic Church, a white martyr of a dictator, Jesuit pope whom you adore as a “god”.
I don’t answer to homosexual heretics.
Take a hike.
You are a chicken; you are fearful of saying what you truly believe and what you truly are, ebby. #1 - Are you an sspxer? I’d say there is a pretty good chance that you aren’t - you just wish you were. Although, I don’t think you have a parish. #2. - Do you still believe in the deicide charge? I bet yes; heavy money yes.
Want to throw-in a third question just for fun, ebby? #3 - Are you Fired strickland? Only a fool would promote the diminished Fs or a true narcissist.
Keep in mind, ebby, what your Pope recently told you:
“Works of mercy are recommended as a sign of the authenticity of worship, which, while giving praise to God, has the task of opening us to the transformation that the Spirit can bring about in us, so that we may all become an image of Christ and his mercy towards the weakest. In this sense, our relationship with the Lord, expressed in worship, also aims to free us from the risk of living our relationships according to a logic of calculation and self-interest.”
Try putting that in place with your friends, “the homos” (as you call them). You can do it, ebby.
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