Posted on 12/17/2025 2:49:44 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a San Diego auxiliary bishop who celebrated an “All are Welcome” LGBT “Pride” Mass – during which a drag queen activist was permitted to speak – as the new bishop of Monterey, California.
Bishop Ramón Bejarano was the celebrant of the July 13 Sunday Mass, which was organized by St. John’s “LGBTQ Ministry” and had the full backing of the Diocese of San Diego under Bishop Michael Pham, one of Pope Leo XIV’s first episcopal appointments.
“I apologize for the pain and distress that I and the Church have caused to many of you,” Bishop Bejarano reportedly said in a 2024 “All are Welcome Mass” sermon at the same parish. “I apologize for the stigmatization and trauma we have caused to others because we have told them that they are not valued and that they are not worthy of the love of God. There are many others out there who feel rejected and unvalued.”
Bejarano was also among the 68 American bishops who in 2021 signed a letter asking the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to end discussions on prohibiting then-President Joe Biden and other pro-abortion Catholic politicians from receiving Holy Communion.
Drag queen “Nicole” Murray-Ramirez, a former board member of the powerful LGBTQ+ lobbying behemoth Human Rights Campaign, thanked Bishop Bejarano for his work “standing up” for the “LGBTQ community.”
All Our Welcome Mass celebrates the gift of the Church as a Mother who loves, embraces and journeys with everyone who wants to be closer to Christ. As our late Pope Francis proclaimed, “Todos, todos, todos.” Bishop Ramón Bejarano will preside the Mass, joined by the priests of several San Diego parishes ministering to the LGBTQ community. #sdcatholics #sdcatolicos
Murray-Ramirez wrote extensively in a Facebook post about what an honor it was to speak during the Mass and praised Bejarano.
“The Bishop’s sermon was a most powerful one that focused on (the fact) that God loves ALL of us the way we are,” wrote Murray-Ramirez.
Based on Murray-Ramirez’s account, it appears that Bejarano omitted any mention of the Church’s teaching on same-sex “marriage.”
“I had the Honor to be asked to speak and it was so wonderful to see and hear the well deserved thunderous prolong ovation that Bishop Bajarano received when I sincerely thanked him on behalf of all of us for standing up for not only the LGBTQ COMMUNITY but the undocumented and refugees,” Murray-Ramirez continued.
Photos posted by Murray-Ramirez from the Mass on Facebook show the “drag queen” posing for a photo and being blessed by Bejarano. The pro-LGBT Mass was also attended by San Diego’s openly homosexual, nominally Catholic Mayor Todd Gloria, who also posed for a picture with the bishop.
The Catholic Church teaches that God created humans as “male and female” and gave them to each other in marriage so they could “increase and multiply.” Sexual attraction and sexual acts between a male and female are specifically created by God for the purpose of procreation. The Catholic Church is logical and consistent when she teaches that homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity” and “intrinsically disordered” since they are “contrary to the natural law” in that they “close the sexual act to the gift of life.”
“They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved,” states the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Church also teaches that same-sex attraction is “objectively disordered” since God created members of the opposite sex to be attracted to one another for the sake of procreation.
Ping
I wouldn’t go anywhere near this heretic fake pope. He’s due to get struck by lightning.
Good news for you, oystir!
Another bishop that is to your liking!
Frank 2.0 ++
The church has passed over decline into frank depravity. The word of God and the teachings of Jesus are eternal but representatives on earth are flawed and coopted by the enemy.
The benefit of the doubt is completely annihilated — Prevost is undoubtedly a False Prophet. No good fruit will it bear.
I learned The Catholic Faith in my youth.
This is not The Catholic Faith.
Disgusting!
Another pathetic anti Catholic Pope!
ANTI-pope Leo. Just like the last pos to squat in the seat, NOT Pope.
Francis II rocks on...
The church is the people,not the pope or bishops or the buildings...God willing,this debacle going on will pass.
Can’t really say much about the new Pope as I don’t know him personally & am not Catholic. I will say there is something about him that he likely would not be invited to my church to speak.
This pope isn’t Catholic either. Like the last one. Both commies.
After Pope Francis was elected I thought that the Catholic Church was going to go into a Babylonian exile phase. That means all the money, churches, properties and art work would be carried off by enemies. So far nothing has changed my mind.
About 20% of our Sunday mass collection goes to the Bishop, so I haven’t put anything into that for years. But there are still people are doing Christ’s work, so our money goes there. And there are young faithful priests which makes me smile.
Your Pope sure knows his bishops doesn’t he ebby? Another good day for Pope Leo!
I assume you were at Bejarano’s LGBT Mass, with your fellow sodomites.
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