Posted on 12/19/2025 7:57:16 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez as the bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.
Born January 15, 1974, in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez became a Salesian of Don Bosco and was ordained a priest on July 3, 2004. He is currently the parish priest at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Queens, in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Monsignor Rodriguez became a U.S. citizen in 2018. He has regularly been revealing his thoughts on Twitter since 2014.
Staunch Loyalist of Wonderful Francis
He is a priest “who loves Pope Francis and defends immigrants”.
According to him, Francis’ writings were amazing, beautiful, crystal clear and straight to the point.
March 2024, “11 years of the Pope of Mercy today: how many blessings bestowed upon us all through his ministry! How many people welcomed back to the Church! How many wrongs fixed! How much justice done! May God keep & protect him for many years to come. Long live the Pope!”
September 2024 about a papal travel: “Our heroic Holy Father going above and beyond spreading the light of the Gospel everywhere: wonderful!”
January 22, 2025: “The Catholic Church will never abandon the immigrants: we’ll stand for them at any cost.”
On March 13, 2025 he wrote about Francis: “THANK YOU LORD for such an amazing journey of rebuild, mercy, radical love & encouragement to open our hearts. May God keep & preserve our beloved Roman Pontiff for many years to come!”
Needless to say that Monsignor Rodgriguez called the death penalty for criminal “against God”, praised the rise of pagan religions in Cuba and had “no Dubia” about Amoris Laetitia accepting adultery.
“Very Happy That Pope Francis Supports James Martin SJ”
Several posts on Twitter shared posts from the homosexual activist James Martin SJ.
December 9, 2018, on pictures of a homosexual Eucharist published by Fr Martin: “The Church is always to welcome all those interested in having Jesus as the Lord of their lives within the Catholic tradition, which includes believing in community life as an essential component of practicing the faith. I hope those ‘LGBT Masses’ don’t become ‘Catholic ghettos’.”
After Francis received Fr Martin in September 2019, Fr Rodriguez wrote: “I’m very happy that our Holy Father is publicly supporting James Martin SJ.”
March 2021, after James Martin praised the appointed of homosexual activist Juan Carlos to a Vatican panel: “This decision clearly shows that there’s nothing against LGTBQ people in the current Holy See’s conduction of Church’s governance. Good for the Pope.”
“Fiducia Supplicans is Sign of Motherly Love for Homosexuals”
After Pope Francis published the pamphlet 'Fiducia supplicans', allowing the “blessing” of homosexuals, Monsignor Rodriguez endorsed it.
December 24, 2023: “The recent declaration Fiducia Supplicans is a sign of the motherly love which defines the Church: as the late Bishop Mugavero of Brooklyn once said, even people with same-sex inclinations ‘always remain our children’…”
January 10, 2024, commenting on criticism by Cardinal Robert Sarah on Fiducia supplicans: “The problem with positions such as that of Cardinal Sarah is that they don’t even bother in trying to find an effective solution to the complexities of the pastoral challenges posed by the same-sex unions & other moral issues proper of our time.”
January 17, 2024: “Sooner or later Fiducia Supplicans will be accepted in most parts of the Church everywhere, because it is both in line with our doctrine and respectful to people’s dignity. A Church that is not synodal ( = everyone is heard) remains far from Jesus’ ways.”
January 27, 2024: “There’s no confusion here: Pope Francis: ‘Bless the persons, not the union’.”
February 28, 2024: “A non-liturgical blessing is rooted in a person’s dignity as a child of the Lord: no one acting in good faith should be deprived of it, even while living in an irregular couple situation. God never leaves sinners out of his care.”
U.S. Nuncio, Christophe Pierre, scores another one for Team Francis. Pope Leo needs to get rid of both Pierre and Tucho if he wants to restore order in the Church.
The corruption and destruction of the church continues. This scumbag is even worse than Frankee the fraud, awful.
Ping
Instead of eliminating the pedophiles and perversion the church has covered up for centuries they’ve decided embrace it full on out in the open.
Pathetic in every way but folks will still give them money and worship this insanity.
Here’s your type of homosexualist bishop, oystir!
Heil Jorge!
More interesting is Catholics all around the world (but esp in the USA because he’s supposedly an American) crying out in relief and joy at this latest Pope - I call him “Pope Kilo” - being elected. Like, “DING DONG FRANCIS IS GONE! OH, THIS GUY IS SURE TO BE TONS BETTER!”
And then he obviously isn’t. Wait until you start celebrating, folks.
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