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[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Kentucky bishop affirms support for ‘blessings’ of same-sex ‘couples’Bishop John Stowe, who has a long history of pro-LGBT activism within the Catholic Church, commented on Pope Francis' statement regarding priests using 'pastoral prudence' to offer blessings.Notoriously pro-LGBT Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv., of Lexington, Kentucky, has expressed his support for “blessings” of same-sex unions after Pope Francis statement that such blessings can be discerned by priests to be acceptable in certain circumstances according to “pastoral prudence.”Speaking to TIME about the Pope’s opening of the door to “blessings” of same-sex unions, Stowe said, “He’s not saying that we...

Bishop John Stowe Acknowledges “Particularly Hard Year” As Pride Begins; And More NewsBishop John Stowe speaking at New Ways Ministry’s 2017 SymposiumThe following are some items that may be of interest:1) Bishop John Stowe of Lexington released a June 1st message for Pride Month, as he has done previously. This year, however, Stowe recognized the new challenges LGBTQ+ people, particularly those who are transgender and nonbinary, face. In his message, available on Facebook, the bishop, who is a leader on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the U.S., writes:“As you celebrate the annual Pride festival and other events throughout the month, know that...

[Catholic Caucus] Lexington diocese hires gay married man as director of the Office of WorshipLexington's Bp. John Stowe — an adamant supporter of sodomy — recently named Aaron Bianco the diocese's new director of the Office of Worship.Faithful Catholics from the diocese are alarmed.In 2018, Bianco resigned from his position as pastoral associate at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (SJE) in San Diego — a church with a so-called LGBTQ ministry, which, according to its web page, has a "weekly vibrant liturgical celebration for the LGBBT community and their allies."In an email regarding his resignation, Bianco wrote:As most of...

First in-person LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference held in the USSome 200 participants gathered for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference held in New York City on June 24-25.More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference."These were theologians and writers; high school teachers and college professors; pastors and parish lay leaders; mothers and fathers; gay, straight, bisexual, lesbian and transgender people -- all part of the same church,"...

Kentucky Catholic church hosts ‘unprecedented’ service of apology to LGBTQ+ communityLEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - On the last day of Pride Month, a Lexington church is apologizing to the LGBTQ+ community.Leaders at St. Paul Catholic Church said they want to make amends for the church’s discrimination and lack of compassion.“I felt betrayed by an institution. A divine institution, and I was heartbroken,” said JR Zerkowski, director of the Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry.Multiple religious leaders made remarks Thursday evening about their mistreatment within Catholic congregations and the long road they took just to be accepted.“It took me 20 years for my mom to...

Diocesan "Pride Month Conversation Resources" The month of June is reserved for the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Roman Catholic Church, while the secular and Jesuit world commemorates a month celebrating a deadly sin (pride) and a sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance (sodomy).Despite the Church's teachings on same-sex relations (still a mortal sin...), some bishops and dioceses continue to promote "pride month" activities. The Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, led by a notorious dissident, Bishop John Stowe, has sent a memo to diocesan parishes with "pride month conversation resources."We received the packet from a novus ordo diocesan...

Bishop apologizes to fired LGBT Catholic educator at theology gatheringAfter eight years serving as the director of religious education at a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, Margie Winters was fired in 2015 because of her marriage to a woman.Her story is similar to those of a number of other Catholic educators in the U.S., fired because their relationships violate the church's teaching against same-sex marriage. But on June 4 this year, Winters received something different: a clerical apology for the way she was treated.As part of a discussion during the annual gathering of the College Theology Society, held virtually, Bishop John...

Video: Live with Bishop John Stowe on Building a Common FutureIn this conversation, NCR executive editor Heidi Schlumpf speaks with Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky about President-elect Joe Biden's first 100 days and the advice he offers Biden in our series Building a Common Future.Background reading:In his essay in our series, Bishop John Stowe writes that one area in which Joe Biden might begin to address the divide and promote the common good would be a genuine engagement in the issues of rural poverty.For this series, we asked Catholic politicians, activists and scholars to offer advice to President-elect Joe...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Paragon of Justice -- Catholic Bishop From the Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky:  The late Justice Ginsburg's own words:   Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?  JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and...

[Catholic Caucus] "Our Lady of Pride": Lexington Bishop Lets It Happen Lexington St Paul Church, Kentucky, published an alleged prayer which ridicules Our Lady with the title “Our Mother of Pride.”Pride which the homosexual movement claims for itself, is the worst of the seven deadly sins. Lexington Bishop John Stowe is a notorious supporter of gay ideology and Pride events.StevenSperay.WordPress.com (August 9) points out that "Our Lady of Pride" equals saying “Our Mother of the Wicked,” “Our Mother of Abomination,” or “Our Mother of the Seven Cardinal Sins.”The mock prayer laments about those [gays] who have been “rejected” and wait...

[Barf Alert] Pro-gay Catholic bishop: Trump is ‘so much anti-life’ Bishop Stowe also criticized Trump supporters, saying, it's 'almost willful ignorance' for anybody to back the president 'because of claims of being pro-life.' LEXINGTON, Kentucky, August 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop John Stowe said President Donald Trump, the first sitting president to speak at the annual March for Life in the nation’s capital, “is so much anti-life.”  Stowe also suggested he wants to change Catholic teaching on the family to accommodate homosexuality and gender ideology. Stowe was appointed bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, by Pope Francis in 2015. Taking part in a...

[Barf Alert] Bishop releases ‘Pride Month’ video lamenting ‘white privilege,’ apologizing to gays Bishop Stowe told active homosexuals he was 'happy to say a word of gratitude to you for the way that you strive to integrate your faith and your identities as people of God.' LEXINGTON, Kentucky, June 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, has released a “Pride Month” video greeting in which he laments “white privilege” and says he is sorry “that the Church has not been as welcoming as it should be in many cases.” “I hope to continue to learn from you,...

NewsAbortion, Catholic Church, Homosexuality, Politics - U.S.Thu Jan 24, 2019 - 5:14 pm EST Pro-gay Kentucky bishop trashes Covington boys: Wearing a Trump hat isn’t pro-life Doug Mainwaring Follow Doug abortion, catholic, covington catholic, homosexuality, john stowe, march for life, march for life 2019, new ways ministry ANALYSIS LEXINGTON, Kentucky, January 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Kentucky bishop known for pro-homosexual advocacy has published a commentary criticizing the high school boys who marched against abortion in Washington, D.C. for wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats.   “I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students...

Wearing a Trump hat? That’s not exactly pro-life, says Catholic Bishop John Stowe A perennial complaint from participants in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., is that the secular news media largely ignore this massive protest of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. In light of the viral news story of last weekend, of a group of Catholic high school students from Kentucky in a confrontation with a Native American elder after this year’s march, that claim no longer holds. As the leader of the Catholic Church in the 50 counties of Central and Eastern Kentucky,...

Bishop John Stowe of Kentucky has made good on his controversial promise to speak at a New Ways Ministry conference, even though the Catholic group advocates homosexual “marriage” and has been condemned by the Vatican and the U.S. bishops. The 51-year-old Franciscan, who was ordained the bishop of Lexington in May 2015 by Pope Francis, gave two Gospel reflections at the April 28-30 symposium, which was called “Justice and Mercy Shall Kiss: LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis.” Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, where the event took place, has not publicly commented on the symposium, nor on Bishop...

Bishop John Stowe leads prayer at LGBT Catholic gathering Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, at the New Ways Ministry symposium in Chicago April 28. Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of the organization, is seated behind him. (Robert Shine) Patricia Lefevere  |  May. 4, 2017 108Share PrintemailPDF Chicago Clad in traditional brown Franciscan robes, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, seemed at home among the rainbow of colors at New Ways Ministry's eighth annual symposium here April 28-30. This was the first time that the bishop had spoken in front of the advocacy group, which supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

Kentucky Bishop Insists on Speaking at Pro-LGBT Symposium Print Friendly and PDF AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Google+Share to EmailShare to Print by Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • April 26, 2017 5 Comments Bp. John Stowe will participate in the conference hosted by condemned New Ways Ministry CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - In spite of Church Militant's reports last year highlighting the scandal caused by a Kentucky bishop's participation at an upcoming pro-LGBT symposium, Bp. John Stowe is going forward with the invitation. In December, Church Militant reported that Stowe, head of the Lexington diocese,...

The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housewife with six children, who suffered from various obscure illnesses worsened by her persistent hypochondria. And yet, driven by a passionate hatred of slavery, she found time to write “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which became the most influential novel in American history and a catalyst for radical change both at home and abroad. Today, of course, the book has a decidedly different reputation, thanks to the popular image of its titular character, Uncle Tom — whose name has...

May 15, 2004 Earlier Jail Seen as Incubator for Abuses in IraqBy DOUGLAS JEHL ASHINGTON, May 14 — An American-run detention center outside Baghdad known as Camp Cropper was reportedly the site of numerous abuses of Iraqi prisoners several months before the mistreatment of prisoners unfolded last fall at Abu Ghraib prison, according to documents and interviews.The detention facility, on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport, appears to have served as an incubator for the acts of humiliation that were inflicted months later on Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. At both sites, the mistreatment has been linked to interrogations overseen...