Prominent LGBTQ-Affirming Roman Catholic Church Waves Pride Flags During Mass
The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola is a “vibrant Roman Catholic faith community served by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)” located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the church is overseen by Achbishop Timothy M. Dolan, the cowardly and compromised former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Ignatius is also a dumpster fire of Pro-LGBTQ Propaganda, operated chiefly through their ministry “LGBT Catholics and Friends.”
Fr. James Martin, an LGBTQ-affirming priest who frequently preaches and teaches there and who was just appointed to a 5-year term as the Vatican’s Consultor to the Dicastery for Communication, describes the “LGBT Catholics and Friends” ministry in Outreach magazine as “a parish ministry of, by and for LGBT sisters and brothers in Christ who love and support them.”
“The ministry creates a home where all LGBT people and those who love and support them are welcome, and where LGBT people are fully affirmed and celebrated. It also strives to be a beacon of hope for people who have felt marginalized and cut off from the Church, inviting them to renewal through a ministry of reconciliation and justice.”
Every year, they hold a special mass to celebrate the LGBTQ community, preaching their perversity as virtue.
Keeping with the these, the church recently held a screening of the documentary Wonderfully Made, which “explores the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics and, more broadly, the hurdles that religious doctrine presents to full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.”
A few years ago they asked congregants to participate in a a video project called “Wave a Rainbow Flag in Support of LGBT Catholics & Friends” which “call(ed) on all parishioners to join in a creative video project to celebrate our LGBT brothers and sisters and their families and friends.”
The mission? “Take a photo or record a short (10-15 seconds) video on your phone, waving a rainbow flag—which you can pick up from the Parish House if you don’t already have one—and showing your support and gratitude for the parish’s pride in affirming diversity”
To that end, St. Ignatuts recently held a service, believed to be this year’s All Hearts Together featured in the aforementioned poster, where women danced through the church waving Pride flags and where Fr. Bryan Massingale, another gay-affirming priest who once said “My dream wedding would be either two men or two women standing before the church; marrying each other as an act of faith and I can be there as the official witness to say: ‘Yes, this is of God,’” presided.
While the comment sections in these videos have seen Roman Catholics clamoring about the incident, repeatedly tagging Archbishop Dolan with requests that he do something, they don’t understand that Dolan is fully aware that this church is LGBTQ-affirming and has been this way for a decade, and simply care, at least not enough to ever rebuke them.
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Disgusting. To their peril, these self-indulgent, wicked fools have zero fear of The Great I Am.
How can this be? I don’t understand and the Pope condones this? . So confusing to us that are trying so hard to practice the Catholic faith and spread the word. The questions always come up, why does the church turn a blind eye to the pedophilia ? Why do they just move them around. I have no answers except to say An imperfect Church doesn’t negate a perfect God! Now this?
If you’d have told me twenty years ago that churches would be brazenly affirming, endorsing and celebrating abominable sin, much less doing so in the sanctuary, much less having services dedicated to said purpose, in twenty years hence, I’d have thought you were crazy. Yet here we are.
If the RCC ever had any legitimate claim to be the church founded by Peter, it certainly doesn’t now. If any believe otherwise, they’d be wise to read 2 Peter chapters 2 and 3.