Gio Benitez, the openly gay ABC news anchor, has rejoined the Roman Catholic Church and reaffirmed his faith, receiving a confirmation mass with his ‘husband’ at his side.
The Good Morning America co-anchor was confirmed at Church of St. Paul the Apostle, with his husband, Tommy DiDario, serving as his sponsor.
The church is known for its gay-friendly progressivism, including holding its infamous Stonewall Pride Mass.
There is also their Out at St. Paul (OSP, which is their ministry for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people and their Allies, their affiliation and promotion of News Ways Ministry, and that time they hosted an art exhibit titled “God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.”
Benitez explained on Instagram:
Six months ago, the death of a humble pope unexpectedly took me on a journey that was a lifetime in the making. @jamesmartinsj was on GMA speaking about Pope Francis’ legacy of inclusivity. His words struck me. It was the first time I had seen a Catholic priest speaking in such a beautiful way about LGBTQ people.
Revealing that he fell away from the faith of his youth, but has since returned, he shared more about the intimate affair:
My Confirmation Mass was a very small gathering of family and friends who have quietly been with me on this journey. But in my mind, those empty pews were filled with a cloud of witnesses: my grandparents who taught me how to pray, my aunts and uncles who helped raise me, and dear friends — praying for me behind an invisible veil.
My deepest gratitude to Fr. Eric Andrews, Fr. James Martin, Fr. Paul Rospond, and Fr. @chrislawtoncsp for showing me that God’s loving mercy is unconditional.
He concludes:
…I found the Ark of the Covenant in my heart, stored there by the one who created me… exactly as I am.
4 responses to “Openly Gay-Married ABC News Anchor Joins Catholic Church With Confirmation Mass”
“Let no one deceive you in any way.
For that day will not come, unless
the rebellion comes first, (<—- NOW)
and the man of lawlessness is revealed,
the son of destruction," (2 Thess. 2:3)
“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you." – Jesus (John 16:1-4)
A group photo of 5 reprobates. Nice.
So many of Paul’s letters try to steer people away from this kind of behavior. What’s next? Open celebration of drunkenness, vaping, heck bring your hitter box and have a good time at mass. Why not? We still have to love those people, let them celebrate their sin in God’s house too.
Can we not love and discipline? Yes, LGBTQ people can come to mass, yes they can confess their sin. Do these folks struggling with this immoral life choice not have to consider repentance, and are they denied redemption by never even considering repenting from their debautchery?
I see a group photo of five reprobates celebrating their individual and collective sins.