{"id":1946147,"date":"2023-06-14T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-catholic-bishops-should-denounce-the-dodgers-but-mustnt-ignore-the-obscenities-within-their-own-church\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:17:08","slug":"op-ed-catholic-bishops-should-denounce-the-dodgers-but-mustnt-ignore-the-obscenities-within-their-own-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-catholic-bishops-should-denounce-the-dodgers-but-mustnt-ignore-the-obscenities-within-their-own-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Catholic Bishops Should Denounce the Dodgers, But Mustn&#8217;t Ignore the Obscenities Within Their Own Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-catholic-bishops-should-denounce-the-dodgers-but-mustnt-ignore-the-obscenities-within-their-own-church%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an epic cave, Bishop Gerald Wilkerson of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles just issued a squeamish <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1667543875156623360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorandum<\/a>, presumably with the approval of Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez, emphasizing that the archdiocese does not support the planned protests against the Los Angeles Dodgers and their decision to honor the profane Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at their 10th annual \u201cPride Night\u201d on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the archdiocese would instead prefer to \u201ctake a step back\u201d and kumbaya its way around the scandal by engaging in \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 \u201cdialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message contrasts sharply with the recent unequivocal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishopBarron\/status\/1661766243974610949?cxt=HHwWioC8_YXm448uAAAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebuke<\/a> from Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, former auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and founder of the Roman Catholic media organization Word on Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Barron, who enjoys a massive social media following and is an avid baseball fan, pointed to the drag performers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/graphic-video-shows-la-dodgers-really-inviting-game-grotesque-display-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">degrading parody<\/a> of Easter featuring a mock crucifixion and pole-dancing extravaganza, and urged his followers not to tolerate this attack on the Catholic faith and to boycott the Dodgers accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, every Bible-believing Christian should Bud Light the life out of the Dodgers. As St. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians, \u201cwhat fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barron is correct: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an anti-Catholic hate group and should be condemned as such.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the story doesn\u2019t end there. Author Anne Hendershott recently observed in <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/dont-just-blame-the-dodgers-blame-the-collapse-of-catholic-fidelity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Spectator<\/a> that the cultural firestorm fueling the Dodgers scandal has been to a significant extent fanned by the \u201cLGBTQ enablers \u2026 from their privileged perches within the Catholic Church itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The slimy \u201ccelebrate sin\u201d propaganda peddled by deviant priests, religious sisters, bishops and even Pope Francis himself has inevitably empowered degenerates like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the corporations that are shoving these obscenities in the public\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>One might reasonably ask Barron why he expects a secular organization like the Dodgers to show greater reverence for the Catholic faith than do those in the church who unashamedly promote unorthodox lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>Notable senior Catholic prelates are notorious and unashamed promoters of same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>Churches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/trinity.org\/lgbtqia-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.<\/a> under Cardinal Wilton Gregory and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/olghoboken.com\/images\/Pride_Mass_Flyer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archdiocese of Newark<\/a> under Cardinal Joseph Tobin are holding \u201cpride masses\u201d this month. Over in Seattle, Archbishop Paul Etienne is apparently once again <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/seattle-catholic-churchs-homosexual-event-reflects-romes-chaotic-messages-on-sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permitting<\/a> the prominent heterodox parish of St. Joseph to host its annual \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjosephparish.org\/files\/1252.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pride picnic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the infamous Fr. James Martin S.J., whose spiritual musings Barron has lauded as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMartinSJ\/status\/1322180235459207170?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genius<\/a>,\u201d an endorsement that remains a serious blemish on the bishop\u2019s record. Martin is spending the month of June making a case for how the sacred heart of Jesus, which the Catholic Church venerates this month, is somehow compatible with sodomy.<\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s magazine Outreach recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OutrchCatholic\/status\/1664002000063811586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted<\/a> a screening of the documentary \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/2021\/02\/03\/documentary-depicts-lgbt-jesus-highlights-catholic-dissenters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonderfully Made<\/a>\u201d by Jewish director Yuval David, which portrays Our Lord as \u201ca member or ally of the LGBTQ+ community\u201d and features appearances by Martin himself.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s poster depicts a rainbow sash draped over the cross. It also inserts \u201cLBTQ+\u201d in place of the inscription \u201cINRI,\u201d the immortalized testimony to Christ\u2019s kingship that the Jewish chief priests wanted scrubbed, only to have the pagan Roman governor Pontius Pilate tell them in no uncertain terms: \u201cWhat I have written stays written.\u201d I wonder if Barron discerns the irony in any of that.<\/p>\n<p>No one disputes the need for pastoral support in ministering to homosexual individuals. As sinners, we are all called to overcome vice and detach ourselves from the passions and worldly consolations that distance us from God. It is the responsibility of our pastors to honestly and lovingly nurture us on this difficult journey, not wantonly lead us down the primrose path.<\/p>\n<p>But the gig is up on the whole Psalm 139 \u201cGod made me wonderfully\u201d ruse.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, there\u2019s no theological basis for the suggestion that the Author of Life, who knitted us together in our mother\u2019s womb, intentionally designed some of his children to be destined for same-sex relationships and glories in that sterile distortion of the life-yielding sexual union of man and wife.<\/p>\n<p>From the patriarchs and prophets to St. Paul, St. Peter and St. John, sacred Scripture offers explicit warnings against indulging in adultery, fornication, sexual sin and perversion.<\/p>\n<p>The second big giveaway comes from the LGBT community itself.<\/p>\n<p>Once the trans crowd started voicing their pseudoscientific claims that one can transition in and out of gender ad voluntatem, the head-scratching normies started wondering how it is that one can glide from man to woman, and sample a smorgasbord of exotic options in between, yet one\u2019s sexuality is somehow fixed in stone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the whole fantasy is bogus. But here\u2019s the rub: However deceptive, illogical and spiritually destructive it may be, the con job has the support of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez knows it. Gregory and Tobin know it. Martin knows it. And Barron knows it, too. That\u2019s why only a thimbleful of American bishops ever speak up. They know whence the prevailing winds blow and are not so cavalier as to hoist their feeble sails against this force of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has been about as explicit as he can get away with. His promotion of rainbow flag wavers like Cardinals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archchicago.org\/statement\/-\/article\/2021\/03\/15\/statement-of-cardinal-blase-j-cupich-archbishop-of-chicago-on-same-sex-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blaise Cupich<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2023\/01\/24\/mcelroy-synodality-inclusion-244587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert McElroy<\/a>, along with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/248162\/letter-from-pope-francis-expresses-support-for-fr-james-martins-controversial-ministry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cozy correspondence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2022\/11\/11\/james-martin-pope-francis-244131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cute photo ops<\/a> with Martin, tell you everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, we need more bishops \u2014 particularly the crew out in Los Angeles \u2014 to follow Barron\u2019s lead and boycott the Dodgers. But the real test of courage is for faithful prelates to start calling out \u2014 or, at a minimum, refrain from endorsing \u2014 their wolfish brethren, even though it means putting themselves at odds with Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The predatory conduct of these libertines is endangering the flock and diminishing the already floundering credibility of the Roman Catholic Church. It is luring countless souls into the eternal abyss and facilitating the societal collapse of which the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are merely the latest ghastly example.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-catholic-bishops-denounce-dodgers-mustnt-ignore-obscenities-within-church\/\">Op-Ed: Catholic Bishops Should Denounce the Dodgers, But Mustn&#8217;t Ignore the Obscenities Within Their Own Church<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an epic cave, Bishop Gerald Wilkerson of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles just issued a squeamish memorandum, presumably with the approval of Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez, emphasizing that the archdiocese does not support the planned protests against the Los Angeles Dodgers and their decision to honor the profane Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at their 10th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":1946150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[15572,6011,5643,3800,11549,4194,28510,28509,15322],"class_list":["post-1946147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-bishops","tag-catholic","tag-church","tag-denounce","tag-dodgers","tag-ignore","tag-mustnt","tag-obscenities","tag-op-ed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}