{"id":1955066,"date":"2023-06-23T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-saw-at-dodger-stadium-ordinary-catholics-standing-up-for-their-faith\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:22:36","slug":"what-i-saw-at-dodger-stadium-ordinary-catholics-standing-up-for-their-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-saw-at-dodger-stadium-ordinary-catholics-standing-up-for-their-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholics at Dodger Stadium: Defending Their Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fwhat-i-saw-at-dodger-stadium-ordinary-catholics-standing-up-for-their-faith%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=1955066&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--><h2>Last Friday, I Traveled to Los Angeles to Join Californians in a Historic Protest and Prayer Rally<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Friday, I traveled to Los Angeles to join Californians outside Dodger Stadium in a historic protest and prayer rally over the Dodgers\u2019 decision to honor the anti-Catholic hate group, the \u201cSisters of Perpetual Indulgence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many images in my mind from that day, but one stands out as the epitome of what this entire battle has been about.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Profound Witness of Faith<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Hispanic family had brought a laundry cart upon which they placed a framed image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a piece of art which symbolizes a particular devotion to Christ. They had carefully arranged flowers on top and in front of it, and behind it they draped a red cloth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I snapped one blurry photo as I walked by. Looking at it brings me to tears. This family reverently took this image \u2013 which clearly occupies a place of honor in their home \u2013 and went to the trouble of bringing it to Dodger Stadium and creating a makeshift altar for it out of a laundry cart. This family cherishes their faith and its symbols and traditions which have been handed down to them over the course of 2,000 years \u2026 symbols and traditions which are being degraded and desecrated by a hate group which has the backing of the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But they did not bring the image to Dodger Stadium to express their fury, though they were surely angry at what this group is doing to their faith. Instead, when I saw them, the mother and teenage daughter were on their knees praying the rosary along with the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They had every right to spew vitriol against the men who mock their faith. But instead they chose to do what Jesus taught: to pray for those who persecute us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This family\u2019s profound witness cuts to the heart of what our campaign against the Dodgers has been about since the beginning \u2013 ordinary Catholics standing up for their faith, and prayerfully defending it from those who so callously mock, defile, and pervert it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My organization, CatholicVote, is a scrappy band of fewer than 50 employees which has been leading the charge, but this fight came to us from the bottom up. We first learned of the award because a supporter of ours emailed us to say he was a lifelong Dodgers fan and was disturbed to see the award announced in an email from the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once we broke the story, pushback from Catholics and people of all faiths began immediately. A few days later, the Dodgers disinvited the hate group. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming under pressure from a small band of extremists, however, the \u201cSisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u201d were re-invited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-dumps-another-million-into-alaska-to-save-murkowski-after-ditching-arizonas-blake-masters\/\" title=\"McConnell Dumps Another Million Into Alaska To Save Murkowski After Ditching Arizona\u2019s Blake Masters\">million-dollar ad campaign<\/a> to educate Dodgers fans across California and the country about what exactly this treasured, all-American institution now stands for. But we chose our words carefully: in our announcement, we said we would <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">raise <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a million dollars, not that we would <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spend <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a million dollars \u2013 because we didn\u2019t have that kind of money to spend. We had no idea what we would actually raise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within days, we saw tens of thousands of individuals making small gifts \u2013 nearly all of them under $100 \u2013 and we smashed our fundraising goal. For a non-profit of our size, the scale of the support was staggering. Every dollar went towards putting a message against anti-Catholic bigotry on the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the day of the \u201cPride Night,\u201d we were similarly amazed at the massive presence of Catholics who showed up to prayerfully protest the Dodgers\u2019 anti-Catholic bigotry. From the podium during my brief speech, I looked at the faces of a truly diverse crowd of people gathered in prayer even\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as they were being shamed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-introduces-bill-to-require-15-minimum-wage-for-billion-dollar-corporations\/\" title=\"Sen. Hawley introduces bill to require  minimum wage for billion-dollar corporations\">billion-dollar corporation<\/a> just up on the hill: abuelos and abuelas, twenty-somethings and teenagers, priests, and real nuns. The message of the day was prayer and reparation for the acts of hatred against our God and our faith. Some people held signs saying, \u201cThey know not what they do.\u201d Most of the crowd held rosaries which they prayed together for the men who commit sacrilege against our religion. To be sure, people were fired up. But I didn\u2019t hear a word of hatred. The event was peaceful from start to finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thousands of people gathered in Los Angeles last week represented millions of people across the country who have been hurt by what the Dodgers did. Under the banner of diversity, the Dodgers showed contempt for the people of the most racially diverse religious group in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/consumers-research-slams-blackrocks-close-ties-to-the-chinese-communist-party\/\" title=\"Consumers\u2019 Research Slams BlackRock\u2019s Close Ties to the Chinese Communist Party\">million-dollar campaign<\/a> is a warning shot to woke corporations everywhere: If you insult and degrade Christians, we will stand up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we\u2019ll also pray for you. It\u2019s what Catholics do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Tommy Valentine is director of the Catholic Accountability Project at <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicvote.org\">CatholicVote<\/a>. You can follow Catholic Vote on Twitter: @CatholicVote<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I journeyed to LA to unite with Californians outside Dodger Stadium in a significant protest and prayer gathering against the Dodgers&#8217; tribute to the anti-Catholic hate group, &#8220;Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.&#8221; Among the vivid memories, one image epitomizes the essence of this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1955067,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1955066","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}