Pope Francis Tells Pro-LGBTQIAAP2S+ Conference: ‘I Will be Spiritually with All of You’
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has once again sent a handwritten letter of support to Father James Martin SJ, expressing his closeness with the priest’s pro-LGBT Outreach conference being held this weekend.
Shortly before the commencement of its 2024 conference held in Georgetown University this weekend, Outreach published a photo of a hand-written letter sent from Pope Francis to Fr. Martin – the group’s founder.
Sent by Francis on July 11, the message reads:
Dear brother,
Thank you very much for your email.
I am glad that Cardinal Gregory will celebrate the Mass; I will be spiritually with him and with all of you, united in prayer.
Thank you for praying for me. I do the same for you.
May Jesus bless you and the Holy Virgin care for you.Fraternally,
Francis
The Pope’s letter came in response to a July 10 message sent to him by Martin, asking if the Pontiff had any message he wished to share with participants of the conference as has become custom in recent years.
BREAKING: #PopeFrancis writes (once again) to Fr James Martin ahead of his lgbt @OutrchCatholic conference this weekend.
Francis says he “will be spiritually with him [Cdl Gregory, who is saying opening Mass] and with all of you, united in prayer.” pic.twitter.com/Nxi0lHoaSA— Michael Haynes ?? (@MLJHaynes) August 1, 2024
Welcoming Francis’ letter, Martin told Outreach that “[w]e are honored by the Holy Father’s greetings and his promises of prayers and are grateful for his own outreach to LGBTQ Catholics over the years. We will be praying for his intentions this weekend as we gather together at Georgetown.”
This year’s Outreach conference is billed as drawing together “LGBTQ lay people, clergy, scholars, artists, educators, students and family members to build community, share best practices and worship together.”
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of D.C. and Fr. Martin will be the chief celebrants and the weekend’s two Masses. The advertised panel discussions for the 300-plus participants include:
- LGBTQ Ministry in Parishes
- Telling LGBTQ Catholic Stories
- The Bible and Homosexuality
- LGBTQ Ministry in Higher Education
- Transgender Catholics and the Church
- Race, Intersectionality and LGBTQ People
- Parenting LGTBQ Children
- Catholic LGBTQ Women and the Church
- Gifts of a Life of Chastity
- Outreach Outlook from Rome
- “Preach” Roundtable Discussion
Outreach itself operates “under the auspices of America Media,” which oversees the left-wing, Jesuit-run America Magazine. The group is the brainchild of Martin and his past pro-LGBT activities, as it aims to become a global resource center “where church leaders, both clergy and lay, can encounter the LGBTQ faithful, in their ‘joys and hopes’ and ‘griefs and anxieties’ as well as engage in respectful dialogue.”
Since its inception, Outreach has enjoyed a close relationship with Pope Francis, chiefly due to the personal friendship between Francis and Martin.
Indeed, the Pope has now sent at least five publicly-known letters to Martin and the Outreach group in relation to the LGBT conferences they stage, although the first in 2021 was before Outreach was officially launched.
In 2021, just prior to Martin’s online LGBT conference, Francis wrote to the Jesuit thanking him for his “pastoral zeal” and “ability to be close to people, with that closeness that Jesus had and that reflects the closeness of God.” The Pope described Martin’s LGBT advocacy as being an imitation of the “style of God.”
Outreach was then launched on May 1, 2022, and only days later Francis replied to a letter Martin sent him in which he argued that a “selective” Church is “a sect,” and decrying what he styled as the Church’s “rejection” of “LGBT Catholic[s].”
Francis decried “rejection from the Church,” saying that for so-called LGBT individuals “I would have them recognize it not as ‘the rejection of the Church,’ but instead of ‘people in the Church.’ The Church is a mother and calls together all her children.”
Following the June 2022 Outreach conference, Francis again wrote to Martin in August 2022 after the Jesuit priest had sent the Pontiff details about the 2022 event. Francis praised Martin for “working in the culture of encounter,” which, he said, “shortens distances and enriches us with our differences, just as Jesus did.”
Then for the 2023 event, Francis continued the established practice by sending another hand-written letter. He thanked Martin “for all the good you are doing,” and also expressed his closeness to all at the conference.
Martin has met with Francis privately on a number of occasions, and was personally selected by the Pope to participate in the current Synod on Synodality. He is also a papally appointed member of the Dicastery for Communications.
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Martin’s favor with Pope Francis comes alongside his longstanding record of promoting LGBT ideology in dissent from Catholic teaching. The Jesuit priest is described as “arguably the most prominent activist” in the Church for LGBT issues.
His record also includes promoting images drawn from a series of blasphemous works by homosexual artist Douglas Blanchard and describing viewing God as male as “damaging.” Martin has additionally promoted homosexual unions and called for openly homosexual individuals to kiss during the sign of peace at the Novus Ordo Mass.
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In contrast, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (CDF) 1986 document “On the pastoral care of homosexual persons” stipulates that a “truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”
“We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral,” wrote the Vatican’s doctrinal office. “Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the Church’s position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve.”
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The CDF added how “special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not.”
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Biden-Harris Task Force Urges Online Age Verification Digital ID Tool Development
The online digital ID age verification creep in the US continues from a number of directions, through “recommendations” and “studies” – essentially, the government is nudging the industry to move in the direction of implementing digital ID age verification tools.
At this point, it is happening via various initiatives and legislation, still, without being formally mandated.
One instance is a recommendation coming from the Biden-Harris Administration’s Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force, which is telling online service providers they should “develop and inform parents about age verification tools built into the app or available at the device level.”
The task force is led by the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS (its Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, SAMHSA,) in what is referred to in official statements as “close partnership” with the Department of Commerce.
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This initiative is presented as an industry guidance that will ensure the safety of youths on the internet, as well as their health and privacy.
One of the steps presented in the fact sheet refers to age verification. This is a hot-button issue, particularly among privacy and security advocates, considering the methods that would be necessary to prove somebody’s real-life identity online, and that this would have to apply to all users of a site or app.
Yet, the current White House is now “urging” the tech industry to, among other “critical steps” inform parents about developing and building digital ID tools into either apps or devices themselves.
The setting up of the task force and its recommendations are supposed to contribute to Biden’s “Unity Agenda,” while a report released last week talks about an “unprecedented youth mental crisis” as the reason for coming up with these recommendations for families and industry.
The initiative, announced in May, bases its claims about the metal crisis of previously unwitnessed proportions on a report put together by the US surgeon-general and his advisory concerning social platforms.
In addition to “sneaking in” the mention of age verification, the report also talks about the need to enact bipartisan federal legislation aimed at protecting the health, safety, and privacy of young people online.
Another point is urging the industry to advance “action to implement age-appropriate health, safety, and privacy best practices on online platforms through federal legislation and voluntary commitments.”
The documents’ authors from the several departments behind the task force also want platform data to become available to “independent researchers.”
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Resident Biden Claims We’re Not at War Anywhere in the World, While the US is Funding Two Wars, Providing Billions of Dollars in Weapons & Instigating WWIII
Yes, Ukraine and Israel are currently using U.S. weapons, U.S. funding, U.S. service members and U.S. government lies to fuel two wars that are bankrupting our nation, decimating our own military defenses and propagating massive loss of innocent lives around the globe. It’s all part of the depopulation, destabilization, military industrial complex embezzlement scheme and the Democrats in DC are 100 percent behind it. This will get multiplicatively worse if the Democrats win the elections in November.
Resident Biden seems to have somehow rewritten the definition of “war” to mean that if there are no boots on the ground, or Congress doesn’t “declare it,” then there is no war going on. Never mind if the USA funds a war overseas, gives terrorists our missiles to launch into another country, uses our personnel to train militants how to use our weapons (munitions, tanks, jets, and missiles with nuclear warheads) and justifies it all as a means to cover up our own aggression and biological weapons of mass destruction, which are being created in labs right next to that nation. None of that matters, right?
Here’s the quote from Dementia Joe himself, “I’m the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world.” Sure Joe. No war. And we heard you also beat Medicaid, are best friends with President Putin who runs Ukraine, and that you chose Vice President Trump to back you up if you got so sick and senile that you had to “drop out” of the 2024 election race.
Under Biden’s new definition of “not at war” the U.S. could give Iran nuclear bombs and biological weapons to use on Israel or Russia, but the U.S. would not be “at war”
The Democrats are the party of “say anything.” Nearly every platform they ran on and say they support, they betray, destroy, demolish. Just last week, Resident Biden claimed, in his address to the nation, that the United States is not at war. He said, “I’m the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world.”
To make matters worse, just 30 minutes prior to this wonderful speech about no war, just pure unnecessary destruction and billions of dollars wasted, U.S. Central Command launched NEW strikes trying to wipe out Houthis in Yemen. This is just another among hundreds of U.S.-backed offensives, most of which kill innocent civilians and none of which have been approved by Congress.
If you don’t like war and know that this kind of battling is a complete waste of energy, resources, money, lives and liberty, then you must try to ignore the fact that Biden’s “non-war” in the Red Seais the LARGEST NAVAL BATTLE in U.S. history since World War II.
Meanwhile, U.S. troops are also deployed in Syria and Iraq, currently fighting through our own illegal military occupation, ISIS remnants and Shia militias. Why? Get this; because they were targeting U.S. bases in response to the U.S. support of Israeli-led genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, many of whom are trapped and wounded civilians. The U.S. also bombs Somalia periodically, including multiple times THIS YEAR. Didn’t you know? More ISIS (that Obama funded religiously, pun intended).
Still wondering why the sneaky Demoncrats set up for a full-on DRAFT of male and FEMALE Americans for 2025? It’s called depopulation by genocide and the infertility clot shots (bird flu mRNA coming soon). Tune your apocalypse dial to Preparedness.news for updates on real news about surviving and thriving through the four wars overseas the U.S. is currently fighting in, even though our senile commander-in-chief says they don’t exist.
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Olympics Swimmers Forced to Swim Through Human Feces-Infested Waters in Paris after Opening Ceremony Mocked Christianity
Following a controversial opening ceremony now being condemned by the Christian community, Paris Olympics 2024 organizers are facing global embarrassment as the first swimming training session for triathletes competing was canceled because of the disgusting, possibly human feces-infested polluted River Seine.
But despite the concerns, the men’s and women’s triathlon went ahead on Wednesday, July 31, a day later than the initial schedule, near the historic Pont Alexandre III bridge amid a slight drizzle and gray skies.
France’s Cassandre Beaugrand bagged gold in the women’s event, while Julie Derron of Switzerland and Beth Potter of Great Britain won silver and bronze. British triathlete Alex Yee won gold in the men’s event.
The said body of water has been previously reported to be the site of the swimming portion of triathlon competitions as well as open-water swimming events. The swimming leg of the Olympics triathlon was set to take place in its waters on July 30 (but took place on July 31) and Aug. 5, followed by the open-water swimming on Aug. 8 to 9.
Earlier in July, Paris Mayor Ann Hidalgo plunged into the murky waters of Seine in her goggles and a wet suit and swam breaststroke under bright sunshine before immersing her face and beginning a front crawl, covering about 100 meters downstream. After a while senior local officials and Paris Games Chief Organizer Tony Estanguet joined in. Hidalgo now boasts on Instagram, admitting that “it was a bold gamble…We wanted to put Paris on show! This morning, the triathletes did it. We kept our promise!” She also paid tribute to France’s Beaugrand’s victory, posting on her stories: “The incredible Cassandre Beaugrand has made history…How emotional to see her swimming in the Seine, thank you for making us so proud.”
Reports reveal that the organizers have spent more than $1.5 billion trying to overcome the river’s high levels of E.coli bacteria. Earlier this month, the river passed the series of tests and was deemed to be clean enough for the swimming competitions but the recent heavy rainfall has set that back. In a joint statement, Paris 2024 and World Triathlon earlier said they were “confident that water quality will return to below limits before the start of the triathlon competitions.”
While the biking and running training sessions went on as scheduled, the swimming training didn’t happen. The Seine was supposed to be a training site for athletes over the weekend and two straight days of canceled practice left prospective competitors unable to prepare for arguably the most grueling part of a triathlon.
Meanwhile, USA Today reported American triathlete Seth Rider’s unconventional and unhygienic strategy for preparing for the Seine’s E. coli levels. “We actually raced here last year in the test event,” he said. “I don’t think anyone got sick after that, which can’t be said about all the races we do. In preparation for this race, I knew there was going to be some E.coli exposure. So I’ve been trying to increase my E.coli threshold by exposing myself to a bit of E.coli in day-to-day life.” He said he has not been washing his hands after he goes to the bathroom.
Olympics opening ceremonies’ “naked blue man” claims his performance was a “message for peace”
When the Paris 2024 Olympics opened, a lot of spectators were shocked at the show’s “The Last Supper” parody, which featured a naked blue guy named Philippe Katerine, a French entertainer who claimed to be playing the Greek god of wine Dionysus, and several drag artists.
During the performance, he sang a song while lying on a table, appearing to be fully naked and covered head-to-toe in glittery blue paint. In an interview with CNN, Katerine said his song “Nu” or “Naked” was a message for peace, inspired by war, such as those in Gaza and Ukraine.
“Would there have been wars if we’d stayed naked? The answer is perhaps no because you can’t hide a gun or a dagger when you’re naked,” he said. “So you’ve got this idea of harmlessness when it comes to the naked man. And the idea of the origins of the Olympic Games in Greece, which are represented today because when you see paintings, they’re of naked athletes too, also with the idea that they can’t carry weapons when they’re naked.”
Katerine said he was “deeply sorry” if his appearance shocked people but confirmed it was never his intention and the fallout has been driven by a “misunderstanding.” “I was brought up as a Christian and the best thing about Christianity is forgiveness. For me, it’s the most beautiful thing there is: forgiveness,” he added. “So I ask for forgiveness if I have offended anyone, and the Christians of the world will grant me that, I’m sure and will understand that it was mostly a misunderstanding. Because when it comes down to it, it wasn’t about representing ‘the Last Supper’ at all.”
Olympic organizers have also apologized for the scandalous welcome ceremonies after it was criticized by the Catholic church and Christian groups. As per the French Catholic Church, the festivities “included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity.”
(Related: Paris Olympics officials issue half-hearted apology after worldwide outrage over woke Last Supper parody.)
The Games spokesperson Anne Descamps claimed that there was “clearly never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,” while the director of the opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, insisted that “The Last Supper,” which was painted by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, was not the inspiration behind the scene.
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UK PM Vows To ‘Severely Punish’ Brits Who Oppose Murder of Three Young Girls
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