“LGBT Mass” celebrated by Catholic priest

New York, July 3, 2024

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Catholic priest Fr. Eric Andrews of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, hosted a “Pride Mass” on the evening of June 27 at a local federal monument to LGBT. It features sculptures of two same-sex couples and is decorated by dozens of LGBT rainbow flags. The “altar” was a makeshift pile of plastic bins, shrouded with a gay and transgender “pride” flag.

Fr. Andrews is known for his political support of LGBT. The “Mass” was attendant by 200 people, most of them homosexuals, reports National Catholic Register.

Although homosexuals are no longer excommunicated by Roman Catholics, some found the event disturbing. For example, Dominican Father Thomas Petri, a Catholic moral theologian and president of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., said prior to the Mass last year that the liturgy should not be used to make a political statement.

Another attendee of the Mass on Thursday, who asked to remain anonymous, told the source that “the priest repeatedly and exclusively preached about love with no mention of the need to repent.”

“The Mass was a raucous celebration of LGBTQ. It was disturbing that a shepherd would celebrate sin rather than lead us to repent and follow Our Lord, Jesus Christ," the attendee added.

The Roman Catholic Church still officially considers homosexuality to be a mortal sin and contrary to natural law. It defines marriage strictly as a union between one man and one woman. It opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage and does not recognize such unions as valid within the Church. In March 2021, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a statement reaffirming that the Church cannot bless same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin.” But recent statements by Pope Francis have brought a good deal of confusion into the matter. He has expressed support for civil union laws as a way to provide legal protection for same-sex couples, which stirred significant discussion and was seen as a step toward recognizing the need for legal protections. The Pope also recently said that homosexuals should not be expelled from Catholic seminaries.

Orthodox Church dogma is clear on the matter of homosexuality, although some acts by a Greek hierarch in recent years have been seen as slippery slope events.

7/3/2024

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