US Catholic University Offers Students ‘LGBTQ’ Stations of the Cross for Lent

LifeSite News ^ | 3/16/21 | Pete Baklinski

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University of Dayton students will pray the Stations of the Cross through an LGBT 'lens.'

DAYTON, Ohio, March 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Marianist-run Catholic university in Ohio is offering students an opportunity this Lent to create a pro-LGBT “Stations of the Cross” and then pray them along with other students who support the normalization of homosexuality.

Participants at the University of Dayton’s “Ally Stations of the Cross” are given the opportunity of “praying the Stations of the Cross through an LGBTQ+ and allyship lens,” a poster for the event states. The poster includes a picture of a rainbow-colored road leading to the foot of the cross.

“Participants will attend 5 guided, interactive planning meetings and then host praying the Ally Stations that they created as a team,” the university’s website, where the event is posted, states. A pro-LGBT campus minister will “help navigate the team through a simple but powerful reflective and creative process.”

“No experience necessary - just a willingness to connect the real experiences of people in the LGBTQ+ and Ally community with the experiences of Christ’s passion,” the website adds.

The Stations of the Cross are a traditional 14-step Catholic devotion on the passion of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation of death and ending with his placement in the tomb.

One Catholic parent who has a daughter attending the university expressed concern about the event.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Exactly.

“Broad is the way that leads to destruction...”