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FATHER MARTIN'S BRIDGE: Crossing into Critical Queer CatholicismEditor's Intro: This is the most devastating takedown of the Big Lie that is Pope Francis's Church of Accompaniment I have ever read. The fact that is written by a Jesuit-trained homosexual man -- who is calling out Father James Martin by name in order to make his case -- only makes it that much more effective. This article needs the widest possible circulation, especially during the lead-up to the Synod on Synodality. Among those who have suffered the most collateral damage as a result of the Big Lie are, ironically, people with...

One of the leading voices of the Catholic Church in Africa has criticised the appeals of two US clerics to change the Church's teaching on homosexuality. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier responded by quoting Popes Francis and Benedict XVI to both Cardinal Robert McElroy and Jesuit Father James Martin. In a Twitter response to Martin, the Archbishop Emeritus of Durban wrote: "The biggest irony of the decade? A month after his death, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in these words from 1986, urges bishops to be constantly vigilant against "programmes that in fact try to put pressure on the Church to change its teaching,...

The dissident, pro-LGBT priest was responding to a Catholic League tweet that called a marriage other than between one man and one woman 'legal fiction.'(LifeSiteNews) — Notoriously dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin claimed in online comments that a man in a same-sex union is “married.” Writing on Twitter about Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former presidential candidate who is now the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and in a same-sex union, Martin said, “Pete Buttigieg is married.” Buttigieg, an Anglican who was baptized Catholic and attended Catholic schools, came out as “gay” in 2015...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Father James Martin Says Gay Marriage Is MarriageROME — Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.Responding to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who proposed that Pete Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage to his partner Chasten is not a true marriage but rather a “legal fiction,” Father Martin countered that “Pete Buttigieg is married.”

Fr. James Martin has now been received a number of times by Pope Francis, as the pro-LGBT priest’s support from the Vatican continues unabated.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – After meeting privately with Father James Martin S.J. on Thursday, Pope Francis described the pro-LGBT Jesuit as a “man who has values, a communicator who also knows how to teach you the way of communication with God. Pope Francis met with Martin on November 10, in a private meeting which lasted 45 minutes, during which time the pair covered topics including “the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of LGBTQ Catholics.” The...

Pope Francis Meets with Father James Martin at Vatican (again)The meeting in the Apostolic Palace lasted 45 minutes. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis received Jesuit Father James Martin, in a private audience in the apostolic palace inside the Vatican on Friday.In a tweet published after the encounter, Father Martin wrote he was “was deeply grateful to meet with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace this morning for 45 minutes.”The conversation covered “the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of LGBTQ Catholics,” Father Martin added, writing: “It was a warm, inspiring and encouraging meeting that I’ll never forget. “

Pope Francis compares work of U.S. priest whose ministry affirms LGBTQ people to the work of GodPope Francis has sent an encouraging letter to a U.S. priest known for his ministry affirming LGBTQ Catholics, comparing his work to that of Jesus and God.The pope’s letter comes in the wake of more oppositional moves from the Vatican — that were authorized by Francis — on the topic of gay rights. And it adds to the confusion facing many LGBT Catholics about where the pontiff stands eight years after he said, famously, “Who am I to judge?”Get the full experience.Choose your planThe...

Pontifical Academy for Life ‘likes’ Fr. James Martin’s latest Twitter post pushing LGBT agendaThe Pontifical Academy for Life's official Twitter account 'liked' a pro-LGBT post on the social media platform, adding a new entry to the growing list of anti-Catholic statements made in recent months.(LifeSiteNews) – The official Twitter account of the Pontifical Academy for Life has given an impression of support for the homosexual lifestyle after “liking” an article shared on the platform which promoted a pro-LGBT reading of the bible. Dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin posted a video to his Twitter account on Sunday in which...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis praises Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT conference as promoting ‘the culture of encounter’Faithful Catholics had protested the LGBT conference organized by Fr. Martin, an event which Pope Francis said ‘enriches us with our differences.’Pope Francis and Fr. James Martin SJ(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has once again written to dissident, pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin, praising the priest for a scandalous LGBT conference he recently hosted and for the “culture of encounter” he promotes amongst “LGBT Catholics.”Fr. Martin S.J. announced that Outreach – “a new LGBTQ Catholic resource” he recently set up – had sent the Pope details...

First in-person LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference held in the USSome 200 participants gathered for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference held in New York City on June 24-25.More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference."These were theologians and writers; high school teachers and college professors; pastors and parish lay leaders; mothers and fathers; gay, straight, bisexual, lesbian and transgender people -- all part of the same church,"...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently criticized Martin’s approach to the issue of homosexuality as a 'justification of the sin.'(LifeSiteNews) – Jesuit Father James Martin tweeted in defense of homosexuality as a lifestyle on Wednesday in response to a recent Texas Republican platform approval that called homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.” The Texas GOP platform also called for a ban of all procedures to prevent puberty or mutilate the body of a minor under 21 years old to affirm a “gender identity” and affirmed “God’s biblical design for marriage and sexual behavior between one biological man and one biological woman.” Martin has...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin to host LGBTQ conference with ‘transgenderqueer Two Spirit’ doctorMartin’s new LGBT organization ‘Outreach’ is especially trying to convince churches to support LGBT ‘pride’ month, which often involves sexualizing young children.(LifeSiteNews) – Heretical pro-LGBTQ Father James Martin, SJ, will be hosting a June conference through his newly founded LGBTQ organization “Outreach.” Speakers will include various advocates of homosexuality and transgender lifestyles, all in open dissent of Catholic teaching on sexual morality. “Outreach” is especially trying to convince churches to support LGBTQ “pride” month, which increasingly involves aggressive sexualization of young children and public displays of nudity...

Pope Francis’ new cardinal pick has a horrifying record on homosexuality and abortionAn in-depth look at the shocking background of ultra-liberal San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, Francis’ latest US cardinal pick – and his most egregious one yet. (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis shocked the Church on Sunday with his announcement of 21 new cardinals, including 16 cardinal electors, to be installed at a consistory on August 27.The appointments unsurprisingly include several overt liberals, like pro-LGBT Brazilian Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner and anti-Latin Mass Vatican liturgy chief Archbishop Arthur Roche.But the Pope’s most radical pick is Bishop Robert McElroy of San...

Pope Francis penned a letter to the prominent, dissident pro-LGBT priest Fr. James Martin, decrying what was described as the Church's 'rejection' of 'LGBT Catholics.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has written a letter to “LGBT Catholics,” delivered via dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin, declaring that a “selective” Church is “a sect,” and decrying what he styled as the Church’s “rejection” of “LGBT Catholic[s].” The letter was announced May 8, and published May 9 in an article written by Martin for Outreach, which is “a new LGBTQ Catholic resource” he recently set up. Martin noted that he had himself...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope to LGBT Catholics: 'God is Father who does not disown any of his children'Pope Francis answers three questions put to him by Jesuit Father James Martin whose pastoral ministry involves the LGBT community.By Linda Bordoni“God’s style is closeness, mercy and tenderness” Pope Francis said answering three questions put to him by Jesuit Father James Martin who ministers to LGBT Catholics.On 5 May Father Martin had written to the Pope in Spanish asking him to answer some questions that he is most commonly asked by LGBT Catholics and their families.He received a hand-written response a couple of days...

What do you get when Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese decides to executive produce a film on a Jesuit priest’s ministry to “LGBTQ Catholics”? An exquisitely captured propaganda piece, and a glimpse of a distorted, rigid, inflexible “LGBTQ+” culture of unreality. Welcome to the newly released documentary film about Father James Martin, S.J., titled “Building a Bridge,” after Martin’s book of the same name. And welcome to an unquestioningly stubborn world of make-believe in which error is truth, evil is good, sin is virtue, men are women, women are men, men have husbands, women have wives, sodomy is love, and...

Dissident Priest Unwittingly Reveals Globohomo Game Plan Imagine living rent-free in Fr. James Martin’s head. Well, that is exactly what Church Militant, Life Site News, and Tradition, Family, Property are able to do. On May 19, Fr. James Martin unleashed a lengthy Twitter thread in which he let the three pro-life and pro-family organizations know that he cares so little about their attempts to block his efforts to promote and endorse degeneracy that he spent a total of 18 Tweets to air his lack of concern in front of his over 240, 000 followers. The fact that he openly stated...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Father James Martin Rushes to Defense of Cardinal Marx over HomosexualityROME — Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin rushed to the defense of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Saturday, after the latter proposed changing Catholic teaching on the morality of gay sex.After Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, admonished Cardinal Marx, calling for his resignation, Father Martin suggested that Cardinal Marx had not contradicted Catholic belief in any significant way.“Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas, says that Cardinal Reinhard Marx, former chairman of the German Bishops Conference has ‘left the Catholic faith,’ not for denying the Trinity or the Incarnation,...

Liberal Catholic Priest James Martin Under Fire for Appearing to Defend Child Puberty BlockersLiberal Jesuit Catholic priest Father James Martin has come under fire for appearing to defend puberty blockers in children who identify as transgender.Martin, who serves as an editor-at-large for the Jesuit publication America Magazine and who also starred in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and boasts over 305,000 Twitter followers took criticism this week when he appeared to challenge Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s assertions that “sex-change operations and puberty blockers prescribed to kids is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law.”Father Martin, who has clashed with the Catholic Church’s...

Bishop Robert Barron’s Disturbing Musclemen Fetish is a Scandal by ItselfJared Zimmerer Executive Director of Word on Fire MinistryLike many Catholics I was starting to follow Bishop Robert Barron and started buying his Word on Fire materials. He was spending millions to become a “social media superstar”, and his popularity was growing rapidly. But I was quite troubled to see his behaviors and the people around him when I first met him in person in October of 2017. (We will discuss his heretical messages at another time).For some reason that is leading to a scandal, Barron is always surrounded by...