Coming Soon to a Parish Near You? by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Feb 20, 2024

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org

What happened in St. Patrick’s cathedral last week could happen in your parish soon, if your community is unprepared. Is your parish ready?

Granted, New York, the self-proclaimed “capital of the world,” offered a unique opportunity for the activists of the sexual revolution. The grotesque “funeral service” for Cecilia Gentilli was a carefully planned ploy to use a renowned Catholic church as the stage for an event glorifying sexual perversity. Sadly, it worked—and the cathedral was desecrated in the process. And because it was successful, we can all be sure that other LGBT activists will try it again. And again and again.

The activists in your city or town probably will not be as ambitious and flamboyant as those in New York. But count on it: there will be other similar efforts to do what the activists in Manhattan did: to celebrate sexual license and to ridicule the Catholic Church, which remains the most prominent institutional opponent to the unbridled satisfaction of lust. ….

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