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By Anne Hendershott, Crisis Magazine, June 16, 2023

Anne Hendershott is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. She is the author of The Politics of Envy (Crisis Publications, 2020).

 

As the daughter of a Dodgers minor-league team owner and the wife of a former Dodgers player, the team is in my blood. Yet as a Catholic I now find myself humiliated by their anti-Catholicism.

Anne Hendershott

The decision by the Los Angeles Dodgers organization to honor the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”—a gay-advocacy group that has spent the last four decades denigrating Catholics by dressing as lewd nuns—may not have been intentionally designed to humiliate Catholics, but it certainly has had that effect. It is clear that the Dodger organization no longer cares about how Catholics might feel about the decision to honor a group that mocks and ridicules them in the most wicked ways. …

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