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The Rainbow Flag and the Sacred Heart: A Battle for the soul of June, by Gavin Ashenden – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Catholic holy card depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus, ca. 1880. Auguste Martin collection, University of Dayton Libraries. (photo: Credit: ‘Turgis’, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, June 9, 2025

The rainbow flag, flown everywhere in “Pride month”, is not what it pretends to be. Its ubiquitous success feeds off our naivety and gullibility. It presents us with the challenge of distinguishing God from evil.

Jesus never took it for granted that the Church would find this task easy. His own experience was set in the context of a desert confrontation with the Devil at the beginning of his public ministry. During these confrontations, evil lied to him under the pretence of offering good outcomes. Jesus was to later warn his followers not to take people and their mission at face value, since evil could be expected to masquerade as good.

St Paul begged the early Christians to “test the spirits”. The presumption is that we will be faced with different strategies of evil presenting itself as good.

Perhaps the single most effective example of this strategy today is the “Pride flag”. June is “Pride month”. ….

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