Jesuits request LGBTQ saints

When Jesus said in Matthew 19 that “all things are possible”, I am certain he did not mean this to include the LGBTQ agenda of Fr. James Martin and his band of Catholic thugs at America Magazine. It is one thing to speak against hatred and unfair treatment of those who consider themselves LGBTQ. Everyone should be treated with respect and dignity. It is, on the other hand, a totally different thing to advocate for the endorsement and acceptability of sin which is clearly condemned by Sacred Scripture, the Church’s official teachings, as well as our saints. With his latest article in America Magazine, Fr. Jim McDermott advocates for that very thing. He wants to elevate the concept of LGBTQ to sainthood.

McDermott is among Martin’s LGBTQ flag waving, sin touting, and homosexual bragging clan. The assault they are launching against truth and, therefore, against Christ, is nothing short of Christian criminality. It's thuggish. It is sinful. Do not misunderstand, twist, or misinterpret this statement. Anyone who identifies as LGBTQ is just as loved as you and I are by the Creator. God loves and desires for them to come to repentance and has given Christians and the Church the responsibility to urge repentance of these sins, just as He has commanded that we call all sinners to repentance. To love another is to tell them the truth. The greatest act of love you can do for an individual is to urge them to repentance of sin because sin separates them from God. It is a gift of life and not death. It is true love expressed to the greatest degree possible on this side of heaven. However, McDermott and the Jesuit thugs would disagree. They would rather love homosexuals right into damnation instead of eternal life. Of course, these are also the individuals at America Magazine who say heaven is homophobic and that white supremacists would have killed Jesus if given the chance. 

McDermott has chosen to take a stab at advocating for new saints. In his June 2, 2022, article for America titled “The Catholic Church needs L.G.B.T. saints”, McDermott tells how he noticed something that I am sure most of the rest of us would have not thought twice about when viewing images of the saints. He writes “as I sat there in the church with my guests, looking up at all these beautiful images (of saints), it suddenly hit me that not a single one of these people has been identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, though undoubtedly some of them were. In fact, the Catholic Church has yet to recognize a single L.G.B.T. saint.”

First of all, let’s get something very clear. It is not his place or ours to attach any sin on a saint which has not been verified or known. He wants to give the impression that some of the saints were gay or homosexual. There is no evidence of that, and we have clear evidence none of them were ever transgender. Additionally, in this article he attempts to reduce the saints to their sins and ignore, as is the custom of most Jesuits, their life of repentance and rejection of those sins. This is not the concept or idea of the saints and we should never allow it to be.

McDermott admits in the article that he is gay and then continues to try and “normalize” homosexuality as if it is some kind of disability for which one suffers from since birth. He writes, “no matter how much work Pope Francis, various bishops, clergy and others have done to try and normalize the place of L.G.B.T. people in the church, the fact is, for many Catholics of a certain age, being L.G.B.T. still seems wrong or disobedient.” You think?! Maybe that’s because it IS wrong and it IS disobedient. It’s called SIN. Maybe the Jesuits have stopped teaching about sin, since everything is apparently acceptable in their world except Republicans.

I love the quote from St. Ignatius of Loyola that says, “what seems to be white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.” This is such a powerful statement because St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, essentially says even if he believes something to be true, if the Church defines it as untrue then he will follow the Church and claim it to be untrue. So, what would Ignatius say about the desire for an LGBTQ canonized saint? He would agree, according to his own statement, with what the Church has declared. It is a sin and unacceptable to elevate and celebrate an individual for their sin rather than their saintly living.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses this issue beginning in 2357:

“Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered’. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.” (emphasis mine)

Sacred Scripture goes further to even say it is because they rejected truth, declined to honor God as God, and worshipped other things and people rather than God.  “Therefore, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:26-27)

Dr. Scott Hahn teaches so beautiful about the word “therefore” in Scripture. He says that when you see the word “therefore”, you should ask yourself “what is it there for?” In Romans 1, we see "therefore" used several times and we have to look at the previous verses to see what it is referencing. In verse 25 of Romans 1, St. Paul writes “they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever, Amen.”

Isn’t that what the Jesuits have done? They are attempting to exchange God’s truth for a lie. Their actions focus more on “loving” and “accepting” sin rather than urging repentance. They would rather hang an LGBTQ flag from the Holy See as opposed to hang a crucifix and urge repentance. They are a disgrace to the great St. Ignatius who founded them. They’re even more of a heartbreak to the Lord Jesus.

Saint Pope John Paul II protested against the gay pride parade in Rome in 2000. During his Angelus address on July 9, 2000, he said “I feel obliged, now, to mention the well-known [gay pride] demonstrations held in Rome in the past few days. In the name of the Church of Rome I can only express my deep sadness at the offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics throughout the world. The Church cannot be silent about the truth, because she would fail in her fidelity to God the Creator and would not help to distinguish good from evil.”

The truth is we do not canonize saints based on their sins. The very concept of placing a vocal and outwardly open homosexual individual, who lived a life in blatant sin against God and the truth of Scripture without repentance, on the altar of sainthood alongside great saints such as St. Peter and St. Paul is repulsive. We elevate those to the altar of sainthood who we can point our children to and say, as St. Paul says in I Corinthians “imitate me as I imitate Christ”. We do not tell our children to imitate the sins of the saints, rather we tell them to imitate the holiness and repentant hearts of the saints.

We do not see a picture of St. Augustine and tell our children, “look son, I am glad I have a thief, drunkard, and an atheist to show you that it’s okay to live that life because you can become a saint as a thief, drunkard and womanizer."

McDermott argues, as do all LGBTQ advocates and especially those who are content and happy in their sin as he apparently is, “But the fact is, as Catholics we believe that each of us is born in the image and likeness of God. Not just straight people, white people or men – everyone. There is no asterisk in the Catechism on this point. This is the teaching of the church, even if some Catholics discuss or treat us in ways that suggest otherwise.” He attempts to make an ambiguous argument suggesting homosexuals are born that way but, by the very nature of that argument, he is suggesting God intentionally allows people to be born into a lifestyle of sin which, according to Scripture and Church teaching, is “intrinsically disordered” and “an abomination.” Maybe he should keep reading further down the Catechism where it directly addresses homosexuality as opposed to just reading the first few pages. Better yet, maybe he should check out Scripture sometime on the topic rather than verse picking. 

To say God allows and wills for individuals to be born into a lifestyle which, by its very nature, is an abomination is itself an abhorrent attack on truth and the God of Creation. It’s thug behavior demanding its own way and own views. The truth of God never changes, despite the culture, circumstances, or preferences of individuals. We do not grow truth or change truth to adjust to the culture. We grow the culture and change the culture to adjust to God’s truth.