Argentine priest urges bold witness after Latin Mass outside San Francisco abortion facility
Celebrating a Traditional Latin Mass on the steps of a Planned Parenthood facility was a natural expression of Catholic witness, said Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, an Argentine priest who serves at Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, who said he hopes to encourage priests and laity to proclaim the faith publicly without fear.
About 50 members of the parish recently joined Ravasi on a rainy Sunday, Feb. 15, for a Mass of reparation for sinners.
Explaining his decision to celebrate Mass outside the abortion facility, he said: “Part of why I had the Mass at the abortuary is to encourage priests. We have to live without fear. Too many priests practice a kind of self-censorship out of fear of reaction.” Referring to abortion, he added: “If there is freedom of speech in the U.S., and freedom to make human sacrifices to Baal, why shouldn’t priests proclaim the true God?”
By contrast, he said, “non-Catholics, LGBTQ advocates, and abortionists openly declare who they are. Why should we be ashamed to have the truth?” Laughing, he added: “We need to leave behind the Catholic closet!”
An Argentine native, Ravasi said he feels welcomed in the United States and has followed debates over immigration. “I haven’t seen the problems reported in other cities,” he said. “Every country has a right to protect its borders, just as every person has the right to protect his private property. It’s common sense.”
“Young people — Catholics, Protestants, and even atheists are coming,” he said. “They are tired of ‘woke-ism’ and of the farce of modern progressivism, and of the denial of what men and women are. They are looking for the eternal, lasting, and stable.”
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/argent...n-facility
So, he thinks it’s common sense to protect one's private property, just not when he invades others' private property to hold his dumb masses and his bigoted speeches. Imagine if an imam or a Satanist decides to hold their mass and anti church speech on the church's property.
Celebrating a Traditional Latin Mass on the steps of a Planned Parenthood facility was a natural expression of Catholic witness, said Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, an Argentine priest who serves at Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, who said he hopes to encourage priests and laity to proclaim the faith publicly without fear.
About 50 members of the parish recently joined Ravasi on a rainy Sunday, Feb. 15, for a Mass of reparation for sinners.
Explaining his decision to celebrate Mass outside the abortion facility, he said: “Part of why I had the Mass at the abortuary is to encourage priests. We have to live without fear. Too many priests practice a kind of self-censorship out of fear of reaction.” Referring to abortion, he added: “If there is freedom of speech in the U.S., and freedom to make human sacrifices to Baal, why shouldn’t priests proclaim the true God?”
By contrast, he said, “non-Catholics, LGBTQ advocates, and abortionists openly declare who they are. Why should we be ashamed to have the truth?” Laughing, he added: “We need to leave behind the Catholic closet!”
An Argentine native, Ravasi said he feels welcomed in the United States and has followed debates over immigration. “I haven’t seen the problems reported in other cities,” he said. “Every country has a right to protect its borders, just as every person has the right to protect his private property. It’s common sense.”
“Young people — Catholics, Protestants, and even atheists are coming,” he said. “They are tired of ‘woke-ism’ and of the farce of modern progressivism, and of the denial of what men and women are. They are looking for the eternal, lasting, and stable.”
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/argent...n-facility
So, he thinks it’s common sense to protect one's private property, just not when he invades others' private property to hold his dumb masses and his bigoted speeches. Imagine if an imam or a Satanist decides to hold their mass and anti church speech on the church's property.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
