Damned Catholics

[Fake Messiah]

Sri Lankan cardinal bans girls from being altar servers

In an Oct. 22, 2024, letter to the priests of his diocese, Ranjith said, “It has been brought to my knowledge that several parishes in the Archdiocese of Colombo have appointed girls as altar servers.”

“In this context, I wish to reiterate, what I stated at the presbyteral meeting held on Oct. 21, 2024, that no girls should be invited to serve at the altar, as altar servers in the archdiocese,” he said.

“Since females are not allowed to be ordained priests, we have to make that decision,” he said, warning priests that “this cannot be changed at your discretion.”

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-asia/2024/...ar-servers

[Fake Messiah]

Historic Menasha Church in Wisconsin Undergoes $2 Million Restoration

One notable feature is the addition of 2,200 gold leaf stars on the ceiling, sponsored by parishioners at $500 each, raising over $1 million. Other enhancements include painted roses on the walls and 12 hand-painted medallions depicting Marian apparitions, also funded by the congregation.

https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/in...estoration

[Fake Messiah]

Freemasons, homosexuals and corrupt elites in Cameroon: Inside an African conspiracy theory

On Christmas day in 2005 the archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, the famously homophobic Victor Tonye Bakot, surprised the nation with a sermon attacking the national elite. He accused them of spreading homosexuality by forcing anal sex on young men eager to get a job.

The sermon was all the more surprising since the archbishop spoke in the Yaoundé cathedral with the nation’s leaders right in front of him, including then president Paul Biya. It offered a new variation of the Catholic church’s attacks on Freemasonry.

In France, Freemasonry was fiercely attacked by the Catholic church, worried by the increasingly secular tendencies of the brotherhood and its supposedly central role in the French Revolution. So, even though the 2005 attack by the Cameroonian archbishop was nothing new, it hit like a wave in this specific context and created a conspiracy theory that lives on today.

Only a month after the sermon, several newspapers started publishing lists of “supposed” or even “prominent” homosexuals.

They named ministers and other politicians, sports and music stars, and even some senior religious leaders. Denouncing the elite as homosexuals corrupting the nation had become an outlet for people’s dissatisfaction with the regime.

Of course, linking homosexuality to Freemasonry strengthens the claim – now made by many in the continent – that homosexuality is un-African and imposed by colonialism.

https://www.alternet.org/freemasons-africa/

[Fake Messiah]

The Worst Catholic LGBTQ+ News Stories of 2024

We asked our readers and other New Ways Ministry supporters to vote for the worst stories from a “nominations” list of 15 stories in each category.

1. Ghana’s Catholic bishops endorse an anti-LGBTQ+ law and support the use of “conversion” therapy for sexual and gender minorities. 55%

2. The Synod on Synodality closes after four years, but the final report does not mention LGBTQ+ people or issues, despite that these topics were mentioned in so many of the local reports. 54%

3. Pope Francis continues to condemn “gender ideology,” an amorphous term never fully defined. At one point, he refers to it as the “worst danger” in the world. 49%

4. Dignitas Infinita, a new Vatican document on the fundamental and universal application of human dignity lists “gender ideology” as a “grave harm” to such dignity. 47%

5. After transgender advocate’s funeral was held in New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemns the liturgy and authorizes a Mass of reparation to be celebrated in the building. 45%

6. Though usually slow to implement directives from Pope Francis’ Vatican, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops moves with speed to implement the anti-LGBTQ+ guidance from Dignitas Infinita. 38%

7. Some bishops oppose the blessing of same-gender couples which had been allowed by the Vatican with the release of the December 2023 declaration, Fiducia Supplicans. 31%

8. A National Catholic Reporter investigation reveals that two conservative Catholic organizations–Cardinal Newman Society and Person & Identity–were driving forces behind many diocesan anti-LGBTQ+ gender policies. 29%

9. Pope Francis uses an Italian anti-gay slur in a meeting with members of the Italian Bishops Conference, then repeats doing so a week later. 23%

10. The Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire ends a 60-year relationship with a group which supports mentally and physically challenged people from using church-run facility for youth camps, after some campers displayed Pride flags this past year. 22%

https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/12/...s-of-2024/

[zebo-the-fat]

Theists seem to be scared of ANYTHING related to sex.... sex is involved... it must be dirty!