Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage

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Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage

In the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of 'inclusion.'

Aug 29, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Friends, what does it mean when the Vatican welcomes open promoters of sexual perversion into its Jubilee celebrations?

That’s right, a group of over 1,000 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics” are about to descend upon Rome next week for the Jubilee year.

It’s organized by an Italian group called “La Tenda di Gionata” – the Tent of Jonathan, now that is likely a repugnant and disgusting reference to the friendship between Jonathan and King David – and this group has been very active over the years. It’s not the first time they’ve been to Rome as a group either. On their website, there are articles about their experiences at Pride festivals, including in Rome.

But before we can really dig into this pilgrimage, let’s begin as we always do with the Sign of the Cross – and consider another pilgrimage that’s just taken place over in Rome.

Many of us were delighted when we saw the Vatican Jubilee website include a listing for the Traditional Latin Mass SSPX pilgrimage to Rome, which just took place a few days ago.

Some said that such a listing wasn’t significant: that the Italian language Jubilaeum 2025 site just included everything that was happening, without regard for approval or disapproval on the part of the site.

Not so, said others. The Catholic Herald in the UK referred to it as “a rare moment of visible accord.”

The pilgrimage itself was an amazing sight. LifeSiteNews’ Dr. Maike Hickson was there, and witnessed nearly 8,000 Catholics and 680 priests and religious of the SSPX entering the Holy Doors of St. Peters Basilica there, singing the Creed and Te Deum and other beautiful hymns.

St Peter’s Basilica even put out seating for them, and let them use the microphone system. The day before, the SSPX pilgrims had Masses in the catacombs, and in the Park behind the Colosseum. [...]So, it’s understandable that many were also dismayed when the reference to the SSPX was removed from the Vatican Jubilee website.

Now, the point here is the LGBT “pilgrimage,” not the SSPX one – but stay with me. The removal definitely seemed like a de-legitimization, and undermined the idea, expressed by the Vatican office itself around the same time, that “inclusion” – on the website – “does not imply endorsement.”

But if that’s so, why delete the SSPX pilgrimage?

It’s also obviously false to say that inclusion doesn’t imply endorsement. If the KKK or the American Nazi Party were planning a Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome this year, with 8,000 pilgrims like that SSPX pilgrimage, do we really think they’d be included in the website event listings? Of course not.

Obviously I’m not comparing the SSPX to those groups. I’m just saying that, even if inclusion does not imply endorsement, it does imply something. It implies that a group is basically inside the Overton Window of acceptable thought. It means they’re “allowed,” while others are pushed out.

And that is why it is so troubling that this Tent of Jonathan, this La Tenda di Gionata group, is being listed on the Vatican Jubilee website.

While the SSPX is outside the window of acceptable thought, this homosexualist group is clearly inside it for the Leo XIV Vatican.

Alessandro Previti, one of the organisers of the event, told the “LGBTQ Catholic Ministry” Outreach:

“The core objective is to be there, to pray, to pray together and to feel part of the church, to be welcome as we are, for who we are.”

The Mass for this group – oh, yes, there is a Mass for them – will be celebrated inside the Church of the Gesù by Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Savino himself called the event:

“[an] irreversible sign reminding us that the Gospel is not a manifesto for chosen few, but a love letter addressed to the whole human family.”

This sort of event even got an endorsement from Cardinal Cobo, vice president of the Spanish bishops’ conference. Cobo wrote a letter to the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics – another LGBT group, which met in Madrid last week, and is supporting the Jubilee events.

Here’s what he said:

“In the context of the Jubilee Year, in which the Church opens its doors to those who journey together in hope, I hope that the event you are preparing will help prepare you more deeply to ‘enter the Holy Door’ and that it will lead to a deeper encounter with Christ.”

Here’s another interesting thing: last year, Tenda di Gionata was also deleted from the Vatican Jubilee website temporarily – before being reinstated. And when confronted with criticism over these listings, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s Jubilee coordinator, declared:

“We include all those who ask us to experience faith… Therefore, I don’t see why anyone should be excluded.”

What does it say about the so-called “Church of inclusion,” when the Society of Saint Pius X is first listed, then deleted, while LGBTQ activists are celebrated as honored pilgrims – and reinstated after they were deleted?

And as the SSPX News site asked: “Does Fisichella believe that the pilgrims who came with the Society of Saint Pius X were not there to experience faith? Why were they there then? What does he criticize them for?”

As I said before, this is really not about the SSPX. It’s not like we’re calling for the Jubilee website to relist their event, or for the Church to be like a circus or a zoo, made up of groups which hold diametrically opposed beliefs, and practice diametrically opposed religions. We’re not begging the Vatican to give the SSPX a corner in their big tent in which they can do their little thing.

No, it’s about us saying clearly: under Leo XIV, the Vatican is making space for homosexualist groups, and celebrating them as honored pilgrims, and treating their heterodoxy and heresy as if they were legitimate opinions – and this is unacceptable. [Emphasis The Catacombs] The treatment of the SSPX – and what I said about the KKK – simply makes that worse and more obvious.

It’s unacceptable, but it isn’t a surprise. Leo XIV himself said, as Cardinal Prevost in 2023, that his earlier condemnations of the “homosexual lifestyle” had shifted under Francis – “there’s been a development” he said, such that “we are looking to be more welcoming and more open, and to say all people are welcome in the Church.”

I’m sorry, we all know what that means. He even attributed this “development” to Francis and made clear that he had adopted it for himself.

No, friends. God does not bless sin – let alone one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. The Church does not hand over her altars to those who deny her moral teaching and publicly celebrate sin. As Saint Paul warned: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (1 Cor. 10:21)

Yet there, in the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of “inclusion.”

All are included. Anyone can walk through the Holy Doors for the Jubilee. But the Holy Door of eternal life is not open to anyone who feels like it – it’s open only to those who have the supernatural faith, hope and charity of Christ, and persevere in the grace of God.

Whatever these churchmen do, let’s resolve for ourselves to walk through that door, whatever it costs us – and offer reparation for these sins and our own, and pray for the conversion of those involved in this sordid story.

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Fr. James Martin: Pope Leo will show ‘same openness’ as Pope Francis to ‘LGBTQ Catholics’
Following a private audience with Leo XIV, pro-LGBT Fr. Martin claims the Pope intends to continue Francis’
‘openness’ to the LGBT agenda.



Father James Martin attends the “Building A Bridge" premiere during the 2021 Tribeca Festival at Hudson Yards on June 15, 2021, in New York City
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival

Sep 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Father James Martin, S.J., has said that Pope Leo XIV will take a similar approach to “LGBTQ Catholics” as his predecessor, Pope Francis, following an audience this morning.

The Pope met with Jesuit priest Martin, known for his fervent pro-LGBT promotion within the Catholic Church, in audience at the Apostolic Palace on Monday morning, according to the Holy See Press Office. Following the meeting, Martin shared on social media platform X that he is “profoundly grateful” for the audience with the Pontiff, adding that the “message” he took from the meeting “was that Pope Leo will be continuing with the same openness that Francis showed to LGBTQ Catholics.”

Martin, famed for his LGBT activism and incorporation of homosexual lifestyles within the Church, praised Pope Francis after his death as an “imperfect” “champion” for gender-confused and homosexual people, writing in the New York Times:

Francis’ pastoral outreach helped L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics feel more at home in their church. But it also meant that a far larger group – their families and friends – also felt more at home. It potentially forced Catholics around the world, even in cultures where homophobia is more entrenched, to ask themselves: If Pope Francis is so welcoming, why not me?

Martin has also commended Pope Francis on his 2023 declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which endorsed “blessings” for homosexual “couples” under certain circumstances and carried out one such “blessing” just a day after the document was officially published.

In the hours after Pope Leo was elected, Martin took to X to congratulate the former Cardinal Robert Prevost on his succession and to comment that the new Pope is “committed to continuing this process (of Synodality) of Pope Francis to make the Church more listening, more welcoming, and more inclusive.”

LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen noted that Martin’s Monday morning meeting with Leo XIV represents “the nightmare scenario” he warned of at the commencement of the new papacy. “As I told Glenn Beck,” Westen stated, “a less bombastic pope could quietly cement a false new direction. The James Martin approach defies Christ, His Church, Scripture, and 2,000 years of tradition.”

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Welcome to the Rainbow Papacy
From Sister Caram to Father Martin: How Leo XIV Is Carrying Forward Francis’ “Open Doors” Revolution

Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Sep 01, 2025

The Caram Audience: From Francis’ Friend to Leo’s Guest

On August 28, Pope Leo XIV quietly received Sister Lucía Caram, the Argentine Dominican nun best known for her public approval of homosexual “marriage.” Her statement from 2023 still hangs in the air: “I would be in favor of homosexuals getting married in the Church because God always blesses love.” Asked if she would recommend homosexual couples act on their vice, she shrugged: “If they love each other… What do you want me to tell you!”

This is not a slip of the tongue. Caram has built her reputation on pushing boundaries and taunting the Church’s moral law. She even accused Cardinal Fernández of being a practicing homosexual. Yet the Vatican Media cameras clicked as she was ushered into the Apostolic Palace to sit with Leo himself. Curiously, the official Holy See bulletin omitted the audience. Why? Because Rome knows the optics: Sister Caram is poison to Catholic teaching, but medicine to the world’s progressive press.


The James Martin Embrace

Three days later, on September 1, Leo met with Father James Martin, the Jesuit celebrity priest who has made LGBT advocacy the heart of his ministry. Martin himself shared the moment on social media, basking in the glow of papal favor.

Notice his words: “I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis about welcoming LGBTQ people.” No accident here. This was stage-managed continuity. Francis gave Martin legitimacy; Leo gives him legacy.

Reuters described the meeting as “a possible sign the new pontiff will continue Francis’ LGBT-inclusive legacy.” No, there’s nothing “possible” about it. This is deliberate. The Vatican has even placed an LGBT event on the official Jubilee calendar. In Rome, the rainbow has become the new coat of arms.


Timing Is Everything

The most obscene part? This meeting with Martin happened while photos of child victims from Minneapolis were ricocheting across the internet; images of Catholic children slain at a school Mass. And what was the Vatican’s headline that day? Not mourning the innocent. Not fasting or weeping. No: the pope with James Martin, smiling in the Apostolic Palace, assuring the world that the Francis agenda is safe in his hands.

The Angelus of Openness

Leo’s August 31 Angelus sealed the pattern. He preached on humility and taking the last place, but his application was horizontal, not supernatural. The Church is now to be a “home where all are welcome,” a table of encounter where rivalries are set aside. But notice what’s missing: sin, repentance, conversion. The message is pure human fraternity, Gospel emptied of its sting.

Even when speaking of war in Ukraine or the tragic Minnesota Mass shooting, Leo’s solution was not Christ the King, not penance, not consecration. It was the tired slogans of peace treaties, weapon bans, and dialogue. In other words, politics dressed in piety.


Speeches Without Salt

September 1 was a busy day for Leo. He addressed the Opera San Francesco for the Poor, reminding them of “assist, welcome, promote,” a Franciscan NGO triad that sounds more like a social worker’s pamphlet than a call to sanctity. He preached to the Augustinians about listening, humility, and unity. All good words, but all strangely hollow when detached from Catholic truth.

Meanwhile, his Latin letter to Cardinal Sepe about a Ukrainian anniversary struck the same note: hope, dialogue, fraternity. A papal vocabulary shorn of judgment, punishment, or doctrine: fit for a U.N. envoy, not the Vicar of Christ.


Continuity in the Revolution

If anyone still harbored the fantasy that Leo XIV would reset the Vatican after Francis, the past week has killed the illusion. He is not breaking with his predecessor. He is canonizing him; in practice if not yet in ceremony.

Sister Caram and Father Martin are not accidents on the papal schedule. They are the papal schedule. They are the symbols Rome wants the world to see: the nun who wants sodomy blessed and the Jesuit who mainstreamed it. Together, they reveal a pontificate bent on taking Francis’ halfway revolution and marching it all the way to the rainbow altar.


Conclusion: The Smoke Gets Thicker

From Angelus balcony to apostolic palace, from Caram’s sly smiles to Martin’s triumphal tweets, the picture is clear. The papacy has become a platform for the world’s sexual revolutionaries. Leo XIV is not correcting Francis. He is perfecting him.

And the faithful? They are left once more to pray, suffer, and cling to the unchanging Faith that cannot be photographed, scheduled, or co-opted by Vatican Media.

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Mexican bishop ‘concelebrates’ Mass with lesbian Anglican in homosexual ‘marriage’ who received Eucharist
Bishop Raúl Vera López hosted lesbian ‘pastor’ Emilie Teresa Smith for a Mass where she whispered the words of consecration, elevated the chalice, and gave the homily in contradiction to Catholic teaching and canon law.



Emilie Teresa Smith, Bishop Raúl Vera López
Fr Raúl Vera López OP/Facebook

Aug 29, 2025
SALTILLO, Mexico (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A lesbian Anglican “priest” who “married” a woman received the Holy Eucharist after dipping the Host in the Blood of Christ during a recent Mass in Mexico. Throughout the liturgy, she also stood alongside a Catholic prelate and appeared to “concelebrate” the liturgy.

Canadian “pastor” Emilie Teresa Smith came down to Mexico for a Mass on August 26 with Bishop Emeritus Raúl Vera López, OP, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Saltillo.

Smith is involved in Latin American “ecumenical” activities and previously appeared vested in liturgical vestments in March, causing controversy.

She “married” another woman, Patti Powell, in 2018 and regularly posts pro-LGBT content on social media.

The Mass, which can still be seen on Facebook, shows Smith standing next to the prelate throughout and sitting next to his presider’s chair. “During the liturgy, Ms Smith, wearing a stole (a liturgical vestment), joined in parts of the Eucharistic Prayer, whispered words of consecration, raised her hand in blessing and elevated the chalice containing the Precious Blood of Christ,” the Catholic Herald reported. LifeSiteNews also observed that Smith appeared to be wearing a white clerical collar.

Smith also appeared to read the Gospel, which is reserved for deacons and priests, and give a homily. She also kissed the altar at the end of Mass.

López defended his inclusion of a female “pastor” during Mass and attacked those who criticized his actions.

“They talk about sacrilege, heresy, indecency, indiscipline, laziness. Please, it’s common sense!! She carries her stole everywhere she travels around the world,” the bishop wrote.

The bishop also criticized “people who pretend to be Christians, [who] wrote insulting things to us on different social networks,” and cited Pope Francis’ “climate change” encyclical Laudato si’ to justify his decision.

He wrote further:

All this prompted the titular bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo to call me. He knows that the Mass is recorded and I repeated the context in which the Emilie Teresa Smith visit is given. But by the way, not only does she work with the poor, she has a parish, has a theological background, she is a writer, she is qualified to participate in a meeting of the United Nations and with God’s people, around the defense of our Mother Earth, but besides all that her homily yesterday was excellent.

I hope that the community through my homily and through my word to the press, can understand what this is about. It’s not just about ecumenism, but about being true sisters and brothers, not just with a narrative, but with actions of love and inclusion. We are no longer in witch hunts and bonfire times. The word of our sister Emilie, gives us light, life and guidance as Laudato [si’] asks all the people of this planet.

In a follow-up post, he wrote: “I admire and respect you Emilie Teresa Smith I wish you no more bad -tastes in your mouth- on your way. We will be always at your service when you return to the Mexican northeast.”

The “concelebration” of Mass by a female Anglican “priest” raises several canonical issues.

Canon law forbids the reception of the Holy Eucharist, which Catholics know is the true Body and Blood of Christ, by non-Catholics. [...] Sadly, heretical ministers have often joined in appearing to concelebrate Catholic Masses, as documented by LifeSiteNews.

The Catholic Church teaches that homosexual behavior is mortally sinful and intrinsically evil and that homosexual inclinations are “objectively disordered,” in accordance with Sacred Scripture and the constant Tradition of the Church.

The Church also definitively teaches that women cannot be validly ordained as priests.