Jesuit Priest Says LGBTQ Pride and the Sacred Heart of Jesus Are 'Compatible'

Emma Campbell | June 6, 2023
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A popular Jesuit priest, Father James Martin, has made a series of recent statements encouraging Catholics to connect LGBTQ Pride month to their celebration of the month of the Sacred Heart.

On Saturday, Martin tweeted a link to an article he wrote for an “LGBTQ Catholic resource” website, in which he said that Pride Month and Month of the Sacred Heart “are not contradictory but complementary…(as) each tells us something about how Jesus loves.” A few
days later, on Monday, he tweeted a link to another story for the same platform, saying that Catholics can celebrate Pride Month because it’s a kind of pride that is acceptable in the Bible.

“Can Catholics celebrate Pride Month? Yes, because it is not about personal vanity, but human dignity,” his tweet read.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Catholic devotion that focuses on “meditating on His interior life and on His threefold love.” Many on social media have expressed confusion and frustration over Martin’s comments, citing Jesus’s own teachings that contradict the spirit
behind Pride Month.

“By loving them, (Jesus) asks them to repent from their sins. You missed that part,” one user’s tweet read.

“(Jesus) calls us to love, but that does NOT include tolerating grave evil! We’re called to admonish sinners, not embrace their evil,” read another.

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Father Martin is a vocal proponent of the LGBTQ agenda, specifically within the Catholic church, and has achieved widespread acclaim for his teachings on the subject. Many Catholics, though, think his doctrine goes against the biblical teachings of repentance and conversion in
favor of affirming immoral sexual behavior.

In 2018, Archbishop Charles Chaput spoke out about the growing influence LGBTQ issues were having in the Catholic church, and admonished new teachings that put too much emphasis on people’s sexual tendencies as their identities.

“There is no such thing as an ‘LGBTQ Catholic’ or a ‘transgender Catholic’ or a ‘heterosexual Catholic,’ as if our sexual appetites defined who we are,” Chaput said, “as if these designations described discrete communities of differing but equal interim within the real ecclesial community, the body of Jesus Christ.”

Though Chaput acknowledged that some Catholics do experience attraction to people of the same sex, he expressed the need to call those people to the repentance and surrender found in the Bible.

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