Father Alexander M. Santora, the pastor of Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, who recently celebrated the parish’s ninth annual blasphemous “Pride Mass,” wrote an article reflecting on how his parish has “lifted up” so-called “LGBT Catholics,” encouraging other parishes to follow suit.
In a June 18 op-ed for the Daily Journal headlined “My church lifts up LGBTQ people. Others must,” Fr. Santora, who officially remains in good standing with the Church, recalled celebrating Our Lady of Grace’s June 14 “Pride Mass” with the explicit approval of heterodox Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, and how the parish has welcomed numerous parishioners who identify as “LGBT” with their same-sex “partners” as well as many faithful who bring their children along to these “Pride Masses.”
The priest also defended the use of the phrase “pride,” one of the deadly sins, and echoed a recent call by Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Church to “draw closer to LGBTQ people” while sharply criticizing the many faithful who reached out to express their concerns over the sacrilegious Mass.
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