(LifeSiteNews) — An international organization of Catholic women has called for the Los Angeles Dodgers to stop their plans to honor scandalous drag “nuns” and apologize to Catholics.
In the wake of the Major League Baseball (MLB) team’s “pride month,” at which the Dodgers have committed to honor the anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas (CDA) issued a resolution condemning the plans.
CDA is a 120-year-old group dedicated to human rights and dignity through service and “feminine genius.” There are members from 45 American states as well as Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
“The Catholic Daughters of the Americas strongly condemns the actions of the Los Angeles Dodgers and urges all Americans to boycott Dodgers’ games and merchandise,” the resolution states. “We further demand that the Dodgers, who plan to showcase that group’s performative bigotry toward Catholics, especially Catholic women religious, cease this plan for June 16 and issue an apology to all Catholics.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to honor the blasphemous anti-Catholic drag group, the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, with a Community Hero Award on June 16, the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
This blatant contempt for the Catholic faith cannot go unchallenged.
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The Major League Baseball franchise said it had decided to honor the group — which engages in deliberately offensive sexualized burlesque mockeries of Catholicism — after initially canceling plans to do so when the public expressed outrage.
“After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families,” the statement read.
In one move, you managed to turn off conservatives and slap Christians in the face with disgusting drag nuns. What a disgrace you’ve become. Was recently at a game. Won’t be coming back.
— Courrielche⚡️ (@courrielche) May 23, 2023
The baseball team said it will ask the sacrilegious group “to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16th.”
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The Dodgers’ Monday announcement comes after it previously agreed to dis-invite the group after outrage by Catholics and other conservatives.
Among others, Catholic Vote and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida vocally objected to the decision to honor the so-called “sisters.”
“Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters’ inclusion in our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride Night, we are deciding to remove them from this year’s group of honorees,” the team said in a since-deleted May 17 announcement.
San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone had previously thanked the Dodgers for their decision to roll back the invitation.
In its Monday statement, after apologizing for temporarily dis-inviting the anti-Catholic hate group, the Dodgers promised to “work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support all our fans who make diversity part of the Dodgers family.”
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Conservatives responded on social media by slamming the baseball team for caving.
“Yes, it is vital that the national pastime honor and support those who mock religion and decency,” reacted Daily Wire co-founder and podcaster Ben Shapiro.
“The Gay Mafia will always extract their payment for ‘protection,’ said Crisis magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons.
Some social media users hinted that the team should face the same backlash as beer company Bud Light, which is continuing to endure a massive boycott after its decision to honor transgender-identifying TikTok activist Dylan Mulvaney.
But the Dodgers weren’t always woke and divorced from traditional religious practice.
Former Dodgers great Sandy Koufax, a left-handed pitcher who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in fame in 1972, famously refused to pitch during Game 1 of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the most important holy day in the Jewish calendar. He previously opted out of games that landed on Passover and Rosh Hashanah.
And Koufax wasn’t alone in living an active faith. Legendary announcer Vin Scully, the “Voice of the Dodgers” for 67 years, was a staunch Catholic. Scully, who passed away last year at age 94, was described by Catholic News Agency’s Jonah McKeown as “a devout Catholic who found in his faith a source of joy and comfort and sought to share it with others through personal kindness and philanthropy.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Scully was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and even narrated a two-CD audio recording of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2016.
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The CDA added that the “biological men’s group” of self-proclaimed drag “nuns” have “for many years targeted Catholic women religious by means of profane and sacrilegious events, also appropriating and misusing Catholic imagery, persons, saints and sacred objects.”
As the resolution explains, the organization consists of “63,000 women whose charitable mission includes fostering vocations to the religious life and promoting Catholic values and respect for the life and dignity of ALL persons.”
The organization also has a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a youth program for girls and is actively involved in various pro-family ministries. More information about CDA can be found on their website.
CDA’s call for boycotting and apologies is the latest backlash prompted by the Dodgers’ decision to override protesters and present the Community Hero Award to the blasphemous group of men dressed in drag-inspired “habits.” Trevor Williams, Catholic pitcher for the Washington Nationals, also called for a boycott of the Dodgers in response to their behavior.
Dodgers pitchers Blake Treinan and Clayton Kershaw shared similar sentiments and CatholicVote launched a $1 million ad urging Catholics to boycott the MLB team. In an ultimate act of protest, Catholics are going to gather in Los Angeles on the Feast of the Sacred Heart to prayerfully reject the blasphemy through a rally and procession to the stadium. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas will be leading the Eucharistic procession and LifeSiteNews co-founder and editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen will address participants with a speech at the rally.
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