(LifeSiteNews) — Liz Yore and Father James Altman once again join John-Henry Westen on this episode of Faith & Reason, in which the trio discusses the latest news pertaining to LGBT ideology ahead of Friday’s Feast of the Sacred Heart, a Senate report uncovering alleged corruption from the Biden family, and more.
Last month, Pope Francis wrote dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin a letter from his hospital bed supporting the work Martin does with LGBT advocacy. The Pope also sent Martin his blessing for a conference the dissident Jesuit is hosting for LGBT people on the Feast of the Sacred Heart at Fordham University, extending the blessing to those attending.
Yore noted that the letter comes as the Catholic Church in the United States is dealing with the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and at a time when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is meeting to discuss transgender “care” at Catholic hospitals.
Calling Francis’ letter a “slap in the face” for faithful Catholics discussing the issue, Yore commented that the letter “bodes very poorly” for the upcoming Synod on Synodality being held in October, as a “number of documents coming out of the Synod on Synodality are talking about a ‘growth of inclusivity to our ‘LGBTQIA++ friends.’”
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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Reacting to the letter, Fr. Altman said that the letter is “like [a] photo op,” adding “James Martin is jumping all over it, as is the left wing media, to say, ‘See, all you traditional Catholics, you need to get with the program, you need to get with the modern world, you need to accept not sin, something that for … 4,000 years has been identified by Almighty God as sin.’”
Meanwhile, Michael Hitchborn of the Lepanto Institute released a bombshell report this week exposing CommonSpirit Health, the largest Catholic health care network in the United States, for performing “transgender” surgeries on adults and minors, giving out puberty blockers to minors, and performing abortions in at least one location.
Yore noted that the timing of the report was “perfect” given the USCCB meeting. She also opined that the report is “absolutely a clarion call for the bishops to stop these absolutely abusive, horrendous procedures being done, some on children, some on very troubled people.”
“I think we all need to look at that report at Lepanto Institute, share it widely, and really ask your bishop to demand that these procedures stop immediately.”
Altman, reacting to the report, said that the bishops say they care about stopping the child sexual abuse crisis, but that they really have no interest in doing so, otherwise they would be more vociferous about events such as drag shows for children.
“They’d be speaking up about this kind of stuff because this is poisoning the minds of youth with this nonsense, and it’s poisoning the minds of every single Catholic [who’s] … going to throw up their hands and say, ‘Well, I guess … even the bishops can’t agree. I guess it’s no big deal; we’ll just follow our conscience, and love is love,” Altman said.
Earlier this week, Yore and fellow Faith & Reason panelist Jack Maxey appeared on a special episode of The John-Henry Westen Show to discuss the latest updates on the alleged Biden family corruption. Among the allegations made against the Bidens is that a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document shows Joe and Hunter Biden were involved with a $10 million pay-to-play scheme involving a Ukrainian oligarch, who gave both Bidens $5 million for their participation. The findings also indicated that the oligarch had incriminating voice recordings of the Bidens regarding the scheme.
Yore noted that the mainstream media has not reported on any of the new revelations, but have reported on the recent indictment of former president Donald Trump, something which she considers “pretty terrifying.”
“The Trump indictment is … clearly a distraction not to focus on [the Biden family revelations],” she said. “This Ukrainian [issue] is just one of, we believe, many … pay-to-play schemes. And so that’s what needs to be looked at.”
Altman, commenting on the allegations, noted that the Bidens are “puppets,” and compared the Bidens’ alleged corruption to that of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, which had to pay billions of dollars in fines, costs, and reparations as a result of over twenty criminal and civil suits.
“You have these people up here, the J.P. Morgan people … these puppeteers are way above the Bidens,” Altman opined. “These people up here, by the way, also control the media. So of course they’re not going to have the media [report on the Bidens] because Biden is a useful puppet. And the people, because they are so dumbed down, are useful idiots.”
For this and more, tune in to this week’s episode of Faith & Reason. Have a happy and holy Feast of the Sacred Heart!
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