LONDON (LifeSiteNews) — A ministry of “LGBT Catholics” backed by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the archbishop of Westminster, participated in London’s annual “gay pride” parade over the weekend.
The LGBT+ Catholics Westminster, the official LGBT ministry of the Archdiocese of Westminster, the country’s largest diocese, marched in the 2025 Pride in London Parade on July 5. The group promotes LGBT ideology regularly hosts “LGBT Masses,” and has participated in previous London “pride” parades.
Members of the Archdiocese of Westminster/Cardinal Nichols’ official LGBT group, @LGBTCathWestmin, took part in the London Pride parade this wknd.
The group cited Fr James Martin’s defense of Catholics celebrating Pride month when advertising participation in the event. pic.twitter.com/hNRzx57hMS
— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) July 7, 2025
Per its official website, the Pride in London parade “provides a vital platform for all members of London’s LGBTQ+ communities, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, non-binary, asexual, polysexual, genderqueer, and gender variant.”
While advertising its participation in this “pride” parade, LGBT Catholics Westminster notably cited heterodox Father James Martin’s recent Outreach article that encouraged Catholics to celebrate “pride month.”
READ: Fr. James Martin urges Catholics to celebrate LGBT ‘Pride Month’
LGBT “pride” is societally promoted as an acceptance of all things related to the LGBT ideology and appears at its heart to be a rejection of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage, morality, and the family. Pride is also listed by the Church as one of the seven deadly sins – an aspect often highlighted by clerics who warn against promoting, or participating in, “Pride month,” and other “gay pride” events.
LGBT Catholics Westminster was appointed by Cardinal Nichols to provide pastoral provision to self-identified LGBT Catholics. The group gained notoriety for its “Soho Masses” before being moved to the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, also known as the “Farm Street Church,” where Masses “welcoming LGBT+ Catholics, parents, and families” are celebrated twice a month.
Nichols, the most senior Catholic bishop in England and Wales, has celebrated multiple LGBT Masses for the organization and has a long history of promoting homosexuality.
“Being an LGBT+ Catholic can be a challenge. That’s why we gather together to celebrate our faith and grow together,” the ministry’s website states. “We are a diverse community of many nationalities, sexualities and backgrounds and are part of the RC Archdiocese of Westminster’s pastoral provision to LGBT+ Catholics, their families and friends.”
The organization’s site also displays a prayer written by openly homosexual Catholic priest Bernárd J. Lynch, who states on his blog, “I am married to my husband Billy since 1998.” The Pro-LGBT ministry’s site strikingly omits any mention of the Church’s teaching on same-sex “marriage” or gender ideology.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law” and that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.” The Catechism is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.” Homosexual acts are mortal sins; therefore, anyone who commits these sins and does not repent through the sacrament of confession is in danger of hell.
The Catechism also teaches that there are only two genders: male and female and that “(e)veryone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.”
READ: Cardinal Burke condemns gender ideology as ‘attack on reason and nature’
The LGBT ministry has marched in previous London “pride” parades, calling their participation “an opportunity for evangelization.” Additionally, video from a Mass celebrated for the group in Soho shows a rainbow flag draped over the lectern and what appears to be a man wearing a dress and wig, reading one of the bidding prayers.
In 2019, LGBT Catholics Westminster met and posed for photos with Pope Francis during the ministry’s visit to Rome.
READ: Pope Francis meets, poses for photos with pro-homosexual ‘Catholic’ group
LifeSiteNews reached out to the Archdiocese of Westminster but did not receive a response by publication time.
