(LifeSiteNews) — Friends, what does it mean when the Vatican welcomes open promoters of sexual perversion into its Jubilee celebrations?
That’s right, a group of over 1,000 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics” are about to descend upon Rome next week for the Jubilee year.
It’s organized by an Italian group called “La Tenda di Gionata” – the Tent of Jonathan, now that is likely a repugnant and disgusting reference to the friendship between Jonathan and King David – and this group has been very active over the years. It’s not the first time they’ve been to Rome as a group either. On their website, there are articles about their experiences at Pride festivals, including in Rome.
But before we can really dig into this pilgrimage, let’s begin as we always do with the Sign of the Cross – and consider another pilgrimage that’s just taken place over in Rome.
Many of us were delighted when we saw the Vatican Jubilee website include a listing for the Traditional Latin Mass SSPX pilgrimage to Rome, which just took place a few days ago.
Some said that such a listing wasn’t significant: that the Italian language Jubilaeum 2025 site just included everything that was happening, without regard for approval or disapproval on the part of the site.
Not so, said others. The Catholic Herald in the UK referred to it as “a rare moment of visible accord.”
The pilgrimage itself was an amazing sight. LifeSiteNews’ Dr. Maike Hickson was there, and witnessed nearly 8,000 Catholics and 680 priests and religious of the SSPX entering the Holy Doors of St. Peters Basilica there, singing the Creed and Te Deum and other beautiful hymns.
READ: Thousands of Catholics join SSPX Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to Rome, process into St. Peter’s Basilica
St Peter’s Basilica even put out seating for them, and let them use the microphone system. The day before, the SSPX pilgrims had Masses in the catacombs, and in the Park behind the Colosseum. It was amazing.
So, it’s understandable that many were also dismayed when the reference to the SSPX was removed from the Vatican Jubilee website.
Now, the point here is the LGBT “pilgrimage,” not the SSPX one – but stay with me. The removal definitely seemed like a de-legitimization, and undermined the idea, expressed by the Vatican office itself around the same time, that “inclusion” – on the website – “does not imply endorsement.”
But if that’s so, why delete the SSPX pilgrimage?
It’s also obviously false to say that inclusion doesn’t imply endorsement. If the KKK or the American Nazi Party were planning a Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome this year, with 8,000 pilgrims like that SSPX pilgrimage, do we really think they’d be included in the website event listings? Of course not.
Obviously I’m not comparing the SSPX to those groups. I’m just saying that, even if inclusion does not imply endorsement, it does imply something. It implies that a group is basically inside the Overton Window of acceptable thought. It means they’re “allowed,” while others are pushed out.
And that is why it is so troubling that this Tent of Jonathan, this La Tenda di Gionata group, is being listed on the Vatican Jubilee website.
While the SSPX is outside the window of acceptable thought, this homosexualist group is clearly inside it for the Leo XIV Vatican.
Alessandro Previti, one of the organisers of the event, told the “LGBTQ Catholic Ministry” Outreach:
“The core objective is to be there, to pray, to pray together and to feel part of the church, to be welcome as we are, for who we are.”
The Mass for this group – oh, yes, there is a Mass for them – will be celebrated inside the Church of the Gesù by Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Savino himself called the event:
“[an] irreversible sign reminding us that the Gospel is not a manifesto for chosen few, but a love letter addressed to the whole human family.”
This sort of event even got an endorsement from Cardinal Cobo, vice president of the Spanish bishops’ conference. Cobo wrote a letter to the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics – another LGBT group, which met in Madrid last week, and is supporting the Jubilee events.
Here’s what he said:
“In the context of the Jubilee Year, in which the Church opens its doors to those who journey together in hope, I hope that the event you are preparing will help prepare you more deeply to ‘enter the Holy Door’ and that it will lead to a deeper encounter with Christ.”
Here’s another interesting thing: last year, Tenda di Gionata was also deleted from the Vatican Jubilee website temporarily – before being reinstated. And when confronted with criticism over these listings, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s Jubilee coordinator, declared:
“We include all those who ask us to experience faith… Therefore, I don’t see why anyone should be excluded.”
What does it say about the so-called “Church of inclusion,” when the Society of Saint Pius X is first listed, then deleted, while LGBTQ activists are celebrated as honored pilgrims – and reinstated after they were deleted?
And as the SSPX News site asked: “Does Fisichella believe that the pilgrims who came with the Society of Saint Pius X were not there to experience faith? Why were they there then? What does he criticize them for?”
As I said before, this is really not about the SSPX. It’s not like we’re calling for the Jubilee website to relist their event, or for the Church to be like a circus or a zoo, made up of groups which hold diametrically opposed beliefs, and practice diametrically opposed religions. We’re not begging the Vatican to give the SSPX a corner in their big tent in which they can do their little thing.
No, it’s about us saying clearly: under Leo XIV, the Vatican is making space for homosexualist groups, and celebrating them as honored pilgrims, and treating their heterodoxy and heresy as if they were legitimate opinions – and this is unacceptable. The treatment of the SSPX – and what I said about the KKK – simply makes that worse and more obvious.
It’s unacceptable, but it isn’t a surprise. Leo XIV himself said, as Cardinal Prevost in 2023, that his earlier condemnations of the “homosexual lifestyle” had shifted under Francis – “there’s been a development” he said, such that “we are looking to be more welcoming and more open, and to say all people are welcome in the Church.”
I’m sorry, we all know what that means. He even attributed this “development” to Francis and made clear that he had adopted it for himself.
No, friends. God does not bless sin – let alone one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. The Church does not hand over her altars to those who deny her moral teaching and publicly celebrate sin. As Saint Paul warned: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (1 Cor. 10:21)
Yet there, in the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of “inclusion.”
All are included. Anyone can walk through the Holy Doors for the Jubilee. But the Holy Door of eternal life is not open to anyone who feels like it – it’s open only to those who have the supernatural faith, hope and charity of Christ, and persevere in the grace of God.
Whatever these churchmen do, let’s resolve for ourselves to walk through that door, whatever it costs us – and offer reparation for these sins and our own, and pray for the conversion of those involved in this sordid story.
For LifeSiteNews and Sign of the Cross Media, this is John-Henry Westen. May God bless you.
