Why are the hierarchy afraid to profess righteous outrage perpetrated against the Catholic faith??
Instead, their response to the blasphemy at the Paris Olympics centered on man and their "hurt" feelings, especially of other "religions", rather than Christ, His Father and the Holy Ghost.
I'll post an article from lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent
Just who are these people wearing the Roman collar????
Are they the shepherds of our Lord, or do they work for the father of lies and murder, the damned Satan???
Truly pathetic...
"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Holy See has issued a statement in response to the transgender mockery of the Last Supper at the Olympics opening ceremony, after being widely condemned in Catholic circles for having kept silent for over a week on the issue.
Late Saturday night Rome time, a statement was issued without warning to the press corps accredited to the Vatican. The statement, issued in French, came in response to the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games held Friday, July 26.
It read in full:
The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, and can only join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offence caused to many Christians and believers of other religions.
In a prestigious event where the whole world gathers around common values, there should be no allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people.
Freedom of expression, which of course is not in question, finds its limit in respect for others.
The Holy See’s statement comes over a week after the Olympics’ opening, and many have already suggested that the statement is too little and too late.
The opening ceremony featured a caricature show, designed by the homosexual Thomas Jolly, which saw drag queens and dancers perform a mockery of the Last Supper, particularly appearing to faux-imitate Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting.
Jolly claimed after international outrage that the blasphemous ceremony was not meant to imitate the Last Supper but rather pagan gods. However, the woman in the center of the blasphemous display, Barbara Butch, admitted that she was imitating Jesus Christ, having posted on her Instagram account that she depicted “Olympic Jesus.”
The ceremony drew instant and continued outrage from Catholics – both lay and clerical – along with strong condemnation from secular figures such as tech billionaire Elon Musk, journalist Piers Morgan and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Johnson stated that “[t]he war on our faith and traditional values knows no bounds today,” and Musk issued a number of criticisms, including the warning that “[u]nless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish.”
Since then, numerous Catholics have been calling on the Pope and the Holy See to issue an official condemnation of the event, but the Vatican’s silence had been markedly noticeable.
While the Pope customarily makes reference to topical issues around the globe at the end of his Sunday address, often expressing his solidarity with particular groups of people and calling for prayers from Catholics, he made no mention of the Olympic opening ceremony during his July 28 Angelus, while nevertheless making a number of special mentions for causes and celebrations around the world.
The scandal-plagued Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia – president of the Pontifical Academy for Life – made a peculiar statement, trying to join in condemnation and also defense of the spectacle.
The only other statement from a Vatican official in any capacity regarding the Olympic’s opening ceremony had been that from Archbishop Charles Scicluna. The Maltese prelate is adjunct secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and sent a message to the French ambassador of Malta, noting his “distress and great disappointment at the insult to us Christians.”
The morning after the opening ceremony, the French Catholic bishops issued a collective condemnation of the event. Numerous U.S. bishops also raised their voices in protest, calling for prayers of reparation and fasting.
“The deplorable depiction of the Last Supper was not in any way artistic, but instead was a direct and blatant assault upon Christianity,” wrote Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska. “The Last Supper represents Jesus giving His Body and Blood for us in anticipation of His Crucifixion. It is one of the greatest acts of love in the history of the world. Never should it be mocked and treated in such a way.”
To that number of U.S. prelates, Cardinal Raymond Burke also joined his voice on July 31, calling the opening ceremony “an unbelievable manifestation of the darkness and sin in our world: the abominable mockery of the Holy Eucharist at its Institution.”
“It is difficult to imagine anything more debased and blasphemous,” he said, before continuing:
That such an act could take place shows us, in a most painful way, how what was once a Christian culture has become the theater of Satan and those who cooperate with his thoroughly evil plans, the plans of ‘a murderer from the beginning’ who ‘has nothing to do with the truth,’ the plans of ‘a liar and the father of lies.’ (John 8:44)
Describing the spectacle as “sacrilegious and vulgar representation,” Gerhard Cardinal Müller stated that “it has managed in one fell swoop to sully the noble face of the Olympics and to offend millions of believers around the world.”
Then on August 2, one week after, Burke led a group of international cardinal and bishops in issuing a collective demand for an apology from the Olympic committee.
“We, Catholic bishops from around the world, on behalf of Christians everywhere, demand that the Olympic Committee repudiate this blasphemous action and apologize to all people of faith,” the letter continues.
READ: Catholic bishops demand genuine apology from Olympic committee for ‘intentionally hateful’ ceremony
Many of the signatories had already issued their own individual condemnations of the opening ceremony.
The Vatican’s 8-day silence has been noted by many Catholics, and its peculiar late-night publication over a week after the event has not helped to assuage fears that the Holy See is unable to deliver effective leadership in defending the Catholic faith in the public sphere."
End of article, but not the end of the story...
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