A crowd of over 1,000 people gathered on the steps of the California State Capitol to pray for conversion as the anti-Catholic hate group “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” were being honored on the floor of the Senate inside.
The crowd included actual religious sisters and brothers, as well as priests and laymen from churches across the area.
Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento and an interfaith group of evangelical pastors led the event. Catholics held rosaries and evangelicals raised their hands in prayer. Several Republican legislators walked out of the Capitol to join the vigil.
“We’re grateful to be present to witness to the beauty of our faith and the incredible work our religious sisters do to serve the vulnerable in our society,” Molly Sheahan, Associate Director for Healthy Families for the California Catholic Conference, which co-sponsored the vigil.
Jonathan Keller of the California Family Council organized the event.
“CFC was grateful to join our Catholic brothers and sisters in defending religious freedom and the dignity of people of faith on the steps of the Capitol,” Keller said.
Tommy Valentine, director of the Catholic Accountability Project at CatholicVote, attended the vigil.
“It was beautiful to see so many people gathered in prayer in contrast to the hate on display inside,” said Valentine. “I saw lots of young people holding rosaries, kids, elderly people – everyone.”
“It was particularly striking to see all the nuns and priests in attendance,” he added:
I wanted to get some quotes from the sisters for The Loop and they declined. I actually thought that was perfect because it demonstrated their humility in contrast to the flamboyant bigots who denigrate them….
From Catholic Vote.
Thank you Molly and Jonathan. Some will call you right-winged crackpots, and others far worse. But you are heroes to me and faithful servants to Jesus.
This article is misleading. it was a Pride Month celebration. There was one Sister in attendance.
huh?!?
Maybe I said it wrong but only one sister was honored.
Some might have been in the gallery, I do not know.
But the group was not honored just one sister.
well that’s a lie
Gay Ashkenazi State Senator Scott Wiener took a picture with multiple
I’ve seen the picture that you are referring to but only one of those sisters was honored at the Capitol.
Globo Homo Industries, of which the Democrat Party is a wholly owned subsidiary, is not going to let the Catholic Church interfere with the June high holy month of gayness. We’re only a week into it and I’m sick of seeing all the rainbow flags, sick of children’s shows grooming kids to be gay with pride slogans, sick of seeing businesses kowtow to gays with their rainbow flags and rainbow logos and their corporate contributions to gays.
Take a chill pill. You’ll be ok.
Did Bishop Oscar show up with Latanya?
Unless she has repented and changed her abortion advocacy and gender ideology, he should not have renewed her contract.
That’s politically “safer” than terminating her. It may not be spiritually safer, but would attract a little less attention, maybe. How she can be the president of the only diocesan Catholic high school is staggering. Many in the diocese are shocked. But, most are too fearful to say or do anything. At least a few have written the bishop, with no reply so far. Maybe some parents could remove their kids or grandparents could stop funding Mitty madness. Maybe all could stop subsidizing this through the Annual Diocesan Appeal (and tell their bishop and pastors why).
Shame on Bishop Oscar Cantu and Abp. Mitty High School principal, Latanya. Latanya is as bad as the drag queen fake nuns.
Hmmm… the drag queens don’t pretend to be Catholic. So, maybe they’re more honest.
Not that I agree with their perverse and evil ideology, but they’re very straightforward about where they’re coming from. Ms. Hilton is deceptive and hides her ideology from parents and the public.
Thanks and praise to Jesus for the Pope’s successful surgery.
May he recovery be swift and without complications.
Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee, flee before Thy face!” Num. 10:35
“Convert us Oh God, and show us Thy Face, and we shall be saved.” Ps. 79:4
“May the thrice Holy Name of God overthrow all their plans.
” “Admirable is the Name of God.”
There are over a billion of us, we are a force to be reckoned with! Catholics, make yourselves and your outrage visible.
Bravo Bishop Soto, our evangelical brothers and sisters, and all who joined them in prayer at the capitol.
What did Jesus say about that?
The Catholic League sent an email today, entitled “More L.A. Catholics Contacted Over June 16 Game.” If you are not a subscriber (free) to the Catholic League emails, I am sure you can find this easily on your computer. The email contains a report that you can click on, for the shockingly horrible, extremely blasphemous, full history of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. I would recommend all to read this, and to join in prayers and boycotting the June 16 Dodgers’ game.
I bet the email contained an appeal for donations. Bill Donahue brings a megaphone to every Catholic controversy and blows it all out of proportion, seeking donations for his organization.
Get the email and find out for yourself.
So says the person who probably does the same thing him/herself.
No. The Catholic League email did not ask for donations, nor do any other of their emails. You are obviously not a subscriber to their excellent material. Google their excellent email of today, “More L.A. Catholics Contacted Over June 16 Game,” June 7, 2023 Catholic League– see for yourself. And be sure to click on their report, detailing the history of the blasphemous, drag queen fake nuns.
The Catholic League’s revenue in 2020 was over $3 million.
The amount of donations does not matter. If you investigate, you will see that the Catholic League is very responsible and reliable, financially. They just spent a great deal of money, fighting the evil drag queen nuns wevent. That is where all of their money goes. They are called (full name) the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights of Catholics. Did an anti-Catholic “Hate” group mock and persecute your parish church or parish school? Did they vandalize or burn down your parish church? Call the Catholic League. They are based in NYC, a different culture than the West Coast, with different accents. When Jackie Kennedy was our First Lady– a New Yorker by birth, with a New York accent– some people were not used to it, and some disliked it. Just like some people dislike various Southern accents. The President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, and some of his employees, are native New Yorkers, with strong accents. Don’t let that bother you. The Catholic League is excellent.
The ACLU rakes in more than $50 million in donations annually, by comparison. That said, there are legitimate reasons to question Mr. Donohue’s relatively excessive salary. As has been reported, “when the 2019 Form 990 became public more recently, Donohue’s base salary had jumped up to $990,044 in addition to $63,083 in additional compensation. Donohue makes over a million dollars a year—and presumably has been since 2019.”
I quit paying attention to Catholic League 20 years ago.
The ACLU is a completely evil, anti-Catholic, anti-ChristIan, diabolical organization, a major purveyor of the evil Culture of Death! Do not compare them to any good Catholic organization, workin4g for Christ!
That is not a report.
It is a series of poorly written undocumented bullet points designed to rile people up.
They are not even accurate.
When middle schoolers do this it is called relational aggression. It is a form of abuse.
No Catholic should respond with anything other than “God bless them.”
Christ picked up a whip and drove the money-changers out of God’s holy Temple.
Did he go around bad mouthing them?
Why did he drive out the money changers?
Might want to pray over that.
You do not understand . To gossip, to “bad-mouth” someone, means that you tell lies about them or twist the truth, in order to harm them. Christ always told the truth and called sinners to repentance– not to harm them, but to help their souls. Very important. And it is a big responsibility to God to drive Satanic evildoers out of God’s holy temple.
Gossip is talking about someone. Period.
Calumny is when you gossip about something true.
Slander is when you gossip about something untrue.
Bad mouthing is different. Badmouthing is giving your negative opinion about someone.
Remember two rules:
When you talk about someone it says more about you then it says about them.
When you point a finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you.
Be doers of the Word, not hearers only. James 1:22
Luke 6: 27But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6:31 -37 Do to others as you would have them do to you.32
For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit [is] that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.
But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Be merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful.
“Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
It is a responsibility to love God first. And drive evil-doers out of God’s holy temple, as Christ did.
What in the world?
John14:23-24 Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words;
Re: the money changers.
The money changers were thieves because they were exploiting God’s people who were fulfilling God’s command to come to the temple on certain holy days. The worshippers had to pay the temple tax so they had to exchange their money for the temple coin. The money changers were exploiting that to make a profit for themselves.
Jesus did not drive evil-doers out of the temple. He drove those who were making money off people fulfilling his Word, off of those obeying God, who were loyal to God.
Yes, we have people today who are doing this.
It is not the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Did you independently verify the things in the report?
The “report” is a few “screen-shots” of Sisters behaving badly. It is not an accurate portrayal of what the Sisters actually do most of the time and I don’t know if any of these incidents were done by the Los Angeles Sisters which is the group being honored.
So far any incident I’ve been able to verify is at least a little distorted in the report.
Calumny and slander are sins too.
Most Catholics have no idea this is even going on.
I told a faithful Catholic about this today and they were incredulous.
Re: the caption. Not hard to find quotes:
You’ll see us out on the holidays feeding hungry, unhoused people. You’ll see us sitting and ministering with the sick and hospices. We support queer art. We donate 95% of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that we raise directly back to the community. We are pretty well recognized here, and we have orders all over the world, and sisters in their communities are becoming well known.
I would have thought that Los Angeles — it’s supposed to be a strong, liberal part of our blue state. And for those people to have such knee-jerk reactions — they see the name, they see the makeup. Immediately, people jump on the bandwagon that we’re mocking nuns, we’re making fun of Catholics or mocking religion, and we’re mocking God. None of that is true. We really are nuns. We do the work of nuns.
Not nuns at all– blasphemous devil-worshippers, men in drag queen fake nun costumes. God will not be mocked.
They need you to pray for them.
Not that I feel any real need to suck up to evangelicals, it is pretty cool when bible thumpers with previously hardened hearts heed the call of the Holy Spirit and see the power that sincere, believing Catholics possess. It’s always in circumstances like this or in front of abortion businesses. After that it’s just a matter of time till they become Catholic.
2 Timothy 3 :1-9
But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.
People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.
For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,
always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth—people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith.
But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.
2 Timothy 3:12-15
In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it,i
and that from infancy you have known [the] sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.j
gays and trans think they’re entitled to make everyone accept their perversions
I wish everyone could calm their claws long enough to see what God is giving you.
I hear you, Lord.
All the research I have done is coming up with the same answer.
They are not anti-Catholic. They are not anti-religion. They are not anti-anybody.
They are not mocking nuns or the Catholic Faith.
I really wished people had researched them better before they freaked out.
The ACLU rakes in more than $50 million in donations annually, by comparison. That said, there are legitimate reasons to question Mr. Donohue’s relatively excessive salary. As has been reported, “when the 2019 Form 990 became public more recently, Donohue’s base salary had jumped up to $990,044 in addition to $63,083 in additional compensation. Donohue makes over a million dollars a year—and presumably has been since 2019.”
Ad campaigns to tell the truth about anti-Catholic hate crimes and discrimination costs millions. You ought to see what many Catholic groups, such as the Catholic League, just this last week, spent to oppose the evil event at Dodgers’ Stadium– millions and millions of dollars. Just one radio or TV ad, or one major newspaper written piece or ad– is extremely expensive. How about a series of ads, or short newspaper or magazine essays, or films? Plus, much more. The Catholic League produces films, podcasts, and is a huge organization. They also travel to many places to help fight evils against Catholics, everywhere. This is a faithful Catholic group, you should definitely subscribe to their free daily emails and other stuff. They are fighting for our Catholic religious and civil rights– for all of us! You do not know the extent of extreme anti-Catholic and anti-Christian bigotry and hatred that exists today, in our country. Bill Donohue has written some excellent books on this subject. And be sure to watch their excellent film on how Disney deteriorated morally, and lost their good family values, and is corrupting America– excellent film. New York, and the East Coast– like the West Coast– is a tough, nasty place, no Christian beliefs and values. Very expensive, too. A den of vicious, Godless alligators! The Catholic League is a shining light for Christ, there in NYC.
You do realize that people who never heard of the Sisters now support them, love them, honor them and donate to them because of Catholic League and CatholicVote and their hate campaign, right?
And that is OK.
Because they are not an anti-Catholic hate group.
Yes, some members are activists and have done some cringey stuff.
But the “report” does not give an accurate picture of the sisters.
And it is not mockery for them to wear sister’s habits. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. (And while flattery is a sin and they are not intending to flatter, they took from Catholic sisters something that Catholic sisters really don’t do (a lifelong vow of service) and they adapted it to the needs of a marginalized and suffering community.
Let me give you an example of the bias in the report. The report states that Sisters held an exorcism when John Paul II visited San Francisco in 1987. It does not say that another group of the Sisters protested those Sisters and welcomed the Pope.
I hear you. But, when one employee makes around 1/4 of their total revenue, that raises a red flag.
We need to hold the guys we like to the same standard we expect of others.
One of the recent projects of the Catholic League is to get the House Armed Services Committee to launch a big investigation into the radical LGBT extremist activists’ invasion of the Pentagon and military, infiltrating them with the LGBT agendas, weakening and destroying our Arned Services.
The radical LGBT activists have been persecuting Catholics and other Christians, and destroying American values, in the military. It is also a deterrent for many to join the military, or be involved in it in any way. Military chaplains are also being persecuted, including Catholic chaplains.
Bill Donohue, a native New Yorker, has a strong personality with strong, unyielding Catholic convictions, covered with the armour of Christ, fighting daily for Him. He does not care about being popular, he is a dedicated Catholic warrior. So what, his particular strong personality? It is just perfect for fighting all the anti-Catholic and anti-Christian alligators in NYC, and everywhere, in today’s evil Culture of Death. We all need to “put on the armour of Christ” and be good Christian warriors, fighting for Him! All for His honor and glory. Forever forsake all phony self-gain, and false popularity. All for Christ! For His Culture of Life, for His great Kingdom of Heaven on Earth! That is the most important thing.
In my comment of June 9th at 7:28pm, the editors again removed my quotes around the word “alligators.” Why?
This is why you don’t gossip: now they are getting death threats.
Maybe you and you gossiping buddies would not do that, but somebody who your gossiped reached is unhinged enough to do that.
So is there a rule on who can be honored and who cannot be?
Everybody is the bad guy in somebody’s story.
As a Catholic who is doing post-doctoral
studies in lCatholic theology, I find this act offensive. Remember you will face your maker one one day. I don’t think He will be laughing.
Make sure there are wheels on the bandwagon before you jump on.
This prayer event had a good turnout but very few people showed up at Angel Stadium. In the video it looks like 3, but videos can be misleading.
What offends man does not offend God and God is offended by things that man justifies.
1 Samuel 16:7
I was going to say that prayer is always good then I remembered the parable of the publican and the Pharisee.
God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
There are too many anti-Catholic trolls on this website. Their trash should not be supported and printed. This website is not worth viewing anymore.
What is the mission of the ACLU?
FAQs | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
All people? If you believe that, I got a bridge to sell you.
What about preborn babies and the Second Amendment?
(To name only two examples.)
How does this sound, “The … platform will restore the American dream through economic growth, protecting constitutional freedoms, and ensuring election integrity?” Maybe you should join them.
What is put in a mission statement is often not what an organization actually does.