Major League Baseball pitcher Blake Treinen of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday issued a strong statement against his team’s decision to host and give a “Community Hero Award” to an anti-Catholic hate group.
“I am disappointed to see the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored as heroes at Dodger Stadium. Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith,” Treinen stated. “This group openly mocks Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my faith, and I want to make it clear that I do not agree with nor support the decision of the Dodger’s to ‘honor’ the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Treinen’s statement comes as the Dodgers face nationwide backlash over their decision to host and honor the group of men who dress in lewd costumes modeled after the habits worn by Catholic nuns.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence also engage in obscene public acts of sacrilege, such as a mock-Mass that simulated ingesting semen from chalices and another event in which drag queens pole danced on a cross and suggestively touched a scantily clad man meant to represent Jesus.
Treinen’s full statement is below:
“I understand that playing baseball is a privilege, and not a right. My convictions in Jesus Christ will always come first. Since I have been with the Dodgers they have been at the forefront of supporting a wide variety of groups.. However, inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to perform disenfranchises a large community and promotes hate of Christians and people of faith. This single event alienates the fans and supporters of the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and professional sports. People like baseball for its entertainment value and competition. The fans do not want propaganda or politics forced on them. The debacle with Bud Light and Target should be a warning to companies and professional sports to stay true to their brand and leave the propaganda and politics off the field.
“I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. I believe the word of God is true, and in Galatians 6:7 it says, ‘do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked; a man reaps what he sows.’ This group openly mocks Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my faith, and I want to make it clear that I do not agree with nor support the decision of the Dodger’s to “honor” the Sister’s of Perpetual Indulgence.
“’But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’ Joshua 24:15.”
Original story on Catholic Vote.
He put his faith before his paycheck, may both grow exponentially!
Praise God, someone in the Dodger organization with a soul!
Bravo! Play ball!
Some of the comments on the Twitter page he did this on are the predictable citing of atrocities in order to invalidate opposition to these cowardly, bigoted misogynistic men in dresses. That’s the pattern…mercilessly offend, provoke, beg for a negative reaction like these hairy nitwits in drag and then claim martyrdom and injury when they’re exposed to the light of day. Same goes for their brainwashed defenders. Sounds like the country is waking up, for now.
To those that might want to, better stop trying to defend the indefensible. Not turning out well….
Pride is satanic.
Say that a little louder. Your spit didn’t reach me.
What makes you think he or she was saying that loudly or with spit?
Could you speak a little more arrogantly and flippantly? Your condescension and ignorance didn’t reach me.
What do you think led to the fall of Satan? And, our first parents and many others since?
Pride, also known as hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις) is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins. It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins.
One can calmly, simply state “pride is satanic.”
“Your spit didn’t reach me.” I have noticed a more combative, pugnacious tone in your posts of late, YFC. However, as so often is the case, you avoid tackling the central issue, pride, and engage in what seems to this reader to be rash judgment on the motives of the poster. I can understand why you dance around the issues– you wish to remain a fellow catholic without having to commit to the hard teachings on sexuality. As far as I can tell, Fr. James Martin engages in a similar two-step. I would not want to be in your shoes, YFC, holding on the one hand a LGBTQ+ commitment and on the other that of a faithful Catholic. I know I couldn’t do it, and forgive me if I am wrong here — I sense it is hard for you as well. Maybe on a deeper level it should be declared that we all struggle between what we profess and what we actually do.
I think it is called Pride as opposed to shame.
Not as opposed to humility.
@ pride … I think you need to tone down the rhetoric. A comment like that sounds unhinged.
I think the problem with a blanket statement on pride is that it is a blanket statement. There is pride in a job well done, which we recognize as good (provided the job in question is void of sin) and there is demonic pride that threatens the soul. It is no small thing to analyze gay pride, which under some circumstances might be considered appropriate (analogous to cases of healthy heterosexual pride) but in most should be, IMHO, considered toxic and dangerous in its manifestations. The subject certainly demands attention and careful study. I have to admit the matter is over my head; I am trying to do justice to Zorro’s and Pride’s posts.
@ Dan, agreed. We need to stay balanced here. We don’t need to sound like intellectual midgets using slogans when we could instead make a clear point. It’s an extreme, throwaway statement such as this that gets us nowhere.
Society has become unhinged by giving in to the gay and transgender agendas. Look around. Bud Light. Target. The Military. The Dodgers. Disneyland. Movies. Ford Motors. Now even the University of Notre Dame.
Is this “unhinged”? “Every proud heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured that none will go unpunished.”–Proverbs 16:5
Pretty sure it was meant in the context of “Pride” as an ideologic entity or overarching organized movement. Sort of like saying ISIS is satanic.
Anyone claiming to be Catholic who supports LGBTQ is wrong about two things: wrong about LGBTQ and wrong about being a Catholic. Good for the men who are being faithful Catholics and stating that LGBTQ is wicked.
Have you read the catechism? From your comment I think you might want to consult it.
The Catholic Church does not teach that LGBTQ is wicked.
Well, in some sense it does. If by LGBTQ is meant the organized movement or set of beliefs that homosexual unions are good, homosexual genital acts are good, and that people can change their sexual identity or their sex, then the Church definitely and clearly teaches that LGBTQ is sinful/wicked. LGBTQ pride asserts all those things that the Church teaches are sinful/wicked, thus it is a sinful/wicked movement.
But if by LGBTQ is meant the people who, in some cases but not all, unchoosingly suffer from homosexual or transgender maladies, then the Church teaches that those people are not sinful/wicked for their condition, but acting on it would be sinful/wicked.
Wrong. The Catholic Church condemns the LBTQ “lifestyle”– extremely sinful.
Let’s be specific. Sodomy is a mortal sin. Sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin. Sex with anyone other than a sacramentally wed spouse is a mortal sin.
Contracting a civil marriage is a mortal sin.
It is not a sin to suffer from same sex or other sex attraction. One should not indulge in impure thoughts or actions.
A priest should guide someone suffering from these things as well as gender identity issues.
You need to be faithful to the Catholic Faith. Completely.
Bravo to Dodgers’ pitcher, Blake Treinen. A hero for Christ. I went over to Target after dinner, about 7pm, and the store was practically deserted of shoppers. Right in the middle of San Francisco, on a Friday night. Plus, Starbuck’s in Target had no shoppers getting a snack and a drink, either. Was this a good sign? I went straight to the Manager’s Office and asked to see the Manager. Almost nobody was there, no shoppers lined up, getting needs met of various kinds. I had wanted to put in a personal complaint. So I told the Manager how wrong Target was, to sell the LGBT stuff, particularly for innocent little babies and little children. I told him that this was a terrible sin, like child abuse, or pedophilia. Several people gathered around me, while I was explaining my case. Then, with tears suddenly streaming down my face, I quietly said, “how can you expect good people, especially families with children, to come here and shop? Plus, we are already suffering, in a city with terrible crime, and fewer and fewer stores, for shopping for necessary things– the stores are closing and leaving, they just cannot stand the crime. And we are all being hurt beyond belief. How can a good and decent American store like Target, be turned into an “LGBT lifestyle” dirty store, something like a dirty bookstore, or dirty sex shop, on the wrong side of the tracks, where the filthy hoodlums and dirty old men and dangerous crime gangs all hang out– along with the prostitutes, pornographers, and human traffickers?” Everyone went dead silent. I had tears running down my face. Then, finally, the Manager thanked me, while everyone else was still silent. He said he would put in my complaint to the top management. I thanked him, and told him that I hoped to come back and shop at Target, someday in the future, if they ended their sales of LGBT clothing and other items and promoted only good American Family values. Keep our families and children safe from all evil.
Good for you! I check out every company I buy from, even on Amazon, and if they are pushing evil, I do not buy from them. Some companies sell good Catholic and other Christian goods right along with witchcraft and Satanic items. Get on their sites and see what they are selling and advocating. Make sure they back good Christian virtues as much as possible. No company is perfect, but some are worse than others.
Again, this is gossip that the ball player is reacting to.
He could meet with the Sisters.
I think that what the Sisters do offends some Catholics the way blackface and talking “jive” offend some black people.
I think the Sisters should revisit some of their decisions in the light of that.
The Sisters are not woke enough for some people.
This is a serious situation, promoting the the nun-mocking Sisters of Perpetual. Indulgence. Do you think our good Catholic nuns should be treated this way? This hate group mocks and blasphemes the Blessed Sacrament, Christ, His holy Mother, and everything about the Catholic faith. It is religious persecution that the Dodgers are honoring, in the drag group.
They are not honoring religious persecution.
This is how things get distorted.
It is not a hate group.
“The Sisters are not woke enough for some people.” A few questions come to mind. What should the Sisters do/say to become more woke? Do your count yourself as one who believes the Sisters are not woke enough? The Sisters identify as a group of “queer and trans nuns,” and are known for mocking Christian beliefs, including holding an annual “Foxy Mary” and “Hunky Jesus” contest, pole dancing on crosses, and using the saying, “Go forth and sin some more!” How is this in any way equivalent to blackface?
What should the sisters do/say to become more woke? Learn more about the Catholic Faith.
Do I believe the sisters are not woke enough? Yes and no.
They are queer and trans nuns. The Catholic Church does not have a copyright or trademark on nuns. Other religions have nuns and sisters too.
They use Catholic imagery without understand the profundity of it.
Some of the things that are outraging people are things that happened once or decades ago.
Nuns are an iconic image that many people (comedians, entertainers, people who tell jokes (what’s black and whit and red all over?) have used for centuries.
I don’t like their Motto. I think they may go to hell if they do not repent of their sins-whatever their sins may be.
I take these things much more seriously than they do. So do you.
I wish they had reverence for these things. So do you.
I am not going to attack them. These are souls that Christ died for. These are humans made in the image of God.
I live where there are anti-Catholics and I see a lot of it in the media. If they were really anti-Catholics they would not use Catholic imagery at all.
Souls Christ died for? Yet they reject and blaspheme and persecute Him! They belong to Satan. Unless they repent, they will end up being Satan’s forever– in a very fiery, miserable place. An understanding of reality is badly needed, here.
You are supposed to pray for them and make sacrifices for them.
Because those who did blackface were not trying to offend and neither are the sisters.
I believe the sisters need to be told why what they did (and most of the complaints about them are decades old) is offensive.
I have heard that newer sisters do not emulate nuns habits anymore.
You all need to see the truth of the drag queen nuns. The main nun-mocking pervert to be honored, Sister Roma, runs a gay podcast featuring gay pervert pornographic film reviews. These men dressed as nuns mock the Catholic Church, the Mass, Blessed Sacrament, Christ, His Blessed Mother, and our holy Catholic nuns, whose lives are consecrated to Christ.
Sister Roma (Michael Williams) is also a gay pornography film director. Blasphemous, sacrilegious to real Catholic nuns, whose lives are consecrated to Christ.
God does not like gossip either.
I believe Jesus and Mary are offended by things the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have said and done.
I don’t think most of the people complaining understand that they offend God too.
Do people ever pray over what is God’s Will?
This type of outrage is not pleasing to God.
Stop spreading evil.
A lot of the people complaining never heard of the Sisters before.
Someone made a concerted effort to spread gossip and target them.
God will bring good of all this.
Have some faith.
Oh, yeah, because dialogue with leftist gay radicals accomplishes so much.
Not as much as a punch in the face.
This offends God.
That’s not very tolerant of you.
Deliberate hatred is contrary to charity. Hatred of the neighbor is a sin when one deliberately wishes him evil. Hatred of the neighbor is a grave sin when one deliberately desires him grave harm. “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.”
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You need to be a courageous, ccommitted follower of Christ! Christ, St. John the Baptist, St. Paul, and all the Apostles preached, called out evildoers, and told them to repent of their sins. Christ predicted that all of His followers would endure much suffering, by preaching the Truth– but would be greatly rewarded, in the end. If you know of anyone doing terrible sins, blaspheming Christ and Our Lady, desecrating statues of holy Saints, desecrating the holy altar, committing sacrileges against the Blessed Sacrament, mocking our good nuns and dressing in drag, as fake nuns, etc. etc.– you have a responsibility to speak up, and reprimand the evildoers, call the police, notify Church authorities, etc. etc. The main drag queen Sister of Perpetual Indulgence to be honored at the Dodgers’ Pride Night, is a gay pornography film director, among other things.
That is your will, not God’s.
God’s Will is to call sinners to repentance.
If you know that they know that sins can be forgiven because of Christ.
If they don’t believe in God, changing won’t help them and they won’t believe you anyway.
The catholic guy? Is a gay pornographer.
They claim that one of their members is a Catholic deacon.
They also say that the things brought up in the media are not their organization.
Each branch is independent.
It does not matter how often they say they are being falsely accused, people don’t listen.
Hate consumes the one who hates.
Once again, the editors of CCD promote the incitement of violence by allowing comments like these. I hope they are held liable civilly and spiritually.
All of this world is vanity.
Sit in prayer until you understand.
All the world is vanity– and Christians have a big responsibility to help transform the dark, sinful world, for Christ, and help Him build His Kingdom here. After sitting in prayer, God gives authentic Christians the help and courage to take action to stop evildoers from doing terrible harm.
Oh reply to-I don’t know where you are getting that.
By sinning?
God never wills sin.
Not yours and not anyones.
I think it is remarkable how gracious the Sisters have been through all of this.
I would really like to meet them.