California Catholic Daily exclusive.
A pro-abortion event scheduled for June 23 will no longer be held at Our Lady of Angels Cathedral Plaza.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles issued the following statement regarding the event, called “Uncertain Times: Charting the Path Forward for Women’s Health.” According to the statement, “this was not a Cathedral or Archdiocesan event. The Archdiocese became aware of the matter yesterday evening. The event will not be taking place at the Center on the Cathedral Plaza.”
The following letter was circulated on Facebook yesterday:
“Thank you for bringing the “Uncertain Times: Charting a Path Forward for Women’s Health” event to our attention at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The information was acted upon immediately, and the event has been moved.
“The topic for the event, as well as the occupations of both speakers listed in the promotional material, stands in direct contradiction to Catholic moral doctrine and violates our policy for the use of our facilities in the ADLA handbook, which states, ‘speakers should not contradict the mission and principles of the Catholic Church, especially in the area of objective Catholic moral teaching.’
“The Office of Life, Justice and Peace, under the leadership of Archbishop Gomez, are committed to the dignity of every human life and the protection of the right to life for all. We ask that you join us in prayer today and every day for an end to the tragedy of abortion and a commitment to supporting women and families in need.
“God is our Father and he calls us to take responsibility for our brothers and sisters, to promote and protect human life, beginning with the most defenseless members of our human family.” Archbishop Gomez, For Greater Things You Were Born
I guess the question in my mind isn’t that mistakes were made, but how did this mistake occur and who was responsible for booking this event?
These are precisely the correct questions to ask.
When the answers are provided, any policies that exist that permitted this obscenity must be eliminated, with new ones promulgated to assure fidelity to the Church’s teaching. Secondly, those who permitted the event in the first place must be terminated. Thirdly, all remaining staff and clergy must be schooled on the new policies and how this result can never be repeated.
Alright, but now why are heterodox speakers allowed to present at the Religious Ed Congress year after year after year?
I love your name. What does it mean?
“Covfefe” is a meme that resulted from a typographical error that President Trump made in a tweet a few weeks ago. It’s not hard to find out about it in a search, and it’s become fodder for jokes in popular culture.
I looked it up. He wrote “covfefe” but meant to write “coverage.” :)
It means I will stand. Similar to I will be the one left standing. Or I will rise.
I pray that all the diocese’s will be A LOT MORE CAREFUL in the vetting of ALL events.
I have come across not this specific problem, but a problem with a secular concert taking place in the Church in a couple of parishes. I spoke up and both times, the problem was solved……one is having their ‘venue’ at a protestant church and the other just will never be allowed to occur again in the Church.
We must all SPEAK UP, don’t let it continue on.
That was close! Archdiocesan Hanbook needs to be reviewed and signed by all employees!
Now all of the staff that allowed this to be scheduled in the first place need to be fired immediately.
Well said SoCal!
I’m sure the Archdiocese has an HR manual that defines how employees can/should be disciplined, up to and including termination. It has to be followed precisely since it constitutes a contract. I’m sure that the HR manual includes a list of actions that are “cause” for termination, and that must be followed as well. I’m sure that every employee has signed an “employment at will” statement as well. So the HR department can investigate this situation, determine that it was a breach of policy, and then recommend termination, or it can just terminate for cause, or it can terminate at-will, which means for any reason or no reason. In the end, it shouldn’t take until this Friday or Monday at the latest to do that.
The employees in the chancery office who are gay married can and should be fired. The employees in Catholic parishes and schools who are gay married also can and should be fired. It has been brought to the attention of Archbishop Gomez, but he is cowardly. Having gay married employees in the Church is just as much a contradiction of the Church’s faith and mission as it would have been to host a pro-abortion event at the cathedral complex. So why swift action to end the latter after it was disclosed but no action to end the former after years of appeals? Again: cowardice in the face of the lavender mafia.
In case anyone thins otherwise – there is a fairly extensive ‘5th Column’ in the Church and its Schools & Outreach who consider Catholicism just a cover for taking money from the foolish / faithful who actually believe the Teachings – and using said $ for politically correct radical leftist gender feminist / homosex / demi-krat political issues.
Having run in to these hyper militant Misandrists on numerous occasions, I have always been repulsed by their mocking disdain for the ‘Faithful’ in the pews – who they view as ignorant ATMs, useful only to pay their salaries for pushing their Anti-Catholic Agendas – provided the guilt trip is properly packaged and covered with ‘Jesus Sauce’ to make it more palatable to the ‘Clueless /…
This took tremendous chutzpah for Planned Parenthood and friends to almost pull off this coup.
The Cathedral Plaza is frequently rented out for functions and Levy Restaurant has the contract to provide the catering. Levy Restaurant is a large catering service owned by Larry Levy of Chicago. Levy was a bundler of political contributions for Obama.
Maybe the clinic group (which flashes a Marxist “clenched fist on their website) deliberately withheld the information that they planned to honor Planned Parenthood—just to stage a coup. What a scandal it would have been for all of us to see photos of Planned Parenthood leaders being honored with the Cathedral as the backdrop!
Planned Parenthood will never give up and neither can we who believe in the Right to Life. You can cut off the head of PP and they will grow other one. Our weapon is Our Blessed Mother and the rosary. We must never give up. PP will continue their war against the unborn so long as they have the backing of all the pro abortion politicians like Nancy Pelosi and her followers. God have mercy on them.