I am sorry but how does the Archbishop NOT know what the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are about? It is not like this is the first ever Mass he has been at at this Church he knows darn well what is going on and does nothing about it but pander to this sick group!! Yoo-Hoo Archbishop put down the crack pipe or better yet CLEAN YOUR GLASSES and tell me and all other Catholics that you find this is respectful…
Last Sunday, October 7, San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer said Mass at a Catholic church in the heart of the ‘gay district’ of Castro. Most Holy Redeemer parish has a lamentable reputation of having caved in to demands of homosexual activists. One group of homosexual activists which until recently operated regularly out of the parish was called “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, men who wear makeup and dress as Catholic nuns. Archbishop Niederauer was filmed giving two members of this group Holy Communion Sunday.
The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence“, whose motto is “go and sin some more” and describes itself as a “leading-edge order of queer nuns,” planned to hold regular bingo games at Most Holy Redeemer parish until Catholic activists reported the plans to the press. A local homosexual newspaper, the San Francisco Bay Times, reported that the events at the parish included sexually explicit activities. Prizes included porn DVDs and “sex toys” the paper said.
Since then the parish has refused the “Sisters” use of its facilities. However, according to local Catholic activists some of the “Sisters” continue to attend services at the church.
Anthony Gonzales, president of St. Joseph’s Men Society, a group which has taken action to curb outrageous anti-Catholic activities within local Catholic churches, spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about the incident Sunday. Gonzales said that while his group decided to film the event and “let the evidence speak for itself.”
“This was such a blasphemous action within a Catholic Church by an Archbishop representing Roman Catholicism it would make Judas blush,” Gonzales told LifeSiteNews.com. “To hand over our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to known practicing and promoting sodomites, in the middle of a ‘gay-friendly Mass’ is beyond the pale.
Gonzales said his group is calling on the Vatican to take action. “The Vatican has to react to this and has to remove him from office,” he said.
Gonzales’ group has not yet been able to post their video online. However, a separate video of the event has been placed online by the Catholic blogsite Quamdiu Domine and is available here: http://www.qdomine.com/Morality_pages/MHR.htm
LifeSiteNews.com contacted the office of Archbishop Niederauer for a response to the accusations. A statement by Archbishop Niederauer sent to LifeSiteNews.com by Archdiocesan communications director Maurice Healy says that the Archbishop did not notice any “mock religious garb.”
“At Most Holy Redeemer Church Oct. 7, I noticed no protest, no demonstration, no disruption of the Sunday Eucharist,” said Archbishop Nierderauer. “The congregation was devout and the liturgy was celebrated with reverence. Toward the end of the Communion line two strangely dressed persons came to receive Communion. I did not see any mock religious garb. As I recall, one of them wore a large flowered hat or garland.”
The “Sisters” were heavily involved in the recent Folsom Street Fair which in addition to full nudity and public sex acts by homosexuals involved included a mockery of the Last Supper with Christ and his apostles represented by leather-clad homosexuals. Bishop Niederauer stressed that he had denounced the poster. “In the past when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence or other groups have ridiculed the Church I have denounced their actions,” said the Archbishop. “Only a week ago, Catholic San Francisco carried my remarks condemning the derisive use of the Last Supper on a poster printed by some other local group.”
Americans for Truth, an Illinois based national pro-family group has joined in the call to have Vatican authorities made aware of the scandal. Peter LeBarbara founder of the group encouraged “Catholics and other concerned pro-family Americans” to voice their concerns and provided the following contact information for Vatican authorities:
His Excellency The Most Reverend Pietro Sambi
The Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
The Apostolic Nunciature
3339 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008-3687
phone: 202-333-7121
fax: 202-337-4036Cardinal William J. Levada
Prefect
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
[Secretary: Most Rev. Archbishop Angelo Amato, S.D.B.]
Piazza del S. Uffizio 11
00l93 Rome, Italy
Europe
phone: 011.39.06.69.88.33.57
phone: 011.39.06.69.88.34.13
fax: 011.39.06.69.88.34.09
email: cdf@cfaith.va
i was notified that your copy of Divine Mercy has been shipped. expect it in 4-15 days. please write when you get it. thanks!
You got it..I look forward to reading it..thank you again Marilena
Obviously you have not read the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s mission statement.
“Unlike more traditional nuns, we are an Order of many faiths, religions and beliefs. However we are all united by the vows that each of us take: to promulgate universal joy, expiate stigmatic guilt and serve the community, our fellow Sisters and the Order…”
Just because they wear fancy dress and some of them are men, not all of them by the way, doesn’t mean that they are mocking or even relating to Christianity or Catholicism.
There are many different areligious sects which have “nuns”, priests, etc.
Mike…
Guess you missed this from their FAQ section
Why do you mock nuns?
We are not mocking nuns, we are nuns (YOO-HOO NUNS ARE WOMAN since you are men and dress like woman you are mocking Nuns!)
Aren’t you all gay white men?
The original Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were exclusively gay male nuns
And perhaps you should read their sistory…
http://thesisters.org/sistory.html
Anyway Mike go get your pearls and rainbow boa the girls or is it men are calling you
Just because they wear fancy dress and some of them are men, not all of them by the way, doesn’t mean that they are mocking or even relating to Christianity or Catholicism.
fancy dress? is that what that style is called?
And to dress like that and take communion in a Catholic Church you are mocking everything that the Mass stands for…Mike I hear the nuns calling you…run along and join the sodomites…poke nicely and dont forget to wipe the brown shit off!
Dear Friends in Faith,
One important thing you’ve failed to mention… we The Sisters, have helped to fund several programs thru out the year, including the MHR AIDS support group. We also have several Sisters who volunteer for their wed night suppers. Did the Vatican raise the $$ to help support this amazing & needed program with in the MHR parish? No, the Castro & over all SF community has given dollar by dollar to help our community.
On another note. We are Nuns. We take vows and take them very seriously…
May you walk with Peace …
Joyous Blessings,
Sister Mary Timothy Simplicity
Mister Mary Timothy Simplicity, is that you in the first picture above?
“poke nicely and dont forget to wipe the brown shit off!”
karin really? is this you that is writing this, or has some vulgar adolescent hacked into your computer?
Shh,
I thought you where staying away? Shh, if the posts about sodomites bother you, perhaps you should stay away, no?
Yes it is really me…& isnt that what sodomites (someone who engages in anal copulation) do? Poke each other in the butt hole (anus) and afterwards have to wipe the brown stuff (otherwise known as shit) off?
“Sister” Timothy- yes, it makes sense that your heretical gay group should be the ones to fund the AIDS support groups. After all, gays are largely responsible for the spread of AIDS.
As for your blasphemous Communions, You are really placing your soul at risk.
1 Corinthians 11
27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
Forgot to add – every time you make a sacrilegious Communion, you are killing Jesus the same as though you were present at Calvary.
Oh Tim–
The worlds largest provider of care to AIDS victims is the roman Catholic Church.
I’v been seeing you guys in the news and magazines for years. Your “habits” get more outlandish every year. But at least nowadays you don’t dress exactly like nuns, as you did in the beginning.
Karin – The technical term for that brown stuff is “santorum”:
http://www.google.com/search?q=santorum&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
“the worlds largest provider of care to Aids victims” is the Red Cross.
I fail to understand why these persons were even allowed to enter that church dressed as they were…Rest assured that these blasphemers would never be allowed to attend Mass dressed that way much less receive the Holy Eucharist in the Parish which I worship…PERIOD
Rest assured that these blasphemers would never be allowed to attend Mass dressed that way much less receive the Holy Eucharist in the Parish which I worship…PERIOD
nor in mine!
the problem is that there are too many parishes that DO allow this, the Protestants and Ethical Union are excepting new members I say send these folks over there!
Karin, i’m assuming you meant to say that the ethical union is accepting new members. anyway, yes, we are accepting any and all new members. so i say to all of you…men in dresses…mean in leather chaps…even women with hateful intolerant thoughts…you’re all welcome to join.
SHH…
Just woman with hateful, intolerant thoughts or all Catholics like this guy ?
And what do you classify as hateful and intolerant?
Are comments like these hateful & intolerant?
The manner of dress and public comportment of the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is deeply offensive to
women religious and to the witness of holiness and
Christian service that women religious have offered to
the Church and to the world for centuries
Someone who dresses in a mock religious habit to
attend Mass does so to make a point. If people dress
in a manner clearly intended to mock what we hold
sacred, they place themselves in an objective
situation in which it is not appropriate for them to
receive Holy Communion, much less for a minister of
the Church to give the Sacrament to them.
Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices
Marriage is for a man and a woman (Ken & Barbie) not Harry and John or Alice and Carol
Whew, please oh please don’t blanket all Protestants together. Any believing Evangelical who actually fears the Lord would be horrified at this travesty. Personally I am just indignant that this archbishop would have the nerve to act like he doesn’t know who those “sisters” were. Everybody in freaking San Francisco knows who they are. It’s ridiculous. They are an affront to the Lord Jesus and their mocking provokes my spirit to no end.
I take comfort in the fact that Jesus doesn’t need us to defend Him, and He died to save even these people. But at the same time we can’t allow such a mockery to go unanswered. I hope we can get Niederauer out. Levada was bad enough. I should have known Niederauer was bad news when I saw him hanging out on the USF front web page with Privett.