Rainbow Dance in Jesuit NYC Church Celebrates World AIDS Day

Part of “Mass for the LGBTQ+ Community”…

Rainbow Dance in Jesuit NYC Church
Celebrates World AIDS Day

A video clip is making the rounds on social media. It shows two women dancing through a church, waving a total of four rainbow flags as they swirl down the nave and through the sanctuary. It is a spectacle to behold (click here if video won’t show):

We did a little bit of research on this and can now provide the following details:

The absurd performance took place on Dec. 2, 2024, at St. Ignatius of Loyola ‘Catholic’ Church in Manhattan/New York City. It was part of a ‘Mass’ held in observance of World AIDS Day, and a reception followed.

The whole thing was advertised by the diocese under the title “All Hearts Together: A Mass for the LGBTQ+ Community”. The following flyer was posted on the diocese’s Instagram page:

The celebrant was the notorious ‘Fr.’ Bryan Massingale, a woke homosexual social justice presbyter from Wisconsin who is a highly-credentialed academic teaching ‘theology’ at the Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York. He is considered an expert in ‘moral’ theology, though, based on his record, we suspect it is in immoral theology that his greater expertise lies.

The parish of St. Ignatius has an LGBT Catholics and Friends ‘ministry’. Lest anyone think it is about helping same-sex-attracted individuals lead chaste and holy lives, the leaders of the ministry are happy to dispel that fantasy right away:

The ministry creates a home where all LGBT people and those who love and support them are welcome, and where LGBT people are fully affirmed and celebrated. It is also strives to be a beacon of hope for people who have felt marginalized and cut off from the Church, inviting them to renewal through a ministry of reconciliation and justice. It fosters mutual respect, compassion and sensitivity between our parish (and other ministries in the parish) and the wider community on LGBT issues through education and dialogue.

(Ellen Stillwell and Bruce Rameker, “Church of St. Ignatius Loyola”, Outreach, Apr. 30, 2022; underlining added.)

At least they are not trying to deceive anyone: This is about openly and proudly affirming and celebrating sodomy and other perversions. In fact, the same page from which the above quote is taken contains a testimonial by Jaclyn, who says she has “an amazing wife, Frances, who I’ve been together with for 11 years and married to for 2 years.” The hapless soul concludes: “I am a happy and proud bisexual woman who’s married to the love of her life and I am also a child of God and a proud Catholic.” Or so she thinks.

That the event on Dec. 2 was entitled “All Hearts Together” is perhaps not altogether bad. After all, our Blessed Lord said that “from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies”, adding, “These are the things that defile a man” (Matthew 15:19-20a).

As far as sins against sexual purity go, the New Testament has a few things to say that we suspect will not be read on World AIDS Day or at any other ‘LGBTQiS2+XYZ’ liturgy. For example:

For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. (Rom 1:26-27)

Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor 6:18)

Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before, and have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, that they have committed. (2 Cor 12:21)

As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

It is clear that ‘Father’ Massingale does not believe these things. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the sodomite agenda, and he is on record stating: “My dream wedding would be either two men or two women standing before the church; marrying each other as an act of faith and I can be there as the official witness to say: ‘Yes, this is of God.’ If they were Black, that would be wonderful” (source).

That pretty much tells you all you need to know about the man and his understanding of God and Divine Revelation. Other scandalous things ‘Fr.’ Massingale has said and done include the following:

• intending to lead (and following through with) a retreat for “gay priests, brothers and deacons” (2018)
• claiming that “sin is a development of the Council of Trent” (2018)
• praising same-sex couples raising children as “holy families” (2020)

Incardinated in the archdiocese of Milwaukee, Massingale was technically answerable to ‘Abp.’ Jerome Listecki until Nov. 4 of this year, when Listecki retired and his successor, Jeffrey Grob, was named. His most recent antics in New York would seem to fall to the jolly ‘Cardinal’ Timothy Dolan to condemn, who was himself ‘archbishop’ of Milwaukee for a few years and therefore must know Massingale well.

Don’t hold your breath, however.