Bishops perform public penance for LGBT pilgrimage to Rome during Jubilee Year

In response to the LGBT pilgrimage to Rome in September, four well-known bishops performed public penance. The event in Pittsburgh marked the conclusion of a three-day conference on fidelity to Catholic teaching in times of “chaos in the Church,” reports the Catholic Herald portal.

The bishops considered the pilgrimage to Rome a desecration of the Jubilee Year and the holy sites, and in their prayers asked for forgiveness for the “spread of sodomy and other sins” in church spaces.

They also criticized the silence or approval of some Holy See authorities. The act of penance continued the tradition of public prayers in response to moral scandals and was an expression of rejection of the current direction of part of the Church.

At the end of the act, they asked the Holy Trinity for mercy for the humiliated Church and for the conversion of those who, in their opinion, deny immutable moral truths.

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