"Cardinal Gregory praises, celebrates Mass for Fr. James Martin’s heterodox LGBT event"

"Addressing participants of Father James Martin’s pro-LGBT 'Outreach' conference, D.C.’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory said the heterodox event is aimed at 'becoming a more inclusive family of faith.'

'In many respects you are engaging in an act of synodality – the vision and invitation proposed by Pope Francis that sincerely and openly speaking and listening to one another under the light and guidance of the Holy Spirit is the way that the Church grows in perfection,' said Gregory.

The D.C. cardinal offered the conference Mass on Saturday, as over 300 so-called 'LGBTQ Catholics and their allies' assembled at Georgetown University for the now annual Outreach conference.

Led by Fr. Martin S.J., the conference is a product of his LGBT activist group Outreach, which has repeatedly cast doubt on the Biblical condemnation of sodomy and promoted 'Pride Month,' transgenderism, and pro-LGBT blasphemy, as LifeSiteNews has reported.

Outreach is described as 'where church leaders, both clergy and lay, can encounter' the so-called 'LGBTQ faithful.' The group’s executive director is openly homosexual Michael J. O’Loughlin, a writer for the Jesuits’ America magazine.

This year’s Outreach conference is sponsored in part by a man named Jim O’Connor on behalf of his deceased 'husband.'...

As has become customary, the conference received an endorsement from Pope Francis, as a handwritten letter from the Pope was publicized last Thursday.

'I am glad that Cardinal Gregory will celebrate the Mass; I will be spiritually with him and with all of you, united in prayer,' wrote Francis in the letter sent to Martin.

As reported by LifeSite on Friday, ex-Jesuit Father William Hart McNichols and Jewish Biblical professor Amy-Jill Levine were billed as the keynote speakers for the conference.

McNichols is an openly homosexual priest who has become known for his LGBT activism.

A longtime iconographer, McNichols’ images include a number of pro-LGBT, sacrilegious items, including his 1989 'The Stations of the Cross of a Person With AIDS.'

Another creation of his from that decade was his 1986 'AIDS Crucifixion,' a pro-homosexual image that blasphemes Christ."