The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) reports on a June 25, 2026, “Pride Mass” held at the Stonewall National Monument in New York, organized by the LGBTQ+ ministry “Out at St. Paul.” The open-air liturgy, attended by approximately 150 people and presided over by Paulist “Fr.” Chris Lawton, celebrated the Eucharist amid rainbow flags, with explicit affirmation of homosexuality, gender ideology, and a naturalistic vision of “inclusion” and “diversity.” This event is a manifestation of the post-conciliar neo-church’s complete capitulation to the spirit of the world, a blasphemous parody of worship that openly defies the unchanging Catholic Faith.
A Blasphemous Desecration of the Most Holy Sacrifice
The article describes the transformation of Christopher Park into an “open-air sanctuary” for a liturgy that, in the context of the conciliar sect, is a mere simulation of Catholic worship. The Mass was held in a park synonymous with the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, a direct affront to the true meaning of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The Catholic Church teaches that the Mass is the perpetuation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, a propitiatory offering for the remission of sins, not a celebration of any worldly identity or political movement.
The surrounding of the altar with symbols of the Pride movement is not a sign of “remembrance and hope” as claimed, but an act of **ideological syncretism**, placing a deviant sexual identity on the same level as the sacred. This is a direct violation of the First Commandment, constituting idolatry by elevating a created aspect of human personhood above the Creator’s law.
The Heresy of “Inclusion” and the Denial of Sin
The homily by “Fr.” Chris Lawton is a textbook example of modernist relativism. He stated:
“If we are a church that reflects that Jesus who goes out to encounter all those who might receive this message of extraordinary love, then of course, praise God, we celebrate the sacraments here in our church.”
This statement, while sounding pastoral, is heretical. It reduces the mission of Christ from saving souls from sin to merely affirming human choices. The “message of extraordinary love” is severed from the necessity of repentance and conversion.
His apology for the Church’s supposed past failures is a modernist trope:
“I am sorry for the times that the church has not recognized the presence of God in you, and for the times it has implicitly encouraged others to do the same.”
This implies that the Church, the pillar and foundation of truth, has for centuries failed to recognize God’s presence in those living in a state of public, grave sin. It inverts the order: it is the duty of the sinner to recognize God’s presence through repentance, not for the Church to affirm the sin. The true Church has always recognized God’s presence in the grace offered to the repentant sinner, never in the sin itself.
Direct Affirmation of Contradictory Ideology
The article explicitly states that Lawton thanked LGBTQ Catholics
“whose faith in God and knowledge of their own belovedness has led them to extraordinary service.”
The concept of “belovedness” detached from the moral law is a naturalistic heresy. In Catholic theology, man’s ultimate belovedness is realized only in holiness and fidelity to God’s commandments.
The inclusion of a specific apology for “transgender siblings” who face “unique injustice” is a clear endorsement of gender ideology, which Pope Pius XI condemned in his encyclical *Quas Primas* as part of the error of secularism that removes Christ from society. The Church teaches that God created man male and female, and this biological reality is not a social construct to be “affirmed” against divine law.
The Post-Conciliar Apostasy in Full Display
This event is a direct fruit of the conciliar revolution. The post-conciliar sect has systematically replaced the supernatural virtue of faith with a horizontal, humanistic “social justice” agenda. The article notes that the Mass included petitions for “care of creation, racial justice, migrants, women, people experiencing poverty,” while the central supernatural intentions of the Church—for the conversion of sinners, the propagation of the true faith, and the salvation of souls—are conspicuously absent or subsumed under political activism.
The testimony of Issy Bilek, who stated:
“Spirituality is a part of your sexuality and your identity, in the same way that anything else is,”
reveals the immanentist, pantheistic worldview of the neo-church. This is a direct repudiation of the Catholic doctrine that grace builds on nature but is distinct from it, and that our identity is primarily as members of the Mystical Body of Christ, not as sexual or political categories.
The “Force of Welcome” as a Spirit of the World
Lawton concluded his homily with a chillingly modernist vision:
“There is in this church a force of welcome, and of inclusion, and integration, and of celebration of diverse gifts that is alive, propelling us forward, making us more reflective of Jesus Christ… The train has left the station. And we are going somewhere.”
This “force” is not the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Truth, not of vague “inclusion.” The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son to sanctify and conform souls to Christ, not to celebrate “diverse gifts” that include sins against the Sixth Commandment.
The “train” that has left the station is the train of apostasy, heading towards a naturalistic, pantheistic religion that has no need for the Redemption, the Cross, or the moral law. This is the religion of Antichrist, described by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili sane exitu* as the belief that
“truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The Pride Mass at Stonewall is not an act of worship but a **blasphemous political rally** disguised as a liturgy. It is the logical endpoint of a church that has rejected its divine mission to teach, govern, and sanctify, choosing instead to mirror the secular culture. The participants are not gathering at the Stonewall Inn to honor the dignity of every human person created by God, but to affirm their rebellion against His eternal law.
The true Catholic Church, enduring in the remnant faithful who profess the integral faith, condemns this spectacle as a public profession of heresy and a grave scandal. As the Council of Trent solemnly declares, the Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, not a herald of the sexual revolution. This event is a clear marker that the structures occupying the Vatican have fully embraced the spirit of the world, confirming their status as the synagogue of Satan.
Source:
Stonewall Pride Mass draws Catholics for message of faith, inclusion, hope (ncronline.org)
Date: 26.06.2026