Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Legacy for LGBTQ Catholics May 27, 2022.Non-Binary Drag Artist Issues New Song Focused on Queer Catholics May 28, 2022.Come and Drink the Water of Life May 29, 2022.New Ways Ministry Welcomes Cardinal-elect McElroy May 30, 2022.Pope Francis Appoints LGBTQ-Positive Cardinal as Head of Italian Bishops’ Conference May 31, 2022.Robert Shine, New Ways Ministry, September 14, 2018 Moving forward, officials in Chicago would do well to consider not only sexual abuse, but other forms of pastoral harm when determining someone’s fitness for ministry. As the present reckoning with clergy sexual abuse makes clear, it is vital that church officials supervise and restrain pastoral ministers who cause harm to the faithful through actions and symbols of violence. Thankfully, church officials stopped the flag burning, as should every diocese nationwide when it comes to such intolerable acts. For some weeks now, I have become increasingly concerned about a number of issues at Resurrection parish, the letter read. Paul Kalchik from the Resurrection Catholic Church in a letter that was read to parishioners during Saturday’s mass. “.Archdiocese of Chicago Communications and Marketing Director Anne Mascelli said on behalf of the Archdiocese, ‘We can confirm that the pastor has agreed not to move forward with these activities.’Ĭhris Pett, who is both a member of Dignity/Chicago and President of DignityUSA, expressed gratitude for the Archdiocese’s intervention that “quickly and firmly rejects the words of this pastor and his intended ‘ritual’ which are inconsistent with Catholic values and beliefs.” Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archdiocese of Chicago, removed Rev. A separate box in the bulletin announced the event, saying “items of sacrilege go into the fire.offered as reparation.”īut the Archdiocese of Chicago, led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, intervened to stop the flag burning, reported Windy City Times: Kalchik encouraged parishioners to fill out pledge cards for prayer and fasting, which would be burned alongside the rainbow flag. “We cannot let the current troubles keep us from our mission to go make more disciples for the Lord, nor should modern day distractions like global warming, LGBT ‘rights’ or even immigration issues ever take precedence over that mission.” In the homily, the priest stated in a footnote, “US Church homosexual scandal is a sequel to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah,” and wrote elsewhere: We will also burn our pledge cards and prayerfully sing Psalm 141 ‘Let my prayer arise before you like incense, my hands like an evening offering.'” “PS: On Saturday, September 29, the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, we will burn, in front of church, the rainbow flag that was unfortunately hanging in our sanctuary during the ceremonial first Mass as Resurrection parish.
In the Septembulletin, in a postscript to his printed homily, Kalchik wrote: Paul Kalchik, pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church, planned to burn a rainbow flag before Mass at the parish in late September. A priest’s plan to burn a rainbow flag which once hung at the parish he oversees has been stopped after the Archdiocese of Chicago intervened to restrain his actionsįr.