Francis’s Holy Year Also Promotes Sin

On December 24, Pope Francis inaugurated the Holy Year 2025 by opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.

The Holy Year is a jubilee held every 25 years in which the Church grants plenary indulgences to visitors of the four Roman patriarchal basilicas (Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, and the basilicas of St. Peter’s, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul’s (outside the walls). This privilege can also include cathedrals and other sacred places outside of Rome determined by ecclesiastical authority. Gaining the indulgence requires going to confession, receiving Holy Communion, and praying for the pope’s intentions.

What Is an Indulgence?

According to the Code of Canon Law, “An indulgence is the remission in the sight of God of the temporal punishment due for sins, the guilt of which has already been forgiven. A member of Christ’s faithful who is properly disposed and who fulfills certain specific conditions, may gain an indulgence by the help of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, authoritatively dispenses and applies the treasury of the merits of Christ and the Saints” (Canon 992).

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An indulgence does not forgive sin, as many people mistakenly believe. Sin must be absolved sacramentally. An indulgence is a remission of the temporal penalty, the suffering we must go through in Purgatory to purify ourselves of the stain left by sin, even if forgiven.

Unlike hell, which is eternal, this suffering has a limited temporal duration. Saint Thomas describes this suffering:

In Purgatory, there will be a twofold pain; one will be the pain of loss, namely the delay of the divine vision, and the pain of sense, namely punishment by corporeal fire. Concerning both, the least pain of Purgatory surpasses the greatest pain of this life.¹

The purpose of the Holy Year is to remind us of our eternal destiny so we can repent of our sins or abandon a bad life, strengthen our faith and piety with the help of grace, and be encouraged by having been forgiven the debt of sin and the penalty of suffering in Purgatory.

Can a Homosexual Movement Officially Participate in a Holy Year?

Although the current Holy Year’s documents contain the principles above, some are denied in practice.

Indeed, the Dicastery for Evangelization’s “Calendar of Major Events” for the Holy Year sets for September 6 a “Pilgrimage by the Association La Tenda di Gionata [Jonathan’s Tent] and other associations.”²

What Is “Jonathan’s Tent”?

This association defines itself thus:

La Tenda di Gionata association was founded on March 18, 2018, at the request of Fr. David Esposito, a prematurely deceased priest who ‘dreamed’ that our Christian communities would know how to ‘widen their tent’ (Isaias 54:2) to make room for everyone to become ‘more and more sanctuaries of welcome and support for LGBT people and every person affected by discrimination.’³

The association was founded and is chaired by Innocenzo Pontillo, whose “husband is a traffic policeman; both are Catholics who want to live their faith within the Church.”⁴

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Jonathan’s Tent encourages homosexual practice based on a heretical interpretation of Catholic doctrine that denies it is a sin. It publishes dozens of articles denying the evidence of biblical texts that condemn the sins against nature and explaining them in a distorted and specious way. It particularly defends same-sex “marriage.”⁵

The association actively participates in “gay pride” parades with banners and T-shirts bearing its name.⁶

Scandal, Removal and Reinstatement

Franca Giansoldati, Vatican observer for Italy’s daily Il Messaggero, first broke the news that the official Holy Year Events Calendar included a “pilgrimage” by Jonathan’s Tent. According to her, Francis approved this inclusion.⁷

This news caused great scandal and drew protests from Catholics, leading to a series of denials of the group’s participation. Then, there was a U-turn with a confirmation and attempt at justifying the homosexual association’s participation.⁸

Are Sin and Scandal ‘Experiences of Faith’?

In an interview with Spain’s EFE news agency, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization and Pope Francis’ delegate to organize the 2025 Jubilee, explained why they included the homosexual organization:

We include in the calendar all those who ask us to have an experience of faith. We only ask that they have an experience of pilgrimage and an experience of faith, so I do not see why anyone would have to be excluded. … If an association that does pastoral work for homosexuals wants to make this experience of faith a reality, I believe they should find the Jubilee prepared for them too.⁹

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The words of the papal delegate in charge of organizing the 2025 Jubilee are at odds with Catholic doctrine. How can people who are part of an organization that promotes the sin of homosexuality and deforms Church doctrine and morals to do so have an “experience of faith”? What faith is he talking about? Is it the “faith” of the Modernist heresy, a mere interior “experience” derived from a subjective emotion instead of submission to the revealed dogma proposed by the Church’s Magisterium?¹⁰

The Modernist heresy would fully explain the abandonment of natural and divine morals and the Church’s constant teaching, allowing people’s “freedom” to indulge in their most repulsive impulses.

We are talking about the sin of homosexual practice and not about a deviant attraction resisted with the help of grace.

The idea underlying tolerance of homosexual sin is that God created some people this way, and it is thus in keeping with their nature. If that were true, God would have created two human species: one heterosexual and another homosexual. Both Revelation and science contradict this absurdity.¹¹

The Homosexual Movement, a Religious Movement

In both its Christian and agnostic versions, the homosexual movement aims to change natural and divine morality, modifying the very notion of man and civilization. This is what a homosexual activist journalist recognized back in 2000.

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On August 6, 2000, Paul Varnell (who died in 2011) wrote in the Chicago Free Press:

The fundamental controverted issue about homosexuality is not discrimination, hate crimes or domestic partnerships, but the morality of homosexuality. … So the gay movement, whether we acknowledge it or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberation movement, but a moral revolution aimed at changing people’s view of homosexuality.¹²

Church dignitaries’ direct or indirect support for this “moral revolution” is very important, particularly through untenable documents such as Fiducia Supplicans and promotions of theologians favorable to changing Catholic doctrine in this regard. ¹³

“Doctrines of Devils”

The Apostle Saint Paul’s warning should put us on our guard:

Now the Spirit manifestly saith, that in the last times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils. (1Timothy 4:1)

“Have Confidence, I Have Overcome the World”

Despite today’s confusion in which the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ seems to be abandoning her mystical Spouse and changing her doctrine, we should not fear but confide in Our Lord’s promise that He will be with and protect His Church until the end of the world (Matthew 28:20). We, therefore, remain confident that the truth will triumph no matter how terrible the days through which we pass.

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The Savior gave us the certainty of victory: “Have confidence, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33.) At Fatima, Our Lady promised: Finally, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.

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