Four Bishops to Lead Global Act of Reparation After LGBT Pilgrimage in St Peter’s Basilica
The act will take place at the Catholic Identity Conference taking place this weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Four Catholic bishops are to lead a “global act of reparation” on Saturday after a thousand LGBT Catholic activists were allowed to promote their ideology in St Peter’s Basilica last month.
The “Global Act of Reparation for the ‘LGBTQ+’ Abomination of Desolation in St. Peter’s” will be livestreamed and take place during the Oct. 3-5 Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A recitation of the Holy Rosary will follow the act.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan; Bishop Marian Eleganti, emeritus auxiliary of Chur, Switzerland; Bishop Robert Mutsaerts, auxiliary of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands; and Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of Tyler, Texas will be leading the act of reparation.
An act of reparation is a specific prayer, devotion, or action carried out to make amends for serious offences against what is sacred, in this case St Peter’s Basilica. The intent is to offer spiritual compensation for the injury done to God and to restore respect for the holy place.
Around 1,000 LGBT Catholic activists were allowed to enter the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Sept. 6 as part of a Jubilee pilgrimage. They wore crosses with rainbow colours, held hands, and displayed offensive slogans on their clothes.
The Vatican had advanced knowledge that the group were to visit the basilica as the Vatican’s jubilee organisers had advertised their pilgrimage in the official jubilee calendar months earlier. In spite of the scandal, the Holy See remained silent, offered no apology, and has not responded to requests to reconsecrate the basilica.
In a Sept. 10 interview with Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, Bishop Schneider described what happened on Sept. 6 as an “unprecedented act” that may “fittingly be described, in the words of Our Lord, as an ‘abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.’”
Vatican officials, he added, “collaborated de facto in undermining and calling into question the validity of God’s Sixth Commandment, particularly His explicit condemnation of homosexual activity. They stood by and allowed God to be mocked and His commandments to be scornfully cast aside.”
Bishop Schneider said the “declared aim” of the activists was that the Church “recognise and legitimise so-called gay rights, including homosexual acts and other forms of extramarital sexual conduct.”
In particular, he drew attention to the fact that there were “no signs of repentance and renunciation of objectively grave homosexual sins and homosexual lifestyle on the part of the organisers and participants in this pilgrimage.”
“To pass through the Holy Door and participate in the Jubilee without repentance, while promoting an ideology that openly rejects God’s Sixth Commandment, constitutes a kind of desecration of the Holy Door and a mockery of God and the gift of an indulgence,” he said.
Professor John Rist, regarded as one of the Church’s leading scholars on St Augustine, reminded the Vatican that the 4th century saint condemned the “sin of Sodom time and again as an abomination.” St Augustine, Rist said, would “obviously be astonished and disgusted” to witness what happened in St Peter’s, and view those responsible for allowing it as a betrayal of Christ.
The full text of the Act of Reparation will be available online at www.CatholicIdentityConference.org on October 4, 2025, at 3:30pm EDT.
While I'm quite grateful to these four men for their action, it speaks loudly that there is no Ordinary taking part, meaning a bishop (any bishop!) with local jurisdiction. There seems to be either a lack of motivation or reticence because of the perceived risks.
The full text of the Act of Reparation: https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/7959-act-of-reparation-for-the-desecration-of-the-jubilee-year-and-st-peter-s-basilica-by-lgbtq-activists