Pride Fest will be Oct 1-2 and Parade Oct 3 Those interested can now purchase their tickets online. The two-day festival will feature dozens of artists, food and entertainment. Pride in the Park Chicago will be enjoyed in person this year. Those interested can attend Pride Night at Fenway Park where there will be a special first pitch and a performance by Aaron Patterson on June 10.Ī virtual park lighting ceremony will take place on June 8 to commemorate the lives lost in the HIV and AIDS epidemic.īoston Pride will also host a Pride flag-raising ceremony, a mayoral candidate forum and an Express Your Pride campaign.
Pride festivals and parades will be replaced with online events this year.
Similar to the gay pride movement, those principles include, in their own words, to be 'queer affirming' and 'trans affirming.'Everyone is Awesome': Lego announces first LGBTQ set ahead of Pride MonthĪ look to the future: Is coming out as a member of the LGBTQ community over? No, but it could be someday. "Because every human life is sacred, the Church is 100% behind the phrase “black lives matter.' However, a specific movement with a wider agenda has co-opted the phrase and promotes a 13-principle agenda for schools, which, I daresay, most people do not know about but is easily available on the internet. "The same is true for Black Lives Matter as a logo," said the bishop. n institution that calls itself Catholic cannot condone that behavior, even though the Catholic Church will 'go to the mat' in teaching we must love those with whom we disagree." Gay pride flags not only represent support for gay marriage, but also promote actively living an LGBTQ+ lifestyle. In a May 5 letter to the community, Bishop McManus wrote, "These symbols which embody specific agendas or ideologies contradict Catholic social and moral teaching.
In a letter to the community, as reported by the Free Press, McKenney said, "In January 2021, Nativity started flying the Pride and Black Lives Matter flags following our students’ (the majority of whom are people of color) call to express support for making our communities more just and inclusive." Tom McKenney, president of the Nativity School in Worcester, Mass. The school claims the flags are "not an endorsement of any organization or ideology, they fly in support of marginalized people." Thomas McKenney, president of the Nativity School, told The Catholic Free Press that he would appeal the bishop's decree and would not remove the flags. Reilly must be removed from the list of the Board of Trustees of Nativity School. The Nativity School is not allowed to undertake any fundraising involving diocesan institutions in the Diocese of Worcester and is not permitted to be listed or advertise in the Diocesan Directory.Mass, sacraments and sacramentals are no longer permitted to be celebrated on Nativity School premises or be sponsored by Nativity School in any church building or chapel within the Diocese of Worcester.The Nativity School of Worcester is prohibited from this time forward from identifying itself as a 'Catholic' school and may no longer use the title 'Catholic' to describe itself.That action, as presented in the decree, includes, This leaves me no other option but to take canonical action."īishop Robert McManus, head of the Diocese of Worcester. He continued, "Despite my insistence that the school administration remove these flags because of the confusion and the properly theological scandal that they do and can promote, they refuse to do so. "The flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public about the Church’s stance on these important moral and social issues," said the bishop. However, the 'Black Lives Matter' movement has co-opted the phrase and promotes a platform that directly contradicts Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and seeks to disrupt the family structure in clear opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church." "The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase 'black lives matter' and strongly affirms that all lives matter. "This is also true of 'Black Lives Matter,'" he wrote.