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Cordileone, Sacred Heart & Endangered Taiwan
Jesuit: ‘Pride Month’ Is Complementary to Sacred Heart
It is incredible that Jesuit Fr. James Martin may propose that the month of June called by homosexuals “pride month” is “complementary” to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to which June is dedicated.
It is to link this most venerable devotion to the scandal of publicly promoting a vice against nature.
This position that he took three years ago gained new momentum this June of 2025 when he urged Catholics to participate in “pride month.”
I am sending you the article on the Sacred Heart.
T.H.
Pride Month and Sacred Heart devotion
Ashley Sadler
Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin doubled down on his support for the LGBT agenda in a Tuesday article in which he asserted that the Catholic liturgical calendar’s June devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is actually “complementary” with “Pride Month,” which celebrates people who engage in homosexual lifestyles.
In an article published by Martin’s newly founded organization Outreach, which bills itself as “an LGBTQ+ Catholic Resource,” Martin argued that Catholics can celebrate “Pride Month” if they understand “pride” to mean “a consciousness of one’s own dignity.”
According to Martin, “the two celebrations — the Month of the Sacred Heart and Pride Month,” are “not only not in conflict, but deeply complementary. One … shows us how Jesus loved. The other shows us whom Jesus calls us to love.
“Martin noted that Catholics often object to the celebration of “Pride Month” during the month of June for two reasons. The first reason, he stated, is that “pride is a sin, and sin should never be celebrated.” Others also object, according to Martin, because they U.Sbelieve “LGBTQ people are simply sinful or are always in conflict with church teaching.”
Answering the first objection, Martin asserted that “there are two kinds of pride,” and while one is “the opposite of humility,” the other (which he argued is “closer to what Pride Month is meant to be for the LGBTQ community”) amounts to “a recognition of the human dignity of a group of people who have, for centuries, been treated with contempt, rejection and violence.”
Taking on the second objection, the controversial priest — who recently made a statement seeming to defend puberty-blocking drugs for children — asserted that “many LGBTQ people aren’t doing anything at all against church teaching.”
“Imagine a young LGBTQ person who is not in any sort of sexual relationship but simply wants to be accepted,” Martin suggested. “Where is the sin?”
The priest went on to suggest that harboring objections to the public celebration of homosexual lifestyles is “false” because “it ignores the fact that all of us are sinful. Who among us has not sinned?”
Despite Martin’s depiction of a chaste young person who identifies as LGBTQ+, public celebrations of “pride” during the month of June do not tend to support Christian chastity. Instead, drag shows, pride parades, and even commercials promoting “pride” often definitionally advocate homosexual lifestyles and many feature sexually explicit content, including content enacted in front of or specifically targeted at children.
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U.S. & Taiwan Must Prepare for a China Attack
The United States and Taiwan “must simultaneously prepare for a most dangerous” scenario — a cross-strait invasion by China or a full-scale blockade — and the “most likely scenario: a comprehensive, cyber-enabled economic warfare campaign,” writes retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who says Washington and Taipei “must work together to make Taiwan siege-proof and protect America’s ability to mobilize and project power.”
Please, read this important article.
Keep up the good work.
P.M.
Can avert Taiwan’s conflict with China
Mark Montgomery
A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter
from The Washington Times.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - Last week in Singapore, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “The threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent.” He also reiterated the U.S. concern that President Xi Jinping directed his forces to be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027.
We are at this point largely because of China’s sustained investment in military capabilities and technologies over more than 30 years. As a direct result, Beijing has succeeded in eroding America’s ability to defeat a Chinese attack on Taiwan. With America’s deterrence withering, the risk of a conflict is growing. Only a persistent and resourced American and allied effort can reverse this dangerous trend.
Complicating this response, the United States and Taiwan must simultaneously prepare for the most dangerous scenario — a cross-strait invasion or a full-scale blockade — and the most likely scenario: a comprehensive, cyber-enabled economic warfare campaign. The U.S. and Taiwan must work together to make Taiwan siege-proof and protect America’s ability to mobilize and project power.
Siege-proofing Taiwan requires enhancing its ability to defend itself. No country can do more to prepare Taiwan for this than Taiwan. To confront the most dangerous scenarios, Taiwan must properly resource its military forces, increasing defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product in 2025 and 5% by 2028. These resources should be used to build counter-intervention ground forces to oppose a cross-strait invasion and to fund air and naval capabilities to oppose a blockade. Deterrence will work only if Taiwan credibly prepares for both scenarios.
Organizing and equipping Taiwan’s forces will also require the United States to be a more effective partner. The stories of egregious delays in the delivery of military sales to Taiwan are not anecdotal; they are persistent. Because the United States is the only country that sells weapons to Taiwan, these delays prevent Taiwan from fielding the right forces.
Alongside fixing its military sales program, Washington should maximize its military assistance programs to Taiwan. Taiwan is too small to handle the China challenge alone. U.S. assistance of $2 billion to $3 billion annually would be crucial for Taipei but pocket lint for the Pentagon.
The United States should also establish a stockpile program, similar to those the United States maintains in Israel and Korea, building and filling pre-positioned munition storage facilities in Taiwan. It is much easier to quickly deploy weapons already in theater than to move shipments from Texas to Taiwan.
Similarly, America should expand its training and exercise programs with Taiwan and start by doubling the size of the embedded joint training team. The objective of this training would be to rapidly elevate U.S.-Taiwan force interoperability.
Alongside these military-oriented preparations, Taiwan must prepare for that most likely scenario: a cyber and economic campaign to break Taiwan’s societal resilience and force Taipei to bend the knee.
To counter this, Taipei must increase the resilience of its energy, communications and finance sectors, improve cybersecurity readiness, and build counterinfluence operations capabilities to thwart the Chinese Communist Party’s attacks along multiple axes.
The second line of effort is about the United States: protecting America’s ability to respond to and win a war in the Western Pacific.
China is pre-positioning disruptive and destructive cyber capabilities in U.S. critical infrastructure and developing cruise, ballistic and hypersonic missiles that can impact the U.S. homeland. Beijing wants to disrupt America’s ability to fight. We must not let this happen.
The best way for China to defeat America is for Beijing to prevent the U.S. military from reaching the battlefield. We must be resilient against Chinese cyber-attacks on rail lines, airspace systems and ports to ensure the Pentagon can reliably move forces from forts to ports.
America also must build its societal resilience against Chinese malign influence. Last year, Congress took a critical step by requiring the sale of TikTok. Any White House effort to “save” the platform must ensure that its owner, Chinese company ByteDance, is divested of its control over the algorithm and its ability to corrupt the information American citizens consume. Washington must also defend the homeland from Chinese missiles. President Trump’s Golden Dome effort could be a significant first step if it invests in a long-term, space-based approach and hypersonic defense. Right now, the U.S. military has no answer to China’s capabilities.
The United States and Taiwan have been losing ground in their ability to deter and defeat CCP aggression, but it is not too late to reverse this trend. Building up Taiwan’s offensive and defensive warfighting capabilities and cyberdefense capacity will improve the nation’s societal resilience. If this is coupled with targeted investments in U.S. critical infrastructure security and cyber and missile defense, the two countries can and will strengthen their ability to fight and win against China.
Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery (retired) is a senior fellow and a senior director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy, and his final assignment was as director of operations (J3) at U.S. Pacific Command.
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Posted June 10, 2025
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Re: Cordileone at synagogue interfaith blessing
TIA's latest so aggrieved me that I sent it around immediately with this simple line to a number of friends...
This is to pour salt into the Wounds of Christ!
Truly, your information propels us to greater atonement.
Thank you! Many blessings upon your work!
Ave Maria!
E.Z., Ph.D.