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WASHINGTON D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A homosexual priest designed a new image for Father James Martin’s LGBT conference featuring Jesus Christ with Pope Francis and two homosexual couples.
As announced by Outreach, the pro-LGBT group formed by the Jesuit priest, a new image was produced by a priest friend of Martin’s in time for the annual Outreach conference.
JUST IN: Gay iconographer priest William McNichols made a new work for Fr James Martin’s LGBT event.
It shows #PopeFrancis kissing Christ’s feet, who appears after the Resurrection with the stigmata, surrounded by two same-sex couples embracing.Christ wears hoodie & jeans pic.twitter.com/BxUrSf78dO
— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) August 12, 2024
Labeled by many Catholics online as “disgusting,” the image, produced by Father William Hart McNichols, was designed specifically for the 2024 Outreach conference upon request from the LGBT organization. Martin described the image thus:
‘The Foot Washing’ depicts Pope Francis prayerfully kissing the feet of Jesus Christ, who appears after the Resurrection bearing his wounds, surrounded by two same-sex couples embracing. The Risen Christ is dressed simply, in a sweatshirt and jeans.
As highlighted by Martin, Pope Francis’ practice of washing the feet of women and non-Catholics during the Holy Thursday mandatum ceremony have been a notable aspect of his pontificate. They are, Martin wrote, “widely seen as part of Pope Francis’s own outreach to those who feel on the margins of both society and the church.”
READ: Pope Francis washes feet of 12 women, continuing 2016 ‘innovation’ in Holy Thursday liturgy
Such a practice, Martin added, was continued by Francis via his support of Martin’s pro-LGBT activism and his continued annual support of the Outreach conference, including this year’s event.
McNichols’ work as a priest has been marked by his promotion of homosexuality, and he himself has been open about his homosexual attraction since the 1980s.
“God gave me this vocation as a very little boy, before I knew I was gay,” McNichols has said of his life as a priest. He spent 35 years as a Jesuit before leaving in 2002 and has remained a priest with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Commenting on his latest image produced for Outreach, McNichols said that “if you asked me to create an image that symbolically defined Pope Francis’s papacy, I’d immediately answer with foot washing.”
Upon being asked by Martin to “create an image for LGBTQ people and the Outreach conference,” McNichols said he “thought first of Jesus washing their feet. Then another idea emerged, of Jesus sitting with them, and Pope Francis washing the feet of Jesus and his outcast followers.”
He added that the image represented his desire for the Catholic Church’s adoption of LGBT ideology: “This painting is set in the cosmos, because the acceptance of LGBTQ people remains still in the present and into the future – something to come.”
McNichols’ website contains images of his wide-ranging portfolio of art, including his notorious work from 1989 “The Stations of the Cross of a Person With AIDS.”
Another work of his from that decade was his 1986 “AIDS Crucifixion.” In this image, Christ is portrayed wearing underwear briefs, with the sign atop the cross reading: “AIDS, homosexual, faggot, pervert, Sodomite.”
In the “AIDS Crucifixion,” Mary Magdalene is portrayed in a low-cut, sleeveless dress and St. John in skinny jeans and a hoody comforts Our Lady.
Also in 1989, McNichols penned a chapter for the pro-homosexual activist book, Homosexuality in the Priesthood and the Religious Life, which was compiled by Sister Jeannine Gramick. Gramick, the co-founder of pro-LGBT New Ways Ministry, has a long history of dissenting from Catholic teaching on homosexuality and abortion and was officially censured by Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1999 but has ignored the order. She has most recently received support from Pope Francis, though the Vatican censure against her has not been formally revoked.
McNichols has become a regular participant and speaker at Martin’s Outreach conferences.
However, contrasting with certain LGBT activism, the Catholic Church’s moral teachings note that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.”
The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued its 1986 document “On the pastoral care of homosexual persons,” in which it noted that while a homosexual inclination is not a sin in itself, it is nevertheless “a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
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