The Cathedral should not sit silent while Hell parades outside its gates.
Each June, Cincinnati’s so-called Pride Parade begins at the very doorstep of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains—a calculated insult, a blasphemous banner raised in the face of God. For too long, this provocation has gone unanswered. While the world marches for sin, the Church has stood still. But no longer.
We are not called to passive private lamentation, but to public, prayerful resistance. As Pope Leo XIII declared: “To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth… is the part of a coward.” And in the face of such rebellion, Pius XI warned: “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences… society, in a word, shaken to its foundations and on the way to ruin.”
This is not a culture war only. This is a spiritual war. The Pride of man has risen to the gates of the Church—literally. It is time for the Rights of God to be proclaimed there again.
No more silence. No more retreat. Christ is King. And His reign must be defended.
Let the steps of the Cathedral become a place of humble reparation, a public altar of prayer and penance.
The full article on the need for Public Reparation can be found at OnePeterFive.com
