In opposition to long-established church teaching, Anchorage’s prominent Catholic hospital is actively encouraging Alaskans to celebrate homosexual, transgender and other LGBTQ sexual identities and expressions during June.
A recent social media post from Providence Alaska Medical Center features a large LGBTQ rainbow flag and calls on Alaskans to join the historically Catholic institution in “celebrating #Pride Month.”
The annual, month-long observance celebrates the history, culture, and sexuality of those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, among other sexual identities.
While Providence continues to advertise its historic ties to the Catholic faith and still has permission from Archbishop Andrew Bellisario to maintain a Catholic chapel with daily Mass, the institution has largely deviated from its Christian roots. Founded by the Sisters of Providence to serve the medical needs of Alaskans, the hospital now openly flouts Catholic moral and ethical teachings surrounding human sexuality and reproduction.
In contradiction to clear instructions from the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops regarding the prohibition against cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries, Providence continues to promote and dispense cross-sex hormones for patients who wish to reshape their bodies to appear as the opposite sex.
A Catholic bishop has the authority to demand that hospitals in their diocese stop identifying or advertising themselves as “Catholic” if they contradict core church teachings. This stems from the structure of Catholic ecclesiology and canon law, wherein diocesan bishops serve as the chief pastors and teachers in their regional territory, with responsibility for safeguarding the church’s doctrinal, moral, and sacramental integrity – including institutions operating under the Catholic name.
According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ latest edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services a bishop should ensure the “moral and religious identity” of Catholic health care ministries in his diocese.
Catholic health institutions, such as Providence, must adhere to core Catholic values as a condition of their identity. Non-compliance risks formal separation from the Church’s ministry.
TAKING ACTION
— Click here to contact Archbishop Andrew Bellisario and other key leaders in the Anchorage-Juneau Archdiocese to respectfully express your opinion.
— Click here for information on how to express your concerns to the Papal Nuncio for the United States (the pope’s ambassador).
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God, nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish heart were darkened. Although they claim to be wise, they became fools and exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the creator who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their woman exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relationships with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves that due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what art not to be done. Romans 1: 21-28
You have accurately described those who worship the golden Trump calf and those who are a part of the Epstein raping gang.
I agree with you on the Epstein apostasy, but can you explain to me how the golden Trump calf is worshipped.
Providence ceased to be Catholic years ago. Once the sisters moved on, there is barely a Catholic presence there. I do find it interesting that Bishop Bellisario removed the tabernacle at Holy Rosary Academy ostensibly because he couldn’t dictate their curriculum, although it was and remains truly Catholic in every way. But he has not done so for Providence, which has provided cross-sex hormones and other abominations to patients for years. I guess he prefers the alphabet crowd to actual Catholics.
The catholic church has always been a lie filled abomination of faith. It took good teachings and the true relationship between the creator and creation and perverted it for power of human consciousness.
What we see now with their alignment with the broken rainbow is but a beast of deception simply showing its true colors.
The church of God is within us as individuals. The church or religion is but a gateway for its own empowerment and financial enrichment.
Seek the kingdom within and the gatekeepers shall no longer have power of your divine connection.
You are certainly allowed to have your opinion, but perhaps you could consider how Christian it is to denigrate your fellows in faith, rather than building up the Body of Christ.
Well said, Tamra! Priests weren’t even allowed on Holy Rosary campus to hear confessions or celebrate Mass, yet Providence gets to keep their chapel for Masses.
*couldn’t* dictate their curriculum
A realistic look at it shows that the church has been infiltrated by the outside! Barna declares that only 34% of pastors have a biblical worldview! Nobody is beating anyone up! Unless you also think that the prophets were thugs as well??!? Truth hurts!
It is a flag of hate.
God created the Rainbow, end of story. Not these alphabet people.
God just loans it out every June.
To brides and graduates.
Not sexual deviants who have caused so much destruction and whose time in the sun is mercifully ending.
This just makes me ill. Can we not just live and breathe in the simple manner God outlined for us? I am sick of all the pandering. I hope someone snatched that flag down.
I suspect it’s because this “Catholic” hospital doesn’t limit its treatment to just Catholics, but that they accept all people, including LGBTQ+ Alaskans. And having been raised Catholic, I know that “culture war” issue are not raged about from the pulpit. Homilies tend to be far more loving and uplifting.
Catholic persons and institutions should never celebrate sin, privately or publicly, especially sinful actions that are intrinsically disordered.
I am sorry if you’ve never heard that from the pulpit.
The Catholic Council allows this aberration of the articles of faith, the teachings of the Bible, and the writ of the fathers of the church then, there is no longer a Catholic Church in Alaska. Any and all who attend church or take communion are apostates.
The one thing that is important here is that Providance Hospital as we know it for years and years would have made changes to its business image when it was sold to St. Joseph Corporate Hospitals in 2018 which is out of St. Louis, Missouri. The Providance Hospital CEO here in Anchorage has also staged different management and insurance types along with new business practices with that change and the change in Alaska laws since 2018.
I am deeply grateful that my parents gave me the freedom to explore religion on my own. Mom grew up LDS but when she came of age, she “saw the light and turned it off.” Me too. There is great emotional and intellectual freedom without the constrictions of faith.
I’m glad that the Catholic Church is supporting ALL people. After all Jesus didn’t ask what sexual orientation people were, or how much money they had. He served ALL.
Heinous.
Providence Hospital has not been a Catholic Hospital in many years. If I have an option I go elsewhere! Sorry to say though, there is a very liberal side of the Catholic Church. Many of the leaderships and priests themselves support these things.