UK Catholic Priest Uses Heretical ‘Creed’ at Livestreamed ‘LGBT Mass’

May God have mercy on the soul of this heretic Priest, and on the souls of those he's trying to lead to hell! 

From LifeSiteNews

By Michael Haynes

Video footage of the Mass on September 20, shows the priest leading the congregation in a heretical 'statement of faith' in place of the canonically approved creeds.

BRISTOL, U.K, October 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A recent Mass offered for an LGBT group in the U.K., has used a heretical profession of faith in place of the Creed. 

The Catholic Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino in the Clifton diocese is one of many churches in the U.K. where “LGBT Masses” are taking place and has held an “LGBT+ Mass” every third Sunday since March 2019. In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions the parish has been live-streaming the events. 

The parish website states that the Masses occur on the express wish of Bishop Declan Lang, and that their purpose is “not to isolate, but rather to ensure a warm welcome and to integrate this community into Church.” 

Video footage of the Mass on September 20, shows the priest leading the congregation in a heretical “statement of faith” in place of the canonically approved creeds. Fr. Richard McKay used a formula which seems to have been specifically made for the LGBT Masses. The “statement of faith” makes reference to “the rich diversity of all creation and the diverse identities of all human persons.”  

It mentions that Christ “listens to the cries of every human heart for acceptance and love” yet does not refer to the perennial teaching of the Church regarding persons with same-sex attractions. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “Homosexual persons are called to chastity”, and that whilst persons with such an attraction are to be properly cared for in the Church, “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and that “[u]nder no circumstances can they be approved.” 

Fr. McKay’s novel “creed” continues by referring to the “different paths to holiness and love, that the Holy Spirit calls each of us to walk.”  

Later in their profession the group “committed” themselves to “building the Church into being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.” However, the Church teaches that She possesses these four marks, not by the actions of Her members building Her up, but through Christ. 

Further references are made regarding acceptance of LGBT ideology in the Church which they describe as “a universal community of welcome for all people of every kind of diversity…a truly universal community where all humanity know they can flourish in their uniqueness and diversity.” 

The “creed” also implies that same-sex attraction, alluded to as “diverse identities of all human persons,” has its origins in God. The text reads: “We believe that God has created each one of us without exception, in the Divine Image and likeness. Therefore we commit ourselves to recognizing that we all share our deepest identity as children of God. We rejoice with gratitude in the rich diversity of all creation and the diverse identities of all human persons.” 

The complete rejection of those creeds approved for Mass in favour of a self-made formula, is in direct opposition to the rubrics governing the celebration of Mass. In the 2004 document issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship, Redemptionis Sacramentum, paragraph §69 reads: “no Creed or Profession of Faith is to be introduced which is not found in the duly approved liturgical books.”  

This is a teaching also present in the Canon Law of the Church. Canon 846 §1 reads: “In celebrating the sacraments the liturgical books approved by competent authority are to be observed faithfully; accordingly, no one is to add, omit, or alter anything in them on one’s own authority.”