George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral issues including abortion and LGBTQ issues. But a more overt and focused assault on the teaching authority of the Catholic Church is now coming from a billionaire power couple—Tim Gill and Scott Miller—who are working to discredit Church teachings on sexual morality by directly attacking the Magisterium.
President Joe Biden thought so highly of the funding these two gay philanthropists have provided for LGBTQ initiatives that he appointed Scott Miller, the co-Chair of the Board of the Gill Foundation, to be the Ambassador to Switzerland. In their most recent filing on their 990 form for the IRS, the Gill Foundation described itself as “an organization that reaches out to corporations and mainstream corporate foundations to help them understand LGBTQ issues.”
The real agenda of the Gill Foundation, according to Jeff Walton, spokesman for The Institute on Religion and Democracy, is to “look out at society, and see where there is resistance to the agenda they seek to promote and how they can best change that.”
Focused on changing hearts and minds on issues like “same-sex marriage” and transgender advocacy, the Gill Foundation has long supported religious organizations in a subversive attempt to influence opinions and shape teachings.
In the past, beneficiaries have included the Episcopal Diocese in Colorado, and progressive inter-faith organizations including Faithful America. As far back as 2011, the Gill Foundation gave $25,000 to support Faithful America and Catholics United, which both began public attacks on Catholic teachings and have encouraged pro-LGBTQ Catholic political action.
In 2011, the Gill Foundation awarded $100,000 to Catholics United to help meet the goal of changing Catholic views of homosexuality—including same sex marriage.
In 2014, Faithful America—flush with cash from the Gill Foundation—began a campaign to garner signatures on Facebook and other social media urging Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco to cancel his appearance at the “March for Marriage” in Washington, D.C.
Claiming that Archbishop Cordileone was lending the Church’s authority to the “vitriol and hatred” of the pro-marriage march, and was “undermining Pope Francis’s call for a more compassionate church,” Faithful America demanded that he dissociate himself from the pro-marriage rally.
Apparently Gill Foundation seed money has been fruitful as Faithful America continues its attacks on Archbishop Cordileone, as yet another petition drive was instituted in January, 2024, designed to demand that the Archbishop revoke his partial ban on the pastoral LGBTQ blessings on “same-sex couples”.
Citing the controversial document Fiducia Supplicans, Faithful America described Archbishop Cordileone as a “notorious culture-warrior archbishop” who is “perpetuating hate” and “undermining the pope to deny spiritual care to queer Catholics.”
Ambassador Scott Miller and his “husband” Tim Gill , who have been “married” since 2009, have now apparently shifted their focus away from Faithful America to directly challenging Catholic teachings through providing huge grants to the dissident Catholic LGBTQ group, New Ways Ministry. In their most recent IRS filing, the Gill Foundation reported annual grants totaling more than $200,000 to New Ways Ministry, an organization that has been trying to undermine Catholic teachings on homosexuality and same sex marriage for more than four decades.
On May 14, 1999, Pope John Paul II approved a Notification, adopted in the Ordinary Session of the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which prohibited Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, the leaders of the New Ways Ministry from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons and as “ineligible for an undetermined period, for any office in their respective religious institutes.”
The Notification, issued by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stated that Sister Gramick and Father Nugent “do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area … the promotion of errors and ambiguities is not consistent with a Christian attitude of true respond and compassion: persons who are struggling with homosexuality no less than any others have the right to receive the authentic teaching of the Church from those who minister to them.”
Despite the Notification and the prohibitions that were placed on New Ways Ministry, the Gill Foundation has enabled New Ways Ministry to greatly expand its ministry and its outreach to Catholics. Unfortunately, adding to the confusion and the ambiguity of their ministry, in October, 2023, Pope Francis met with Sr. Gramick and the current leadership of New Ways Ministry.
While the topic of the meeting was not revealed, New Ways Ministry issued a statement claiming that Sr. Gramick thanked the Holy Father for his “openness to blessing same-sex unions, as well as for his opposition to the criminalization of LGBTQ people in civil society.” Claiming that the meeting with Pope Francis is “remarkable because it reflects the steady acceptance of Catholic officials to LGBTQ issues and ministry …this meeting now represents a new openness to the pastorally-motivated, justice seeking approach which Sr. Jeannine and her organization have long practiced.”
Responding to the meeting with Pope Francis, Jesuit priest and GLBTQ advocate, Rev James Martin, took to Twitter/X to congratulate Grammick and pronounce the historic meeting “a significant step forward in the Church’s outreach to LGBTQ Catholics.”
Gill Foundation money appears to have been well spent in terms of its goal to begin to change many Catholic hearts and minds regarding LGBTQ issues—including support for “same-sex marriage”. In December, the Associated Press published an article titled “Step by Step, Pope Francis Has Made the Catholic Church a More Welcoming Place for LGBTQ People.”
And even when Pope Francis recently made what appeared to be an “anti-gay slur” in a conversation about the unsuitability of allowing gay men into seminaries, Fr. Martin posted a long rejoinder on Facebook claiming that “the Holy Father said he has known many good, holy and celibate seminarians and priests with homosexual tendencies. Once again, he confirmed my ministry with LGBTQ people and showed his openness and love for the LGBTQ community.”
In his position as Ambassador to Switzerland, Miller and his Gill Foundation have the means and influence to help shape global public policy. It is notable that “same-sex marriage” became legal in Switzerland on July 1, 2022 after 64% of voters approved the change in the civil code in a 2021 referendum, as the Biden administration proves yet again that personnel is indeed policy.
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Fr Martin hallows celibate same-sex inclined seminarians and priests but fails to address chastity. As usual Pope Francis fires a blank shot over the bow of the gay cruise ship that was all noise, expected to elicit wows and oohs. Although his warm embrace of Sr Gramick endorsing New Ways Ministry [need it be mentioned over and again of all the endorsers of homosexuality he’s surrounding himself with in Cardinals Hollerich, McElroy, Archbishop Paglia, Fr Martin et Al] points to the reality.
Billionaire homosexuals Gill and Miller and the Gill Foundation, entrepreneur of moral havoc George Soros, Bill Gates and his Joe Biden type Catholic wife are part of the team. Wouldn’t it be a fine move if Francis were to make their appointed enemy Archbishop Cordileone a cardinal? After all, McElroy was bishop of a smaller see. But then McElroy is adamantly pro gay and Cordileone is manifestly not. These are not good times for the faithful. On the other hand they are times that can make for our sanctification.
The sooner this papacy comes to a conclusion the better for the Church. Hopefully the next one will end the homosexualist sympathies that permeate this Vatican..
Undermines just a little the media narrative of the poor, marginalized, disadvantaged LGBetc. segment.
Oy!Swiss cheese, Swiss chocolate,Swiss Steak…have to fast from those things..the Holy Father continues to spread confusion, God help the Church
Most Swiss cheese you see in the supermarket is made in the USA.
The article states:
“George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations…”
Hmh.
Apparently the “faux Catholic” organizations include Bergoglio’s own Dark Vatican.
May the Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ prevail against its wolfy leadership.
The so called New Ways Ministry website offers lists of «gay» friendly parishes and colleges. If not exaggerated, useful data on staying out of reach of the rainbow.
In the picture HH looks fatalistic, unlike the others smiling like cats in a creamery.
In Machiavellian mode is Pope Francis keeping the Church’s feral cats close?
Jesuitical indeed.
1. Surely we can all recognize that the Catholic Church has been consumed by an internal “cold war” or unbloody “civil war” since the 1960s.
2. In the 1980s, many Catholics saw a solution in the personality cult that developed around the charismatic, semi-conservative, Reagan Administration-connected bishop of Rome.
3. But now that’s long past.
4. And we see that the Church’s internal “cold war” or unbloody “civil war” rages on, the “revolutionaries” still in the dominant position (but not securely victorious), just as they have been since the 1960s.
5. For me, this leads to questions such as:
How will this “civil war” end? (I think it will end. No society can have permanent instability and such a deep lack of integrity for so long.)
When will it end? (It seems like the end will be sooner rather than later.)
How did it even happen? Why did Heaven allow it? Will good come of it?
Will the theological revolutionaries, who’ve led this auto-destruction of the Church since the 1960s, be explicitly condemned, or, will they just be ignored and pushed out of memory (just as the revolutionaries gave that treatment to traditional church authorities such as Pope Pius XII, Pope Pius X, and so on).
“Why did Heaven allow it? Will good come of it?”
Each of us does the Father’s will, either as His child or His tool. That will doubtless come as a big surprise, perhaps even a shock, to some in both camps.
One dare not take their eyes off Christ, no matter what happens. He is in control. Evil is not all powerful. God is.
Keep in mind that much of the human suffering since the French Revolution, has been chastisement for humanity’s increased pride in itself, in science and in the corresponding loss of faith and belief in God. So, the Lord’s response, as stated in scripture, is to back off and “leave us to our own devices.”
And, as a consequence of human arrogance and stubbornness, we will have to hit rock bottom before our situation begins to improve. At that time, every person left alive will recall the ancient Greek adage, “Call no man happy, who is not dead.”
Gill and Miller know how best to destroy an enemy – from within. That’s why we need to keep organizations with which they associate…without.
Until the homofilth in the Church is crushed nothing will change
Tim Gill was the subject of an article in Atlantic Magazine many years ago during the campaign to force gay marriage on our country. He bragged at the time, saying that he could buy a state legislator for less than $10,000. He was pumping millions into that campaign and was determined to buy up as many state legislators as it took. After 31 states passed laws BANNING gay marriage, they changed tactics and took things to the Supreme Court, where they prevailed.
This is exactly what happened with the movement to legalize abortion in the 70’s. They tried to get all states to legalize it, but only got 6 states to do so. So they switched to pressuring the Supreme Court and succeeded there.
You cannot be My Disciples, if you do not abide in My Word.”- Jesus The Christ
Vatican II, by failing to speak “The Truth In Love”, and doing away with “The Charitable Anathema”, is directly responsible for a multitude of Baptized Catholic’s
“refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, and their rejection of communion with the members of the church subject to him”, including Jorge Bergoglio who, prior to his election to The Papacy, ipso facto separated himself from Christ and Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, by his denial of The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
Vatican II, did in fact, change this Dogma of The Faith, by removing The Charitable Anathema, which resulted in a failure to correct the errors of the documents of Vatican II, and the errors of those Baptized Catholic, who denied Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and The Teaching Of The Magisterium , grounded in Sacred Tradition, And Sacred Scripture, The Deposit Of Faith Christ Entrusted To His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, and, in so doing, created a counterfeit church, that is attempting to subsist within The One Body Of Christ, that exists From The Father, Through, With, And In The Son, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost(Filioque).
Vatican II must be anathema, least it appear that the counterfeit church did not, ipso facto, separate from Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic And Apostolic Church, the moment it denied The Deposit Of Faith, received From The Father, Through, With, And In , His Only Son, Jesus The Christ, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque).
No one can undermine The Deposit Of Faith.
We cannot transform Christ , Christ Transforms us, through God’s Gift Of Salvational Love, available to all who desire to repent, serve our Penance, and believe The Good News.
The Sacrifice Of The Cross, The Sacrament Most Holy, The Sacrament Divine, Is The Sacrifice Of The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity.
Would not be an issue if The Magisterium made it clear that the heresy of New Ways Ministry ipso
facto separated them from Christ and His Church, and thus The Pope and those Catholics in communion with him, as Pope Benedict made clear. It then, this counterfeit magisterium promotes heresy, while bishops accommodate this occasion of sin because they lack the charity to apply The Charitable Anathema, under the guise that the Magisterium can transform The Word of God, and create god in this counterfeit magisterium’s own image. Which is anti Christ.