Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron has denounced a drag queen parody of “The Last Supper” at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics as a “gross mockery” of Christianity.
“France, in its attempt to do its best culturally, clearly felt it was right to ridicule a very central moment in Christianity, when Jesus offered his body and blood at the Last Supper in anticipation of the crucifixion,” Baron said. video I posted it on X (formerly Twitter).
“This is being presented as a gross and flippant mockery,” he added.
Bishop Barron, founder of the Word on Fire mission, noted that Olympic organizers “would never have dreamed of openly mocking a scene from the Koran in such a crude manner.”
Meanwhile, France, whose culture is deeply rooted in Christianity, “felt it was right to ridicule the Christian faith,” he said.
“This deeply secular, postmodern society knows who its enemies are, it names them, and we should believe them,” he asserted. “They tell us who they are, and we should believe them.”
Bishop Baron was not the only one to speak out about the brutality of the events in Paris.
Kansas City Chiefs star kicker Harrison Butker is Catholic. video Here is an excerpt from this scene and a quotation from St. Paul’s New Testament letter to the Galatians: “Do not be deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he that sows to the flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
Former swimming champion Riley Gaines, who has been an outspoken critic of allowing male athletes to compete as women, also I have written Commenting on the performance, he said, “There’s a group of men wearing wigs in the middle of an Olympic venue. No one is going to say that this group is ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized’.”
Meanwhile, MEP Marion Maréchal was quick to point out that the offensive event was the brainchild of France’s far-left minority, not the French people.
“To all Christians around the world who watched the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking, but a left-wing minority ready to respond to any provocation,” Maréchal said. PostsThe post included the hashtag “#notinmyname.”
The opening ceremony took place on July 26, exactly eight years after the martyrdom of French priest Father Jacques Hamel at the hands of Islamic extremists in 2016. Hamel’s throat was slit while he was celebrating Mass in the northern French city of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.
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