Sacrilegious Nativity Scene with Lesbian Virgin Mary Erected At Italian Parish

A parish in Italy is being accused of blasphemy after erecting a nativity scene featuring baby Jesus with two mothers.

The heretical nativity is currently on display at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano.

The church’s priest, Father Della Salla, is a well-known supporter of LGBTQ rights and leftist ideals.

He said that the offensive nativity scene is meant to show “that families are no longer just the traditional ones. In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society, children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers.”

Italian Catholics up in arms over “blasphemous” same-sex nativity scene.

The priest who made it said he wanted to emphasize that “families are no longer just the traditional ones.”

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Father Della Salla also used the Pope Francis’ recent decision to allow priests to bless same-sex marriages to defend the blasphemous nativity scene:

NO AL PRESEPE BLASFEMO! FIRMA ORA!

Immagina di entrare in una chiesa e di trovarti di fronte un presepe con i pastori, l’asinello, il bue, Gesù, la Madonna e… la sua compagna lesbica.

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A pro-life group called Pro-Vita & Famiglia has launched a petition in response to the sacrilegious nativity scene to get the Bishop of Avellino, the province where the parish is located, to intervene.

Their petition has already received over 23,000 signatures.

Here is an excerpt from the petition, translated into English:

An LGBT nativity scene with ‘two mothers’ was set up in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Capocastello di Mercogliano, in the province of Avellino. A blasphemous and provocative representation that distorts the meaning of the Nativity scene itself and of the Holy Family: both with the removal of Saint Joseph, sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, and with the very serious message relating to the ‘two mothers’ which ‘sanctifies’ a practice as illegal as the buying and selling of gametes.

Reuters has more details on the LGBTQ nativity scene:

A church nativity scene which features two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph figurines, has sparked anger among conservative Catholics and politicians in Italy.

Nativity scenes are popular in the largely Catholic country, but in recent years they have been increasingly mired in culture wars as its society becomes more secular and multi-cultural.

The priest at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano, a hamlet in the province of Avellino about one hour’s drive east of Naples, has defended its depiction of the birth of Jesus.

“I wanted to show with this scene that families are no longer just the traditional ones,” Father Vitaliano Della Sala told Reuters.

“In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society, children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers.”

Father Della Sala, known in Italy for sympathising with LGBT and left-wing causes, says his attitude is in line with that of Pope Francis, who this week, in a landmark ruling, allowed priests to bless same-sex couples.

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Breitbart also commented:

A Catholic parish in southern Italy has exhibited a Nativity scene featuring the Virgin Mary together with another woman in place of Saint Joseph.

Father Vitaliano Della Sala, the pastor of the parish of Saints Peter and Paul in the southern province of Avellino, said he created the provocative crèche scene to underscore the changing shape of families and the need for a more inclusive Church.

I placed “two mothers in the crèche,” Father Della Sala wrote on Facebook. “This year I see the light of Christmas also shining on these families affected by inhuman and anti-evangelical criticism and condemnation.”

There are “so many ways of being a family” because “nothing is impossible with God!” he said.

The decision to give Jesus two mothers drew sharp reactions from Catholics in Italy, including from Father Maurizio Patriciello, a pastor from the neighboring province of Naples, who called on Father Della Sala to apologize and put Saint Joseph back “in his place” to which he is entitled “by right.”

What do you think?

Should this ‘lesbian Virgin Mary’ nativity display be allowed?

Let’s see how people are responding on X:

Excommunication. Now.

— ✞🇻🇦 Michael 'The Zealot' 🇳🇿✞ (@praisethechrist) December 23, 2023

Lol. He can see what happens when god emphasizes at the pearly gates.

I don't know if there's any greater sin than going against the doctrine of the church while being a "leader" in it.

— Kristopher J. Anderson 🇺🇸 (@KAndersonAkron) December 24, 2023

Blasphemous! It was Mary and Joseph NOT Mary and Josephine. 😡

— MaryMacElveen (@MaryMacElveen) December 24, 2023