Gay-friendly student parish in Ann Arbor campaigns openly for Harris / Walz

St. Mary's continues it's decades-long gay radical stance under new pastor

This is the first in a series of articles I intend to writes about St. Mary’s Student Parish in Ann Arbor, which is scheduled tonight to hold its third of seven campaign meetings  designed to help elect the Harris / Walz presidential ticket.

You saw that correctly: St. Mary’s announced on its bulletin it was holding seven campaign meetings for its parish, and tonight is the third meeting, with four more set for October.

As I’ll explain in upcoming columns, St. Mary’s is one of those outrageous, explicitly gay parishes that really are barely Catholic. The specific homosexual radicalism at St. Mary’s goes back to the early ‘80s. Since then it has been at the forefront — on the wrong side, invariably — of seemingly every hot-button issue moral.

Jesuits have operated the parish for the last 20 years and in July extended its contract with Lansing Bishop Earl Boyea for five more years. I was hoping the Jesuits would just be thrown out of Ann Arbor when a new reorganization of parishes was implemented in 2023, but that didn’t happen.

After the new pastor, 38-year-old Fr. Kyle Father Shinseki, was installed I was hoping there would be some clear indication the parish might veer into the mainstream of Catholicism and even American political life. Nope.

Thus, today with this Substack column I begin my effort at educating “ordinary folks” about how St. Mary’s Student Parish, to quote the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, is Coming for Your Children.

Fr. Shinseki is proving to be of the same stripe as his predecessors. He cleverly paraphrased Fr. James Martin, S.J. in his introductory column in the parish bulletin about “building bridges” and throughout the whole of the last year has brought in speakers to discuss contemporary social issues, invariable with the most stridently anti-Catholic angle possible. More about that in future articles.

Right now the parish is campaigning hard to elect Kamala Harris president.

Below is an image taken from St. Mary’s bulletin announcing the seven campaign meetings presented by a “front group” named deceptively as Catholics Vote Common Good, which is directly linked online as a subgroup of the mega-Democrat networking juggernaut Action Network, and its url actually is “democrats.com.” On its home page the group sates “Democrats.com is the oldest online community of progressive activists, with 3 million supporters. We fight for jobs, justice, healthcare, education, the environment, and peace. We're supported by great progressive partners so we never ask for donations.”

The text of the headline reads: CATHOLICS VOTE COMMON GOOD MEETING — JULY 31 AT 6:00 p.m.

Below the headline the text states: “Subsequent meetings on the last Wednesday of the month: August 28, September 25, and every Wednesday in October”

The home page of Catholics Vote Common Good leaves little question that the group just ignores the major issues of our day that the Catholic Church opposes, beginning with abortion and continuing to the genital mutilation intrinsic to the GLBT ideology that is part of the Democrat party’s core values.

Here is the text of the groups home page:

“Our goal is to activate multi-issue Catholic voters and provide them—as well as candidates who are committed to the common good of lifting up the quality of life of all Americans—with the tools they need to be informed and to engage Catholic voters who are concerned about issues of social justice, immigration, climate change, and the scourge of White Christian Nationalism.”

Indeed: “The scourge of White Christian Nationalism.” But, there’s no mention of abortion or trans mutilation.

Scrolling the various tabs leads to quite an adventure in modern political discourse.

It is all unworthy of a Catholic parish.

Here’s an image on the home page of a yard sign one can get from the group:

In my next column, I will start to address some of the many questions every Catholic in American should be asking of their bishops and priests in their diocese when they gaze upon places like St. Mary’s, beginning with: Why is this happening?

That’s all for now in this column.