Missing article from Lifesite news about Fr. Ripperger and gay marriage

[Timothy E Suter]

Maybe you guys know about why Lifesite removed an article I am referring to or not - here's what happened:

I replied to a tweet about transgender and gays about what I heard during a talk about gay marriage and God getting ready to pull the plug by Fr. Ripperger.  During the days of Noah, the Midrash explains that it was men entering into marriage contracts with other men was what caused the flood.  The demons know that if God did it then he'll do it again.  He wanted sources - so I gave him the official teaching from the Midrash on that.  But I COULD not find the original article at lifesite - and in the article copy from a past time - the video link on youtube with Fr. Ripperger actually saying it goes to a private video.

So here is a YouTube video from FrontLine:  

Video reporting what Ripperger Said - FrontLine

You'll find dead links in that youtube description pointing to this article:

LifeSiteNews.com reported on March 15, 2023:

by Emily Mangiaracina

Exorcist and theologian Father Chad Ripperger said that Jewish scriptural commentary attributes God’s flooding of the earth to homosexual “marriage,” and demons know accordingly that their time is now short. 

“Supposedly, according to the Midrash, which is the commentary that the Jews made on various parts of Scripture, the reason that God flooded the earth was because men were entering into contracts with men. It was gay ‘marriage.’ And so that’s when He said, ‘That’s enough.’ He pulled the plug on it,” said Ripperger during a Thursday talk at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Chapin, South Carolina.

“So the demons are seeing all this and are like, it can’t be much longer,” said Ripperger, referring to the reemergence of so-called homosexual “marriage” in many Western countries.

“They know it’s short because certain things are starting to fall in place that they’ve seen in the past, that any time this happens, God pulls the plug on it,” he explained.

Writer Don Koenig has shared that Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, who holds doctorates from Yale, MIT, and Harvard, likewise told him that the Babylonian Talmud considers homosexual “marriage” to be the “final straw that led to the Flood.”

Satinover reportedly said that the Talmud’s writings reveal that “before the Flood people started to write marriage contracts between men, in other words, homosexual ‘marriage,’” which goes beyond homosexual activity by “giving an official state stamp of approval, a sanctification … of homosexual partnership.”

According to Koenig, Satinover said that, in fact, “the writings indicated that it wasn’t even so much the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back,’ but that the sin in and of itself is so contrary to why God created the world, so contrary to the order of God’s nature, that God said then and there ‘I have to start all over … to annihilate the world and start from the beginning.’”

Koenig wrote that the Talmud’s commentary on the Flood shared by Satinover immediately reminded him of the Scripture verse: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Mathew 24:37)

Ripperger has recently spoken elsewhere of homosexual “marriage” as inviting God’s judgment upon the culture.

“It’s an abomination,” he said during a January sermon. “There’s no way that God isn’t going to afflict us in some manner as a result of taking on something that is that disordered.”

The exorcist added that homosexual behavior is “so disordered” that even the demons, according to St. Catherine of Siena, are repulsed by it, “and yet today it’s glorified.”

According to Fr. Ripperger, much of the support for homosexual unions derives from the “false principle” that “if people love each other,” they should “be able to get married.”

However, a homosexual union is inherently incapable of the primary end of marriage, which is children, as Ripperger pointed out. He noted, moreover, that even the definition of love is misunderstood to mean feelings and emotions, rather than “willing the good of the other.”

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2357, teaches:

Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

Furthermore, Paragraph 1867 of the Catechism lists sodomy as one of four sins that “cries out to heaven” for vengeance.

St. Paul affirms in Scripture the immorality of homosexual acts: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:26-27). 

[Everett Thomas Kettler]

Let us all pray for the three days of darkness that has been foretold that many would see the error of their ways and seek our Lord's forgiveness

[David Gordon Paul LePage]

 Further confirmation that the Great Chastisement is very near! Hold tight to your rosaries!

[Dawn Marie]

Interesting. I had read this and completely forgot where I had read it so I was unable to site a source.  THANK YOU!

[Joseph]

Wow.