
Cardinals McElroy and Cupich, alongside Georgetown's incoming president, sent letters of encouragement to Fr. James Martin's Outreach Conference celebrating five years of LGBT ministry within the Catholic Church, with speakers endorsing positions that contradict the Church's official teaching on homosexuality. This represents a deepening institutional fracture within one of the world's largest Christian bodies, as senior leaders publicly normalize what Scripture and centuries of Church doctrine define as sin — a hallmark warning sign of the great apostasy foretold for the last days. The Apostle Paul warned that a time would come when people would 'not endure sound doctrine' and would 'turn away from the truth' (2 Timothy 4:3-4), while Jude warned of those who 'pervert the grace of our God into sensuality' (Jude 1:4).