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Footnotes
- Summa Theologica, III, Supplement, Appendix 1, Q. 2, a.1 c.
- Calendar of Major Events: 6 September 2025- Celebration of the Association La Tenda di Gionata and other associations. https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/it/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo/pellegrinaggi/pellegrinaggio-associazione-tenda-gionata-altre-associazioni.html
- La Tenda di Gionata. https://www.gionata.org/tendadigionata/ 12/31/2024
- Riconciliazione e accoglienza delle persone LGBT+, una sfida per la Chiesa giubilare di papa Francesco. Innocenzo. 16 Dicembre 2024, https://www.gionata.org/riconciliazione-e-accoglienza-delle-persone-lgbt-una-sfida-per-la-chiesa-giubilare-di-papa-francesco/ 12/29/24.
- Sitemap – Cosa dice la Bibbia?, https://www.gionata.org/sitemap-cosa-dice-la-bibbia/ 12/30/24
- https://www.gionata.org/al-pride-di-bologna-le-famiglie-cattoliche-sfilano-coi-figli-lgbt-nellamore-non-ce-timore/ 12/29/24
- Franca Giansoldati, Giubileo, un evento giubilare dedicata alla comunità Lgbt+: la mossa di Papa Francesco, https://www.ilmessaggero.it/vaticano/giubileo_giornata_lgbt_papa_francesco-8522006.html 12/30/24; Giubileo, Bergoglio approva il “pellegrinaggio“ LGBT; Renovatio 21. 9 Dicembre 2024. https://www.renovatio21.com/giubileo-bergoglio-approva-il-pellegrinaggio-lgbt/ 12/31/2024 9:01 PM
- Cfr. Luisella Scrosati, L’agenda gay avanza col giubileo LGBT, regia di Cei e Gesuiti, https://lanuovabq.it/it/lagenda-gay-avanza-col-giubileo-lgbt-regia-di-cei-e-gesuiti, 12/30/24; idem, Il giubileo gay giubilato dal calendario, imbarazzo vaticano, https://lanuovabq.it/it/il-giubileo-gay-giubilato-dal-calendario-imbarazzo-vaticano 12/30/24
- Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, defends the LGTB Jubilee pilgrimage, https://infovaticana.com/2024/12/23/el-arzobispo-fisichella-pro-prefecto-del-dicasterio-para-la-evangelizacion-defiende-la-peregrinacion-lgtb-del-jubileo/ 12/26/24
- The Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis of Saint Pius X explains the Modernist thought: “Faith, which is the basis and the foundation of all religion, consists in a sentiment which originates from a need of the divine …. experienced only in special and favorable circumstances“ (Pascendi, no. 7, https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html 1/1/25).
- See TFP Committee on American Issues, Defending a Higher Law, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition Family and Property, Spring Grove Penn., 2012, especially Chapter 11.
- Idem, pp. 8-9.
- See Jose Antonio Ureta And Julio Loredo, The Breeched Dam – The Fiducia Supplicans Surrender to The Homosexual Movement, Translated by José A. Schelini, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP, Spring Grove, Penn., 2024.