Now, perhaps these moves portend a concentrated effort by the hierarchy to combat the sin of pride. A few years back, Archbishop Niederauer in San Francisco took a similar step regarding a parish’s participation in a gay pride march. Francis’s parishioners have been marching with their banner for years. The video of that Mass clearly shows him nodding in approval as the speaker acknowledges the group and the way they bring LGBT Catholics back to the sacraments. After all, the Church explicitly and repeatedly calls for ministry to gays and lesbians and, just a few days prior, Dolan had presided at the Mass of Rededication which included a mention of the parish’s ministry to gays and lesbians. Francis Xavier Church to attend the city’s Gay Pride parade with a banner that extols that church’s ministry to gays and lesbians. I am a big fan of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and was surprised by his decision not to allow parishioners from St.