Conservative Christians on social media are having fits about Pride Month. They like to point out that pride was, in their view, the original sin of the angels. Never mind that this notion owes more to Milton and Paradise Lost than to anything in the Bible — once something gets in the conservative Christian psyche, it’s hard to shake it out.

But no conservative Christian is as upset about Pride Month as Catholics, because June is dedicated to the “Sacred Heart of Jesus.” Conservative Catholics are upset about this, suggesting Catholics need to “reclaim the month.”

I’m curious how they see this working exactly. Do they expect that in “reclaiming the month,” they can convince masses of people to abandon Pride Month and embrace this idea? Most non-Catholic Christians have never heard of this notion of the “Scared Heart of Jesus.” They might ask, “What about his other internal organs? Is there a month of the Sacred Spleen of Jesus, too?”

The Catholic Culture website explains it thusly:

Understood in the light of the Scriptures, the term “Sacred Heart of Jesus” denotes the entire mystery of Christ, the totality of his being, and his person considered in its most intimate essential: Son of God, uncreated wisdom; infinite charity, principal of the salvation and sanctification of mankind. The “Sacred Heart” is Christ, the Word Incarnate, Saviour, intrinsically containing, in the Spirit, an infinite divine-human love for the Father and for his brothers.

“Month of the Sacred Heart“

I don’t think it will sell in 2023…