Welcome back to Seamus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And as we enter the month of June,

we are once again reminded that the secular, particularly corporate world, is celebrating Pride Month.

It's been very in your face for years now, and I'm sure many of my fellow Christians are

getting sick of it all. And you might know as well that for us as Catholics, June is also the

month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Now, in response

to so-called Pride Month, I've seen people kind of weaponize the Sacred Heart, almost like a sort of

in your face in response to those celebrating pride. But I don't think it's appropriate to use

the Sacred Heart to insult people. So how should good Christians respond to pride? And I think the

Sacred Heart actually is an important part of that answer. Before I get into the meat of this,

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And frankly, to all of us here at Catholic Answers. Okay. So remember a second ago,

I mentioned that June is also the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It turns out there's

actually a surprising connection between the two holidays. We're

going to call it the rainbow connection. So what is this rainbow connection that I see between the two

competing holidays of pride and the month of the Sacred Heart? Well, there's this fascinating detail

in the writings of Pope Pius I haven't seen anyone else point out or notice.

In his 1928 encyclical on the Sacred Heart, he suggests that the rainbow, which God showed to Noah

and Genesis 9 as a sign of his friendly covenant, prefigured the Sacred Heart, which Jesus gives us

as a sign of his love. This is the only Old Testament example he uses in this

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