Father Mattieu Jasseron, 36, misleads his public in a TikTok.com video (August 25) by explaining “why [practised] homosexuality is definitely not a sin.”
The video generated 422.5K clicks and 5514 commentaries. Jasseron has 627.2K followers and is active on TikTok.com since August 2020.
Speaking like a machine-gun, he recounts that “I have not found” neither in the Bible nor in the Catechism that homosex is a sin, and quotes Francis’ infamous Who-am-I-to-judge dictum.
Jasseron is a parish-priest in Joigny, Sens-Auxerre Archdiocese whose Archbishop Hervé Giraud, 64, says about him, “It's not proselytising [= proclaiming the Gospel] and that's why it works.”
Hailing from a non-religious family, Jasseron is as former asset manager. He was ordained a priest in June 2019, the first diocesan priest after eight years.
The lack of priests in Sens-Auxerre is so dramatic that Archbishop Giraud took over a parish in September 2021. 18 of the 34 diocesan priests are above 75. This year, nine priests …More