Washington Nationals Pitcher Trevor Williams was one of the highest voices condemned Los Angeles Dodgers to host the sisterhood of eternal indulgence at their stadium in 2023.
Dodgers invited, disinitected and then reinstated the group for its Pride Night celebrations. The Anti-Catholic Drag Nun Group was honored with the team’s Community Hero Award for his service to the LGBTQ+ community.
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Three members of the sisters for eternal indulgence participate in a gay pride in Paris. (Gregory Herpe/SOPA photos/lightrocket via Getty Images)
Williams and other Dodgers players were far from OK with having the group there. In an interview with Bishop Robert Barron, he agreed that Catholics should speak when the Catholic Church is directly attacked when it was almost two years ago.
“It will be absurd. If this continues to happen, what are we doing?” Said Williams in the conversation, which was published on Thursday. “Baseball stadions should be a place where everyone feels welcome, like 100%. We should all feel welcome there. But it was clearly against a particular religion. If you don’t pull the line in the sand, who should we do it?”
The 32-year-old natives in San Diego remembered the circumstances and was asked at the time if he would say anything.
Williams said he was thinking for a long time about what he would say.
“To review the whole discretionary process — how do I say it, how am I charitable, how do I call this out as it is? Like the face, this is anti-Catholic mockery. It was extremely difficult for my wife and I had to make a statement, Because we knew it is a goal on the back, “he told the bishop.
Williams criticized Dodgers for hosting the group and saying in a statement that it “undermines the values of respect and inclusive to be maintained by any organization.”
The sisters of eternal indulgence are honored by Los Angeles Dodgers on June 16, 2023. (Jayne Kamin-Concea-usa Today Sports)
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He said the reactions were “overwhelmingly positive.”
“One of the few times in my life where I really felt the power of prayer from others. I was able to be a level head. I had an increased sense of affection towards the holy heart because I got to pray that Novena with thousands of people and do it.
“We found out that we were pregnant in the middle of this. We named our daughter Monica Margaret because of the grace we received from the holy heart.”
Williams said he felt “mentally exhausted” a few weeks later from receiving questions about the test. He said he was in Houston when citizens wrapped up a series of Astros and was able to return to Washington early because he was ready to beat the next day.
He said he came to the airport early and prayed the rose wreath while sitting in the food, looking for some kind of grace to know that he was doing the right thing. He said he looked around and found nothing that would have been a sign for him.
Williams said he was coming back and sitting alone at another gate far from the airport quantity.
“Up walks next to me was this little nun. She sits right next to me. And I’m like you laughing me? This is my grace,” he said. “I go up to her and I have my travel bag with me and my little altar kit, so I had this prayer card of sister Wilhelmina … so I came up to her and I am like ‘thank you for your witness to that church.
Williams revealed that nuns spoke no English but was happy to accept his prayer card.
Washington Nationals Pitcher Trevor Williams warms up in spring training in West Palm Beach, Florida, February 15, 2025. (Jim Rassol-Preferred Pictures)
“The little little greases I got through this process were, you know God put me at this arena as a baseball player to speak against this, he gave me my faith and all signs point to this moment. We were going to la it Next week, so I had to say something.
