Nationals' Trevor Williams recalls fighting anti-Catholic mockery when Dodgers hosted drag nun group

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Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams was one of the loudest voices who condemned the Los Angeles Dodgers for hosting the Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence at their stadium in 2023.

The Dodgers invited, disinvited and then reinvited the group for its Pride Night festivities. The anti-Catholic drag nun group was honored with the team’s community hero award for its service to the LGBTQ+ community.

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Three members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence take part in a Gay Pride March in Paris. (Gregory Herpe/SOPA Images/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 up when the Catholic Church is being directly attacked as it was nearly two years ago.

"It becomes absurd. If this is gonna continue to happen, what are we doing?" Williams said in the conversation published Thursday. "Baseball stadiums should be a place where everyone feels welcomed, like 100%. We should all feel welcomed there. But that was clearly against one certain religion. If you don’t draw the line in the sand, who’s gonna do it?"

The 32-year-old San Diego native recalled the circumstances and was asked at the time whether he was going to say something.

Williams said he thought long about what he wanted to say.

"Going through the whole discernment process – how do I say it, how do I be charitable, how do I call this out as it is? Like on its face, this is anti-Catholic mockery. It was extremely hard for my wife and I to make a statement because we knew it’s a target