Priest Advises a “Brokeback Lent”, Homily Encourages Propaganda Film

LifeSite ^ | March 7, 2006 | John-Henry Westen

[NYer]

Priest Advises a “Brokeback Lent”, Homily Encourages Propaganda Film

By John-Henry Westen

BOSTON, March 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The homosexual propaganda film Brokeback Mountain, besides winning three Oscars over the weekend, has shown itself as an adept tool for outing dissidents within the Catholic Church.  While committed Catholics have seen in the film as a dangerous propaganda tool which normalizes homosexuality, left-leaning Catholics have been hard-pressed to outdo one another in lauding the film.

First, the director for the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting Harry Forbes gushed over Brokeback saying, "Director Ang Lee tells the story with a sure sense of time and place, and presents the narrative in a way that is more palatable than would have been thought possible.”  (the review was substantially altered after LifeSiteNews.com exposed it http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121607.html) 

Also, a prominent Dominican Leader, Rev. Tom Condon, student master for St. Martin de Porres Province of the Dominicans, lauded the film as “an engrossing story, a plea for tolerance, and a sad, emotional film that will touch anyone who has ever been in love.” ( http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06020703.html) 

Shortly thereafter, the liberal associate editor of Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper – the archdiocese of Toronto’s Catholic Register, extolled the films portrayal of the homosexual acts saying, “When the gay cowboy lovers first discover a way to be authentic with each other - truthful about their basic sexual attractions and the source of their happiness in each other - they achieve a resemblance to truth itself." (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06021508.html)

 Finally, the new Archbishop of San Francisco, whose installation was appreciatively received by the homosexual community, called the film “very powerful”. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06021306.html)

The latest example has Father John Allan Loftus, S.J. the Director of the Jesuit Urban Center at the Boston Church of the Immaculate Conception recommending a “Brokeback Lent.”  In his homily for Ash Wednesday, March 1, Loftus urged congregants to watch the film. “I suspect many in this community have already seen Brokeback Mountain,” he said. “If not see it; if you have, see it again and reflect on the consequences of not being interiorly free, the consequences of not knowing who you really are and want to become, the tragic consequences and subsequent devastation that comes from only living in a ‘pretend’ world.”

Rev. Loftus proposed, contrary to Catholic teaching, that sexual sin is not real sin, whereas not giving in to one's desires is sin. “For too many of us, what we think of as ‘our sinfulness,’ our not yet even being the full human beings we are created to become, remains a paltry and cheap catalogue of peccadillos, usually having something to do with sex or not being ‘charitable’ toward each other.  Those so-called ‘sins’ are hardly worth setting aside 40 days each year to ponder; those sins of yours or mine are hardly worth mentioning, really.”  Loftus continued, “There is something much bigger at stake here than my petty sinfulness, my unkindness, my frustrated sex life, or my infuriating love life.  The sin that is before us always is our refusal to grow into the freedom for which we were born.”

The fact that Brokeback Mountain is a propaganda film to normalize homosexuality has been attested to by even the secular media, but has also been analyzed as such by an expert in the field.  Dr. R. Winfield, in an article on the controversial film writes, “Having studied propaganda and its effects on societies for over 50 years, I can state unequivocally that the film Brokeback Mountain is one of the most blatant propaganda pieces of recent times.”

Winfield’s must-read analysis of the film points out that scenery, music and lighting were all expertly utilized in the film to create a “most effective” piece of propaganda which “comes in under the radar, it's innocuous and appeals to our humanity and emotions.”  (see the full analysis: http://www.rense.com/general69/prop.htm )

To contact Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley about Fr. Loftus

Seán Cardinal O'Malley, OFM Cap
Archbishop of Boston
Office:
2121 Commonwealth Av.
Boston, MA 02135-3192
Phone: 617-782-2544
FAX: 617-782-8358
http://www.rcab.org/Information/contactform.html

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[kenth]

The U.S. Church needs a cleansing.

[Tax-chick]

You people really ought to do something about this, you know.

As P.J. O'Rourke so eloquently stated, "I could throw up, but how would that help?"

[visualops]

I've got to wonder why that good dissection of Brokeback's propaganda is housed at a rat's nest website of conspiracy theories, anti-semitism and holocaust denials.

[Palladin]

Why didn't some real man in the congregation just walk up there casually to the pulpit and thrash that arrogant faggot priest?

[Pittsburg Phil]

The Catholic clergy is fagged up. It needs a good cleansing, that's for sure.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

My idea of a Brokeback Lent - taking the "Catholic" dissidents out back and breaking in their backs on the rack before a nice stretching with the rope. They can learn of the penitiential and cleansing qualities of bodily pain for prufiying the mind of dissent.

I suppose this isn't what Fr. Loftus was getting at though.

[Palladin]

In a couple of years!?! Why wait a couple of years?

I fear I will not see the cleansing of the Church in my lifetime. (I'm 74 years old.)

Hurry up, Benedict. Please get on with it!

[Convert from ECUSA]

"They realize their days are numbered under this pontiff and are fighting back with all their might. They deserve nothing less than a Ratzinger smackdown! "

May Pope Benedict XVI come down on them like stink on an old hog, and then commence to hurt them! BAM!

[Cheverus]

A little background: The Jesuit Urban Center (aka Immaculate Conception) is for all intents and purposes an independent Catholic Church located in Boston's South End. It's not a Canonical Parish...the Jesuits were set to sell it a couple of years ago and stripped but then it was declared a historic site so they had to keep it.

It's basically a homosexual quasi-Catholic Church, it's where that nun got in trouble for vesting during a baptism a couple of years ago.

While Immaculate Conception was a very popular place up until the 60s for normal Catholics (due to very generous hours for confessions and plenty of Priests) these days with the Jesuits going off the rails most Bostonians don't even know it exists.

It's actually where Paul Shanley worked out of during his "ministry"

[Barney Gumble]

Well I guess now I didn't hear the worst homily on Ash Wednesday. (I heard one about global warming and how Americans use of oil will destroy the earth)

[redgolum]

It almost appears that there are totally different churches depending on what diocese you wander into.

The difference is all the more apparent to me when we moved from Nebraska to Iowa. In Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha diocese), the biggest difference would be how many servers there were. In Iowa, in the churches my wife has attended there have been pro homo sermons, global warming sermons, churches with out crosses, etc.

If you were to take a complete outsider and show him the congregations here and in Nebraska, and then asked him to determine if they were the same type of denomination, he couldn't do it.

Perhaps I am used to more uniformity, but this is nuts!

[SaltyJoe]

"how Rome works"

The puss must come to a boil before it's lanced and the disease runs out.

Because mortal man only lasts a short lifetime, it's hard to imagine the Church in any worse condition. But I'm sure history would prove that the Church has survived much much worse times than these. The fever has broke and we've scarcely recognized the victory because many Parishes are still in a dangerously weakened state. It's not over yet.

Someone told me of a good story of the Middle Ages concerning a Jew that was interested in the Catholic Church. The Jew told his friend, a Catholic priest, that he was off to Rome and would return. Fearing that his Jewish friend would be displeased with all of the corruption he'd see in Rome, the priest begged that he could Baptize him before he departed. But the Jew, advanced in years, was hardly worried. He left without the Sacrament, saw Rome, and returned as he promised.

"Baptize me. I've seen enough." said the Jewish friend.

"How is this possible?" wondered the priest.

"That Catholicism has lasted this long in spite of all it's abuses, corruption, and scandals even at the heart of its holiest of capitals only proves that God is truly present in the Catholic Church."

If Christianity were any other mere idea or organization either diabolic or human in origin, we would have vanished without any serious thought. But because Jesus has adopted us as brothers and sisters Baptized in the Spirit of God, we have become the adopted descendants of Abraham and the recipients of God's Promise for Salvation.

[Campion]

This down-to-earth book is the result of the author's many years of experience in counseling priests, brothers and sisters accused of sexual misconduct.

Did he tell them that the only real "sexual misconduct" was not giving in to one's desires? I wonder ...

[TheSpottedOwl]

I'd like to take an "authentic" iron frying pan to some of these idiots.

Hey whatever you do, be "authentic"! I cannot believe that a priest would recommend seeing this movie to his parishoners. The Pope needs to examine this priest's "authenticity" regarding Catholicism. Priests like him are the reason I quit going.

[NYer]

It almost appears that there are totally different churches depending on what diocese you wander into.

Unfortunately, it all hinges on the bishop. Where more progressive bishops reign, 'novelties' are commonplace. First and foremost, know your rights! The regulations that govern the elements of the Mass are contained in the GIRM (General Instructions of the Roman Missal). The best summation of these, however, was compiled by Bruce Sabalaskey, web master of Our Ladys Warriors site. The site is still up but he can no longer devote the time he once did. Though some of the links are broken, begin by reading his excellent article ......

Is Your Mass Valid? - Liturgical Abuse.

Let this serve as a guideline for the Masses you attend. If needs be, switch parishes and look for the smaller ones where the more orthodox priests are often sent by the progressive bishops.

Unfortunately, there are no Eastern Catholic Churches in Iowa or I would suggest you attend one of those liturgies. After battling liturgical abuse in my diocese, I began attending the Maronite Catholic Church two years ago, which has been like an oasis in the desert. A truly holy priest, solid catholic catechesis in his homilies and utter reverence for our Lord present in the Eucharist and His Blessed Mother. Best of all, the liturgy is fixed; there are no novelties, no dancers, no communion in the hand, and no EMHCs.

[jtal]

Why cant we get the JEsuits under control?

I think the order was suppressed three centuries too early.

[NYer]

Is this the same church where John Kerry celebrated Mass during the previous presidential campaign?