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To: Gen. Burkhalter
I would tend to disagree.

The US seminaries at the time of Vatican II time were half-full or more of homosexuals, and previous classes had yielded their share of homosexual priests which had replaced the aging Irish and Belgian priests sent over in the 1920`s. The diocesan stats for 1950-70`s show that trend of priests being transferred around, wheras from 1840-1950, almost 100% of priests usually retired or died in the first parish they were assigned to, or they retired to their home countries in their 90`s.

I did research on this when I found out that several priests were known to be predators and were merely transferred to other parishes in the late 1950`s and early 1960`s when I was doing community liason work for the local bishop as a college project and had access to the Chancery records and archives.

9 posted on 02/11/2011 11:27:20 AM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: None; All

Upon the quickest of glances seems to be a ‘traditionalist’ site. Dont have time now but usually these kind of sites are two or three steps removed from sedevacantism and the faith.


10 posted on 02/11/2011 11:34:09 AM PST by RBIEL2
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To: bunkerhill7

Well, maybe you have more info than I do. I just don’t recall reading or hearing about thousands of depraved priests slipping into the priesthood prior to Vatican II. I think in the 1960s, you had a perfect storm attack the Church—First the Vatican II conference which lowered standards, then the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, the finally the rise of left wing Marxist Theology which infected the Church at about the same time. All of these came together to form a perfect storm which I think allowed so many depraved individuals to slip into the priesthood.


11 posted on 02/11/2011 11:39:45 AM PST by Gen. Burkhalter
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