Posted on 07/26/2002 2:35:57 PM PDT by narses
Ping. An oldie but a goodie.
I would not write off "AA-1025" so easliy.
In my personal experiences I have met more then a few priests who willfully entered the priesthood under false pretenses. Homosexuals - who were quite proud of themselves, and described the process of fooling their teachers in the seminaries (those who were conservative)....and pretended a type of orthodoxy so as to fly under the radar.
Also, I know of at least two priests whose parents were card-carrying members of the Communist party....and were quite proud of this fact.
As some authors have indicated - which tends to corroborate the AA-1025 story - is that gay men were used as one of the primary vehicles for infiltration. They were blackmailable (both in the 1930s and today), and so could be easily controlled, manipulated, and ordered about. Obedience to superiors, and the peer pressure of being "outed" within teh limited universe of their fellow priests was the vise which locked them into step. They had to obey.........to go along.......to follow and implement "policy", or face sanctions.
What they found was that the gay priest was the ideal vehicle for their plans. He had something to hide - which could be played upon, making him vulnerable. He had few true morals, so he could be easily corrupted. Even if he did have some morals, he could be gradually weaned of them, nad made quite useful.
Yes......a quote to that extent was in the opening pages of Fr. Malachi Martin's Windswept House.
Your remark regarding Catholic Charities is quite correct. There is very little which is Catholic about it, and charity............think "black hole for money".
Like the CHD.
SOP for Homosexual operatives!!
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Technically, Weakland is STILL a Bishop.
And Weakie was the one who found Merton dead in the shower, as he tells the story.
This was an interesting thread, wasn't it?
7 Story Mountain was good but then it seemed like his wheels were falling off, one by one.
I can't believe 'Weakie' was the one who found him... that man is everywhere (he probably shouldn't be)!
I don't know why but I'm thinking of Paul Shanley and the notes he wrote to the Boston bishop threatening blackmail if the bishop took Shanley off of his 'street prowling priest' job.
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Scary isn't it?
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Hey, I got here 3 minutes before you did.
Back of the line until he answers my question ;-)
(nudge nudge)
[Scary isn’t it?]
Scary in what way?
Not sure about this particular conspiracy theory, but the general idea of the threat of Ccommunist infiltration was/is real. In 1937, in the encyclical “Divini Redemptoris” Pope Pius XI forbade Catholics worldwide from any association with Communists, even socially. Later Pope Pius XII declared that professing or promoting Communism constitutes apostasy and that the sacraments must be refused to those who actively participate in Communist publications or propaganda.
In the glory days of the USSR, it was commonly thought among conservative intellectuals that the only two great institutions that could prevent Communist dominion of the world were the USA, of course, and the Catholic Church because of it’s antithesis to Communism, based on individual redemption, the sanctity of life, and God as the ultimate reality and source of truth.
Communism and Catholicism are diametrically opposed, as Pope John Paul II also pointed out, so it makes sense that the church would be a major target for the Communists. If we take a look at most of the bishops today, it’s not completely unbelievable that such a conspiracy of some sort, perhaps with unwitting collaborators of liberal social causes, has been at work for quite some time.
Do away with the Church.
Do away with the family.
Do away with society.
Look up Gramsci on the internet. You will be able to answer your own question.
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