Posted on 08/20/2018 2:12:04 AM PDT by markomalley
I'm a lifelong Catholic and if there is another report close to the scale of the Pennsylvania one I think I'll be done with the Catholic church. It looks like nothing more than sex cult run by homosexuals to pursue sex with young boys, protected and advanced from the highest levels.
The first thing you need to understand is that the homosexual/pedophile mafia control all the levers of power in the catholic church. This is why Bennie was ejected and Frankie was installed. When you can "convince" a sitting pope to resign, you have some serious power. I imagine Bennie was made an offer he couldn't refuse. With Frankie in place, the homosexual/pedophile mafia has only gotten stronger. Which brings me to your suggestion about married priests. There is nothing in the bible that says priests should be celibate and stay single. That is a catholic invention. But when the entire catholic hierarchy is dominated by homosexuals and pedophiles, do you really think they want to allow straight men into the priesthood? The flock is their playground and they don't want any reformers to spoil their "fun". So the Vatican will continue spewing forth about tradition and so forth, but the real reason is that heterosexual men are no longer wanted or welcome in the priesthood.
Agreed the term "always" is hyperbole - I didn't use it, was just responding.
My point about Martin Luther is that these types of issues are nothing new. Sadly.
Ah.
Nothing in Vatican II. It is what the bishops and the press claimed was Vatican II. The Communists and modernists did not get what they wanted but they claimed they did and ran amok through the Church. By the time the Poope started to try to turn the tide it was a tsunami and was only partly fixed. Now it is flooding again.There are too many homosexual and/or Communist bishops. We have at least a Communist as Pope now.It will be fixed. The Gates of Hell and all that, but I will not see it in my lifetime. Probably half or more of the Bishops would have to be deposed.
The Church should never have ceased to preach the evils of contraception and, derivatively, abortion, but it idi. Does one priest in a hundred condemn contraception now? One in 200? And what happened to Hell? And Heaven?The only place only place they seem to be even mentioned is in the Confiteor which in many churches has itself been bowdlerized.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I should have recognized that as soon as I typed it.
The Catholic Church, like your church (whatever it is) or any church, is composed 100% of sinners, chosen by God as his faithful, fickle, falling and rising people.
Obviously, that is not the same as saying the Catholic Church has always been corrupt.
I'm on my parish RCIA teaching team (teaching adults who are being received into the Catholic Church). I'm the one who always gives the lesson on Church History.
Having to figure out how to fairly outline 2,000 years in approx. 100 minutes (that's sprinting along at about 20 years per minute, if you want to look at it that way) I pretty much use Christopher Dawson's outline of 6 great cycles of Catholic history, each going from faith to triumph to pride to corruption to downfall, and each lasting roughly 300 years (give or take a century.)
I add a 7th period locating us in a phase of corruption, to be followed by catastrophe, repentance and a renewed walk with the Lord.
The details o the outline may be fairly be disputed, but I think the overall pattern is like that of Biblical Israel. The Lord leads His bride through the wilderness. He will always be there to save.
Vatican II.
The seminary doesn’t fail to accept them in, but if they sadly get assigned to a homosexually dominated district, heaven help them if they dare open their mouths against it.. its career suicide, they are driven off to po dunk districts... passed over for promotions etc.... Standard blacklisting stuff...
The priest can quit, but usually they are not fired, just put out to pasture somewhere where they are no threat to the kabal.
This was not just talk from PA but hopefully the first domino that will set off a chain that will include all 50 States and beyond. AG’s need to access the church records before they disappear or there will be further harm done. This pit of vipers needs to be exposed
I'm a former Naval officer. I see this like a captain running aground 300 times. While the typical captain is fired the first time he messes up that badly, it's disgusting that any leader is permitted more than one such error (generously pretending that these were a few hundred mere errors).
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