Jesuits? No surprise.
Homoclericalism is a serioius symptom of a far more serious problem in the Church.It is looking like the Vatican has been subject to a Hostile Takeover by another Company.
Denial? Hell, it’s outright encouragement.
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The post reformation priesthood is employment for queer sons
Homosexual priests.
Everything they touch turns to......
And, of course, the standard joke: The main diff between a Jesuit and a Protestant is that the Protestant admits that they are not Catholic.
They take from the poor and build huge opulent ornate structures, provide bishops, cardinals and the like retreats and homes worth millions.
They breed guilt, shame, condemnation...always having parishioners focusing on sin rather than the goodness/mercy/forgiveness of the Father through Jesus.
I had a dude at work classify himself as Catholic..not Christian. Told him, if you are a follower of Jesus..you are a Christian. He kinda looked at me with a funny look on his face.
The concept to bible study...or even cracking the bible to study the scriptures is foreign to many Catholics.
What better way for satan to attack the church than from within. I pray God have mercy on the leadership of the Catholic church for decades of burying abuse claims, paying off victims in exchange for silence, for the many cases of blaming the sexual abuse victims for telling their stories.
That’s true.
But do other churches suffer this same denial?
How about schools?
How about families with incest and molestation records?
"So you know, there's a lot of, a lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news of late, and uh, I couldn't help but notice, very disturbing pattern emerging...which is that many of the predators -- not all -- but many of them...are Jews." -- Larry David, SNL Host, Nov. 4, 2017
Sedevacantists are feeling quite justified about now.
This ex-Catholic has this to say:
For you still-practicing Catholics...you are confessing to cult of homos, pedophiles and pederasts. And accepting their absolution. They won. They destroyed the church long ago. It is no more.
Surely, in prayer, you are being messaged to run.
"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues."
It's that time. The lamp stand is gone from the Catholic Church.
Based on a sinful lifestyle choice.
So it seems to me that this repressed homosexuality among priests led to the molestation of boys. They obviously couldn’t openly practice homosexuality.
Pedophilia is pre-pubescent. Most of the victims are to old for this to be categorized as pedophilia.
All of the perpetrators are male. The vast majority of the victims are male.
The structure and the cover-up make this organized.
Here are rough definitions:
Chronophilia - a form of paraphilia in which an individual experiences sexual attraction limited to individuals of particular age ranges.
Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19.
Hebephilia - the primary or exclusive adult sexual interest in pubescent individuals approximately 11-14 years old.
Pedophilia - a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
Pederasty - a homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male.
There is no doubt while ephebophilia is considered a disorder, the late teenaged female has been stressed as a heterosexual ideal for beauty, female virtue, and female fertility for years. For centuries cultures have worshiped youthful beauty. The age of consent in many U.S states and many countries range from 12 to 18, with most being 16. "Romeo and Juliet" laws, designed to prevent older males from taking advantage of younger females are a relatively new development. The same ideal of youthful beauty exists in the homosexual community.
The truth is there are a large number of homosexual priests in the Catholic Church. Priestly celibacy has allowed closeted homosexuals to hide in plain site for centuries. There is also a history of teenage altar boys in the Catholic Church. The potential for grooming has been there for centuries.
I have no doubt something similar would have happened with heterosexual priests if they had access to a large number of teenage girls in private situations in the same way homosexual priests had access to a large number of male teenage altar boys.
I am not a Roman Catholic, but I think eliminating priestly celibacy, and ensuring altar boys are coed to include changing church canon to allow acolytes to be female would help reduce the risk of this problem in the future. Those are big changes, but I think long-term that is the only thing which can save the Catholic Church.
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