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Active Homosexuality in the Priesthood Helped Cause This Crisis
National Catholic Register ^
| Aug. 18, 2018
| Msgr. Charles Pope
Posted on 08/18/2018 2:34:47 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: livius
Nature abhors a vacuum, and gay men have always been particularly good at establishing themselves as the power group, each one protecting all the others, once they are given the opportunity to do so. I hate to say this, but it's true. You see it in other large institutions as well. "They protect each other, they hire each other." They do.
To: Mrs. Don-o
The headline is wrong. ANY homosexuality in the priesthood IS the crisis.
It led to other horrible results: abuse of children; abuse of seminarians; consensual sodomy between adults; clericalism (needed to support the conspiracy of secrecy to hide the uncounted crimes of clerics); heterosexual unchastity in the priesthood; lax moral teaching by much (most?) of the clergy; etc.
But the admission of ANY sodomite - active or inactive - to the priesthood is a crime against God, the Church, the laity, and nature. The crime is committed by the sodomite, and by the bishop.
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posted on
08/18/2018 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
sitetest
(No longer mostly dead.)
To: Kozy
The Pope is the problem. The Pope is _a_ problem, but the sexual abuse problem long predates him.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
Campion
To: Campion
The pope has to drain the swamp which he isnt doing. He therefore is the problem
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:03:27 PM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: babygene
“...didn’t HELP cause it. It IS what caused it.
Exactly. Precisely.
To: Slyfox
“homosexual and not pedophile”
One can be both.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:09:06 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: aquila48
Yes they can be both but the vast majority of abusing priests are not abusing pre-pubescent children, therefore we are not dealing with pedophiles in the Catholic Church but homosexuals.
The media has spun the pedo-priest idea for so long and the distinction is never explained.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:21:23 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Campion
The Pope is _a_ problem, but the sexual abuse problem long predates him.
Hes been in the Church hierarchy his entire adult life and to my knowledge has never uttered a single word of condemnation.
He IS the problem.
L
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:25:19 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: babygene
. . . the acceptance of this type of behavior by those in charge promoted that as well."
Exactly. For centuries men with homosexual tendencies -- or simply not called to marriage -- saw the priesthood as a way to serve God and the Church honorably, and that's exactly what they did. Then several decades ago the seminaries began to be increasingly overtly homosexual. Once they reached a tipping point the outcome was easy to predict. There are still many, many homosexuals in the priesthood and in the hierarchy, and where you have male homosexuals you have pederasty. The Church is keen to cover up this fact, just as the "gay" community is.
To: miss marmelstein
Perhaps we should start keeping a tally of how many caucus threads are broken by Roman Catholics mentioning other denominations.
I can think of three right off the top of my head by one RC poster alone.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:49:40 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Slyfox
“The media has spun the pedo-priest idea for so long and the distinction is never explained.”
True.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:50:57 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: Mrs. Don-o
Am excellent article. Thank you for posting it.
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posted on
08/18/2018 4:52:11 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: ealgeone
Please do. You are free as a bird to do whatever you want.
To: miss marmelstein
I personally don’t care....however, it seems to bother you for some reason.
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posted on
08/18/2018 5:16:12 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Slyfox
Even the saints are having a gay problem
To: Slyfox
I’m guessing one of those Cardinals was Francis Spellman.
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posted on
08/18/2018 5:49:29 PM PDT
by
princeofdarkness
(Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
To: princeofdarkness
It is hard to speculate on who it may have been. The truth is it was a bonafide communist plot.
What better way to tear down the Church than for her to have men in it doing the unthinkable.
The truth is that the gay problem is not inherent to the Catholic Church, but it is inherent with the satan.
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posted on
08/18/2018 6:38:40 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
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posted on
08/18/2018 6:38:59 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Kozy
With priests raping multitudes of little boys I really wonder if they didn’t span the homosexual crisis in this country and the world. They had access to so many children. Maybe it was multiplication from one generation of priests to the next.
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posted on
08/18/2018 6:44:20 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
This Msgr reasons and writes so very clearly. This is the most comprehensible and properly accountable essay that I have read on this issue from RC sources. What a blessing.
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posted on
08/18/2018 6:53:54 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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