Posted on 10/26/2018 5:40:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
NEW YORK CITY, October 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) ― A former religion editor of Newsweek has published an article in a liberal Catholic magazine about networks of sexually active homosexual priests and prelates in the Catholic Church
Kenneth L. Woodward, an award-winning journalist, editor and author, acknowledged in an article written for the left-leaning Commonweal magazine that homosexuality has played a role in the clerical sexual abuse scandals and their cover-up.
In Woodward’s essay “Double Lives,” he discusses the outing of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick as a sexual predator and alleges that sexually active homosexual clerics protect each other.
“ … It wasn’t just clericalism that allowed McCarrick to abuse seminarians and young priests for decades, even though his behavior was widely known within clerical circles,” he wrote. “And it wasn’t just his ecclesiastical clout that provided him protection. It was networks, too.”
“By networks, I mean groups of gay priests, diocesan and religious, who encourage the sexual grooming of seminarians and younger priests, and who themselves lead double lives — breaking their vows of chastity while ministering to the laity and staffing the various bureaucracies of the church,” Woodward continued.
The veteran religious affairs journalist said he had heard about such networks throughout his almost 40-year career at Newsweek:
“During the nearly four decades I spent writing about religion for Newsweek, I heard numerous tales of ‘lavender lobbies’ in certain seminaries and chanceries, told mostly by straight men who had abandoned their priestly vocations after encountering them,” he wrote.
One of the few priests to complain publicly was the late priest-novelist, Andrew Greeley, who alleged that a homosexual network was active in Cardinal Bernadin’s Chicago archdiocese. Woodward also heard about networks in the Vatican “mostly from Italians, who are generally more relaxed about homosexuality than.........
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I am sick of leftist catholics.
JoMa
Ping
Not surprised!
Though not about circumcision, these networks wherever they happen, not just in the RCC, compare to what Paul wrote in Galatians 2:4 ...
“This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.”
How they make slaves of men can be inferred from how Paul continues, likewise how they may be successfully resisted:
“We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.”
They reinforce slaveery (of sin) by working to prevent the transmission of the Gospel, to get the rest to compromise and join with them, or at least to champion them in their sin, and by doing so place themselves in the way of Romans 1:18-32.
Remember, our real enemy is not flesh and blood. Slaves to sin obey their master. Someone else is calling the dance behind these networks.
Me, too.
Too true.
This Newsweek writer couldn't be more important to revealing the depth and breadth of the homosexual problem among the clergy.
It is important we quit pretending this is about pedophile abuse of minor children!
It is equally important that it comes from the LEFT, to preclude dismissal as narrow or bias.
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