Posted on 01/23/2023 8:22:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Gay “clubs” operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published book scathing of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda.
In a blistering attack on the state of the Catholic Church under his successor’s papacy, Benedict, who died on Dec 31 at the age of 95, said that the vocational training of the next generation of priests is on the verge of “collapse”.
He claimed that some bishops allow trainee priests to watch pornographic films as an outlet for their sexual urges.
Benedict gave instructions that the book, What Christianity Is, should be published after his death.
It is one of a handful of recent books by conservative Vatican figures which have poured scorn on the decade-old papacy of Francis, who was elected after his predecessor’s historic resignation in 2013.
The outpouring of new books contributes to “impressions of a mounting civil war in the Church following the death of Benedict XVI”, according to John Allen, a leading Vatican analyst who writes for Crux, the Catholic news outlet.
The existence of “homosexual clubs” is particularly prevalent in the US, Benedict said in his book, adding: “In several seminaries, homosexual clubs operate more or less openly.”
He cited the example of an American bishop who allegedly allowed his seminarians, or trainee priests, to watch porn films “presumably with the intention of rendering them capable of resisting behaviours contrary to the faith”.
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Wow. Luther proved right again.
Preverts.
The Bible refers to it as an abomination. Not just because these gays defile each other, but because the ramifications of this mental sickness throughout society is so pervasive. We are witnessing the ripple effect now. “We just want to get married and be left alone” was a satanic lie.
When Luther visited Rome, he saw a lot of immorality in the clergy and bureaucracy. It helped push him along the road to reformation
I think they should go back to the olden days where priests could be married. Maybe it worked fine in the three digit era but the time seems past when such a universal mandate for a position that needs to be as widespread as an ordinary priest was beneficial to the church. It just ends up turning the place into a crashpad for closet gay men.Celibacy can still be available for those who still want to go the extra mile for the gold star. Either that or I guess have deacons fill the role of priests.
Maybe the Catholics were wrong to mandate priestly celibacy in the 12th century. That could explain why leadership became more selfish and corrupt in the centuries leading up to the Protestant Reformation. LOL
Face facts. Luther’s immorality was epic in scale. And unrelenting. So much for leadership, much less holiness.
Sigh.
You think Protestant churches are free from these things?
Aye!
The Synod of Mainz (1049) forcibly dissolved clergy Marriages forcing clergy wives into convents and their children into orphanages.
This traumatic ending of clerical marriage was recalled in the 1530 Confession of Augsburg: “And in Germany, four hundred years ago for the first time, the priests were violently compelled to lead a single life, who indeed offered such resistance that the Archbishop of Mayence, when about to publish the Pope’s decree concerning this matter, was almost killed in the tumult raised by the enraged priests. And so harsh was the dealing in the matter that not only were marriages forbidden for the future, but also existing marriages were torn asunder, contrary to all laws, divine and human, contrary even to the Canons themselves, made not only by the Popes, but by most celebrated Synods.”
Not wrong.
For all unmarried, not only priests, chastity constitutes total sexual continence.
We need holy, not worldly, priests.
Nope. I did not say that.
Life used to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. But now we live a lot longer than in the past. So the Catholic Church needs to recognize this to keep out the predators in the priesthood.
The Western Church was petrified that the widows of Priests could receive Church property through rights of inheritance.
As always, follow the money.
+1
Theres sexual indiscretion in all churches that are big enough and have been around long enough. But the ‘little boy’ problem seems to be unique to the Catholic clergy. Its not that much of a wild stretch that the celibacy mandate may be related. Not that celibacy turns people into child molesters but that in this day and age it cuts down massively on the recruitment flow until you have conditions conducive to a large percentage consists of the type of guys who are uh....looking for cover.
The Catholic Church never really had a pedophile problem, it had a homosexual infiltration problem. I’ve been convinced for years that there was a long-term conscious effort to infiltrate and corrupt it.
For what it’s worth I believe churches should encourage leaders or anybody else to abstain if able. But if they can’t keep their pants on then get married. (1st Corinthians 7:1-9)
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