Cardinal Burke: ‘Very Grave Problem of Homosexual Culture in the Church

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[wardaddy]

Cardinal Raymond Burke has called for “open recognition” of the Catholic church’s homosexual culture in light of recent revelations of sexual abuse. “I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church,” Burke said in an interview Thursday, “especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.”

he former head of the church’s equivalent of the Supreme Court said it was already “clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men.”

“There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this,” he said, referring to the mainstream media cover-up of the homosexual nature of the abuse as well as such denial within the church itself.

[Lurker]

Full cooperation with relevant law enforcement agencies would be a nice way to start.

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[allendale]

Most of the hierarchy and the current Pope ought to resign. Not sure what would evolve but what now exists is not holy. Hopefully there is a spirit chasing these abominable, perverted homosexuals with a whip to drive them out of the temple. Not the sort of whip they have become accustomed and like.

[Little Ray]

How about stripping any priest who molests a child of his status and excommunicating him?
That would certainly make the Church’s displeasure known to the rest of us.

[SVTCobra03]

Are you saying that there have been no scoutmasters arrested for child molestation since 1988 when the BSA Youth Protection Training Program was enacted?

[Tenacious 1]

Is he suggesting that there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia?

That's the way I read it too. Except, he seemed to be saying that this is NOT pedophilia, it's ONLY homosexuality because the boys are past the start of puberty? That gets sketchy. Priests don't tend to have consistent, unsupervised access to boys until they are about 12 years old (alter boys, servers, bible studies, CCD classes, etc.). Further, the article seems to suggest that one is worse than the other, as if there is a different level of consent. It's RAPE either way you cut it. And it should be punished as harshly.

[cyclotic]

Yea, they’ve done a really good job with Canon law, whatever that is, so far.

Child molestation is never to be dealt with internally by an institution. It is a criminal matter that is to be dealt with by the courts...always.

Failure to do so can and should be dealt with criminally.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I pray God’s justice be done. And I am not a Pope Francis fan...

The Catholic Church has weathered through far worse.

It’s the truly faithful who define it, not merely its fallen leadership.

[Jaded]

Referring to the 2004 John Jay study on the sexual abuse crisis in the United States, Donohue notes that “81 percent of the victims were male, 78 percent of whom were postpubescent.” Since all of the abusers were male and most of the victims were postpubescent males, “that is a problem called homosexuality,” Donohue stated.

[bitt]

‘thank you Cardinal Obvious’ - haha, best post ping

[grania]

It's too little, too late. It's impossible to even begin to imagine how many on the inside were aware of the scope of the problem and the coverup.

Faux Francis seems more like part of the problems within the Church than a leader for a solution.

There's another very bad factor going on in the Church. It supports the invasion of the US instead of the rule of law which a nation has every right to enforce.

[grania]

Silly me. It’s all perversion, and evil, isn’t it?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Burke has been fighting Frances tooth-and-nail on all fronts from the beginning, and has paid a steep price. He’s not a newcomer to this issue, and it shows your ignorance to act as if he is.

[Old Yeller]

They’re only purged because the priestophiles died of old age.

[al_c]

I’ll give you one example ... When I moved back up to the Dallas area after 9 years in Austin, it was just following the Rudy Koss case in the Dallas Diocese. Since that day, the Diocese implemented safeguards to make sure that it didn’t happen again at least in Dallas. The safeguards implemented were noticed by the rest of the Church and, as far as I know, the entire RCC in America (if not the entire Church) adopted them.

The problem in Pennsylvania appears to have been a deep seeded network of predators. Horrible, horrible case(s). The revelation of these incidents will bring about even more changes to the ways seminarians, volunteers, etc. are vetted. Bishop Burns of Dallas is already working on further changes to the Diocese’s policies.

[taildragger]

"It is a criminal matter that is to be dealt with by the courts...always. Failure to do so can and should be dealt with criminally."

Bingo, 100% No tolerance policy is the only thing that will save the Church IMHO is a policy such as this being implemented. FWIW I have run in a ton of Evangelicals here in MI that gravitate to the mega-churches all what many would call Lapsed Catholics, and I have no empirical data but my hunch is this "issue" going back to when it surfaced with what happened in Boston, might have been a catalyst for them leaving. It is something that Rome really needs to consider....

[RinaseaofDs]

That made me laugh.

On the serious side, the Cardinal stuck his neck out. I think this goes all the way to the Pope.

Every bishop in the Pope’s home country resigned in protest over something related to all of this, plus I believe murder. I don’t remember the details.

[bert]

I’ve seen no articles where there were hundreds and hundreds of sexual predators protected by BSA in the manner of the Catholic leadership.

And of course, Baptist Choir Directors are never mentioned for their sexual predation

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Hard to surpress all this madness now.

Klavan: The Enemy Is In The Church

https://www.dailywire.com/news/34571/klavan-enemy-church-daily-wire?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=091517-news&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

[Socon-Econ]

Another problem— the Pope acts like pushing Marxism and leftist environmentalism is more important than personal moral issues.

[PeterPrinciple]

in light of recent revelations of sexual abuse.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if the reason was, in light of what God says on the matter.

sexual abuse is not the real issue...……………………