Politically Incorrect Numbers Interview Regarding Homosexual Lobby and Cardinal Bertone

PAMPLONA, Spain, APRIL 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Numbers might not be politically correct, but they shouldn't offend anyone, according to an author who says the current discourse on pedophile priests is a typical example of a "moral panic."

Massimo Introvigne, director of the Center for Studies on New Religions, affirmed this in speaking of the media firestorm surrounding a press conference given Monday in Chile by Benedict XVI's secretary of state.

In response to a question asking if there is a link between celibacy and sexual abuse by the clergy, Cardinal Bertone responded: "Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shown that there is no link between celibacy and pedophilia, but many others have shown, and have told me recently, that there is a link between homosexuality and pedophilia."

Everyone is struck right now by the action of a "gay lobby" that seeks a pretext in the issue of pederast priests to silence the Church, to impede her from presenting her doctrine on the objectively disordered character of the homosexual act, and above all to set up obstacles to the extremely effective action that Catholics have carried out to block states' public recognition of homosexual unions.

I'm convinced that's why the stories of abuse broke in Boston when they did. Folks in police and legal circles had known about Fr. Geoghan and Fr. Shanley for years, but they were protected by their Democrat friends in Boston.

It just so happened, at the time the abuse became public, that there was a Constitutional Amendment being considered that would solidify marriage to be only between one man and one woman. The Church was solidly behind that Amendment push, and the homosexual lobby knew it needed to diminish the Church's credibility in that fight.

In the midst of the media surrounding the abuse, the Supreme Judicial Court, by fiat, struck down all state laws denying marriage between members of the same sex. It didn't matter that almost 60% of the voters were against it. The weenies in the State Legislature were too scared of the powerful and wealthy homosexual lobby, and never allowed the Amendment to be placed on the ballot.

The abuse had occurred years before the stories came out, and the Diocese of Boston had already begun to put measures in place to keep it from happening again, but that never seemed to make the news. Folks would have been excused for thinking it had all gone on in the previous four or five years, and was STILL going on!

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