Posted on 04/02/2021 5:50:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. But for CBS News, Palm Sunday is an occasion to throw wild, tabloidish allegations at the Catholic Church.
"Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley began the program saying: "Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity's Holy Week. Catholic priests take the leading role in their parishes, of course, even as a long-hidden issue within their ranks is coming out of the shadows."
Gay reporter Seth Doane explained: "Earlier this month, the Vatican confirmed priests cannot bless same-sex partnerships. But within this closed-off institution, there is an open secret."
"How many gay priests do you think there are?" he asked James Martin, a Jesuit priest and LGBT activist within the church. Martin said: "If it was 40%, I wouldn't be surprised. If it was 80%, I wouldn't be surprised."
This is not a poll or a study. This is a guess -- from someone who clearly wants to make the Catholic Church abandon all those antiquated scriptural passages and traditions. As a "news" network, this is just as responsible as asking someone to guess how many Muslim imams are secretly gay. But American news networks never say, "Hey, it's Ramadan. This is the best time to run a blistering advocacy piece against the backward people leading Islam!"
From there, Doane turned to Frederic Martel, "a French author who spent four years researching his book 'In the Closet of the Vatican,' about the gay underworld there." Doane added, "He says he interviewed hundreds of priests, even cardinals."
Martel claimed: "It is a large silent community, a vast silent majority. ... It is 50 shades of gay, I mean, a lot of different kinds of gay." Doane added, "He suggests the largest group of men in the Vatican may be gay but do not practice and can actually be the most homophobic." CBS never mentioned Martel is apparently a gay atheist.
Doane's next expert was a real beaut. "Francesco Mangiacapra is a sex worker with a law degree, who found one priest client led to another and another," he narrated. He asked Mangiacapra, "How many priests do you think you have slept with?" The male prostitute said, "I think about 100. ... We have, in Italy, many, many thousands of priests, so 100 is not so much."
Doane displayed a thick sheaf of paper and narrated: "Over roughly five years, Mangiacapra compiled this 1,200-page dossier of personal profiles, graphic photos and text message exchanges with roughly 50 of the priests who were his clients. He submitted it to his local archdiocese of Naples, he says, as a political act."
Every word of this CBS story is a political act.
Two gay priests were featured, Father Greg Greiten of Milwaukee and "Father Frederick," who spoke anonymously in the shadows. Greitens ended the piece by proclaiming: "This is my home. And I don't believe that the home should be throwing out its children."
Doane does not interview a Catholic defender of the traditional faith, neither clergy nor laity. No challenge of CBS' experts and wild numerical claims is allowed. There's no opposing side to the "truth," as in the liberal belief that progress against repressive Bible thumpers is inevitable. They don't deserve time to respond.
No liberal reporter seems to ask why "gay Catholics" wouldn't just find a more "welcoming" church, like the Episcopalians. Because the left wants the "backward" churches to be subverted to its ideology. This is just the latest crusading CBS "news" story of many that seek to shame the Vatican into abandoning thousands of years of tradition.
Happy Easter, indeed.
Known as The Great Apostasy....................
How many reporters are democrats? If it is 40%, I wouldn’t be surprised; if is 80%, I wouldn’t be surprised; if it is 100%, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Non sequitur alert! A Jesuit who is an LGBT activist within the Church? Jesus is watching and is not amused.
So is Seth gay? Or does he just cover the gay issues? Or both?
95%..........................
This week is the most important week in Church celebration, because the entire religion revolves around the death of Christ, today, and His Rising on Easter Sunday.
Gay priests, corruption, and every form of human debauchery that has been part of the history of The Church has not and will not destroy it.
For over 2000 years the belief in Christ via the one true Faith, Christianity, has prevailed and it will be here long after cbs is an historical reference.
Christians have been scorned since the very beginning, so this is just another of satan's minions doing the work that "mericans" won't do.
Do you remember when gay used to mean being happy? I miss those times, don’t you?
No sense denying the obvious and the catostophic harm done by these Darwinian mutants. Solution? Begin with abolishing mandatory “celibacy” which has been the cloak that has covered and allowed agnostic mutants into the clergy. Thereby allow normal heterosual men who to not abnormally suppress their human sexuality to become priests if they are so inclined. Also disband and abolish the Jesuit order which has declined into a cabal of unspeakable depravity.
The Catholic Church welcomes all sinners.......
Being “gay” is a sin......
LGBTQ members are welcome, they can even be good Catholics if they don’t act out their desires.....receiving the sacraments...
They cannot or will never be allowed Holy Matrimony.......
Priests are required to be celibate regardless of proclivity........
Seminaries were “safe” places. Gay priests are as much of a secret in the West as married priests in places like Africa
Or he reports Gays to proper authority?
{CUE best Henry Higgins voice}
Ha, ha, HA!!!
{/CUE>
You mean the church that lost a bunch to Eastern Orthodox?
To Protestantism??
To various Catholic splinter groups???
To the current, wonderful pope????
HMMMmmm...
Matthew 5:28 KJV
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
I am surprised that Jane Pauley is still around.
I bet she fooled around with that Charlie Rose and Les Moonves to get ahead... : )
Note that these people are there decades at both network and local level. They can be counted on to slant the news.
Charlie Rose, ex-CBS anchor, admits to workplace relationships, flirting
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charlie-rose-ex-cbs-anchor-admits-workplace-relationships-flirting-n1112176
Former CBS chairman Les Moonves fired for cause, will not receive severance in wake of sexual misconduct allegations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/12/17/former-cbs-chairman-les-moonves-fired-cause-will-not-receive-severance-wake-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
Is she? I don’t watch CBS, or NBC where ever she’s on, and haven’t in ages.
When you highlighted, "the one true Faith, you neglected, the word, Christianity, so that you could mock The Roman Catholics.
You can believe what you want, but if you are going to pick a religious fight, don't do a demonRAT cut and paste trick.
As a person of Faith, you should be above such a shoddy trick.
Happy Easter.
“This will lead to the decline of the Catholic Church”, said anyone one hundred years ago.
What do YOU suggest?
Use the whole sentence, don't edit it to suit your purpose.
I have another suggestion for you but it is Easter, and it is anatomically not possible.
Goodbye, I done with you.
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