Posted on 01/24/2023 7:39:47 AM PST by ebb tide
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”.
Continue reading at The Telegraph
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“IN” or “BY”?......................
Reminds me of a joke.....................
“Run in” or “run the” ... a big difference if it is the latter.
I’m wondering if this gay sh** is why my bro left the seminary after a year. He never said anything. Would have been 1958.
I know a priest who, when leaving St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, CA upon graduation, literally removed his shoes and left them there.
Was he from Pa, going to ND, named Martin? Same story from about 30 years ago! He got no satisfaction from the church authorities, so he left. “Tolerate it!”! Ri....ght.
That's very Biblical.
Did he mention why he resigned after one month?
And that’s is why the church is dying...
I attended a Jesuit University in the early 1990s.
There were a number of old, urbane intellectual Jesuits there.
There were also a number of young, queer Jesuits, who ranged from discreet to almost flaming.
I grew to really dislike them - Because they chose the one profession that was against their sexual choices and demanded celibacy. By that time, the world would have accepted them as “out and proud” anywhere else, yet they chose to live a complete lie, almost as an act of childish destruction. Hypocrites
any satanic ones?
LMAO
Where’s a link to the book?
If this story is legit and book is legit from the Pontiff, I want to read it.
IF you were Catholic, and IF you were brought up to believe that “THE Catholic Church” was “God’s” Church...would you be bright enough to realize that the queers infiltrating that would be a pretty good indicator that “THE Catholic church” is not what you were brought up to think it was? And if that doesn’t convince you, the current “pope” should leave no doubt.
Perhaps a little Latin is dangerous??
“Seminary…mid-15c., “plot where plants are raised from seeds for transplantation,” from Latin seminarium “plant nursery, seed plot,” figuratively, “breeding ground,” a noun from seminarius “of or pertaining to seed,” from semen (genitive seminis) “seed” (from PIE root *sē- “to sow”).…”
(Comment: This krap has to be shut down!)
Did anyone not think this was the case for seminaries?
The obvious gay grooming has been off the charts for years.
Is it any wonder that so many priests today seem effeminate and gay?
I was 13 when I realized it wasn’t God’s church.
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