Posted on 04/05/2002 12:32:54 PM PST by Notwithstanding
Homosexual Culture Undercuts Priesthood
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.comEditor's note: See part one of this series, Anti-Catholic 'Experts' Fuel Church's Scandals.
Friday, April 5, 2002
Father Andrew Greeley called it the "Lavender Mafia," a homosexual underground within the Catholic Church in America that has managed to dominate many of the seminaries and must bear the largest share of the blame for the sex scandals afflicting the church.
Like the gay underground in the British Foreign Office of the past where for scores of years the road to advancement was open only to homosexuals, the Lavender Mafia has been the gatekeeper determining who will be admitted to seminaries and ultimately to the Roman Catholic priesthood.
In Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations From the Priesthood," author Michael S. Rose quotes a former Mundelein seminarian, Joseph Kellenyi, as saying: "The issue was never one of my suitability for ordination. Rather it was that the gay clique had been given veto power over who got ordained."
'Gay Profession'
In his book, "The Changing Face of the Priesthood," the rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland, Father Donald B. Cozzens, warned that the priesthood was becoming a "gay profession."
And in the seminaries it wasn't merely a preponderance of gay students, but also "a disproportionate number of homosexually-oriented persons," including faculty, he wrote.
That kind of atmosphere, Rose notes, "deters the heterosexual man from continuing to study and prepare for the priesthood."
Rose wonders how can "any healthy heterosexual seminarian expect to be properly formed and prepared for the priesthood when constantly subjected to that which is so clearly contrary to Church teaching and discipline?"
'Threatening Atmosphere'
He asks: "How many heterosexual seminarians, whether orthodox or not, have decided to leave the seminary and abandon their vocations because of the 'gay subculture' they were forced to endure, because they had been propositioned, harassed or even molested? We're not talking here about the presence of a few homosexually-oriented men who conduct themselves with perfect chastity. Rather there exists an intense and often threatening atmosphere."
Indeed, so horrific is the situation that "certain seminaries have earned nicknames such as Notre Flame (for Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans) and Theological Closet (for Theological College at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.); St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore has earned the nickname 'The Pink Palace.'"
Visiting the Gay Bars
At some of the seminaries, faculty and students would don their gay apparel and head for gay bars. In March 2000 the liberal Greeley, often called the church's resident pornographer for his racy novels, testified that seminary professors "Tell their students that they're gay and take some of them to gay bars, and gay students sleep with each other."
Greeley is not alone in exposing the homosexual behavior rampant in many of the nation's seminaries:
Rose cites numerous instances of gay domination at many of the nation's seminaries. One priest described the situation at Chicago's Mundelein seminary in the 1970s. Many of the younger students would be placed into situations where they compromised their sexual integrity," said Father Wayne H. Wurst during a radio broadcast.
"This would be used against them by older students for favors. And those older students actually had faculty members who would request from time to time a friend who would come and visit them because they were lonely. And these students would supply fresh meat.
"So there were madams, pimps and prostitutes all in a major seminary system that from outside, if you were to walk through, would look very holy."
Heterosexuals Driven Out
Heterosexual students at a number of seminaries were persecuted by the gay subculture. Reporting homosexual behavior by classmates could get them expelled, as could resisting homosexual advances. Rose cites scores of cases of heterosexuals driven out of seminaries because they refused to accept the gay culture.
In Cozzen's book, "The Changing Face of the Priesthood," he wrote that there has been "a heterosexual exodus from the priesthood" due, Rose notes, in part to the unrestrained gay subcultures in some seminaries, the resulting "overwhelming gay clergy culture will have an effect on how the laity views the priesthood and it will have an effect on incoming vocations. Potential candidates for the priesthood who are heterosexual will be intimidated from joining an institution where the ethos is primarily that of a gay culture."
Anyone wondering how the church could have got itself in the mess it is now experiencing need look no further than the pages of Rose's extraordinary book. What we are seeing today are the results of a gay priesthood being loosed upon parishes all across the nation, where they have abused impressionable young men they treated as "fresh meat" to satisfy their unnatural sexual urgings.
Next: Bashing orthodoxy: how false teaching demoralizes and discourages aspiring priests.
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The reason the media talks about pedophilia is because they don't want to use the words homosexual and statutory rape or abuse in the same sentence.
I am presuming that prior to Vatican II priests COULD marry?
Ditto! Were a conservative talk show host to say "I support removal and prosecution of all homosexual priests" how fast would the NY TIMES and ACT UP condemn him? Even when his goal (save the children) is the same as that stated by the media that continues to bash the church.
Well the Catholic Church needs an effective media counteraction. The homos tried to destroy the military, the boy scouts and the church. They are the epitomy of evil and must be stopped.
I don't think it's quite that simple.
First, my qualifications to hold an opinion. I'm a Protestant (UCC raised) married to a Boston Irish Catholic with a large family. I've agreed in faith to have my three daughters raised Catholic, and I attend a Catholic church.
Among believers (and it's a given that there are many faithless Protestants and faithless RC), Protestants tend to have faith in Christ, and Catholics tend to have faith in the Church. If you're Protestant and don't know a lot of Catholics, this is hard to understand (by which I mean, you can know it but not "get it").
Imagine trying to process evidence that the Holy Spirit was working in the world to do evil instead of good. It would take a lot to convince you, wouldn't it? Maybe your faith wouldn't allow you to believe it, no matter what?
That's the situation a lot of our RC brothers and sisters are in.
This business of faith in the Church isn't a metaphor, and it isn't like saying, "I have faith in the Methodist Church". It's real, it's the way Christ comes into these folk's hearts, and it's not easy to work around.
If you or I lose our "faith" in our particular denomination (which is easy, as you no doubt know)-we just change to another one. This is a strength, and a weakness, of Protestant Christianity.
When a faithful Catholic loses their faith in the RC Church, they usually lose everything-which is yet another reason these "priests" and their supervisors are so despicable.
In any case, perhaps this turn of events in the RC church will cause many to seek a personal relationship with Him within the real Church universal - the Body of Christ.
I really hope this campaign against the Church backfires in a big way. If the Church is found guilty ---it's guilty of allowing homosexuals to be around teenage boys. Then that puts a damper on the whole idea of gay adoption, and the government had better get to work removing homosexuals from Public Schools and all other institutions.
That's where this is all heading. That is as soon as someone mentions the elephant in the living room. I suspect the defenders of the Catholic church will engage in mutually assured destruction (MAD) as soon as the wolves get too close to the gate. The nuke they will use is the point you've just made.
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