Posted on 05/24/2002 5:45:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
You must have succumbed to the tempations of the flesh as well.
Well, maybe if you and your wife got off your asses and volunteered to work in the Engaged Encounter weekend, you could have some influence.
As it is, you do what you're best at, and that is gripe and complain.
The RC diocese in Albany NY produces a Sunday program entitled Table of the Lord. The mass is usually broadcast from the day chapel of a local parish with parish school children in attendance.
For four weeks running, I have watched this broadcast on Sunday morning. Each of the priests invited to say the mass was a homosexual. There is a disproportionate number of gay priests in the Albany diocese. A heterosexual neighbor abandoned his call to the priesthood, after several months in an Albany diocesan seminary. It is quite alarming to live in a diocese where one has to search long and hard to find a priest who is NOT homosexual!
I also found the following excerpt enlightening:
At St. Johns Seminary in Boston that same year, one seminarian was sexually harassed by another seminarian so persistently that he was forced to file a restraining order against his classmate. He did so only after he determined that the administration at the seminary would do nothing to protect him. But even worse, the victim was scolded by seminary administrators for embarrassing the seminary, while nothing was done about the gay seminarian whose harassment had created the problem. In fact, the victim left the seminary, while the gay seminarian advanced toward ordination.A couple of years ago a friend of mine in his mid 30s told me that he was considering the priesthood, and that that fall he and two other guys from our K of C chapter would also be entering the seminary. Two were going to St. John's, the local seminary. My friend told me that he was going to Nebraska (FSSP).
I couldn't understand why someone with friends in the area would want to travel to Nebraska to go to the seminary. He told me that there was a "homosexual problem" at St. John's. That's when I figured his imagination was running wild, and I steered the conversation in another direction.
It helps me understand why these abused seminarians had been so reluctant to tell their stories up until now. Hopefully it will be easier now.
I just go Michael Rose's book. It's a must read. He provides plenty of documentation and anecdotes regarding homosexual and heterodox seminaries.
I can't dismiss the possibility out of hand, but I don't think that any overt, widespread conspiracy could remain secret for decades, especially considering the scruples of those involved.
I certainly understand how people can come to the conclusion that some kind of conspiracy is responsible for the Church's troubles. It certainly looks that way. And ultimately I think there is a conspiracy. But it's other-worldly it's orchestrated from hell. The fact that the devil is the most intelligent creature should give one pause.
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