September 11th Hijacking: How "Gay" Activists Smeared Father Mychal Judge

CULTURE & FAMILY REPORT ^ | June 28, 2002 | Dennis Lynch

[narses]

September 11th Hijacking: How "Gay" Activists Smeared Father Mychal Judge Close Friend: "He was a celibate Catholic priest and nothing more." by Dennis Lynch

Victims of the September 11 hijackers were not just people. One victim of the September 11 terrorists was the truth about a Catholic priest. This is the story of how homosexual activists hijacked the truth about Father Mychal Judge.

The Father Mike We Knew

By now, nearly everyone in America knows the story of Father Mike. He was born May 11, 1933, and ordained as a Franciscan priest on February 25, 1961. He died September 11, 2001, administering last rites of the Catholic faith to fallen firefighters as the World Trade Center Towers collapsed. Before his tragic death, Father Mike ministered to families in parishes throughout the metropolitan New York area, to students at Sienna College, and to New York City firefighters. And Father Mike ministered to the homeless, the sick and dying of AIDS, to homosexuals, heterosexuals and especially to anyone needing help. Father Mike saw Christ in everyone without exception and without objection.

Yet, as is typical with activists, the truth about someone never stood in their way to advance their agenda. This was true with the homosexual activists who saw in Father Mike's heroic death a chance to attack the Roman Catholic Church. It didn't matter if what they said about Father Mike wasn't true. All that mattered was that a heroic, celibate, faithful Catholic priest could become a homosexual icon. This is how it happened.

The Father Mike I Knew

I knew Father Mike for about one decade before his death. Father Mike was very close to the Steven and Patti Ann McDonald family. Father Mike was present at the Hospital after Police Officer Steven McDonald was shot and paralyzed in 1987. Father Mike prayed with Officer McDonald and his family and was present when Officer McDonald, although completely paralyzed, forgave the person who shot him. The McDonald family and Father Mike shared a special love of Ireland. I was privileged to help Father Mike and Officer McDonald travel to Northern Ireland spreading Jesus' message of reconciliation through forgiveness in that troubled part of the world.

During the planning for one of these trips to Northern Ireland, a homosexual activist named Brendan Fay contacted me. After a very successful first trip to Northern Ireland where Officer McDonald and Father Mike preached Jesus' message of reconciliation through forgiveness, the second trip was being planned amid much publicity. Father Mike told me that Brendan Fay, who was born in Ireland, really wanted to become part of our Project Reconciliation Team. Father Mike told me that Brendan Fay was someone he was trying to help bring closer to Christ, although Brendan had a history of being a troublemaker.

The Homosexual Activist

I also knew Brendan Fay as the person who attacked the Catholic Church by trying to have homosexuals march as a recognized unit in the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade. Now, we all know that homosexuals and heterosexuals have marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parade since it began. Yet, homosexual activists didn't just want that equal right to march. Homosexual activists like Brendan Fay wanted recognition and approval of their conduct in a Catholic event by being accepted for their sins. Brendan Fay was the person everyone in New York City saw on television and who was mentioned elsewhere in the media. Brendan Fay had an activist's mission to force Irish-Catholics to accept in their Parade not love of the sinner, but love of the sin.

I met with Brendan Fay and Father Mike for lunch. Brendan Fay told me how much he wanted to help plan and participate in our trip to Northern Ireland. Brendan Fay told me of many contacts he had in Ireland and how his participation could help make the trip even more successful. I sensed that Brendan was not being truthful, but just a troublemaker as Father Mike mentioned. I also sensed that all Brendan Fay wanted was a headline or a story about him or his homosexual agenda through this trip to Northern Ireland. Brendan Fay wanted trouble, not reconciliation.

Nevertheless, I agreed to have Brendan join the planning and even the trip - on one condition. That condition was that the trip would only be about Police Officer Steven McDonald and his effort to spread Jesus' message of reconciliation through forgiveness in Northern Ireland. I told Brendan this meant no names are ever mentioned in referencing the trip except Police Officer Steven McDonald and Father Mike. Brendan asked me, "Does that mean I can't do television interviews?" I told Brendan clearly, "Absolutely not. This is a story about Steven McDonald and his trip. This is not about you or me or any agenda." As a result, Brendan never followed through on the planning or the trip to Northern Ireland. He had no interest in the message of reconciliation. If the story wasn't about Brendan Fay, Brendan was not interested.

Father Mike's Death

The next time I met Brendan Fay was three years later at Father Mike's funeral mass, at the Franciscan friary in Manhattan, which was packed with mourners. Everyone I saw was solemn and sad - everyone, that is, except Brendan Fay. Brendan was smiling and strangely happy. I greeted him before Mass started and watched him carry on almost joyfully on a day when tears were on the faces of everyone else. I didn't know why Brendan was acting in that strange, almost demonic, way, but I would soon find out.

Prior to Father Mike's death, everyone who knew him for any length of time would never describe him as a homosexual. In fact, never has even one homosexual activist ever provided evidence that Father Mike was "gay." Yet, in newspapers immediately after the funeral mass, Brendan Fay was quoted saying that Father Mike was a homosexual. Fay arranged a media event where many people spoke of Father Mike's concern for the homosexual community and claimed Father Mike was "gay." This was news to me, and I knew Father Mike for nearly a decade.

The Media Lies About Father Mike

After the first series of newspapers stories reported that Father Mike was a homosexual, suddenly politicians were standing up in Congress lamenting the death of "Father Mike, the gay priest." Concerned that Father Mike was being used by homosexual activists, I began to contact many people who knew him for as long or longer than I did. I wanted the truth about Father Mike to be published. Not one of these longtime friends every heard or saw anything that Father Mike did that would indicate he was homosexual. I personally spent weeks at a time with Father Mike where he and I spoke about many personal matters. Not once was there even a suggestion that Father Mike was "gay." He was a celibate Catholic priest and nothing more.

As time passed, Brendan Fay began to organize events claming Father Mike to be "Hero, Priest and Gay." The media began to refer to Father Mike as being not just "gay," but an "openly gay" priest. None of this was true. I wrote a letter to Gannett Newspapers about one such reference to Father Mike. Gannett responded by citing law that you can't defame a dead person. I wrote back to say that I wasn't bringing a defamation claim; I only wanted the truth about Father Mike to be published. I received no further response. The New York Times also wrote an article alleging that Father Mike was a homosexual. I wrote to the Times requesting evidence, since many, many people did not believe Father Mike to be "gay." I received no response from the Times.

In fact, when one newspaper wrote an article proclaiming that Father Mike was homosexual and the newspaper was challenged about the story, the editor's response was shocking. The editor wrote that it really didn't matter if Father Mike was a homosexual or not. Homosexuals are a disadvantaged group, the editor said, and if the story helped them with their self-esteem, then Father Mike would be happy. In other words, the truth about Father Mike being a faithful Catholic priest didn't matter in our Politically Correct world.

As more time passed after Father Mike's death, homosexual activists embellished their story even more. During "Gay Pride Week" in the New York City area, one newspaper published the falsehood that Father Mike had been a "leader" in the homosexual "GLBT movement" (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual). The lies about Father Mike continued to grow in the Politically Correct media. Sadly, even a member of the Catholic hierarchy in New York commented in the media that Father Mike was "a gay Priest." When questioned later about this comment, the priest admitted he only knew what he had "read in the media" about Father Mike.

The Truth About Father Mike

The truth is that Father Mychal F. Judge, O.F.M., was a wonderful Catholic priest. Father Mike saw Christ in everyone. He ministered to everyone with a smile, a prayer and the love of Jesus Christ in his heart. Father Mike was tireless in living a life as a Priest modeled after St. Francis of Assisi. Although homosexual activists have hijacked this truth, I know that, from heaven, Father Mike would want you to know the truth about him. He would also want you to pray for those who bear false witness. Most of all, Father Mike would care not that you remember him, but that you remember and live the Prayer of St. Francis.

Dennis Lynch is General Counsel to the Judge McDonald Foundation, 44 Route 304, Nanuet, New York 10954. He can be reached at deallaw@aol.com, or by calling 845-353-3500.

http://cultureandfamily.org/report/2002-06-28/r_mychaljudge.shtml

[Slyfox]

One friend of the late priest's said Judge was careful not to out himself to friends and congregants he figured might be upset by this knowledge.

"One friend", none other than Brendan Fay?

[Catspaw]

Another smear on Father Judge. Obviously, you believe the radical gay activists over Dennis Lynch.

[ThomasMore]

I'm glad this was reposted. I never saw this posted before.

If this is true, and I take it that it is, then Fr. Mike has been defamed and maliciously libeled; whether in life or death. I don't rightly care what the law says about posthumous defamation. This is atrocious. And I got sucked into believing that Fr. Mike was gay!! I'm pissed!

[ex-snook]

Glad you posted this. This should be reposted as many times as the false charge was made. You might even keep updating us every time a protest letter is sent to the media asking if they checked out the story before publishing.

[SkyPilot]

The people who used this man's death should be held accountable. I wish I knew how to do that.

[mercy]

BUMP

[ELS]

I believe there is Someone who will hold them accountable, and they won't be able to weasel their way out of it then either.

[Antoninus]

The problem that I have with the article is it assumes that a homosexual cannot be a good and decent person, ie. that if all of the sudden irrefutable proof comes along that shows that this priest was gay, then all of the sudden all of the good acts in his life become filthy. We should focus on the heroic elements of this (and everyone's)life and get the hell out of bedrooms.

Can a pedophile be a "good and decent person?" Just wondering if your moral relativism can draw any lines at all.

[ELS]

Catholic doctrine says that having a same sex attraction is not sinful, but committing homosexual acts is mortally sinful. If a person is in a state of mortal sin, then any good acts they do while in that state are worthless.

If Fr. Judge maintained his vow of celibacy and remained chaste, then the activists cannot claim him as one of their own. They are just using a dead man who cannot speak up for himself.

[Antoninus]

Good article. I hadn't seen it before. Forwarded to my address book...

[Antoninus]

They are just using a dead man who cannot speak up for himself.

A common tactic of the Gaystapo. See this thread currently making the rounds:

Selling Homosexuality

[narses]

"But I am annoyed by Catholics that don't want to see that this "priest" was a active homosexual."

What evidence is there that he was an "active" homosexual? Certainly nothing you've posted.

[ELS]

Wow! Thanks for the link.

To this end, "famous historical figures are considered especially useful to us;" not only do they bring prestige, they’re also "invariably dead as a doornail, hence in no position to deny the truth and sue for libel."

[NYer]

Most of all, Father Mike would care not that you remember him, but that you remember and live the Prayer of St. Francis.

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make us instruments
of your peace.
Where there is hatred
let us sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
  
Grant that we may not
so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood
as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
  
For it is in giving
that we receive;
It is in pardoning
that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are
born to eternal life.
  
Amen

[oline]

Let me clarify what I said he was "active in the homosexual community". Yes, that is completely not the same thing that I wrote - I apologize. And I didn't mean to prove that he was actively having sex with men. But I was hoping that my post might give some one a chance to see what others have writtn about Judge. Some of the old people in my parish and in my family find it very hard to understand and, in general believe what is going on (re: the current scandals and liberalization) in the church because it *is* so perverse -- they're in denial -- is all I can come up with.

I just don't understand the feeling on this thread -- this support for a homosexual priest, chaste or not they don't belong in the church --- granted what he did on 9/11 was heroic but like Dreher said -- let God sort it out and I pray that Judge is not canonized because there will always be the spectre of homosexuality around him.

I'll just leave this thread now so I'm less "annoyed" - I don't mean to insult anyone because I recognize your name and others from other Catholic threads and I do always enjoy the Catholic threads and your posts at FR.
In fact, FR has given me a lot of hope that there are even more faithful Catholics out there than I thought.

[narses]

My view is that there is no such thing as a chaste "homosexual". A person is either chaste or they're not. If Fr. Mike was, and the article suggests strongly he was, then to call him a "homosexual" because of his ministry to the homosexual community is wrong. If he was an "in your face" NAMBLA type like Shanley, I'd understand your POV. In this case I miss it.

[Dajjal]

Oline,

Thanks for the Rod Dreher reference. I'd heard both sides before, but wasn't sure which to believe. I'll put some stock in Dreher's citing von Essen. Lynch is probably right about this Fay character exploiting the man after his death, for his own sick agenda.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Yet, in newspapers immediately after the funeral mass, Brendan Fay was quoted saying that Father Mike was a homosexual. Fay arranged a media event where many people spoke of Father Mike's concern for the homosexual community and claimed Father Mike was "gay." This was news to me, and I knew Father Mike for nearly a decade.

This is a very sad story. For Brendan Fay to spread this story around and for the media to pick it up without any proof is an injustice to Father Mike.

[OPS4]

The Evil Gays are part of a vast conspiracy, Satan's
Way. That is why they act that way. The books, Satanic Verses by Rushdie, Aleister Crowleys works referred to by
Rock Musicians, Laveys cults in Satanic Churches in Frisco,
Eastern Satanics portrayed in Movies and books for centuries, and the one that leads to the front door of our Government, Fiction, called The Devil and Daniel Webster.

This is the inderground who joins them and hundreds of Millions around the world all followers of Satan into one vast Evil conspiracy.
God Bless America and all of us who believe in him.
Ops4