Let's Hope Homosexual Mafia is on the Way Out!

Fr. Marcel Guarnizo: Another One Bites the Dust!

The persecution goes on. This time against a priest serving the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., Fr. Marcel Guarnizo, who denied Communion to a lesbian activist who used her mother's funeral to set him up. Here are a series of articles on my Les Femmes site. If you want to see what happened read them in order. As the story unfolded, it became more and more obvious that there was more to the story than meets the eye. It also shows how eager the mainstream media are to jump on the bandwagon without doing a single bit of research to find out "the rest of the story":

Fr. Guarnizo: The Latest Priest They Love to Hate  Feb. 27

More Thoughts on Fr. Guarnizo  Feb. 29

Archdiocese Clarifies Teaching on Denying Communion  March 2

Will the Media Correct the Lies?  March 3

V for Victory Analysis   March 4

Surprise! Barbara Johnson is a Liar   March 8

Pundit and Pundette Weigh In   March 9

Fr. Guarnizo Suspended    March 11

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words  March 12

No Letup in Fr. Guarnizo Persecution   March 13

Fr. Guarnizo Speaks Out  March 14

Another Homosexual Priest Scandalizes the Church

Oh, but there's no problemo in the Church! And just ask your bishop. He'll tell you he isn't aware of a single homosexual in his diocese. Well, I think it's a pretty good guess that Rev. Thomas Bouterie fits the bill.

Mardi Gras Miscue Topples Topless Priest

When you visit the website note the photos of Fr. Bouterie, especially the one next to the two biker boys. Click on the photo at left which will enlarge the picture of Father next to the flamboyant drag queen and let you progress to the next photo of him with the biker boys.

"Where's that hand, Padre? You're not playing basketball ya know and he didn't just make a basket!"

At least the guy's been removed as pastor. What's Father's take on the matter?  "His resignation was not 'reflective of the current problems' in the Church, but more indicative of his 'personal growth as a priest.' Yup, marching half-dressed illustrates your "personal growth." Can anybody tell me if there's any significance to wearing the black band on the arm? Or is that symbolic of his black clerics?

Cutie's Book Raises the Issue of Gays in the Priesthood: When Will the Hypocrisy End?

Fr. Alberto Cutié is back in the news. For those who don't remember his first 15 minutes of fame, the Catholic priest made headlines in 2009 when photos appeared in a Hispanic magazine showing the Florida priest in an amorous tryst on the beach with the "love of [his] life." While initially taking responsibility for his actions and saying he wasn't attacking the Church's teaching on celibacy, Cutié later left, joined the Episcopal church, "married" his enamorata, and had a baby girl by her in December. He also shifted to victim status. What else could he do after all? As he once said, he wears pants under those vestments. We all know a man has needs, right?

And now the priest dubbed "Fr. Oprah," has written a book, Dilemma: A Priest’s Struggle with Faith and Love, which was released this week. I haven't read the book yet, but early reports are that Cutié uses it as a platform to attack the hypocrisy of the Church hierarchy who, he says, accept homosexual and heterosexual relationships among priests as long as they remain hidden. Exposure equals expulsion, the priest says. And so, Cutié writes, he became disillusioned with the Church and the "hypocrites" in the hierarchy.

He has this to say about homosexuality in the priesthood: “There are so many homosexuals, both active and celibate, at all levels of clergy and Church hierarchy that the church would never be able to function if they were really to exclude all of them from ministry.” Tell us something we haven't figured out for ourselves.

While I can't accept the legitimacy of Cutie's argument that the hypocrisy of Church leaders justifies his own hypocrisy; I think it's important to listen to what he's saying about homosexual priests. Cutie echoes priestly voices before him, voices as diverse as Fr. Enrique Rueda who warned about the homosexualization of the priesthood several decades ago, to dissenter-sociologist priest Fr. Andrew Greeley who described a "lavender mafia" subculture in the Church, to Fr. Donald Cozzens who wrote in The Changing Face of the Priesthood that the Church "is or is becoming a gay profession." Cozzens is okay with that, while many of us wonder how someone whose orientation to life and relationships is fundamentally disordered, not to mention the occasion of sin caused by living in close quarters with the sex to which you are physically attracted, can be the face of the Church.

The scandal of active homosexuals in the priesthood was graphically illustrated last July when an Italian magazine ran an exposé of three gay priests in Rome who offer Mass by day and engage in sodomy by night. The author, investigative reporter Carmelo Abbate, pursued the story undercover for twenty days and documented it with secretly taped videos showing the priests dirty dancing at parties and having sex with male escorts even on Church property. Abbate told Newsweek Magazine, “This is about private vices and public virtues. This is about serious hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.” The magazine claimed that 90% of Rome's priests are gay.

Regardless of the actual numbers, serious hypocrisy in the Church is alive and well. It's obvious when a faithful priest like Fr. James Haley is thrown out for exposing the rot in the rectory while homosexual parishes all over the country thrive. It's obvious when a priest is disciplined for hiring a detective because the chancery won't do a thing about a gay pastor embezzling from the Church. How many homosexual priests are living like the priests in Rome, one life by day and another by night? And how many good men have left because they wouldn't cooperate with the conspiracy of silence and protection that covers up for the fornicating or sodomizing priest as long as his double life is discreet?

Fr. Cutié is shining the light once more on a serious situation in the Church. Does anybody with authority care?

Retaliation Against Those Who Blow the Whistle on Sex Abuse is Nothing New!

Read the story of an Australian nun who was excommunicated for reporting the sex abuse of a priest. She was the founder of a religious order to teach poor children. The sisters embraced poverty and their rule stressed no ownership of personal property with a dependence on Divine Providence to meet their needs.

A priest friend of the abuser set out to destroy her and the Sisters of St. Joseph, . She persevered and was later exonerated. She will be canonized by Pope Benedict in October. What a saint for our times. I am praying to this courageous sister asking her to intercede for her brother, Fr. Haley.

Sister Mary MacKillop banished after uncovering sex abuse

Bishop Kevin Boland, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing!

Remember when it was a sin for a Catholic to participate in Protestant services? In this modern age of mass confusion, Catholics are led to wonder if anything is a sin at all. When a Catholic bishop, Kevin  Boland of Savannah, Georgia actively participates in the installation of an Episcopal bishop, particularly one who is on record approving of sins that cry to heaven for vengeance, one can only say, "The bishop is a wolf in sheep's clothing, a hireling, and a false shepherd to his diocese."

But let me introduce readers to the rising Episcopal bishop in question who Boland so clearly affirms. His name is Scott Benhase and he was elected to head the Diocese of Georgia in 2009. His installation as 10th bishop of Georgia took place in January.

From the liberal branch of the church, Benhase is known for blessing same-sex unions and for affirming the election of active homosexual bishop Gene Robinson. David Virtue writing at his website Virtue Online,  has this to say about him:

Benhase has voiced support of the national church's decision to allow gays and lesbians to be ordained as deacons and priests. "Our church has acted with humility in faith, and I believe that the church has acted rightly," he said in an August sermon to members of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. one of five parishes where he has been rector.

One local resident, Jamie Maury, a member of the local chapter of Integrity USA, the openly Episcopal pansexual organization, praised the election of Benhase. “This is an encouraging sign for Episcopalians who support gay and lesbian clergy. We're very excited, very happy," he said....

In other sermon revelations, Benhase compares Jesus to a Zen master. In a sermon delivered at St. Alban’s in Washington DC he said, “The reason Jesus sounds like Zen Master in today’s Gospel is that too many people don’t understand what Jesus is up to.” Really.

That he accepts such non-biblical and unholy sexual positions and calls the church’s actions filled with “humility in faith” shows that he is not in touch with Biblical revelation....

He will say and do nothing to give gospel-driven Georgian Episcopalians any hope or comfort. They have no future in his diocese. He will, over time, squash them like bugs, all in the name of “humility in faith” of course, not to mention inclusivity, diversity, pluriformity and any all other Episcopal shibboleths.

The die has been cast it is only a matter of time. You will conform or else. Benhase has spoken.

On January 23, Benhase will be consecrated the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia in a formal ceremony taking place at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. It will be his beginning; for orthodox clergy and laity in the diocese it will be their end.

That Bishop Boland would participate in the installation of Scott Benhase amidst the rainbow vestments and  clownlike costume of the presiding female bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, advertises his lack of orthodoxy and even common sense. Bishop Boland (and the monsignor accompanying him) deserve to be publicly rebuked for their public scandal. Photos from the event clearly indicate they participated actively by joining the processional and recessional. They should not have attended the event in any capacity because they could not do so without giving scandal.

It is ironic to me that Bishop Boland who has engaged in the persecution of an orthodox Catholic in his diocese, has no problem giving his approval to a clergyman who is a champion ear tickler and anything but orthodox. But the two things obviously fit together. The wolf runs with other wolves and together they feed on the lambs. That he continues to be a bishop in the Church while my brother in Christ, Fr. Haley, was cast out frankly makes me sick.

I hope you'll pray for Bishop Boland and the poor people of his diocese. Fr. John Hardon, a holy Jesuit (yes, there are a few), used to say that the faith would disappear in entire dioceses in the United States. I think he must have had Savannah in mind. May God have mercy on Bishop Boland's poor flock.

As for Bishop Scott Benhase, you can read the complete article quoted above which is linked in the articles sidebar and for another article see:

Destruction From Within, Georgia Style

And now for the photos:

The presiding bishop, Katharine Schori, in what can only be described as an outlandish and clownish costume, walks in the entrance procession. When the Episcopal Church began ordaining women and homosexuals it threw dignity to the wind, but this is almost laughable. She makes me think of the Queen of Hearts. 

Bishop Boland walking in the entrance procession.

A closer shot of the entrance procession showing Bishop Boland and his companion, who appears to be a monsignor, walking together.

I believe this is a shot of the recessional procession

Two Thumbs up for Bishop J. Peter Sartain of Joliet

Bishop Sartain has removed a homosexual priest from his pastorate for engaging in homosexual acts on more than one occasion. Although the acts were not crimes since the priest's partners were legal adults, Bishop Sartain's executive assistant said,  “It was consenting behavior, but a priest takes a vow of celibacy.... He was unfaithful to his vows on more than one occasion.”

God bless you , Bishop Sartain. You are protecting your people and acting in charity for the good of the soul of Fr. Simonelli. You cannot serve both God and Mammon or God and Lust.

Illinois bishop removes priest for homosexual activity

Bloomingdale Priest Removed from Post

From insidecostarica.com: Gay Priests in the Church Closet

How long before this courageous priest gets the boot? Telling the truth about the gay priest problem is never a crowd pleaser inside bishops' meetings. Please pray for him.


"The Catholic Church Is The Closet Of Gays", Colombian Priest Writes In His Book


Out of frustration at episcopal inaction, a priest of the Colombian archdiocese of Cali, has written a book on the ongoing homosexual scandals among priests of the archdiocese.

Father Germán Robledo, former head of the archdiocesan ecclesiastical tribunal, wrote that the third largest diocese of Colombia is rife with active and uncorrected homosexuals and heterosexual priests who prey upon young people, have fathered children and used parish funds to pay off the extortion demands of their boy-lovers and the fees for procurers.

The priest has kept his writings in absolute secrecy until they were published, calling it a "bomb" for the clergy of Cali.

Fr. Robledo, a priest for 45 years who served on the tribunal for 23 years, said that since he first presented his allegations and evidence of sexual and financial misconduct by priests in the archdiocese, the problems have increased "due to the lack of control and vigilance". He indicated that the Archbishop has done nothing to stop the misconduct of his priests.

The book, titled, ¿Hacia un celo gay? (Towards a Gay Clergy) is intended, Fr. Robledo said, to "denounce a tendency which is presenting itself within the Catholic Church".

"In the past 30 years," he said, "the Church has leaned towards priests with profiles with effeminate traces, sweet, obedient, submissive, uncritical, and who always accept the authoritarian role of the bishop and of the other superiors." He asserts that 30 per cent of the archdiocese's priests are homosexuals.

He denied that the Catholic discipline of priestly celibacy is the problem, saying that the priest's life gives opportunities to predatory homosexual pedophiles to "lead a double life".

"It is the refuge of those who do not dare face their families. The Catholic Church is the closet of gays."

According to statistics of 2006, the archdiocese of Santiago de Cali, Colombia's third largest city, serves 2.2 million Catholics out of a total population of 2.6 million.

In the Wasteland of Richmond

My husband and I are in Richmond this weekend at the Knights of Columbus convention. I never sleep well in a strange bed so I decided to skip the 7:00 a.m. Mass at the hotel and go to a local church later. I checked out two on the web that were only a few miles away: St. Edward the Confessor and Epiphany of the Lord. St. Edwards had an orthodox-looking website and a schedule that included 9:00 a.m. "daily" Mass so I barely looked at Epiphany's site, just the mission statement which sounded a little too touchy-feely.

So off I went next morning to St. Edward's arriving about six minutes to nine. Hmm...didn't look good. No cars in the parking lot. But I got out anyway and checked the doors - locked up tight. I peered through the glass and saw a roomy foyer with an attractive wooden statue of St. Edward.

I was walking back toward my car when I saw a gentleman coming out of the rectory opposite the church. He stopped when I called out to him asking whether there was a morning Mass. He didn't know, but volunteered to get me a bulletin. So we walked over to the rectory door where two other men were locking up. They agreed there was no Saturday Mass. ("Daily" Mass apparently excludes Saturdays unless you count the Saturday afternoon vigil Mass for Sunday.)

The gentlemen were very cordial and friendly and directed me to Epiphany of the Lord which "might" have a Saturday morning Mass. I suggested they change the website to read "no Saturday morning Mass" to save visitors like me the frustration of a fruitless trip. Then off I went again on my quest knowing I would be late if, in fact, there was a Mass at Epiphany.

But I needn't have worried about walking in late. The parking lot at Epiphany was also almost empty. But at least the doors were open and I went in. The Church, which was obviously built in the days of parish multi-purpose centers, was inside and off to the right of a large vestibule. I walked through the glass doors and looked for the sanctuary light and the tabernacle -- none in sight. No crucifix either, only a large bare cross on the wall behind the altar. Well, it wasn't bare exactly. It was covered with something -- artificial flowers perhaps? I suspect it was part of the Easter decorations that will disappear after Pentecost. I didn't get close enough to check it out.

I went back into the foyer where I heard voices. Three men were sitting in a side chapel talking. (Was this the day for three-man meetings?) I asked about morning Mass and they assured me that there wasn't one. They pondered for a moment and said that St. Bridget's "across the river" was the only church in the area that they knew had Mass every morning. None of the six men I spoke to seemed to have any concern about no Mass on Saturdays, the only day that some working men can attend daily Mass. I found that sad.

Obviously it was too late (9:15) to make a morning Mass (St. Bridget's does, in fact, celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 a.m ), so I asked where the Blessed Sacrament was and they directed me to a room further in off the chapel where I found a "tabernacle" that was a large wooden box on legs with a keyhole. The only thing that distinguished it from an ordinary storage unit was some decorative inlays. The sanctuary lamp was lit and I knelt down to say my rosary and apologize to Jesus for being relegated to a box in the "closet." At least the little room had a beautiful banner of the Epiphany on the back wall. I pondered whether the rectory that houses the priest is as plain as that box that houses the King of King and Lord of Lords.

I had a similar experience in Virginia Beach a few years ago - going on a quest for morning Mass and finding nothing but empty parking lots and locked churches. None of this surprises me. Under its previous bishop, Walter Sullivan, vocations in the Diocese of Richmond dried up and disappeared. His was the age of good men barred from the priesthood by feminist nuns and liberal psychologists labeling the orthodox as too "rigid" for opposing homosexuality and women's ordination. They, not the sensitive, tolerant homosexuals, were considered unfit for the priesthood. Circuit priests manning multiple parishes became the rule as the number of priests declined.

Have things improved under Bishop DiLorenzo? I can't say, although my experience this weekend was not promising. Additionally, I know a wonderful orthodox priest from the diocese who was forced out as pastor a few years ago and denied another active assignment. Instead he now lives in residence at a parish and volunteers his services to those who appreciate a faithful son of Mary preaching their retreat or day of reflection. What a loss to his previous parish which I think has no priest still and, in general, to the people of God. He stops by regularly for a short visit, enroute from one place or another, and I always ponder with sorrow the state of the Church that sees bishops putting men like him out to pasture in their prime. He, on the other hand, is cheerful. He has few dealings with the chancery and is free from the burdens of administration which are so much a part of a pastor's life.

My Saturday morning pilgrimage over, as I sit here at the desk in my hotel room. I ponder once more Jesus' words, "When I return will I find any faith on the earth?"

Sin Within is the Greatest Crisis for the Church

Media Coverup: Hiding the Homosexuality of Sex Abuse Perpetrators

The concerted media attempt to attack the Church and the pope in particular has been interesting in one specific way. The mainstream media goes out of its way to hide the homosexuality of most of the abusers. They use the word "pedophile" because pedophiles are notoriously sex nonspecific in their attacks. Girls, boys: it's all the same to a pedophile who targets pre-pubescent children whose bodies (at least with clothing) look pretty much the same.

But who were the abusers in the priest abuse cases? Over 80 percent attacked adolescent boys, young men, post-pubescent young men. The cases were largely homosexual assaults. But you wouldn't know that from the mainstream media.

Daniel Oliver has a fascinating article about the New York Times' coverage of priestly sex abuse, specifically the case of Fr. Hullermann in Germany and what and when Cardinal Ratzinger knew whatever he did know.

The Times, Oliver said, omitted an imporant fact: Hullermann's homosexuality. Here's what he writes:

Here are four possible interpretations of the Times's curious omission of Hullermann's homosexuality. One, that the Times reporter didn't know that Hullermann was a homosexual -- and wasn't curious enough to find out. Two, the editors of the Times assumed all its readers would assume Hullermann was a homosexual. Three, the people at the New York Times thought the fact irrelevant. And four, the people at the Times are in thrall to the homosexual community and didn't want to disparage it.

One and two are implausible. If you could figure out Hullermann was a homosexual, so could a reporter for the New York Times. And since when did the newspaper of record omit an important fact just because many readers would know it anyway? Three is absurd: clearly the homosexuality of the offender would be one of the most important parts of the story.

Leaving the fourth reason: the Times made a choice to speak no ill of homosexuals....

There is almost surely a cover-up here. But it's a cover-up by the New York Times of a group of people whose lifestyle the Times celebrates. The Times seems to be more interested in protecting its friends in the homosexual community than the youngsters in churches -- and in any other institutions where they might fall victim to predatory homosexuals.

Exactly! The media, accusing the pope of a coverup have been providing cover for homosexuals for years. They will attack the priests as priests, but NEVER criticize their homosexuality. Even in the case of serial murderers like Jeffrey Dahmer, the homosexual nature of his attacks was swept under the rug.

Which leads one to apply this observation about doctors to the reporters at the Times and other mainstream media outlets.  "Physician, heal thyself." Reporters, examine your own biases.

Unfortunately, Church leaders have engaged in the same charade. Look at VIRTUS and their insistance that homosexuals are less of a threat to children than heterosexuals. The so-called "safe touch" programs have been part of the coverup which unfortunately continues.

The Storm around the Pope

I've been watching with sorrow the storm around the pope as the sex abuse scandals widen. Did he know what was going on in Germany? Was he involved in protecting the guilty? Obviously the anti-Catholic news media doesn't care about the truth. They want to see the Church and the highest churchman discredited. Funny, though, how they save their most vicious attacks for those considered "orthodox." Villains like Mahony and Weakland, by comparison, get the soft soap treatment.

Occasionally, I come across an article that seems pretty clear cut and this one from the Associated Press which appeared in The Washington Times on Good Friday is disturbing:

Vatican waited years to defrock AZ priest

Is there really any excuse for ecclesial courts to take over a decade to decide a case? Is the right to a speedy trial only a constitutional right in a U.S. civil court? Shouldn't it also be a moral right in the Church? Something is wrong here with both the delay and the secrecy.

Pray for poor Holy Mother Church. Beg the Lord to send us priests like those of the early Church many of whom gave their lives for the faith. And let us pray for the same spirit among the laity. We are often too quick to point the fingers at others and give ourselves a pass.

Pray the St. Joseph Novena for Fr. Haley

Today begins the novena to St. Joseph which ends on his feast day, March 19. Please join me in praying the novena for Fr. Haley and all priests who have spoken out against homosexual immorality and have suffered the travesty and scandal of being driven out of the priesthood. God help those bishops who have effectively committed the murder of priestly vocations.

When will canon law be used as it was meant to be: to defend the Faith?

The case for canonical discipline of Archbishop Weakland

George Neumayr of Catholic World Report writes: "How can ordinary lay Catholics be expected to uphold the Church's stand on the immorality of homosexual acts, if such a prominent Catholic leader is voicing opposite opinions? So canon lawyer Edward Peters asks 'what, if anything, will Rome finally do to vindicate the faithful against the appalling and on-going scandal of Abp. Rembert Weakland?... That Weakland is an archbishop...should not shield him from canonical investigation and punishment, but rather serves to underscore the need for his correction.'"