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

Bishop Matthew Clark is exactly the reason for the sex abuse scandals!

Rochester bishop: Vatican isn’t against homosexuals entering priesthood

Bishop Clark has been a scandal to the Church for years. Here's a partial description of his dissent-ridden history.


His shameless promotion of homosexuals in the priesthood fits perfectly with enabling abuser priests who he described as "afflicted, not sinful." (Tell that to the parents of the victims, especially those who committed suicide!)

The priest sex abuse scandals primarily involved homosexuals raping and molesting pubescent boys, but you'd never know it from Clark's eulogy to homosexual priests. (What's so holy about living a lie? Homosexuals don't "give up" marriage and family, they join a boys' club where they live and socialize with those to whom they are attracted.)

Most of the victims of sex abuse as shown in the Jay Report were young teen boys. The only reason the abusers could continue as long as they did, many for decades, is they were enabled by senior clergy, i.e., pastors and bishops. And Matthew Clark is the poster bishop for gay promotion. In 2005 he was among a handful of U.S. bishops considered the most gay friendly by the Rainbow Sash Movement (Catholic homosexuals who celebrate their depraved lifestyle and demand to receive Communion while wearing the "rainbow sash" that identifies their activism). Clark promoted this heretical group from its early days. Here's a portion of a 1997 article from Catholic Insight reported at Cleansing Fire:

“Rochester, NY – On March 1, Bishop Clark celebrated Mass in Sacred Heart Cathedral for 1300 “gays,” lesbians and their “families.” Well advertised beforehand, they came from as far away as Buffalo and Syracuse, some dressed in leather and chains, many coming as couples holding hands, women out-numbering men three to one, all being welcomed effusively, first by fifteen priests in attendance and then by Bishop Clark and his female master of ceremonies. The bishop joked and was full of good cheer; several times he referred to “their integrity, goodness and wonderful gifts” for the community, in an address which was enthusiastically interrupted by applause.

At Communion time everyone–Catholics, non-Catholics, non-Christians–came forward. Two men received the Host from the bishop and then faced each other, and gave each other the Host. Many lesbians followed this example. There was much kissing and holding of hands.

Outside the Cathedral some 80 demonstrators gave witness to the Church’s true teaching. It would have been more courageous for the bishop, to tell the group, said one, “that if you are not in the state of grace you can’t receive the body and blood of Christ.” But the bishop made no such announcement.”

Aren't you sorry you weren't there? Clark is about as Catholic as Martin Luther, only Luther had more integrity because he left the Church. Clark has stayed around undermining the faith throughout his "career" (one can hardly call it a vocation). It is more than disheartening to see these wolves in sheep's clothing tearing at the heart of the Church with bared fangs and bloody claws. How many have lost their faith or never learned it because of this scandalous "teacher."

Under Clark, the Diocese of Rochester has collapsed. He governs a shrinking local Church, has closed most of the schools and many churches. And there are few vocations (probably a blessing). Clark turns 75 in July 2012, mandatory retirement age. It can't come too soon for many in his flock who have suffered the scourge of his irresponsible governance for years. I think they'll join me next year in saying, "Hie thee to a monastery, Bishop Clark, and ponder the ruin you've made of the poor Church in Rochester. The day of reckoning approaches."

Pray for all bishops and priests, especially the Judases among them. May they turn to the Lord seeking his forgiveness before the day of reckoning.

Catholic Colleges (and a Jesuit Priest) Promote the Gay Agenda

TFP (Tradition, Family, and Property) Student Action recently released a list of Catholic colleges sponsoring gay pride clubs. Since the survey only looked at college websites it's possible they missed a few. My own alma mater, Trinity University in D.C., which has been promoting feminism and lesbianism for years, was not listed. But lots of others are, 41% of all Catholic colleges surveyed in fact had gay groups. Among the Jesuit schools the percentage rose to 100%. That pathetic statistic indicates that many Jesuits are either themselves homosexual or homosexualists who support the gay agenda. Here's a story (below) about one openly gay priest (He says he's celibate.) who works at Georgetown and was a founder of the faux Catholic group Catholics for Equality (CFE) that works for same-sex marriage, elimination of Don't Ask Don't Tell, promotes the abuse of children through same-sex adoption, etc.

Fr. Joe Palacios was interviewed by Metro Weekly in September. His remarks show he is anything but a faithful Catholic. He's one more wolf in sheeps' clothing masquerading as a shepherd while he leads the sheep to the cliff. How can it be that a man like this, who admits having homosexual "boyfriends," could be ordained and teach at a Catholic University while Fr. Haley is literally out in the cold? Fr. Palacios is in the warm snuggly arms of the sodomy-enabling Jesuits working as a community organizer and proud to be a change agent. Why is Georgetown still labeled a Catholic University?

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Father Figure
Priest, activist, Latino and more, Joseph Palacios discusses his roots and reasoning

by Will O'Bryan

Metro Weekly - Published on September 30, 2010, 3:19am

Joseph Palacios is a man of God.

He's also a doctor of sociology, a Mexican American, a Fulbright scholar, a presidential appointee on the board of visitors of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and a professor at Georgetown University.

Joseph Palacios

(Photo by Todd Franson) "I teach introduction to sociology, introduction to social sciences, Latino sociology, religion and society, culture and power in Latin America, social justice analysis, urban studies," he says. "It's lots and lots of basic courses."
These may be just the basics for Palacios, but it's obvious he has well-rounded interests and an intellect to match.

Not so obvious, perhaps, is that he is gay.

Bishop Sartain Removes Homosexual Priest from Ministry

Bishop Removes Catholic Pastor for Homosexual Relationship

I posted a different article on this last May when it happened, but it's worth posting again. I find it encouraging that at least one bishop is taking seriously the problem of immoral homosexual adult relationships. Homosexuality in the priesthood is a serious problem. The homosexual worldview is disordered and skewed. Even if a priest isn't engaging in sex, he is in a constant environment of temptation because he is living intimately with the sex to which he is attracted. It is like a heterosexual priest living and spending all his time with women. Wouldn't more than a few eyebrows be raised?

Homosexual priests live a lie. Part of the virtue of a priest is that he gives up marriage and family to devote himself wholeheartedly in service to the family of God. But the homosexual doesn't give up anything. He enters the environment that appeals to him surrounded by other men. Thank God at least one bishop recognized that a priest engaging in homosexual sex cannot be allowed to remain in ministry. May many of his brother bishops imitate him. And may the Church recognize the need for a canon law that forbids homosexuals in the priesthood. Those already ordained should be banned from any position of authority.

On Kindness, Tolerance, and Compassion: A one-way street in Gayland

In 1972 as a young mom of two I woke up to the horror of abortion which was going on just across the river in Washington, D.C. Then in 1973 Roe v. Wade made abortion on demand the law of the land. Horrified at the grotesqueness of child murder, I began a life of pro-life activism that landed me in jail several times, made our home a shelter for over a dozen unwed moms, and put me on the sidewalk outside abortion mills for years. During that time I dealt with plenty of obscene gestures, screaming deathscorts, personal insults, etc. But in all my years of pro-life activism I've never seen the level of vitriol and personal abuse to rival those who advocate the gay lifestyle.

Here's a comment from a woman who has engaged in a raging dialogue on one of my posts:

QUIT PLAYING YOUR HATEFUL GAMES...YOU NEED TO READ ABOUT YOUR BELOVED PRIEST....I AM SURE YOU CAN FIND THE NEWS ARTICLES I DID AND AS YOU KNOW YOU ARE WAY SMARTER THAN ALL PEOPLE.WHY DID YOU ONCE AGAIN NOT PUBLISH MY POST ? I KNOW YOU ARE HIDING THEM BECAUSE ANYBODY WHO MIGHT LOOK AT YOUR BLOG WILL AGREE WITH ME AND BE GLAD I TOLD YOU HOW IT IS. I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO SLAP YOU ACROSS YOU HATEFUL FACE. I SEE NOBODY REALLY HAS ANY POSTS TO YOU...THEY ALL KNOW YOU ARE NUTS...MAYBE FATHER HALEY IS THE FATHER OF SOME OF YOUR (SPECIAL) KIDS....YOU ARE SOMEBODY I WOULD NOT WANT IN MY CHURCH...HAVE FUN BURNING IN HELL BECAUSE YOU WIL NOT REPENT BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO REALIZE YOU ARE A HUGE HATEFUL SINNER I AM NOT THE JUDGE BUT YOUR WORDS SAY IT ALL.. GOD TOLD ME THAT LAST NIGHT IN MY DREAM AND HE SAID HAVE NO COMPASSION FOR MARY ANN SHE HAS BEEN WARNED...I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM FALLING OFF THE CLIFF..SOME WOULD BE CHEERING AND TELLING YOU TO JUMP..

All of her posts have been in caps. I've been trying to have a civil conversation  but obviously it's impossible. Oh, and I've posted everything she sent except one that I didn't even read because my browser closed and when I rebooted it was gone.

She claims to be a mother of three daughters and a son. The son, she says, lives in Canada with his "partner" and they have adopted children. He is as good a parent as all her married daughters she says. I presume she loves her children, but apparently not enough to challenge their sinful behavior and care about their eternal salvation. The acceptance and approval of her son apparently trumps God's laws.

Of course on the Internet who ever knows whether the anonymous poster is who she claims to be or even if more than one person is posting? But I set this before you and ask: Where is the tolerance, kindness, and compassion? There is none because compassion only goes one way in the homosexual worldview. Love me, love my perverted sex acts. And if you dare to disagree, you are hateful and I can do and say anything about you no matter how vicious. I'm sure you've heard of Matthew Shepherd. But have you ever heard of Mary Stachowicz? She was murdered for challenging the lifestyle of a young homosexual she knew.

I don't know who came to this woman in her dream, but it sure wasn't Jesus. Please join me in praying and fasting for her. Homosexuality may very well be the final abomination that draws this country to destruction.

Most Holy Redeemer in San Francisco -- Another Homosexual Scandal

From California Catholic Daily - published September 3

Most Holy Redeemer ex-parish council officer, friend of USF’s Donal Godfrey
Keeps “slave,” leads workshops at sado-masochist conference


A prominent member of San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer parish will conduct two workshops at the “Master/slave Conference 2010” to be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Silver Springs, Maryland on September 3-6. Patrick Mulcahey is a past vice-president of Most Holy Redeemer’s pastoral council and has served as a eucharistic minister at Masses....

The two workshops Mr. Mulcahey will lead are: Monogamy in M/s (M/s is short for “Master/slave”; the name of the “slave” is always given in lowercase), and Building your Collaring Ceremony. A collaring ceremony is a ritual where the slave receives a collar denoting submission to a master. The description of Mr. Mulcahey’s workshop seems a satanic inversion of marriage and baptism:
“Common elements of a collaring ceremony, and adapting them to your own commitments and religious/spiritual beliefs, with favored readings, including Scriptural ones. The role and obligations of those witnessing.”
The presence of a homosexual sadomasochistic subculture at Most Holy Redeemer has been well documented. From 2000 to 2008, which includes the period that Mulcahey served as pastoral council vice-president, the church hosted nearly annual events for sado-masochistic groups the Golden Gate Guards and the Inter-Club Fund. The presence of a “leatherman” on the pastoral council explains why these s/m groups chose Most Holy Redeemer—and why the events were allowed. In 2008, the archdiocese caused these events to be discontinued, following efforts on the part of San Francisco Catholics.

Read complete article.

Fr. Haley's Out and Richard Rohr Continues to Scandalize?

I did a blog post about Richard Rohr today at the Les Femmes site. (See him in the photo at right with his young friends.) It got me thinking once again about the grave injustice of allowing heretics like Rohr to scandalize the faithful, while Fr. Haley is out in the cold for daring to expose the homosexual cabal in Arlington. "Oh, he was a snoop!" some priests say. That is apparently the capital crime while being actively homosexual is a private matter. Frankly as a parent, I'd rather have my kids and grandkids in the company of a snoop than a homosexual -- or a heretic. Of course some priests are both. One certainly has reason to wonder about priests who advance the gay agenda. They are either homosexuals or homosexualists. In either case, they are a serious threat to the faith.

I have to laugh (ruefully) about Richard Rohr giving workshops on male spirituality. Here's someone who advocates homosexuality and blesses same-sex unions. That doesn't show much understanding of what it means to be a healthy male. Beating drums and conjuring images of the native American sweat lodge appear to be his thing. A paragraph from a recent issue of the The Drumbeat newsletter describe a March 2010 "Gateway to the Temple Within" event:

Drumming called the group together in the sacred circle, around a fire bowl that burned constantly, symbolizing the fire within each of us that calls out to more than what is, that drives us toward what lies beyond us and beyond the immediate surface of the person or object in our gaze. This fire within calls us to embrace some deeper reality or truth within the people and things that attract us in life.

So that's what being a male is? Lighting up the firepit? Hey, that must be why men do the grilling! It lets them experience the sweat lodge - especially if its 98 degrees out. But this goofiness pales in comparison to Rohr's attitudes on nudity and healing. Here's an excerpt from a presentation by Fr. Rohr at a New Ways Ministry Symposium in 1997 reported on by Stephanie Block. You remeber New Ways Ministry - the homosexual advocacy group run by Sr. Jeannine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent who were both censured by the Vatican. (By the way, I don't believe Fr. Rohr doesn't "encourage nakedness." Read the complete article. I doubt you'll believe it either.):

"The nakedness thing, I must comment on, is really uncanny to me. I could give a whole talk just on that. I never encourage nakedness, as such, but it always happens. I will normally have on the fourth day of a five-day retreat, a day where I send them out into the canyons or into the desert alone. I've prepared them for that day. A lot of men, and women too. I'm sure have never spent a day alone, in solitude. And then that night we come back and process: What happened in the canyons alone?
"Well, there's always one who in that processing will raise his hand and, sort of with embarrassment, admit that when he got out there he took off all his clothes. And then there's chuckles all around the room — I can just predict it, it happens every time — there's chuckles all over the room. 'Oh! I did, too!' I did, too!' I did, too!' There's something about nakedness in the male psyche — and now I've studied initiation rites — it's universal. The boy always gets naked, as you see in the sweat lodges, too.

"And I think it's this desire to get rid of all this persona. All this stuff you have to live up to — you pay a big price for being a patriarch. And feminism has sometimes not been sympathetic enough with that. You pay a big price for having roles and titles and importance and power and significance and the male is just finding every way he can to take it off, to take it off. They always tell me they had to do it and it's amazing how often some wonderful things happen in this sitting there in the sunlight naked — exposed, as it were."

At times, nudity at the retreats is communal. ' 'We often have camp-fires, and I know some of you have been at these where it happens, so you know what I'm talking about. Always, always, there's some guys — I mean, is it in their hard wiring? — they'll strip and have to leap over that fire, burning their balls. . . .1 don't know what it is. They're the 'real' men, who can leap over the fire, naked."'

According to Fr. Rohr, this nudity occurs spontaneously. "This is not part of my agenda that they're supposed to . . . it's just that we have a fire, and then predictably men start doing the same old damn things, all again and again and again. There's this deep desire to get naked, to somehow, even risk nakedness in front of one another. To expose the self. That's really pretty archetypal. It shouldn't really surprise us at all, should it? I mean, that's really what all lovemaking is, of course — could you love me when you see me in my nakedness? Could I still be beautiful, could I still be attractive to you in my nakedness? Can you see it all and still be desirous of me?"

Fr. Rohr understands that many of the retreat activities may appear peculiar to an outside observer. "Certainly the outsider — and this happened one time — would think it's a homoerotic or homosexual group, and it's just not really the character of the group, as such, in a formal or holistic way."

One of the rituals done at some of Fr. Rohr's retreats is a healing ritual. "I give [the men] a talk on the body and I tell them to go alone and do a compassionate meditation on their body from head to foot. I give them all a foot and a half of red tape and wherever their body is holding a memory, a shame, a fear, a guilt, an anger — whatever — to wrap a little piece of that on their body. And then they come back and they sit in a big circle and I always say they look like a field of wounded soldiers. They're always very quiet when they come back. You can feel, like a self-massage almost. The pain came out when they touched each of those spots, I guess.

"And then beginning with the elders I lead them through an extended meditation. . . . I invite them to lie down in what is, for the male, the most vulnerable position — on his back. Then the other men surround them and cradle their bodies and especially touch and lay hands on and pray over those places where the man holds wounds...."

Given the high percentage of homosexuals at his retreats, it is conceivable that a good number of the participants' "wounds" are of a sexual nature. The listener is intrigued to consider the ramifications of this ritual. "[It] sounds like a rather simple, innocuous ritual — well, it blows them out of the water. It usually goes on the whole night. They don't want to stop. The man becomes their father that they never had; their father that they could never touch; their grandfather who died when they were a boy; their brother that they wanted to be friends with.

"Then when the older men are doing it to the younger men, it all, of course, reverses. But the tears just astound me. This readiness to cry and the readiness and the tears seem not be evoked by my words but by the touch itself, by the laying on of hands, by the communion, the connection that seems to happen there. And again, without any unnecessary encouragement from me, many of the men will invariably take off their shirts to expose the red tape, maybe on their chests."

Consider that Fr. Rohr gave this address at a homosexual meeting. Not surprising. I'm sure many homosexuals immediately signed up for a retreat. The "touching" ritual reminds me of the scenes in Brave New World with all the participants chanting "Georgy Porgy" over and over as they engage in a sexual orgy. (Do Fr. Rohr's "retreat" participants smoke peyote along with the rituals?)

But Fr. Rohr is still a priest in good standing - giving talks to parish staff, addressing audiences at Fordham and Trinity University in D.C.... while Fr. Haley is out living like a nomad in an RV. Go figure!

Priest in Texas Has the guts to call Homosexual Activity an Intrinsic Moral Evil!

Every Catholic must oppose certain things
By the Rev. Michael Rodriguez \ Guest columnist, El Paso Times

Posted: 08/01/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT

I sincerely hope and pray that all El Paso Catholics will take to heart the precious and infallible teachings of Holy Mother Church in the moral sphere, particularly those most relevant to our city at this critical juncture. Remember: Every single Catholic, out of fidelity to charity and truth, has the absolute duty to oppose (1) the murder of unborn babies, and (2) any and all government attempts to legalize homosexual unions. Any Catholic who supports homosexual acts is, by definition, committing a mortal sin, and placing himself/herself outside of communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, a Catholic would be guilty of a most grievous sin of omission if he/she neglected to actively oppose the homosexual agenda, which thrives on deception and conceals its wicked horns under the guises of "equal rights," "tolerance," "who am I to judge?," etc.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter on marriage in November 2009, which is endorsed by our own local bishop, his Excellency, Most Rev. Armando X. Ochoa. This pastoral letter states the following:

Among the many blessings that God has showered upon us in Christ is the blessing of marriage, a gift bestowed by the Creator from the creation of the human race. The Church has taught throughout the ages that marriage is an exclusive relationship between one man and one woman. One of the most troubling developments in contemporary culture is the proposition that persons of the same sex can 'marry.' This proposal attempts to redefine the nature of marriage and the family and, as a result, harms both the intrinsic dignity of every human person and the common good of society.  It is not unjust to oppose legal recognition of same-sex unions, because marriage and same-sex unions are essentially different realities. The denial of the social and legal status of marriage to forms of cohabitation that are not and cannot be marital is not opposed to justice; on the contrary, justice requires it.

I urge all of the Catholic faithful to treat homosexuals with love, understanding, and respect. At the same time, never forget that genuine love demands that we seek, above all, the salvation of souls. Homosexual acts lead to the damnation of souls.

Exposing this Horror is What Got Fr. Haley Kicked out of the Diocese! And the Injustice Goes On...and on...and on...

What did Bishop Lori Know and When Did He Know It?

Lawsuit, deposition allege diocese played hardball with whistleblower priest, accountant

A few years ago Fr. Michael Madden and the parish bookkeeper hired a private eye to investigate the behavior of the pastor who was using parish money to fund his lavish homosexual lifestyle with his boyfriend who had the run of the rectory and the parish office. In the course of the scandal it was clear that the associate had tried to get the chancery to do something for FOUR YEARS! Here's what I ran in the Les Femmes newsletter at the time:

***More New England madness: Fr. Michael Jude Fay pastored one of Darien Connecticut’s wealthy parishes, St. John’s. During his tenure he stole church funds to finance a lifestyle that included: a New York Apartment, a condo in Florida, fancy clothes, expensive jewelry, fine furniture, dining at expensive restaurants, tickets to Broadway shows, etc. He also lavished gifts on friends and family especially his gay partner, Cliff Fantini (aka Cliff Martell), a wedding consultant. In 2005 they took a cruise together, requesting that a queen bed replace the twins in their cabin. Fr. Fay was so bold he frequently entertained Fantini at the parish rectory. [Did he require a background check?] The scandalous situation at St. John’s only came to light when Church bookkeeper, Beth D'Erario, and associate pastor, Fr. Michael Madden, hired an investigator and took the results to the cops. Bishop William Lori made Madden parish administrator until the young priest made some imprudent statements in a homily about his four years of “living hell” and the foot-dragging of the diocese. Subsequently he was removed and forced to apologize. What will happen to him in the future remains to be seen, but the scenario is typical: Homosexual priest engages in sodomite relationship and steals from parish to fund lifestyle. Associate pastor blows the whistle. Diocese only takes action after scandal becomes public. Retribution against the whistleblower follows. [We’ll be watching to see what happens to Fr. Madden whom we consider a hero in the matter.]

This is one of those cases where one has to make a judgment call about who's telling the truth. Frankly, my money is on Fr. Madden and the bookkeeper. I didn't trust Bishop Lori when he was in D.C. and the tactics the diocese is using are the same ones used by bishops during the sex abuse scandals. Attack the accusers and stonewall. In 2002 Bishop Lori assigned homosexual priest Fr. Jude Fay as the lone priest on the diocesan 11-member Sexual Misconduct Review Board. Of course, the claim is no one in the chancery had ANY inkling that the big spending homosexual embezzler was doing something wrong. Perish the thought!

Hogwash! The evidence from the sex abuse scandals makes it clear that the bishops knew exactly what they were doing when they covered up for the abusers. Bishop Lori appears to be playing the same game now.

My prophecy is that the diocese will continue to claim innocence and do everything they can to stonewall the depositions. In they end they will settle out of court with the settlement sealed. Hey, it's like the government bailout -- it's only the pewsitters' money.

The Scandals Continue....

Pope accepts Uruguayan bishop's resignation after he's caught engaging in homosexual sodomy. And how many are there in the United States just like him? We all know about Rembert Weakland. Why hasn't he faced censure after his scandalous tell-all book? Does retirement excuse his depravity and public dissent from Church teaching? I have yet to see a high-placed cleric say one word about this pathetic excuse for a disciple of Christ. If we all just close our eyes and ears we can pretend the elephant isn't in the living room.

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.'"

Obsessed with Sex by R. Cort Kirkwood

Posted 05/06/09 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) Now that Pope Benedict has unchained the traditional Latin Mass and rehabilitated the Society of St. Pius X, perhaps he can begin cleaning up the Church in America. The top priorities are these: first, purging the perverts from the chanceries and turning them over to police where necessary; second, scouring the Catholic universities that are molesting the minds of the students who attend them. Taking care of the first will help take care of the second, and Benedict XVI has shown Catholics that he listens.

The Church’s homosexual problem is well known. The priesthood is plagued with sexual libertines who have undermined the prestige, authority and sanctity of the Church. The problem with colleges is less well known, but because colleges shape minds, the damage done to the Church spiritually might be much greater, and it needs the kind of exposure the dastardly Paul Shanley received. One hopes the Holy Father is aware of the carnal shenanigans with which Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic college in America, opened Lent. Or that two days after Easter, the university infamously covered up the Jesuit IHS monogram, which symbolizes the name of Jesus, for President Barack Hussein Obama’s speech on economics at Gaston Hall. And that Catholic colleges routinely invite pro-abortion politicians to deliver speeches. The latest affront to Catholic sensibility in that regard is Notre Dame University’s invitation to Obama, a radical supporter of abortion, to give the commencement address at Notre Dame University on May 17. Read more here...

Richard Sipe on The Cardinal McCarrick Syndrome

I disagree with Richard Sipe on a lot of things, but I think he is accurate when he speaks of the sex abuse problem being not just a bottoms-up problem, but a top-down one. In fact, I think that is the major problem. If the sex abuse of children had not been enabled from those at the top it could never have reached the scope it did. If bishops did their duty, sex abuse would have been dealt with immediately and appropriately. Bishops would have reported criminal behavior to the autorities instead of passing the predators from place to place to abuse more and more victim children. Why didn't they do their duty? For some at least (among them about a dozen who resigned for abuse) their own homosexuality was a factor.

One point Sipe makes in this article is particularly relevant to the Fr. Haley situation. Sipe says:

The main point is that the dynamic [i.e., "sexual sponsorship" of younger priests and seminarians by superiors] is in operation and affects even good, observant clergy who cannot speak openly because the secret system will not tolerate them. Where are they to go? The press will not touch malfeasance on this level of the power system without impossible vetting that will expose the whistle blower to potential or certain destruction. Who of the many-in-the-know within the secret clerical system have that kind of courage?

"Expose the whistle-blower to potential or certain destruction." That about sums up what happened to Fr. Haley and other good priests doesn't it? Is the "secret system" still in effect? Considering that the bishops were quick to shift the blame from themselves to priests and laity, especially parents, I'd say it's a safe bet.