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PopeWatch: Gay Express

Church Militant has a fascinating piece:

Church Militant has learned that a clandestine pipeline for homosexual seminarians was established in the 1990s and into the early 2000s where active gay men from Colombia, South America were being secretly funneled to U.S. seminaries.

Multiple seminarians have been in contact with us and want the entire story of the massive, massive crisis of homosexual predation by the clergy — especially in the seminaries — completely exposed.

Church Militant has also confirmed with official sources that various U.S. bishops were aware of this, but turned a blind eye so they could keep their vocation numbers artificially high.

Multiple sources, along with former seminarians — fed up with the cover-ups — led Church Militant to Fr. John Lavers, called in to head up a top-level investigation which then discovered the existence of the seminarian pipeline. 

The investigation, when we began in April/May of 2012, revealed that there was a wide network of seminarians which were involved in abnormal behavior and homosexual activity spreading across a number of dioceses in the eastern part of the United States. This also involved a number of dioceses and a number of clergy within those dioceses actively supporting and participating in the homosexual activities that the seminarians were also involved in.

Here’s how the pipeline worked.

Go here to read the rest.  The “queering” of the Priesthood goes right to the top levels of the Church.  No matter how bad we think it is, in all likelihood it is worse.

 

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Don L
Don L
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 4:40am

When the Church lost its mission of “repent, (from sin) for the Kingdom of God is at hand” to one of “the here and now,” it then lost much of its faith. No small wonder it has a crisis in the priesthood. Who would give their lives to join just another shrinking social justice agency–never mind one so polluted with hurdles of perversion to leap and ambiguity by its shepherds in what it professes to believe?

Mary De Voe
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 4:49am

The Catholic Church is become a mother lode for pirates, liars and thieves.

father of seven
father of seven
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 5:31am

I thank God every day for the faithful priests who’ve had to run the gauntlet and endure their despicable bishops. Are there truly just a handful of faithful bishops who actually have a backbone? Just a handful who know what their crozier is for and are willing to take a swing with it? Maybe. At this point, I want to see mass resignations. So far, I’m aware of Bishops Morlino and Baker who get it.

Guy McClung
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Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 7:12am

East coast? Didnt Wilton Gregory, himself no celibate, have a problem with a Dominican operation-which he knew about and ignored – and then one of the head homopredators got shuttled under cover of darkness to Savannah, then arrested for child rape, and hung himself- a Fr. Henry Groover? Sure this is just one of thousands of such stories. It is so apt “under cover of darkness.” Guy McClung, Texas

Art Deco
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 7:53am

Sorry, not buying. I suspect there are gay cliques looking out for each other, but I’m not the least persuaded that that is anything but a secondary problem.

Here’s a hypothesis:

Your real problem is that in this toxic culture in which we live, men attracted to the celibate life are commonly damaged in various ways and you have to weed out the ringers, something that vocations promoters do not wish to do because they do not have much of a pool. They don’t have much of a pool (1) because they are uncreative hacks not interested in learning from vocations promoters who’ve had some success in recruitment (2) they work in dioceses where the Church is a network of denuded legacy institutions, social clubs, and ancillary social service provision (3) they actually fairly satisfied with the Church as it is in their diocese which influences the sort of candidate they are interested in recruiting, which (4) has a mutually re-inforcing relationship with the sort of person who is at all interested in the priesthood in that sort of environment. The clergy in conventional denominations is a collecting pool of ‘Jungians, Unitarians, and goofies’ (the description is Fr. Joseph Wilson’s), aspirant den mothers, and sundry flotsam and jetsam from the college-educated segment of the labor market. The Church is getting that segment thereof who are at least notionally willing to dispose of the domestic and sexual life – some for benign reasons, some not.

The laity make their contribution to this by an I-say-its-spinach disposition to parish closures. So, you have grossly inflated fixed costs and a shrinking priest corps whose time attention is increasing taken up with property administration and commuting. It’s grossly amusing how you have in each parish a vocal corps of people raising a hue and cry at the prospect of attending Mass a five or 10 minute drive away in a social and cultural context where people move every 9 or 10 years (if they own property) or every two years (if they rent). The same people have no audible objection to a musical program which consists of leftover scores from productions of the Hallmark Channel.

/rant off.

franco
franco
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 8:18am

The corruption of the clergy is so widespread that
most clerics will have to be defrocked, removed from
all positions of authority and transferred to a remote
island somewhere in the artic.

PM
PM
Thursday, August 23, AD 2018 11:36pm

Here is a link to 20 worthwhile listening minutes. Thought it might also relate to ‘Why Trump?’ as well.

wdtprs.com/blog/2018/08/a-sermon-by-an-old-friend-about-the-present-crisis/

PM
PM
Friday, August 24, AD 2018 12:06am

And – I cannot resist posting this observation.
liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2018/08/clericalism-root-of-all-evils-or-not.html

David Spaulding
David Spaulding
Friday, August 24, AD 2018 3:59am

Art Deco, that is one of the most useful analyses I have come across in recent days. It requires some prayerful consideration. Thank you.

Mary De Voe
Friday, August 24, AD 2018 6:53am

“The corruption of the clergy is so widespread that
most clerics will have to be defrocked, removed from
all positions of authority and transferred to a remote
island somewhere in the artic.”
Just like The Blob.
Mortal sinners actually excommunicate themselves. It remains for the Church to make it official.
St. John Paul II said: “One crime and they are out.”
What is so hard to understand? God is not going to put up with his innocent souls being debauched.

Mary De Voe
Friday, August 24, AD 2018 6:54am

The REAL Catholic Church has no sexual abusers. Will the REAL Catholic Church please stand up

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