As a viral post on Twitter observes, Pope Francis Letter blaming "clericalism" for ordaining thousands of homosexual predators fails to identify the root cause of the problem.
Not to worry, the Holy Father said the Romans will spare no effort tackling the problem.
How much "tackling" there will be is anyones guess. Rumors are, they are sending a linebacker who supports gay marriage. He's not being sent to purge sexually active homosexuals.
Judging from the comments all over social media, the letter went over with the people of God like a lead balloon.
I will say it again:
Nighty Nights Tobin
Blaise Cupich
Reinhard Marx
Walter Casper
Heiner Koch
Oscar Maradiaga
Vincenzo Paglia
Lorenzo Baldisseri
Francesco Coccopalmerio
Donald Wuerl
John Stowe
Antionio Cruz Santos
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe
Fr. James Martin
Fr. Battista Ricca
Talk is cheap.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Domine, delexi decorum domus tuae et locum habitationis gloriae tuae.
Was your homily about the fugazzi?
I could tell our pastor was not himself this week. He's rock solid, but you just tell something was on his mind. I was up at 5 prepping a meal for a new mom and hit the 7:30am Mass. I was expecting a homily about the Eucharist, but it was about McCarrick, the mess in PA and St. John's Seminary.
He corrected the impression the problem was caused by pedophiles and explained it was because of sexually-active homosexual priests and bishops. A compassionate man, he did a superlative job reaffirming moral theology and explaining the reasons why homosexual men should not be ordained and why sexually active priests and bishops must be purged. He wisely explained that a priest who isn't teaching moral theology is often a warning sign there's an underlying problem with sin.
He told us not to worry about how that would impact parish closures, priests may need to take on four or five parishes and that is what they will do - so be it. He said now is time for priests to speak up and asked us to pray for courage.
I couldn't agree more.
Over the last 20 years, I've been an advocate of faithful priests keeping a low profile. We all know what happens if they don't. They're penalized by Church leadership.
But, the time has finally come to throw the pirates overboard and take control of the ship. This is the hour.
If a priest is aware of any priests in the diocese whom you suspect or is rumored not be celibate, put it in writing and send a certified letter to the bishop of the see, with a certified copy of the letter to the nuncio. I recommend laity do the same.
As a blogger, I'm preparing a list of things that have been passed on to me. I have no way of verifying the credibility of rumors and allegations. That is their job. Believe me when I tell you having a traceable paper trail is a whole new ballgame.
I would add to one thing he did say. He reminded us that Pope Francis recently said that homosexuals should not be ordained.
That he did.
But, that doesn't help us one bit if he praises priests and bishops with long histories of homoheresy and errors, promotes and appoints them to everything, and applauds from the sidelines as they sell homoheresy to our children.
Here is just a partial wall of shame:
Blaise Cupich
Reinhard Marx
Walter Casper
Heiner Koch
Oscar Maradiaga
Vincenzo Paglia
Lorenzo Baldisseri
Francesco Coccopalmerio
Donald Wuerl
John Stowe
Antionio Cruz Santos
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe
Fr. James Martin
Fr. Battista Ricca
The biggest red flag of all: Nighty Nights Baby Tobin. His explanation is simply not believable and for all we know, his message could be to an under age child. He should immediately be removed pending a forensic investigation
And the 2018 Word Meeting of Families is a homosex cheerleading camp.
While we are openly speaking about scandal and dis-grace of Catholic leaders, its imperative to openly discuss the hardest thing we've ever had to say in the history of the Catholic Church in our lifetime: There is a serious problem with the Holy Father that jeopardizes the safety and salvation of every baptized Catholic. At present, this is the most serious problem in the Church.
Along with the laicization of sexually-active priests and bishops and their enablers and all that comes with it, the Holy Father's must immediately stop appointing homoheretics and remove the ones he has appointed. Every. Single. One.
Lots of prayers for all who are feeling discouraged.
For whatever reason, I'm feeling emboldened and on fire. Reading Bishop Morlino's letter, hearing todays homily from a good shepherd, speaking with solid Catholics, for the first time in my lifetime, the right ammunition is flying towards the right targets. It used to be just a few of us, but its coming from everywhere. The wind has shifted. Worthy is the Lamb.
My heart was inflamed and my emotions were changed to excitement; the zeal for your house has consumed me. He has made my mouth as a sharp sword. under the shadow of his hand he has protected me, and has made me as a chosen arrow.
I could tell our pastor was not himself this week. He's rock solid, but you just tell something was on his mind. I was up at 5 prepping a meal for a new mom and hit the 7:30am Mass. I was expecting a homily about the Eucharist, but it was about McCarrick, the mess in PA and St. John's Seminary.
He corrected the impression the problem was caused by pedophiles and explained it was because of sexually-active homosexual priests and bishops. A compassionate man, he did a superlative job reaffirming moral theology and explaining the reasons why homosexual men should not be ordained and why sexually active priests and bishops must be purged. He wisely explained that a priest who isn't teaching moral theology is often a warning sign there's an underlying problem with sin.
He told us not to worry about how that would impact parish closures, priests may need to take on four or five parishes and that is what they will do - so be it. He said now is time for priests to speak up and asked us to pray for courage.
I couldn't agree more.
Over the last 20 years, I've been an advocate of faithful priests keeping a low profile. We all know what happens if they don't. They're penalized by Church leadership.
But, the time has finally come to throw the pirates overboard and take control of the ship. This is the hour.
If a priest is aware of any priests in the diocese whom you suspect or is rumored not be celibate, put it in writing and send a certified letter to the bishop of the see, with a certified copy of the letter to the nuncio. I recommend laity do the same.
As a blogger, I'm preparing a list of things that have been passed on to me. I have no way of verifying the credibility of rumors and allegations. That is their job. Believe me when I tell you having a traceable paper trail is a whole new ballgame.
I would add to one thing he did say. He reminded us that Pope Francis recently said that homosexuals should not be ordained.
That he did.
But, that doesn't help us one bit if he praises priests and bishops with long histories of homoheresy and errors, promotes and appoints them to everything, and applauds from the sidelines as they sell homoheresy to our children.
Here is just a partial wall of shame:
Blaise Cupich
Reinhard Marx
Walter Casper
Heiner Koch
Oscar Maradiaga
Vincenzo Paglia
Lorenzo Baldisseri
Francesco Coccopalmerio
Donald Wuerl
John Stowe
Antionio Cruz Santos
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe
Fr. James Martin
Fr. Battista Ricca
The biggest red flag of all: Nighty Nights Baby Tobin. His explanation is simply not believable and for all we know, his message could be to an under age child. He should immediately be removed pending a forensic investigation
And the 2018 Word Meeting of Families is a homosex cheerleading camp.
While we are openly speaking about scandal and dis-grace of Catholic leaders, its imperative to openly discuss the hardest thing we've ever had to say in the history of the Catholic Church in our lifetime: There is a serious problem with the Holy Father that jeopardizes the safety and salvation of every baptized Catholic. At present, this is the most serious problem in the Church.
Along with the laicization of sexually-active priests and bishops and their enablers and all that comes with it, the Holy Father's must immediately stop appointing homoheretics and remove the ones he has appointed. Every. Single. One.
Lots of prayers for all who are feeling discouraged.
For whatever reason, I'm feeling emboldened and on fire. Reading Bishop Morlino's letter, hearing todays homily from a good shepherd, speaking with solid Catholics, for the first time in my lifetime, the right ammunition is flying towards the right targets. It used to be just a few of us, but its coming from everywhere. The wind has shifted. Worthy is the Lamb.
My heart was inflamed and my emotions were changed to excitement; the zeal for your house has consumed me. He has made my mouth as a sharp sword. under the shadow of his hand he has protected me, and has made me as a chosen arrow.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
BREAKING! Catholics Circulate Petition for Wuerl's Resignation
Our friends at Boston Catholic Insider have put together a petition asking Wuerl to man up and resign.
Cardinal Burke cut through the subterfuge of nonsense with his laser itongue.
He is a cool cucumber, that one!
It’s the Pope’s job to remove predator bishops and their enablers. It’s our job to make him do it by making it crystal clear that the glory days of appointing homosexuals and protecting them with smoke and mirrors have ended.
Please go to the petition link at Boston Catholic Insider above, sign the petition and pass it on to others with any resources you have available.
The bombshell Pennsylvania Grand Jury report just released shows that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, former Archbishop of Pittsburgh, was complicit in covering up the sexual abuse children by multiple priests, shuffling around priests who had abused children, and publicly praising priests he knew had abused children. The current Bishop of Pittsburgh was also implicated in these cover-ups.I personally find it impossible to believe he did not know McCarrick was was a sexual predator. Once again, they are innoculating themselves from any consequequences and protecting the networks of clerical homosexual sex addicts with apology tours and kangaroo panels to produce procedures that have existed for centuries.
Cardinal Burke cut through the subterfuge of nonsense with his laser itongue.
He is a cool cucumber, that one!
It’s the Pope’s job to remove predator bishops and their enablers. It’s our job to make him do it by making it crystal clear that the glory days of appointing homosexuals and protecting them with smoke and mirrors have ended.
Please go to the petition link at Boston Catholic Insider above, sign the petition and pass it on to others with any resources you have available.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child.
Cardinal Wuerl has launched a website to defend himself against his malfeasance in the Pittsburgh.
I found the following comments at the Pilot to say everything that needs to be said.
This is the only thing I want to hear from the Pope. An admission of the real problem and the promise of a real solution. As I'm finishing up this post, I received word that Wuerl's website has mysteriously disappeared. I sincerely hope somebody got across to him - and the whole lot of them- how furious we are at their asshattery.
Are you sitting down?
He thinks he did a good job. The homosexuals and lesbians at the National Catholic Reporter must smell blood in the water, because they are coming to Wuerl's defense.
Pressure is also mounting for the Holy Father to say something. They must be sweating bullets to come up with reasons to defend his rationale that he doesn't make judgments about keeping a fresh supply of homosexual seminarians who will be used for the orgies, as long as they are seeking God.
I listened to the PA DA's press conference yesterday. What bothers me is the pattern of grooming we keep seeing. Marking a groomed child with a gold cross so other gay priests could take advantage of him. The kiddie porn. The bribery.
Once again, the age of the accusations seems to indicate they've stopped using children. It was too risky, too criminal, too expensive.
But, the revelation dioceses continue to position older gay priests at seminaries, admits a supply of gay adult men, discourages and keeps out orthodox men offended by the debauchery, is too much to be a coincidence. I can’t help thinking it’s supply and demand.
Fr. Heilman's article expresses the sentiments of the majority of priests ordained in the last 30 years.
I blamed you, bishops! It was your effete, weak compromising with the world "leadership" that emboldened all of the Fr. Don Murrays of the world to hate me — to hate us. You are the ones that guarded your gay, radical priests, while you chastised anyone who dared to actually love the rich treasury of our Catholic faith or challenged our people to strive to become saints.
Pressure is also mounting for the Holy Father to say something. They must be sweating bullets to come up with reasons to defend his rationale that he doesn't make judgments about keeping a fresh supply of homosexual seminarians who will be used for the orgies, as long as they are seeking God.
I listened to the PA DA's press conference yesterday. What bothers me is the pattern of grooming we keep seeing. Marking a groomed child with a gold cross so other gay priests could take advantage of him. The kiddie porn. The bribery.
Once again, the age of the accusations seems to indicate they've stopped using children. It was too risky, too criminal, too expensive.
But, the revelation dioceses continue to position older gay priests at seminaries, admits a supply of gay adult men, discourages and keeps out orthodox men offended by the debauchery, is too much to be a coincidence. I can’t help thinking it’s supply and demand.
Fr. Heilman's article expresses the sentiments of the majority of priests ordained in the last 30 years.
I blamed you, bishops! It was your effete, weak compromising with the world "leadership" that emboldened all of the Fr. Don Murrays of the world to hate me — to hate us. You are the ones that guarded your gay, radical priests, while you chastised anyone who dared to actually love the rich treasury of our Catholic faith or challenged our people to strive to become saints.
I found the following comments at the Pilot to say everything that needs to be said.
The reality is that homosexual men experience desires that are themselves gravely wrong, and much of the time these desires arise from bad things done to them when they were boys, and some bad things that they themselves did too. It is a psychological and moral mine-field. The last place they ought to be is in a seminary with other young men.
If you experience the desires but you do not affirm them -- if you do not call yourself "gay," you do not take that fateful step -- then you may not cause any harm in that environment. But if you do affirm them, and you allow them to form your affectual relationships with other men, then you are doing harm, and you are also probably putting yourself in harm's way to boot.
That is the truth. People are assuming that homosexual men are Just Like Folks, only that their sexual desires go this way rather than that way. That is a colossal misunderstanding of the problem, and it does nothing to explain the host of behaviors that are a part of the syndrome. It is a way we have of ignoring someone else's suffering while patting ourselves on the back for doing so....
We are not all disordered in one way or another, if by that you mean that every person is tempted to do things that are unnatural. We really must get our terms straight here. Most sin involves the improper use of a faculty that is essentially good. But the temptation that a man feels to do sexual things with another man is not essentially good. It is bad, in its essence.
The danger we are talking about here is completely avoidable and holds forth no possibility of gain. For example, it would be dangerous to send thirteen year old boys out into battle, as it is dangerous to send grown men into battle, but there is no good that the thirteen year old boys, as a group, can do -- it is a danger without any point to it. The same is true of homosexual men in that environment. I really must insist here that, since you are a woman and not a man, you cannot possibly imagine what kinds of things men do when women are not around, and what kinds of things homosexual men do -- and be assured that they are not going to brag about them to women. Their presence is a disrupting force, and they drive away good men. I am not speaking here of men who keep their arrant temptations to themselves, men who, for all that anyone would know besides their confessors, are as ordinary as the day is long. THOSE men have not affirmed the temptation, let alone given in to it. They may in fact outgrow the temptation; many men do outgrow it. I am speaking of men who "identify" that way.
A side question -- but one that is quite clear: Do we or do we not want to attract healthy, masculine young men to the priesthood? If we do, then we need to make sure that self-identifying homosexuals are not admitted. They do the Church, as a group, no good. They have done colossal harm already....
This is the only thing I want to hear from the Pope. An admission of the real problem and the promise of a real solution. As I'm finishing up this post, I received word that Wuerl's website has mysteriously disappeared. I sincerely hope somebody got across to him - and the whole lot of them- how furious we are at their asshattery.
Monday, August 13, 2018
If You Tell, We Will Crush You
This is a quote from Richard Sipe’s 2016 Letter to Bishop McElroy, referencing an example of how the sexual abuse network protects its impenetrability with intimidation, secrecy and threats.
I never really trusted Richard Sipe. His advocacy of homosexual sex was a complete contradiction to the damages he gathered about its fruits. There was an agenda I could not put my finger on, but theological acceptance of homosexual seduction and sex would result in more victims, so his baby was thrown out with the swamp he tried to bathe us all in.
His recently released 2016 letter expressed his observation that sexual patterns are set up in seminaries or early years after ordination when sexual experimentation is initiated or sustained. He describes a geneology of consensual clerical sex that is endemic to the highest corridors of the Vatican. The sexual escapades of hierarchs threatens scandal of exposure when and if they initiate any attempts to curtail other clerics.
He is sure right about that! There is simply no other explanation.
Coupled with the inability to verify sex between consensual adults, the limitations of guidance of the 8th Commandment and the sincere desires not to impose harm to the Mystical Corpus of Christ, it's a perfect storm for the abuse of power.
Recent revelations that McCarrick's debauchery involved more than consensual sex, and disturbing allegations at St John's Seminary reminded me of information Fr. Bill Scanlan shared almost 20 years ago.
Fr. Bill was falsely accused priest from Boston whose vocation involved working with troubled youths in parish and residential care settings. He worked with the Department of Youth Services, at a residential treatment center called the Pilgrim Center, Long Island Hospital, Bridgewater State Hospital and an after-care program called Home For Now. He was a whistleblower when gay network compromised the safety of troubled youth and was convinced false allegations were used against him to take him out of roles where he would observe suspicious conduct and whistleblow. He was completely reinstated, his innocence verifiable and undeniable. But, the process exposed a lot of corruption.
Though he had little proof, Fr. Bill was extremely suspicious of the gay network of Boston clergy. He felt the culture was incestuous, that it's members and enablers were appointed to Chancery and seminary staff and up the ranks. Not exclusively, but there were enough participants to keep whistleblowing from having any impact. He was deeply concerned they were poaching victims from the seminary and apostolates ministering to troubled youth.
I am beside myself that 20 years has passed and its still going on.
Fr Bill was suspicious that victims were passed around networks in the diocese and some perhaps crossed over state lines. He said "One day a black shiny car driven by Monsignor Fred Ryan dropped off McCarrick's nephew for residency and treatment".
What would a victim of McCarrick’s be doing in a Boston priest’s car?
Fred Ryan's allegations also include taking pornographic pictures of his victim and sharing those pics with other predators, including McCarrick.
How would a monsignor in one state have the audacity to contact a bishop in another state and say "take a look at these porn pictures I took of teens this weekend", without some kind of pedophile ring structure? It's not information one would share unless one knew the recipient would take pleasure in them, instead of calling the police.
There are huge pieces of this puzzle missing and it all needs to be investigated.
Fr. Scanlan also duly noted, astoundingly, that nearly all of the priests who formed the association called Boston's Priest Forum were rumoured to be sexually-active homosexuals. He worried about underlying motives and dangers.
The refusal to acknowledge the relationship between sexually active homosexual priests, abuse of power, blackmail as the substance that must be uprooted has given predators 20 more years of victims. This is the end of the road. Richard Sipe cites statistics that 50% of priests and bishops are sexually active. I don't know where he got those statistics but every single one of them has got to be laicized, along with their enablers.
Fr. Bill was scared of them. He truly thought that in addition to using their power to obstruct and discourage heterosexual priests from ordination, or destroy the careers of those who somehow made it through, he felt part of the reason the network survives is, they are capable of murder. He was suspicious some unexpected deaths in the priesthood were actually murders.
They sure did a number on his vocation. And I'm sure countless others.
I used to laugh when he would tell us, "I would never throw my salvation away by commiting suicide. If that's how I'm found, they did it!"
The episcopal rot manifesting itself around McCarrick's insidious behavior, I've stopped laughing.
I never really trusted Richard Sipe. His advocacy of homosexual sex was a complete contradiction to the damages he gathered about its fruits. There was an agenda I could not put my finger on, but theological acceptance of homosexual seduction and sex would result in more victims, so his baby was thrown out with the swamp he tried to bathe us all in.
His recently released 2016 letter expressed his observation that sexual patterns are set up in seminaries or early years after ordination when sexual experimentation is initiated or sustained. He describes a geneology of consensual clerical sex that is endemic to the highest corridors of the Vatican. The sexual escapades of hierarchs threatens scandal of exposure when and if they initiate any attempts to curtail other clerics.
He is sure right about that! There is simply no other explanation.
Coupled with the inability to verify sex between consensual adults, the limitations of guidance of the 8th Commandment and the sincere desires not to impose harm to the Mystical Corpus of Christ, it's a perfect storm for the abuse of power.
Recent revelations that McCarrick's debauchery involved more than consensual sex, and disturbing allegations at St John's Seminary reminded me of information Fr. Bill Scanlan shared almost 20 years ago.
Fr. Bill was falsely accused priest from Boston whose vocation involved working with troubled youths in parish and residential care settings. He worked with the Department of Youth Services, at a residential treatment center called the Pilgrim Center, Long Island Hospital, Bridgewater State Hospital and an after-care program called Home For Now. He was a whistleblower when gay network compromised the safety of troubled youth and was convinced false allegations were used against him to take him out of roles where he would observe suspicious conduct and whistleblow. He was completely reinstated, his innocence verifiable and undeniable. But, the process exposed a lot of corruption.
Though he had little proof, Fr. Bill was extremely suspicious of the gay network of Boston clergy. He felt the culture was incestuous, that it's members and enablers were appointed to Chancery and seminary staff and up the ranks. Not exclusively, but there were enough participants to keep whistleblowing from having any impact. He was deeply concerned they were poaching victims from the seminary and apostolates ministering to troubled youth.
"I see the seminary (a scene for some quieted abuse cases between faculty & students), the Chancery and Catholic Charities as central to a lot of this. Key players float around these offices...Seminary rector's get moved to #2 positions...accused priests end up with Chancery positions (Curley, Surrete, Lane and Shanley)"
I am beside myself that 20 years has passed and its still going on.
Fr Bill was suspicious that victims were passed around networks in the diocese and some perhaps crossed over state lines. He said "One day a black shiny car driven by Monsignor Fred Ryan dropped off McCarrick's nephew for residency and treatment".
What would a victim of McCarrick’s be doing in a Boston priest’s car?
Fred Ryan's allegations also include taking pornographic pictures of his victim and sharing those pics with other predators, including McCarrick.
How would a monsignor in one state have the audacity to contact a bishop in another state and say "take a look at these porn pictures I took of teens this weekend", without some kind of pedophile ring structure? It's not information one would share unless one knew the recipient would take pleasure in them, instead of calling the police.
There are huge pieces of this puzzle missing and it all needs to be investigated.
Fr. Scanlan also duly noted, astoundingly, that nearly all of the priests who formed the association called Boston's Priest Forum were rumoured to be sexually-active homosexuals. He worried about underlying motives and dangers.
The refusal to acknowledge the relationship between sexually active homosexual priests, abuse of power, blackmail as the substance that must be uprooted has given predators 20 more years of victims. This is the end of the road. Richard Sipe cites statistics that 50% of priests and bishops are sexually active. I don't know where he got those statistics but every single one of them has got to be laicized, along with their enablers.
Fr. Bill was scared of them. He truly thought that in addition to using their power to obstruct and discourage heterosexual priests from ordination, or destroy the careers of those who somehow made it through, he felt part of the reason the network survives is, they are capable of murder. He was suspicious some unexpected deaths in the priesthood were actually murders.
They sure did a number on his vocation. And I'm sure countless others.
I used to laugh when he would tell us, "I would never throw my salvation away by commiting suicide. If that's how I'm found, they did it!"
The episcopal rot manifesting itself around McCarrick's insidious behavior, I've stopped laughing.
Friday, August 10, 2018
Rector of Boston's St. John's Seminary, Monsignor James P Moroney, to Go on Vacation
This afternoon, Cardinal O'Malley released a statement saying the rector of St John's seminary has been told to take an extended summer vacation for the Fall semester after two former seminarians posted on social media that they witnessed and experienced activities contrary to moral standards and formation to the Catholic priesthood. Boston Catholic Insider has latest details.
Some of the appointees on Cardinal Sean's team are unknown to me, so I am reserving judgement on whether the outcome is rigged until after I do diligence.
I will say Bishop O'Connell has never come across to me as someone who has any desire to reach independent conclusions about internal corruption. My nickname for him was "the sled dog". I always had the feeling the archdiocese was loading up his sled and he was trying to sell the snake oil.
Further, an extended summer vacation for the rector does not reflect the serious nature of the seduction, harrasment, persecution, obstruction and corruption at Catholic seminaries.
I'm hoping the willingness of seminarians to publicly speak about the filth and the related harassment of faithful men who refuse to go along with it, will help drain swamps at other seminaries across the US.
I think we are going to have to wait and see how it plays out.
Prior to this developing story, I had been giving prayerful reflection to next steps in draining the episcopal swamp. I watched Cardinal DiNardo's recorded statement and tuned in to several of Cardinal Wuerl's guest appearances on the crisis. I also read bishop Barron's article.
With all due respect, they are out of their ever-loving minds.
The pattern emerging is apology tours, an investigation on what happened with McCarrick and developing more useless procedures on how to internally inform the chain of command who has never done anything but promote those who teach or practice sexual debauchery and abuse power.
We've been there/done that. All we have for souvenirs is a basement full of patronizing letters from chanceries.
We have a very small window of opportunity to pull the rug out from under their 2018 sequel to the dog and pony show.
Please. Let us dispense with the farce that we need an investigation on why McCarrick was given 50 years to abuse his power to conduct gay orgies.
We already know what happened. There is an endemic culture of homosexual sex in the priesthood and heirarchy that protects everyone in the club. If you give any indication you have zero tolerance for using the Church as the Tinder for Catholic homosexuals, your vocation or family are targets for malicious conduct. This dynamic has been in full throttle for 60 years, whether in a parish, a school, a seminary, CCD or any other apostolate in the Catholic Church. In some dioceses , it is the operating culture.
Let us also face another sad reality: There is no hope of cleaning house with a Holy Father who would promote and appoint a bishop who painted a homoerotic mural of himself and Christ or surround himself with a Cardinal whose apartment is raided for gay orgies or pick a spokesperson for himself whose obsession is encouraging gays to have sex. Catholics have informed him and begged for his help and his response has made crystal clear that his intentions are the promotion and enabling of the club. The damages to trust are irreparable.
What is needed is an independent clearing house for allegations of every priest and bishop in every diocese whose pastoral ministry advocated gay sex, abused power, sexually harrassed or used intimidation tactics to against orthodox practicing Catholics.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Laity provides lists and an independent team of orthodox Catholic lawyers and law enforcement officials trained in forensics conduct audits of their files.
Boston Catholics tried reporting suspicious and bad conduct to Cardinal Sean for many years.
When complaints began surfacing that one priest was only at the the parish weekends and was spending weekdays in Massachusetts gay sex hookup community of Provincetown, complainants were told by the Cardinal's staff that the Cardinal has "confidence" in this priest.
When complaints surfaced that another priest lived with his gay lover for years in the South End, you can guess what happened when Catholics called the chancery. Nothing.
When another priest notorious for luring and confirming gays into mortal sin was simulating the Sacrament of marriage with a phony ritual, complainants were told the priest is the Cardinal's friend.
When a gay parishioner of a Boston Shrine wrote a tell-all book of sexual debauchery taking place within a Franciscan order and described (and even nicknamed) an archdiocesan priest's involvement in the sex club, you know what happened when Catholics called the chancery? The same thing that happened when people complained about McCarrick. Bupkis.
When problems with Church teaching had a foothold, Boston Catholics developed an independent infrastructure for reporting bad behaviors and promised anonymity. If the evidence was clear and verifiable, it was publicly reported. That was the only effective way to avoid the hijacking of outcome and uprooting the corruption. Perhaps the same structure is needed to manage the abuse of power.
In February, Cardinal Joseph Tobin made the mistake of publicly tweeting what he meant to be a private message. "Nighty-nights baby. I love you." He offered the ludicrous explanation it was meant for his 65-year-old sister. He got away with it. Any team doing forensics needs to start with his phone records and his computer. Reconstructing McCarrick's train accident is a complete waste of resources and hands bishops the outcome of useless procedures they never have and never will follow.
Frank Keating recently said the bishops had their chance 15 years ago to put meaningful reforms in place, they've proven they will not and the only thing left is complete exposure. The right structure and the right people have to go into place, but my recommendation is an independent clearing house and forensic team.
Some of the appointees on Cardinal Sean's team are unknown to me, so I am reserving judgement on whether the outcome is rigged until after I do diligence.
I will say Bishop O'Connell has never come across to me as someone who has any desire to reach independent conclusions about internal corruption. My nickname for him was "the sled dog". I always had the feeling the archdiocese was loading up his sled and he was trying to sell the snake oil.
Further, an extended summer vacation for the rector does not reflect the serious nature of the seduction, harrasment, persecution, obstruction and corruption at Catholic seminaries.
I'm hoping the willingness of seminarians to publicly speak about the filth and the related harassment of faithful men who refuse to go along with it, will help drain swamps at other seminaries across the US.
I think we are going to have to wait and see how it plays out.
Prior to this developing story, I had been giving prayerful reflection to next steps in draining the episcopal swamp. I watched Cardinal DiNardo's recorded statement and tuned in to several of Cardinal Wuerl's guest appearances on the crisis. I also read bishop Barron's article.
With all due respect, they are out of their ever-loving minds.
The pattern emerging is apology tours, an investigation on what happened with McCarrick and developing more useless procedures on how to internally inform the chain of command who has never done anything but promote those who teach or practice sexual debauchery and abuse power.
We've been there/done that. All we have for souvenirs is a basement full of patronizing letters from chanceries.
We have a very small window of opportunity to pull the rug out from under their 2018 sequel to the dog and pony show.
Please. Let us dispense with the farce that we need an investigation on why McCarrick was given 50 years to abuse his power to conduct gay orgies.
We already know what happened. There is an endemic culture of homosexual sex in the priesthood and heirarchy that protects everyone in the club. If you give any indication you have zero tolerance for using the Church as the Tinder for Catholic homosexuals, your vocation or family are targets for malicious conduct. This dynamic has been in full throttle for 60 years, whether in a parish, a school, a seminary, CCD or any other apostolate in the Catholic Church. In some dioceses , it is the operating culture.
Let us also face another sad reality: There is no hope of cleaning house with a Holy Father who would promote and appoint a bishop who painted a homoerotic mural of himself and Christ or surround himself with a Cardinal whose apartment is raided for gay orgies or pick a spokesperson for himself whose obsession is encouraging gays to have sex. Catholics have informed him and begged for his help and his response has made crystal clear that his intentions are the promotion and enabling of the club. The damages to trust are irreparable.
What is needed is an independent clearing house for allegations of every priest and bishop in every diocese whose pastoral ministry advocated gay sex, abused power, sexually harrassed or used intimidation tactics to against orthodox practicing Catholics.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Laity provides lists and an independent team of orthodox Catholic lawyers and law enforcement officials trained in forensics conduct audits of their files.
Boston Catholics tried reporting suspicious and bad conduct to Cardinal Sean for many years.
When complaints began surfacing that one priest was only at the the parish weekends and was spending weekdays in Massachusetts gay sex hookup community of Provincetown, complainants were told by the Cardinal's staff that the Cardinal has "confidence" in this priest.
When complaints surfaced that another priest lived with his gay lover for years in the South End, you can guess what happened when Catholics called the chancery. Nothing.
When another priest notorious for luring and confirming gays into mortal sin was simulating the Sacrament of marriage with a phony ritual, complainants were told the priest is the Cardinal's friend.
When a gay parishioner of a Boston Shrine wrote a tell-all book of sexual debauchery taking place within a Franciscan order and described (and even nicknamed) an archdiocesan priest's involvement in the sex club, you know what happened when Catholics called the chancery? The same thing that happened when people complained about McCarrick. Bupkis.
When problems with Church teaching had a foothold, Boston Catholics developed an independent infrastructure for reporting bad behaviors and promised anonymity. If the evidence was clear and verifiable, it was publicly reported. That was the only effective way to avoid the hijacking of outcome and uprooting the corruption. Perhaps the same structure is needed to manage the abuse of power.
In February, Cardinal Joseph Tobin made the mistake of publicly tweeting what he meant to be a private message. "Nighty-nights baby. I love you." He offered the ludicrous explanation it was meant for his 65-year-old sister. He got away with it. Any team doing forensics needs to start with his phone records and his computer. Reconstructing McCarrick's train accident is a complete waste of resources and hands bishops the outcome of useless procedures they never have and never will follow.
Frank Keating recently said the bishops had their chance 15 years ago to put meaningful reforms in place, they've proven they will not and the only thing left is complete exposure. The right structure and the right people have to go into place, but my recommendation is an independent clearing house and forensic team.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Get the popcorn and lemonade. We're about to see a circus.
The USCCB has issued a statement saying they are convening to address their "moral failures".
Send in the clowns.
Here's why practicing Catholics know this effort is just more smoke and mirrors: This is the world in which we live. The same reasons this pastor-pervert is still sleeping in his bed in the rectory, the World Meeting of Families is saturated with promoters of homosexual sex, these are the same reasons McCarrick was sheltered and protected by Bishops.
If they want to show us they're going to do something about the cause of sexual debauchery within the ranks of the ordained, a good start would be yanking Fr. James Martin from the World Meeting of Families. (please sign petition!)
Episcopal publicity stunts are only making Catholics madder.
First, they knew bishops were sexual abusing, so they licensed their own sexual debauchery by excluding themselves from the Dallas Charter. They deliberately protected sexual abuse of bishops. Now that they're caught red-handed, they announce they're convening to discuss 'the right course of action'.
Give us a break.
What's needed now is to beat them to the punch with a bullet list of 'the right course of action'.
They can start by publishing a list of names of priests and bishops they're protecting.
Make another list of every man ordained, from priest to Pope, who has ever promoted homosexual sex or failed to teach moral theology and laicize them.
Then dissolve the USCCB.
That would be getting somewhere. Clean the episcopal swamp.
What is troublesome about this statement is its reference to past tense, as if the USCCB isn't currently, in this hour, loaded with sexual predators. But we all know it is, and the "action plan" of laity is to scorch the earth if they are not voluntarily flushed out.
Send in the clowns.
Here's why practicing Catholics know this effort is just more smoke and mirrors: This is the world in which we live. The same reasons this pastor-pervert is still sleeping in his bed in the rectory, the World Meeting of Families is saturated with promoters of homosexual sex, these are the same reasons McCarrick was sheltered and protected by Bishops.
If they want to show us they're going to do something about the cause of sexual debauchery within the ranks of the ordained, a good start would be yanking Fr. James Martin from the World Meeting of Families. (please sign petition!)
Episcopal publicity stunts are only making Catholics madder.
First, they knew bishops were sexual abusing, so they licensed their own sexual debauchery by excluding themselves from the Dallas Charter. They deliberately protected sexual abuse of bishops. Now that they're caught red-handed, they announce they're convening to discuss 'the right course of action'.
Give us a break.
What's needed now is to beat them to the punch with a bullet list of 'the right course of action'.
They can start by publishing a list of names of priests and bishops they're protecting.
Make another list of every man ordained, from priest to Pope, who has ever promoted homosexual sex or failed to teach moral theology and laicize them.
Then dissolve the USCCB.
That would be getting somewhere. Clean the episcopal swamp.
What is troublesome about this statement is its reference to past tense, as if the USCCB isn't currently, in this hour, loaded with sexual predators. But we all know it is, and the "action plan" of laity is to scorch the earth if they are not voluntarily flushed out.
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