ISN'T THIS TRULY WHAT THE POPE SHOULD BE DEALING WITH???
HOW MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY MUSLIMS AS THE POPE PUTS HIS MUZZLE BACK ON?
Pope Benedict, speaking from the grave?
Pope Benedict XVI is dead but apparently has left behind a book to be read, highlighting a Church near "collapse," its seminaries' gay "clubs," and plenty of criticism for the man presiding now over it all, Pope Francis.
According to Robert Spencer at PJMedia:
When Pope Benedict XVI died on December 31 at the age of 95, it turns out that he had a completed book ready for publication upon his death. Written in Italian, that book, Che cos'è il Cristianesimo: Quasi un testamento spirituale (What Is Christianity: Almost a Spiritual Testament), is full of explosive revelations and trenchant criticism of his woke successor, Pope Francis. Could Pope Benedict begin a counter-revolution within the Roman Catholic Church from the grave? Stranger things have happened, although it would take any one of us a good while to think of one.
Pope Benedict explains that he did not want the book published while he was still living because of the furious reaction his writings inspired: "For my part, in life, I no longer want to publish anything. The fury of the circles against me in Germany is so strong that the appearance of my every word immediately causes a murderous shouting from them. I want to spare myself and Christendom this."
It's easy to see why this book would inspire "murderous shouting" from some corners of the Roman Catholic Church. Benedict writes that the Church is close to "collapse" and paints a picture of seminaries in the United States as centers of promiscuous homosexuality and perversion. "In various seminaries," the pope explained, "homosexual 'clubs' were formed which acted more or less openly and which clearly transformed the atmosphere in the seminaries."
All of this has been known for years by the Catholic faithful. I remember observing how many obviously gay priests there were as a student at the Jesuit University of San Francisco as early as the 1980s. With gayness came advocacy of the gay lifestyle. A then-"scandal" I covered for the university newspaper, The Foghorn, as a cub reporter was the leasing of the St. Ignatius cathedral to the Gay Men's Chorus for a concert. Someone made that decision, and at the time, it drew controversy. I doubt it would draw controversy now.
Since then, we have seen problems with this bowing to the gay lifestyle. The first I noticed was that all the straight young men in my circle, who sought to become priests, a heckuva lifetime commitment, were being dismissed from the seminaries as not suited to the priesthood. Maybe so, but not based on the character of the young men I knew. There was a growing suspicion that they weren't part of a sort of gay "club." It was strange how many of the devout they rejected.
When the pedophile scandals broke, there were an inordinate number of gay incidents among the perpetrators. I personally knew one of the pedo priests, the Rev. Donald McGuire, S.J., who taught at USF. He was into sodomy with young boys, particularly those who were new to the Church. Any moves to hose out these kinds of people? Seems he had been shifted again and again from assignment to assignment every time a scandal broke. To be fair, there were hetero perverts, too, but the gay component in these scandals was out of proportion to its numbers.
Now we have open advocacy for gay causes, with Pope Francis coming out with sympathetic statements for gay causes, and making that very odd statement that a priest in confession should forgive a sinner who has no intention of ending his sinning. Andrea Widburg wrote about that in this post here. What else could that be but a green light to the gay lifestyle?
We also have a synodal message from our cardinal, Robert McElroy, wondering about the "demonic" rejection of parishioners of gay advocacy in the Church. McElroy is a nice guy, and I hate to single him out, but his stance is one that doesn't seem to be necessary, given that the Church laws are exactly the same for gay and straight people: that sex is for procreation. As for "rejection," Catholics reject bad acts, not people. Why the sudden emphasis on this "inclusion" of gays, given that everyone knows that they aren't excluded? Why the activism? Most Catholics know a few gay Catholics who have full understanding of Church teaching and do all they can to follow it. I know one gay Catholic who is a deep devotee of the Latin Mass, now being repressed by the Church under Pope Francis. He joined the Church to get away from the gay lifestyle. I haven't talked to him in a while, but I doubt he wants to see it following him in.
The "inclusion" thing, in any case, is kind of a weak argument coming from McElroy, who famously says he would give abortion-promoting Joe Biden Communion, while Joe himself excludes little babies in the womb from a basic right to life and favors of cutting them up and selling them for spare parts at a profit. If an unrepentant Hitler wanted into the Church, would McElroy let him in, too, in the name of "inclusion"? The moral disorder here is obvious.
The Gay Men's Chorus in the cathedral was the scandal of the '80s, but now that the lavender mafia has gotten entrenched in the Church, we are seeing scandals like this:
NEWCASTLE, England (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is investigating a homosexual "sex party" at an English cathedral after its bishop quit and the cathedral dean, who organized the event, killed himself following allegations of abuse. ...
Individuals complained about the party and said "the cathedral had become a laughing stock."
The party, which reportedly featured a drag queen, was held in the presbytery adjoining St. Mary's Cathedral in Newcastle during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Father Michael McCoy, the cathedral dean abruptly appointed by Bp. Byrne to replace the popular previous incumbent Fr. Dermott Donnelly, is said to have approached several worshippers in the diocese and asked them if they would like to attend the party.
On April 10, 2021, Canon McCoy's body was found hanging in an apartment on City Road in Newcastle, four days after Northumbria police informed the priest that they were investigating "a non-recent allegation" of child sex abuse against him.
Open that story with caution; you may feel you need a shower after reading it.
And this, which I wrote about in 2018:
Was the man who who's widely believed to be the next cardinal for the Washington archdiocese, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, bunking with a houseboy?
It looks like it, given the reporting of the indefatigable George Neumayr.
Well, where do these events come from, other than a long downhill slide into tolerance for the gay agenda (notice I didn't say "gay people," which is a separate matter) being promoted by activists, and then an embrace of it, slowly, then quickly, by what Pope Benedict called a gay "club" within the Church leadership.
The book is a bombshell for Pope Francis, and it follows from two other books also critical of his papacy.
Some observers call it chaos or civil war within the Church, and there are those who see it coming from a couple of directions — not just the conservatives upset that traditional Church teachings are being replaced by intolerant wokester ideology, but from the far left, too, among the crazed German Church leadership, which seems to be in opposition to all Church teachings. It may be overcalling it, but Pope Benedict did warn that the Church was looking at a potential collapse. It's obviously a sign of trouble. And it may be a sign that the Church needs some new leadership.
Image: Peter Nguyen via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Report: 278 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020
(CNSNews.com) -- Since May 2020, at least 278 Catholic Churches in the United States have been attacked -- vandalized, burned, destroyed -- and 121 of those attacks have occurred since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, reported CatholicVote.org.
In its Jan. 24, 2023 update on the anti-Christian crimes, CatholicVote noted that after the death of George Floyd in May 2020 there were small riots and mobs that engaged in property destruction across the country, and Catholic churches were not exempt from some of that violence.
The unrest over Floyd's death eventually subsided, but attacks on Catholic churches and buildings did not.
"Since civil unrest began on May 28, 2020, there have been at least 278 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States, including arson attacks which damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; and statues destroyed (often with heads cut off)," reported CatholicVote.
"A new spate of at least 121 attacks has occurred since the draft Supreme Court opinion proposing to reverse Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May 2022, with many including graffiti with pro-abortion messages," said the organization.
So far, for instance, there were 42 attacks in California; 14 in Colorado; 12 in Massachusetts; 14 in New Jersey; 28 in New York; 19 in Pennsylvania; 15 in Texas; and 11 in Washington.
According to CatholicVote, arrests have been made in about 25% of the cases. "The Biden administration has thus far refused to act to protect Catholic churches and stop these acts of domestic terrorism," said the organization.
Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said, “The vandalism we are seeing today is quickly rising to levels that haven’t been seen since the late 1800’s and early 1900’s from organized groups such as the Know-Nothings and the Ku Klux Klan."
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Burch said, "Under 18 U.S. Code § 247 it is the duty of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute, when necessary, those who do damage to religious property or participate in the obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs. The Justice Department has touted efforts to prosecute crimes against protected classes of Americans, including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and ancestry. Yet you have made no meaningful effort to raise awareness, or address the disturbing rise in hate-filled attacks on Catholic religious symbols, shrines, statues and churches."
On Dec. 30, 2022, the City View Church in San Diego was vandalized. Some of the graffiti pained on the church's walls and property read, 'Queers Bash Back," "BLM," "Trans Rights Are Human Rights," and "F*** Christian Nationalists."
Pope Francis: Homosexual Behavior is ‘a Sin’
In an interview this week with the Associated Press, Pope Francis reiterated the Catholic position that homosexual behavior is a sin.
The Associated Press published the pope’s statement in an article that carried the headline: “The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime.”
The first two paragraphs of the AP story said: “Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as ‘unjust,’ saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church."
The story continued: “‘Being homosexual isn’t a crime,’ Francis said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with the Associated Press.”
Sixteen paragraphs into its story, the Associated Press reported the following:
“On Tuesday, Francis said there needed to be a distinction between a crime and a sin with regard to homosexuality.
“‘It’s not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin,’ he said. ‘Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.’”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.”
“They are contrary to natural law,” says the Catechism.
“Under no circumstances can they be approved,” it says.
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