Homosexuality

POST VATICAN II

From CATHOLIC NEW YORK, 3/12/87. "`There are divine laws which give us life; we don't believe they can be changed' said Cardinal O'Connor, explaining the suspension of the weekly Masses sponsored by the homosexual organization, Dignity.

"In remarks after Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral last Sunday, the cardinal said that homosexuals are welcome to participate in regular parish Masses or those sponsored by the group Courage, an organization for homosexual Catholics which encourages them to lead celibate lives. `We are not throwing anyone out of the Church,' the Cardinal said.

"The night before (March 7, 1987) more than 1,000 people gathered for the final Dignity Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church, a Jesuit-run parish.

"The pastor, Michael E. Donohue told the congregation, `This is a sad day in the life of our parish community.'"

From CATHOLIC NEW YORK, 4/30/87. "In a full-page ad in Newsweek, Dignity USA criticized the Catholic Church's stand on homosexuality and asked bishops to stop expelling its local chapters from Church facilities.

"Jesus said nothing about homosexuality," the ad said, "but the Vatican last fall called homosexual activity an `intrinsically moral evil.'"

A homosexual priest in Philadelphia admitted his sex preference during an interview on TV but stated he didn't practice homosexuality `because he was celibate.'

CATHOLIC JOURNALS

From National Catholic Reporter, 7/31/92. The Catholic Church is preaching discrimination. That was the initial response - amid the anger, dismay and fury - to the Vatican's [recently released Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) document] against legal protection for homosexual couples. [Individually and collectively] Catholic bishops have taken a different approach. Bishops from the dioceses of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland opposed an anti-gay legislative proposition in California in 1978. The Archbishop of Milwaukee (Rembert Weakland) supported the passage of the Wisconsin state gay-rights bill in 1982. Dignity/USA Vice President Marianne Duddy [complained that] "The American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have all removed homosexuality from their lists of disorders, yet these men in Rome seem not to read or learn."

Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton [angrily] said the CDF is "out of touch with reality and clearly insensitive to the rights of homosexuals. If U.S. bishops take the statement seriously, it could cause great harm, a split within the church. My hope is that it will not be enforced."

The cost to the Catholic episcopacy of the Vatican document could be very high indeed: public revelation of the names of gay Catholic bishops....When the bishops in certain states or cities have chosen to be quiet on the issue, it is often because homosexuals have gone to the auxiliary bishop or bishop and confronted that person with his own homosexuality.

From THE WANDERER, 11/10/94. "Oakland Diocese Places Priest Who Fathered Two Children on Leave.

"The Oakland Diocese confirmed on October 28th that one of its priests fathered children while serving in the parish.

"Fr. John Gilmore, 41, was known by Oakland's Bishop John S. Cummins to have been intimately involved with a woman parishoner before he was named pastor at St. Perpetua Church in Lafayette in 1991.....

"Tom McMahon, a former Bay Area priest, was open about being the father of two children in the 1970s, and even had his parishoners baby-sit them.....

"Good Tidings, a Pennsylvania group which supports women involved with priests, says children are the real victims. Cathy Grenier, who runs the organization...said, 'I don't think the idea is to punish priests, but to make them responsible for the children. There are plenty of conservative priests who have children, too. It's a tricky situation. If a man is doing right by the woman involved and is not just a gigolo and has integrity, he can stay as a parish priest......'

SECULAR JOURNALS

From NSIPS, 11/8/86. "The Vatican has warned a self-professed homosexual Jesuit priest, John McNeill, that he may be expelled from his religious order unless he ceases his active support for `gay causes.' Father McNeill is a founder of a group called `Dignity', described as a `Catholic Gay Rights organization.'

"McNeill blames Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger."

From THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, 2/7/87. "`When I came into religious life in the 1950s, I came in as an absolute innocent' he said. `I never set foot in a gay bar until I was 29.' The man talking to a reporter for THE BOSTON GLOBE is a Roman Catholic priest. He has AIDS."

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

We see the spirit of moral perversion is evident throughout the apostate element of Christianity. It has always been evident in the Roman Catholic Church, with its wicked forced "celibacy." The history of Roman Catholicism reads like something out of the pages of a Sodom and Gomorrah chronicle. Large numbers of the popes, even, were morally perverse, and countless Catholic priests were given over to homosexuality. Even Roman Catholic histories admit this, and they are usually less than forthright about the moral failure of the "mother church." The widespread perversion continues to this day.

The Catholic Church in America has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in fines because of lawsuits won against homosexual priests. The November 13, 1989, issue of Time magazine contained an article titled "The Battle Over Gay Clergy" which reported that there may be some 10,000 homosexual Roman Catholic priests in the United States alone. In Australia, a code of conduct was recently recommended which would forbid Catholic priests to be alone with children. The Catholic Church there has admitted its priests have abused hundreds of children.

A report produced in New South Wales this year highlighted the homosexual problem among the "clergy." The report said that many of the priests thought "their celibacy vow concerned only heterosexual relations and did not address indecent acts with boys or adolescent males" (Religious News Service, Sept. 25, 1997). In other words, they knew there were forbidden to marry a woman, but they did not understand that they were forbidden to have sexual relations with boys! Examples of the moral perversion among Catholic priests could be given for country after country.