PITTSBURGH (PA)
Renew America
Randy Engel
Introduction
On April 14, 2012, the Catholic Men’s Fellowship (CMF) of Pittsburgh is holdings its 7th annual gathering of Catholic men at Duquesne University. The theme of the conference is “Living the Eucharist in Today’s America. The CFM is a “lay apostolate,” part of the world-wide “New Evangelization” program in the post-Conciliar Church which seeks to reinvigorate the faith among Catholics.
Bishop David Zubik has promoted the CMF conference in a letter dated March 6, 2012, to all Pittsburgh pastors, and conference fliers have been inserted into church bulletins throughout the diocese. Among the featured speakers is the controversial Father Robert A. Sirico, co-founder and President of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, a non-denominational “think tank” dedicated to integrating free market capitalism with religion, especially Catholicism.
Up until the summer of 2006 when my book, The Rite of Sodomy was published, I had no knowledge of Sirico, his involvement with the early Homosexual Movement on the West Coast, or the Acton Institute. However, my journalistic curiosity was peaked when I learned that Sirico, who did indeed have a vivid homosexual past, had become the “religious superior” of an Oratory (in formation) of St. Philip Neri in the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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