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There was been great discussion in Rome, going back over a year, on the 300 page dossier on the antics of the local “gay lobby,” or “homosexual mafia,” in the priesthood there. It is felt by many that this dossier played a decisive role in Pope Benedict’s decision to abdicate.
Of course, this was a great scandal – as was Fr. Dariusz Oka’s unprecedented public analysis of the homosexual network among the Polish clergy. All this seems new to someone like me, who started getting really involved in the Faith about 8 or so years ago. But these kinds of revelations have been going on longer than that, going back over a decade, at least to the original outbreak of the “priest abuse crisis” that rocked the Church in this country in the early 2000s. There is a disturbing amount of data out there. Suffice it to say, sodomite penetration of the priesthood is a near-worldwide phenomenon.
In this vein, I have started reading Likoudis’ Amchurch Comes Out, and it makes for startling, frightening reading. This book was published in 2002, when the “sex abuse crisis” was at its height. But it seems, to me at least, that much of the data contained within has been lost in the creep of time. Before I excerpt a couple bits, here are some bullet points to always keep in mind:
1. Over 1000 priests were found guilty of abusing children, the vast majority of them pubescent boys
2. This scandal has affected every. single. diocese.
3. Homosexual priests staff – or staffed, at least well into the 2000s – some of the most sensitive, influential posts at the USCCB and in some of the most powerful archdioceses. That put their influence far out of proportion to their numbers.
4. Rational people do not upend a Church, or wage a war of oppression, over points of liturgical detail or ecumenical procedure. They wage such wars in order to squash institutional objections to certain kinds of behavior, especially sexual behavior.
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