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As we stated in NEWS1670, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy today is lying once again to their grieved parishioner; in response to the anguished cries of the laity, demanding answers to the undefendable crimes of pedophile priests, Catholic officials have mounted a sophisticated counter-attack. This counter-attack is embodied in the latest book of Catholic apologetics entitled, "Goodbye, Good Men", but its theme is also being spoken from most Catholic Church pulpits today.
The theme is: Celibacy is not the problem here; the problem is that homosexual activists began to deliberately target the Catholic Church and its seminaries 40 years ago, two generations ago.
Let us review this argument from "Goodbye Good Men", which I have just finished reading.
REASON FOR CELIBACY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
"Through virginity or celibacy observed for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, priests are consecrated to Christ in a new and distinguished way. They more easily hold fast to Him with undivided heart. They more freely devote themselves in Him and through Him to the service of God and men. They more readily minister to His kingdom and to the work of heavenly regeneration, and thus become more apt to exercise paternity in Christ, and do so to a greater extent." [P. 270, quoting the Second Vatican Council, Presbyterorum Ordinis]
"Over the years I have been a defender of celibacy as a spiritually valuable discipline and an important witness." [P. 272]
These statements presuppose that, in the bygone eras, before the homosexual activists "targeted" and "infiltrated" the Catholic priesthood, celibacy was a "spiritually valuable discipline" that worked to enable the Church and its priesthood to hold forth "an important witness" to the unbelieving world. In other words, prior to 1962, approximately, celibacy worked well for the priesthood and enabled the Catholic Church to be a stronger witness for the Lord Jesus Christ than if she did not have priestly celibacy. Remember this line of argument, for it shall have great importance shortly.
"Celibacy is not the problem." [P. 274]
"Father Andrew Greeley, for instance, made the point that the image of the priesthood has been dealt a savage blow by well-publicized resignations, by the pedophile crisis, and by the fact that the priesthood is increasingly a gay group, a gay occupation ... the link between celibacy and sexual misconduct remains unsubstantiated." [P. 276]
Let me repeat that last apologetic statement for you, just in case you missed it: "... the link between celibacy and sexual misconduct remains unsubstantiated."
Keep this statement in mind as it will become very important later on in this article.
"... it is not celibacy that drives priests and religious [sic] to pedophilia and other sexual perversions, but 'bad philosophy', a philosophy which dispensed with chastity. Celibacy was a casualty, not a cause ... it is neither celibacy nor the Church's teaching on human sexuality that leads to sexual scandal among priests." [P. 283]
"By 1997, even more cases of priest pedophilia had surfaced. Celibacy was not the cause." [P. 286-7]
"Most Catholics in the pews never expected a married priesthood and still do not." [P. 289]
"... seminarians were not provided with examples of chastity by men in the seminary who showed balance, self-mastery, and affective maturity." [P. 290]
"... our seminaries were filled beyond capacity 40 years ago when the discipline of celibacy was exactly the same as it is today." [P. 271]
Thus, author Michael Rose states at the very beginning, and repeatedly throughout the book, that the gays began their takeover of the Catholic priesthood two generations ago [40 years], turning away as many heterosexual candidates for the priesthood as possible, using whatever creative means they could find to do so. Thus, now, the Catholic priesthood is predominately gay.
ANSWER TO THIS PEDOPHILIA ISSUE, ACCORDING TO "GOODBYE! GOOD MEN"
Once Rose excellently paints an explicit picture of the gay culture within many of the seminaries, he comes to the issue of what the Catholic Church can do to roll this disaster back? What can it do to reestablish trust in the priesthood among the laity and restore the moral authority of the Church in society?
Rose thinks he has found the answer: A Return to Roman Catholic Orthodoxy, or Traditionalism. Listen to Rose:
"... adherence to the teaching of the Church on sexuality and particularly on homosexuality is not a sign of rigidity or mental illness but of mental health." [P. 206]
"... the primary cause of the vocations crisis is a lack of authentic Catholic life ... in dioceses and religious orders where young men can witness authentic Catholic life, vocations will flourish." [P. 267]
"I must also say a word about the use of the term 'orthodox'. As I employ the term, orthodox (with the small 'o') connotes adherence to the magisterium of the Church and a full acceptance of authentic Church teaching ... 'orthodox' refers to a person or institution which not only does not deny essential articles of the Catholic faith, but embraces the legitimate traditions, devotions, and piety of Catholicism ...people who are loyal to the magisterial teaching of the Pope and bishops, who do not support ordaining women, who defend the Church's teaching about sexual morality and artificial birth control, who exhibit piety toward devotions such as the rosary and Eucharistic adoration, and who accept the Church's understanding of the priesthood and who do not seek to redefine it or re-envision it." [Introduction written by Michael Rose, p. 13-14]
Thus, the author, Michael Rose, states his vision for healing the Catholic Church of this terrible epidemic of priestly pediophilia and of the gay culture of the current priesthood. Rose repeats this vision throughout this book; if only the Catholic Church would turn back to the Orthodoxy prior to 40 years ago, prior to approximately 1962, all would be well. The priesthood could function in Orthodoxy just like it historically has done, and we would have no problem with priestly pedophilia, no sex scandals breaking out, and no cover-up by Bishops and Cardinals of criminal priests.
This is his vision. This is his answer to this terrible disastrous scandal.
GOING BACK TO PERIOD BEFORE 1962
Let us look, therefore, at a period of time before 1962, when, according to Rose in his book, "Goodbye! Good Men", the church was practicing Orthodoxy. If we follow Rose's premise, then in the 1930's and 1940's, we should not expect to find any priestly pedophilia, no sex scandals, and no movement of criminal priests all around the country in order to hide the crime and the criminal. We should expect to find that celibacy is working just fine, producing priests that are chaste and sexually pure.
Is that what we find?
We shall be reviewing a book entitled, "I Am A Priest", by Lucien Vinet, Protestant Information Bureau, Englewood, Colorado, 1949. Biography: "Father Lucien Vinet - Ordained Roman priest in 1933; Assistant priest at St. Jean and Morris, Manitoba; Pastor of Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba; Roman Catholic Chaplain in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He left the Roman priesthood and joined the Presbyterian Church in 1942." [Page 13]
Thus, Vinet attended Catholic colleges and seminaries in the late 1920's and early 1930's. This period of time is perfect to examine, to test the validity of Rose's assertion that a return to the Orthodoxy of previous eras would solve the pedophilia and homosexual problems besetting the Catholic Church today.
Perhaps the best way in which to approach this book's revelations is to totally reprint Chapter Two, entitled, "Priests, Sex and Celibacy" [Pages 23-37], and then to come back to highlight pertinent portions and speak of them more closely.
Chapter II - Priests, Sex and Celibacy
"Our readers know that Roman Catholic priests are forbidden to marry by rule of the Church. When a young man receives the sub-diaconate in the church, he not only takes the vow not to marry but he renders his person forever incapable of validly contracting marriage … [Page 23]
"If celibacy is commonly observed by Roman priests, we regret to admit that the same cannot be said of chastity. The fact is that innumerable sins of lust are
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committed in the Church of Rome in the name of the law of celibacy. It is unnecessary to state that there is absolutely no difference between the human nature of a Roman priest and that of an ordinary layman, but priests who are bound by celibacy, solve their sex problems in defiance of the laws of God and country. Therefore, this vow of celibacy is the greatest hoax invented by Romanism. Priests who are avowed moralists become professional hypocrites in order to conceal their romances and the discrepancy between their teachings and their private lives.
Opponents of the Roman Church have often suggested that nuns are the common accomplices of the priest's sexual sins. We believe this is incorrect. True, in the Middle Ages, tunnels were built between convents and monasteries to facilitate secret meetings of the parties concerned, but the modern priest's technique is no different from any other modern Romeo. If nuns and priests, in certain circumstances, do indulge in romances, tunnels are no longer necessary. For example, there is no tunnel between the convent and the Redemptorist Monastery in a small Manitoba town, but it is no longer a secret that shocking romances have occurred between the good Fathers and the Holy Nuns. Sexual crimes of nuns, priests, bishops and popes are accepted facts that cannot be denied. Our old teacher, a religious Brother, used to tell us that Hell is 'paved with heads of popes, bishops, and priests'.
Even Roman Catholic historians and moralists admit that the law of celibacy of priests and the vow of chastity of monks, are historical failures. True, the Roman Church makes supreme efforts to conceal this fact from Roman Catholics. We cannot reveal all
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the acts of depravity of priests and monks. We mention a few of past centuries and a few of our modern times and we will see that the Roman Church is indeed, as she boasts to be, 'Semper eaden;, that is, 'always the same'."
Do Roman Catholics know that His Holiness, Pope Sergius III, had an illegitimate son by the Roman prostitute Marozia?; that this pope's offspring succeeded his father on the so-called throne of St. Peter at the age of sixteen, under the name of Pope John XI; that Pope Leo VI was assassinated by his mistress because he had given his heart to another woman; that the Bishop of Cremorne wrote the following of Pope John XII: 'No honest lady dared to show herself in public, for the Pope John had no respect for single girls, married women or widows; they were sure to be defiled by him, even on the tombs of the Holy Apostles, Peter, and Paul'; that this Pope John was killed by a man who surprised him in the act of adultery with his wife; that thirty-seven bishops and priests testified before a Council of the Church that His Holiness, Pope John XXIII was guilty of fornication, adultery, incest, sodomy, theft and murder, and that he had violated three hundred nuns; that Pope Alexander VI lived in public incest with his two sisters and became father of his sister's child and later became father of the child of his own daughter Lucretia; that Pope Gregory XVI had several known mistresses, one of whom was the attractive wife of his own barber; that Pope Pius IX, who reigned less than a century ago, and whom the Church contemplates canonizing as a Saint, was the father of two illegitimate daughters; that the well-known Cardinal Antonelli,
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Secretary of State, was the father of a child whose mother was the Countess Lambertini?
In the lower clergy, the situation is no better. We mention only a few typical cases:
Some can still remember the case of Father Cahill of the New England States who cut his throat to escape prosecution after he had brutally seduced many young girls of his parish; the affairs of the Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Boston with his female penitents, and his suicide by poison to escape incarceration in a State jail; the case of the Jesuit Father Girard, in France, who was accused in Court by Catherine Cadiere and other ladies, of having perverted them in the confessional; the sensational Court case of Father Nihills of Australia, who was sentenced to three year's hard labour for sex perversion of his young girl penitents; the case of Father McNully of Malone, NY, who corrupted in the confessional, a young woman by the name of Miss McFarlane. This priest was jailed, escaped custody, fled to Canada, where he was given a post as confessor of young Irish girls.
Do Roman Catholics realize that today the situation is by no means any better? The writer knows at least fifty priests, only in this province of Manitoba, who are the seducers and corrupters of young ladies or of young boys. We now have in mind a pastor in a small Manitoba parish who has boasted that he has attempted to seduce most of the women of Southeastern Manitoba where he had a parish and where he became the father of at least one child …
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Manitoba Roman Catholics still talk of a Winnipeg priest who was sent East on account of his known sex perversions of young boys; the inhabitants of the small town of St. Pierre, Manitoba, have just been relieved of an assistant priest who also returned East because he was a drunkard and an exhibitionist.
Not very long ago, our seven-year-old niece was criminally assaulted in the very precincts of St. Boniface Cathedral. The Cathedral authorities, with the cooperation of the local police, endeavored to apprehend and punish the brutal criminal who had desecrated this holy place of Roman worship, but when the little girl identified as her assailant a young priest of the Cathedral staff, the case was hush-hushed into oblivion.
When will Roman Catholics throughout this world open their eyes and come to the realization that the holiness of their Church and their priests is a pure farce! The hypocrite priests preach often on the sanctity of their lives. They feel this is necessary to deceive Roman Catholics into believing their doctrines and in the holiness of their private lives …
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Some readers might believe that at least the religious Orders are free from sexual crimes. We do not know of any religious Order which is more strict in its discipline than the Trappist Order. Manitoba witnessed just a few years ago, the activities of the Head of the St. Norbert Trappist Order. He was eventually removed to the East on account of his too-apparent romances with the ladies of the province. The greatest priest scandals have proven to concern monks and members of our religious orders.
We must now surprise our readers by stating the most disgusting sexual crimes of priests are not committed in a normal fashion in company with adult women. Moreover, many priests are women haters. Some of them refuse even to shake hands with ladies; they keep their eyes down and abstain from looking at them. These are the usual signs of an abnormal and homosexual priest.
The priests' and monks' great sexual crimes are homosexuality and sexual abnormalities of various descriptions. The victims are young boys and often young girls. We must make haste to explain that the so-common sex crimes of the Roman priests must be blamed on the system which trains them, rather than on their God-given human nature. It is a gruesome fact that forced celibacy, auricular confession and some aspects of the priest's training, render a Roman priest a sexually-abnormal person or a sex pervert.
We shall reconstruct for our readers the various phases of a priest's training which lead him to the deplorable state above mentioned.
Let us take a good, clean boy of fifteen years. He is indeed a normal boy. Let alone, he would probably
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become a good, natural and Christian husband and father, but he is ear-marked for the priesthood and celibacy. He enters a seminary; he is told that hence-forth he must not only renounce the possibility of marriage, but must also consider all young women proximate occasions of sin and the infallible cause of the loss of his calling to the priesthood. He must not think of them, must not look at them and must not associate with them. This boy is now trained in an abnormal life and will naturally look for compensation for the normal ambitions of his nature.
If he attends a Quebec college or seminary, he will invariably come into contact with the many practitioners of the infamous 'chattage' [homosexual circles; see End Note]. He will be taught unnatural love between persons of the same sex and it will be a miracle if he does not become sexually abnormal in a short time. This future priest accepts celibacy in his mind but finds an unnatural compensation in sex abnormalities, and homosexuality is the common one. Later, he will become a sex pervert. The forced law of celibacy has destroyed him.
We do not want to convey the impression that all priests are sex perverts. Many have escaped this tragedy due to an extraordinarily strong will and a deep sense of natural honesty. What is the percentage of priests who are abnormals and sex perverts? We certainly do not know and would not risk a guess, but we will state here the estimate of a group of young priests whom we visited in a Quebec college. They thought at least ninety percent of all the priests were either sex perverts or sex addicts of some variety and degree …
The Roman Church, of course, takes great pains
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to conceal this fact from the public. In Canada, for instance, if a priest is too widely known in the town where he is stationed, he will be transferred to the East or to the West as the case may be. Priests with sex records roam the country and pervert the young as they pass. We still have fresh in our memory the Jesuit priest pervert of a Montreal parish who was sent to the West, and the exhibitionist priest pervert of a Manitoba town who was dispatched to the East.
A few years ago in a small Manitoba village, the villagers were shocked by the sex perversions of their parish priest. The pastor had perverted several young boys at St. Jean, Woodridge and Starbuck, Manitoba. One of them was our nephew, who became his 'Waterloo'. The pastor finally landed in jail to pay the price of sex vices in which his Church had trained him ….
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The daily newspapers of Winnipeg were very discreet in reporting the news and this was in accordance with the policy of the Roman Church. The Winnipeg Tribune had nothing on this scandal and the Winnipeg Free Press published the report on page 16 of its edition dated March 30th, 1946. It read as follows:
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"STARBUCK MAN JAILED"
"Sentence of 23 months in jail was imposed on
Lionel Joyal, 34, of Starbuck, Man., after he
pleaded guilty before Magistrate D.G. Potter, in
Provincial Police Court, Friday, to
four charges of gross indecency."
A casual reader would not have suspected by reading the above account, that the criminal sent to Headlingly Gaol was the Rev. Father Lionel Joyal, pastor of Starbuck, Manitoba and the celibate advisor to the Roman Catholics of that town. This man had come from the East and had been educated in 'chattage' infested Quebec colleges.
However, we must not condemn this poor man too severely. He was the victim of a wicked system which made him a sex pervert. It must be noted that this priest pleaded guilty to four similar charges of sexual crimes with four different young boys. The sentence received was excessively light. However, through the intrigues of Father D'Eschambeault and the Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, with the assistance of Mr. Jean, the Solicitor-General, this convicted priest was released after serving only seven months at Headingly Gaol. Moreover, he was exempted from reporting monthly to the Police as is usually the routine in cases of paroled prisoners. Father Joyal was released under condition that he should be placed under the supervision of Archbishop Cabana of St. Boniface, Manitoba, but was sent to Quebec where he was given an appointment as a priest of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.'
A short time before our withdrawal from the Roman priesthood, we visited a
friend, the Head of a religious Order in Montreal. The priest was a powerful
and convincing preacher, and his preaching engagements included sermons in cathedrals
and religious revivals in various Quebec parishes. We confided to him our intention
of our future marriage. The good Father, as was to be expected, was much against
our decision to enter the state of Holy Matrimony. He bluntly stated: --
"As far as I am concerned, give me a nice-looking little boy and you may
have all the women in the world."
The monk's answer was, indeed, a frank admission of what Romanism had done to a priest's mind and heart. Marriage is a great sin; sex perversion is the accepted compensation or substitute for matrimony. The Holy Scriptures insist that priests, like other human beings, should have the right to marry. The Roman Church, with its law of forced celibacy, is not only anti-social but definitely anti-Christian …
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Indeed, St. Paul condemned Romanism when he referred to doctrines of the devil and lies in hypocrisy 'which forbid marriage and command to abstain from meats.' [1 Timothy IV, 1-3].
We long to end this painful but necessary chapter. We could, indeed, multiply facts by the hundreds if they were needed to prove that the Pope's laws lead priests to sexual disorders and abominable scandals. We will refer to only one last case. It has a special meaning and shows well that priests who exhibit an exterior of holiness and who preach forcibly against sins of lust are not exempt from such sins themselves. They are hypocrites and therefore their lives are more contemptible.
In a Manitoba parish, two outstanding priests directed the spiritual destinies of an entire French-Canadian town. The Pastor and his assistant were learned theologians and enjoyed the reputation of being great moralists. In the pulpit these priests were excessively tolerant towards sinners and thundered their maledictions to the youth of the parish, who, according to these moralists, exposed themselves to sins of lust by their attendance at dances, by their modern dress, and by any other recreations which these priests thought sinful.
The hypocrisy of these two preachers was something which we could never describe. The fact is that these two priests perverted scores of young school girls of their parish. The confessional was used to make dates, and the scene of their perversion was the rectory or the Church itself. Solicitations, indecent exposures, demonstrations of various kinds, were only a few of the sex crimes committed by the two learned perverts. We have a particular knowledge of these
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atrocities because we had to take affidavits from the innocent victims, one of whom was a close relative of ours. We were not permitted to bring the brutes to civil courts because the Roman Catholic Church forbids all Roman Catholics to testify in civil courts against any crime of a priest of Rome. We did, however, refer the cause to the Bishop, which resulted in the assistant being sent to the East, but the pastor is still the confessor and spiritual advisor to the many victims he has scandalized …
It is possible that some of our readers will find our words very strong and possibly too revealing, but we have written on this subject not merely to condemn a wicked system, but to warn all Roman Catholics of the danger that exists for their innocent children. Young boys and girls are allowed to associate too freely with priests under the pretext of confession, spiritual direction, and sport, or study organizations. A few weeks ago, a mother wept in our presence because she had been too confident of a priest's virtue. Her boy had been victimized and she was afraid that the priest had ruined his life.
We shall always remember the remark of a staunch
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Roman Catholic father of Quebec who said to a priest who wanted to take his boy to the beach: 'I would let my boy go out with the blacksmith, but never with a priest'.
… May the priests of Rome have mercy on our youth and may they be themselves converted to the pure and sanctifying teachings of Christ." [End of Chapter]
NOTE: Explanation of the word, "chattage", as used by Vinet:
"It was while we were a student in this institution [St. Victor Seminary near Quebec City] that we began to realize the discrepancy between the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and the personal convictions and behavior of its priests. It was there that we were disillusioned and scandalized and really started our exit from Romanism.
At St. Victor, as in any other Seminaries or colleges of this type in the Province of Quebec, the professors are all priests and are carefully selected by the local Bishop … there is no doubt that the cream of Quebec priests were to be found in this Seminary.
In Quebec colleges and seminaries, most students board and room at the institution.
These training centers are invariably infested with the traditional 'chattage',
which is a common 'entertainment' of priests and students. The word 'chattage'
is a consecrated expression in Quebec institutions, which means an abnormal
and intimate friendship between male inhabitants of these colleges. One lover
is the robust, active, and manly type, while his partner is rather young, delicate,
effeminate, and passive. The normal effects of these unnatural marriages, of
course, are homosexuality and sex crimes of all descriptions. Students, for
reasons of confession or spiritual direction, spend much time in the intimacy
of a priest's study, which is in most cases, his bedroom. We have seen students
closeted for hours with priests and we were asked to believe that this ordeal
did much to train young men to high spirituality and Romanism … This is
a common practice, not only in Quebec colleges but in our own Manitoba rectories.
We know an Archbishop who delights in retiring for hours to a private room and
leading a charming woman to 'spiritual heights'." [Pages 18-19]
ANALYSIS OF FATHER VINET'S BOOK, "I WAS A PRIEST"
The most obvious place to begin is with the definition of "chattage" which preceded the actual chapter of "Priests, Sex, and Celibacy'. In Chapter I, Vinet described his first taste of the homosexual culture which pervaded the seminaries in Quebec during the 1920's, when he was first planning to enter the priesthood. This revelation is shocking indeed, because Rose has assured us that the Orthodox Church prior to 1962 possessed a priesthood chaste and morally pure. Yet, here we discover that the colleges and seminaries in the 1920's had a powerful "gay sub-culture" just as disgusting as what Rose depicted!
"In Quebec colleges and seminaries, most students 'board and room' at the institution. These training centers are invariably infested with the traditional 'chattage' ... The normal effects of these unnatural marriages, of course, are homosexuality and sex crimes of all descriptions."
How can this be? Rose has repeatedly assured us that, prior to 1962, Orthodoxy in Catholicism was firmly in charge and producing chaste, pure priests; it was only after 1962 that those dastardly homosexual activists invaded and infiltrated the Catholic Church to produce a "gay subculture". Yet, here we see these 1920's seminaries fully infested with the same bold, blatant, "in-your-face" gay subculture.
Let us now return to this chapter.
"The fact is that innumerable sins of lust are committed in the Church of Rome in the name of the law of celibacy. It is unnecessary to state that there is absolutely no difference between the human nature of a Roman priest and that of an ordinary layman, but priests who are bound by celibacy, solve their sex problems in defiance of the laws of God and country. Therefore, this vow of celibacy is the greatest hoax invented by Romanism. Priests who are avowed moralists become professional hypocrites in order to conceal their romances and the discrepancy between their teachings and their private lives." [P. 24-5]
This one chapter contains much critical information, does it not? We see that ex-Father Vinet believes the problem IS celibacy because this pagan rule runs so contrary to man's God-given sex drive, that it naturally forces men to "solve their sex problems in defiance of the laws of God and country", by turning them to homosexuality! Further, these men become "professional hypocrites" as they pretend to be pious and holy to their parishioner in public while practicing homosexuality in private.
As you have read current news accounts of pedophile priests, hasn't the word, "hypocrite" come to your mind? As we report in the video, "Catholicism: White Sepulcher Christianity", many priests lead just such double lives. Father Shanley ran a racy homosexual resort in Southern California during the week, and then would drive to San Diego during the weekend to perform Mass! Other priests would have sex in the morning and give Mass in the afternoon! Hypocrisy is running deep in this current scandal and it ran deep in the 1920's.
Let us now return to "I Was A Priest":
"Even Roman Catholic historians and moralists admit that the law of celibacy of priests and the vow of chastity of monks, are historical failures. True, the Roman Church makes supreme efforts to conceal this fact from Roman Catholics. We cannot reveal all the acts of depravity of priests and monks. We mention a few of past centuries and a few of our modern times and we will see that the Roman Church is indeed, as she boasts to be, 'Semper eaden;, that is, 'always the same'." [Pages 25-26]
Even in the 1920-1940's, the Catholic Church was making "supreme efforts" to conceal the depravity and the historic failure of "celibacy of priests and the chastity of monks". What caught my eye in this paragraph, however, was the reference to "past centuries" of sexual depravity among the priesthood! What a minute! I thought Michael Rose had just assured us that, if the Church just returned to the Orthodoxy as it existed prior to 1962, all would be well!
Ex-Father Vinet then recounts past popes and other high-ranking officials who were sexually deviant. But, then, he comes to the subject of the sexual deviancy of lower-ranking priests. We read of priests in the New England states area who had been caught defiling young women through the confessional. We read of priests in France and Australia sexually perverting young women. But, then Vinet comes to the issue of homosexuality among priests:
"The writer knows at least fifty priests, only in this province of Manitoba, who are the seducers and corrupters of young ladies or of young boys."
Again, we see the lie Rose is trying to sell us. Ex-Father Vinet knew of at least 50 priests who had seduced and corrupted both young ladies and young boys! Thus, the law of Celibacy was perverting priests way before 1962, and all around the world!
STANDARD PRACTICE: MOVING CRIMINAL PRIESTS AROUND THE COUNTRY
But, to me, the most shocking revelation of this book was how the Bishops and Cardinals protected the criminal priests, moving them around the country, from parish to parish. Why, you would think you were reading today's newspapers about Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston! Listen again:
"Manitoba Roman Catholics still talk of a Winnipeg priest who was sent East on account of his known sex perversions of young boys; the inhabitants of the small town of St. Pierre, Manitoba, have just been relieved of an assistant priest who also returned East because he was a drunkard and an exhibitionist."
Again:
"Manitoba witnessed just a few years ago, the activities of the Head of the St. Norbert Trappist Order. He was eventually removed to the East on account of his too-apparent romances with the ladies of the province. The greatest priest scandals have proven to concern monks and members of our religious orders."
And again:
"The Roman Church, of course, takes great pains to conceal this fact from the public. In Canada, for instance, if a priest is too widely known in the town where he is stationed, he will be transferred to the East or to the West as the case may be. Priests with sex records roam the country and pervert the young as they pass. We still have fresh in our memory the Jesuit priest pervert of a Montreal parish who was sent to the West, and the exhibitionist priest pervert of a Manitoba town who was dispatched to the East."
Thus, how can the Catholic Church castigate Cardinal Law, because he was just following Standard Operating Procedure [S.O.P.] in dealing with criminal priests. Law was just doing what his predecessors had always done with sexual criminal priests -- move them to another part of the country. Note that Vinet noticed that priests serving in the East were moved far West, and vice versa; doesn't this sound like Law moving Father Shanley from Boston to California?
Since Cardinal Law was just following standard procedure, maybe this is why the Vatican has not formally condemned his actions; maybe this is the reason Law noted publicly that, as an ambassador to the Vatican, he is not susceptible to U.S. Laws and regulations. Maybe this is the reason the Vatican hinted that Pope John Paul II may bring Law to Rome to serve, where he would be quite out of the reach of American authorities!
FRIENDLY HAND OF THE LAW AND OF THE MEDIA
In our video, "Catholicism: White Sepulcher Christianity", we note that the American law enforcement system had historically acted to coddle, and even to hide, criminal priests, in order to protect the reputation of the Church. Roman Catholic policemen, lawyers, and judges would too often conspire to hide crimes and pass them by.
Listen to Vinet describe this same practice in the 1920-19340's:
"Not very long ago, our seven-year-old niece was criminally assaulted in the very precincts of St. Boniface Cathedral. The Cathedral authorities, with the cooperation of the local police, endeavored to apprehend and punish the brutal criminal who had desecrated this holy place of Roman worship, but when the little girl identified as her assailant a young priest of the Cathedral staff, the case was hush-hushed into oblivion." [Page 28]
"A few years ago in a small Manitoba village, the villagers were shocked by the sex perversions of their parish priest. The pastor had perverted several young boys at St. Jean, Woodridge and Starbuck, Manitoba. One of them was our nephew, who became his 'Waterloo'. The pastor finally landed in jail to pay the price of sex vices in which his Church had trained him …The daily newspapers of Winnipeg were very discreet in reporting the news and this was in accordance with the policy of the Roman Church. The Winnipeg Tribune had nothing on this scandal and the Winnipeg Free Press published the report on page 16 of its edition dated March 30th, 1946. It read as follows:
"STARBUCK MAN JAILED"
"Sentence of 23 months in jail was imposed on
Lionel Joyal, 34, of Starbuck, Man., after he
pleaded guilty before Magistrate D.G. Potter, in
Provincial Police Court, Friday, to
four charges of gross indecency."
A casual reader would not have suspected by reading the above account, that the criminal sent to Headlingly Gaol was the Rev. Father Lionel Joyal, pastor of Starbuck, Manitoba and the celibate advisor to the Roman Catholics of that town. This man had come from the East and had been educated in 'chattage' infested Quebec colleges." [Pages 32-33]
Truly, the more things change, the more they stay the same! What was the common saying Rome applies to herself? "'Semper eaden;, that is, 'always the same'."
BOTTOM LINE PROBLEM ACCORDING TO EX-FATHER VINET
"When will Roman Catholics throughout this world open their eyes and come to the realization that the holiness of their Church and their priests is a pure farce! The hypocrite priests preach often on the sanctity of their lives. They feel this is necessary to deceive Roman Catholics into believing their doctrines and in the holiness of their private lives …" [Page 28]
"The priests' and monks' great sexual crimes are homosexuality and sexual abnormalities of various descriptions. The victims are young boys and often young girls. We must make haste to explain that the so-common sex crimes of the Roman priests must be blamed on the system which trains them, rather than on their God-given human nature. It is a gruesome fact that forced celibacy, auricular confession and some aspects of the priest's training, render a Roman priest a sexually-abnormal person or a sex pervert.' [Page 29]
This former priest, ex-Father Vinet, now Born Again in the gloriously simple and liberating true Gospel of Jesus Christ, boldly states that "forced celibacy", "auricular confession", and some other aspects of the priest's training serve to turn a normal, healthy boy into a "sexually abnormal person", and maybe even into a "sex pervert'.
Vinet thunders to all who have ears with which to listen:
"The so-common sex crimes of the Roman priests must be blamed on the system which trains them"!
Mr. Michael Rose, and all your Catholic apologists, the problem is the un-Biblical, or should I say, extra-Biblical system that Rome has built up over the many centuries! Since 1123 A.D., when the pope instituted Celibacy, sexual perversion in the Catholic priesthood has been a fact of life in every era! The Catholic Church has been filled with sexual perversions for the past 879 years!
As ex-Father Vinet explains how a typical clean-cut, normal boy of 15 is corrupted into sexual deviancy through his training to be a priest, he sadly states:
"He will be taught unnatural love between persons of the same sex and it will be a miracle if he does not become sexually abnormal in a short time. This future priest accepts celibacy in his mind but finds an unnatural compensation in sex abnormalities, and homosexuality is the common one. Later, he will become a sex pervert. The forced law of celibacy has destroyed him." [Page 30]
You cannot get much more bold than this statement! "The forced law of celibacy has destroyed him."
However, not all priests were sexual perverts, Vinet notes.
"We do not want to convey the impression that all priests are sex perverts. Many have escaped this tragedy due to an extraordinarily strong will and a deep sense of natural honesty." [Page 30]
If not all the priests are sexual perverts, then the next logical question is, what percentage of priests in the 1920-1940's were sexual perverts? Vinet then answers this question:
"What is the percentage of priests who are abnormals and sex perverts? We certainly do not know and would not risk a guess, but we will state here the estimate of a group of young priests whom we visited in a Quebec college. They thought at least ninety percent of all the priests were either sex perverts or sex addicts of some variety and degree …[Page 31]
Ninety percent? 90% percent?
How can this be, since Michael Rose preaches a return to the pre-1962 era of the priesthood as the answer to today's sexual perversions filling our newspapers? You see, the Roman Catholic faithful are being lied to once again; these faithful have felt violated, some physically, some mentally, others emotionally, over these horrific revelations of ghastly priestly pedophilia! Yet, as they scream as one to the hierarchy for straight answers, they are told another lie; they are told there is nothing wrong with Celibacy or the fundamental system of the Catholic priesthood. They are told that the militant gays have just invaded and infiltrated the Church, its seminaries, and its priesthood. All we need to do is to return back to the Orthodoxy that existed prior to 1962 and all this homosexual and heterosexual sin will disappear!
Yet, we see the same exact situation existed in 1920-1949, and in numbers maybe as high as 90%! Catholic Church history has been boldly rewritten!
SEXUAL PREDATORS IN 1904
In NEWS1670, we quote from a book written in 1904, in which the author -- an ex-priest who served the Church for 30 years -- reports that this same sexual perversion scenario existed then. However, this book, entitled, "Thirty Years In Hell: From Darkness Into Light", offers a very scholarly explanation as to how the very system of the Confessional and of Forgiveness of Sins by the Priesthood, prepares the young victim for abuse much later in life. As we stated in our video, predatory popes and cardinals wrote the spiritual rules in such a way as to give the predatory priest the advantage in the Confessional over the young victim, whether boy or girl.
If you have not read this article, we encourage you to stop now and read it, for the combination of analysis of these two books shall serve to give you an excellent basis for understanding the truth, that Roman Catholicism never changes, and that she is spiritual rotten to the core.
SEXUAL PREDATORS IN THE MID-1800'S
We carry two books that demonstrate the historic reality that sexual perversion amongst the highest levels of Roman Catholicism all the way down to the common priest, existed in the early-to-late 1800's. Ex-Father Chiniquy wrote two masterful books on this subject, both of whom we carry.
"The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional" describes the horror of the Confessional. Chiniquy describes how predatory priests are deliberately taught how to probe the minds, hearts, and consciences of young girls and married women. Young girls are terrorized as they are forced to describe the innermost feelings, desires, and young fantasies to the priest, even though the Bible teaches that temptations resisted are not sin!
Married women often tell their priest the greatest intimacies of their married sex life, in response to aggressive questioning by the predatory priest. Chiniquy confirms these other ex-priests, above, who state that a predatory priest will actually be able to steal the heart of a wife from her husband, and then take his place in their bed! Thus, you can see how Pope John XII was murdered -- "Pope John was killed by a man who surprised him in the act of adultery with his wife". [Vinet, Page 26]
"50 Years In The 'Church' of Rome" describes Chiniquy's path through Catholicism until he reached the point where the Holy Spirit led him out of the priesthood, along with his entire congregation, into the glorious light of Protestantism. Much of the disgust Chiniquy felt came as the result of the sexual crimes committed by the priests of whom he was aware.
CONCLUSION
Sexual perversion "comes with the territory" of Celibacy. Priests were similarly sexually perverted in the Babylonian Mysteries Religion, the Greek Mysteries Religion, and the Roman Empire Mysteries Religion. With a history like this, consistently going back over 4,000 years, why should we be surprised any longer that the Roman Catholic Priesthood is consumed with homosexual and heterosexual sins committed by a celibate priesthood?
Why should we be surprised that the priesthood of today is full of "professional hypocrites", as 4,000 years of history tells us this is exactly the kind of person celibate priests become?
At this moment in world history, God is opening the doors to the White Sepulcher that is Roman Catholicism. Just as Jesus said of the Pharisees' religion, outside is painted all pretty white and lovely, but inside are dead men's bones. The stench filling your nostrils right now is the same stench people have been smelling for at least 879 years, ever since Celibacy was established.
You must listen to the true Bible, and only the Bible. Truly, the Apostle Paul was correct when he said:
"But the Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding spirits and doctrines that demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized), who forbid people to marry ..." [1 Timothy 4:1-3; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]
The Roman Catholic Church is built in large part upon the foundation of the Confessional and Celibacy. The Confessional has no place in the Holy Bible, while Celibacy is a "doctrine that demons teach". All of you understand the physical truth that a large building erected on a faulty foundation will one day fall; yet, precious Catholic souls tolerate participation in a church that has such an obvious faulty foundation, even though their eternal souls are at stake.
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PROPHECY
Protestant scholars have long maintained that the Church of Thyatira [Revelation 2:18-29, is the historic Roman Catholic Church. Of all the churches listed in Revelation 2 and 3, this church is the only one that is dominated by a "Queen of Heaven" figure, whom Jesus prophetically called "Jezebel". This goddess figure is obviously the Virgin Mary.
Listen now to the prophetic warnings of Jesus concerning the rotten spiritual fruits -- sexual sins -- this prophetic Church of Thyatira will exhibit:
"... you tolerate the woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and who is teaching and leading astray my servants and beguiling them into practicing sexual vice ... I gave her time to repent, but she has no desire to repent of her immorality and refuses to do so. Take note: I will throw her on a bed of anguish, and those who commit adultery with her, I will bring down to pressing distress and severe affliction, unless they turn away their minds from such conduct such as hers, and repent of their doings. And I will strike her children (her proper followers) dead (thoroughly exterminating them)." [Ibid.; Emphasis added]
God is opening the doors of this White Washed Sepulcher called Roman Catholicism, so you may smell the full extent of dead men's bones lying inside. This is the reality of Roman Catholicism. Please do not allow yourself to be lied to one more time. There has never, ever been such a thing as a "Traditional, Pure Catholic Church". The graves of over 75,000,000 Protestants cry out in anguish whenever someone utters this statement! The Traditional Catholic Church tortured and slaughtered for over 300 years; every King of Europe knew that, if his torturers could not elicit a confession, he could always ask for the Pope to send his over, because the Pope's torturers were always the best!
This is the rotten fruit of Traditional Catholicism, in addition to the continuous sexual perversion of her celibate priests!
The Illuminati has selected the Roman Catholic Pope to be the False Prophet of Revelation 13:11-18, [Read NEWS1052] because he is a "proper receptor" to Antichrist.
This rotten fruit stench is allowing you to see exactly why Antichrist is going to be depending upon the spiritual leadership of the Pope after he arises. As the above Scripture warns: "Turn away your minds and repent". The simple Gospel, the Biblical Plan of Salvation is hotlinked below.
Please go to it, repent of your sins generally and of your participation in Roman Catholicism specifically, and you will be saved for the "Eternity of the Eternities"!
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