Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
“Priests who prey on parochial school children and altar boys are not only sinners, they are criminal predators who belong in penitentiary cells not parish rectories….”
This summer, the sex scandal that has bedeviled the Catholic Church went critical.
First came the stunning revelation that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington and friend to presidents, had for decades been a predator-priest who preyed on seminarians and abused altar boys, and whose depravity was widely known and covered up.
Came then the report of a Pennsylvania grand jury that investigated six dioceses and found that some 300 priests had abused 1,000 children over the last 70 years.
The bishop of Pittsburgh, Donald Wuerl, now cardinal archbishop of Washington, defrocked some of these corrupt priests, but reassigned others to new parishes where new outrages were committed.
This weekend brought the most stunning accusation.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Vatican envoy to the United States under Pope Benedict XVI, charged that Pope Francis had been told of McCarrick’s abuses, done nothing to sanction him, and that, as “zero tolerance” of sexual abuse is Francis’ own policy, the pope should resign.
In his 11-page letter of accusations, Vigano further charged that there is a powerful “homosexual current” among the Vatican prelates closest to the pope.
What did the pope know and when did he know it?
Not unlike Watergate, the issue here is whether Pope Francis knew what was going on in the Vatican and in his Church, and why he was not more resolute in rooting out the moral squalor.
Orthodox, conservative and traditionalist Catholics are the most visible and vocal demanding an accounting. Progressive and liberal Catholics, to whom Pope Francis and Cardinal McCarrick were seen as allies on issues of sexual morality, have been thrown on the defensive.
Now, accusations alone are neither proof nor evidence.
Yet there is an obligation, an imperative, given the gravity of the revelations, that the Vatican address the charges.
When did Pope Francis become aware of McCarrick’s conduct, which appears to have been widely known? Did he let his close friendship with McCarrick keep him from doing his papal and pastoral duty?
This destructive scandal has been bleeding for decades. Too long. The Church is running out of time. It needs to act decisively now.
Priests who prey on parochial school children and altar boys are not only sinners, they are criminal predators who belong in penitentiary cells not parish rectories. They ought to be handed over to civil authorities.
While none of us is without sin, sexually active and abusive clergy should be severed from the priesthood. There needs to be a purge at the Vatican, removing or retiring bishops, archbishops and cardinals, the revelation of whose past misconduct would further feed this scandal.
For too long, the Catholic faithful have been forced to pay damages and reparations for crimes and sins of predator priests and the hierarchy’s collusion and complicity in covering them up.
And it needs be stated clearly: This is a homosexual scandal.
Almost all of the predators and criminals are male, as are most of the victims: the boys, the teenagers, the young seminarians.
Applicants to the seminary should be vetted the way applicants to the National Security Council are. Those homosexually inclined should be told the priesthood of the Church is not for them, as it is not for women.
Secular society will call this invidious discrimination, but it is based on what Christ taught and how he established his Church.
Inevitably, if the Church is to remain true to herself, the clash with secular society, which now holds that homosexuality is natural and normal and entitled to respect, is going to widen and deepen.
For in traditional Catholic teaching, homosexuality is a psychological and moral disorder, a proclivity toward acts that are intrinsically wrong, and everywhere and always sinful and depraved, and ruinous of character.
The idea of homosexual marriages, recently discovered to be a constitutional right in the USA, remains an absurdity in Catholic doctrine.
If the Church’s highest priority is to coexist peacefully with the world, it will modify, soften, cease to preach, or repudiate these beliefs, and follow the primrose path of so many of our separated Protestant brethren.
But if she does, it will not be the same Church that over centuries accepted martyrdom to remain the faithful custodian of Gospel truths and sacred tradition.
And how has the embrace of modernity and its values advanced the religious faiths whose leaders sought most earnestly to accommodate them?
The Church is going through perhaps its gravest crisis since the Reformation. Since Vatican II, the faithful have been departing, some leaving quietly, others embracing agnosticism or other faiths.
“Who am I to judge?” said the pope when first pressed about the morality of homosexuality.
Undeniably, Francis, and the progressive bishops who urge a new tolerance, a new understanding, a new appreciation of the benign character of homosexuality, have won the plaudits of a secular press that loathed the Church of Pius XII.
Of what value are all those wonderful press clippings now, as the chickens come home to roost in Vatican City?
As much as homosexuals vehemently deny it, homosexuality and pedophilia are inextricably linked. Almost all homosexuals have had their first homosexual “experience” introduced to them by an ADULT homosexual as pre-teen males. This, in itself constitutes homosexual pedophilia, which is criminal behavior in itself and is a way to destroy a pre-teen child for life.
The so-called Roman Catholic priest “child abuse scandal” was actually homosexual pedophilia in action. Of course the “mainstream media” could not afford to offend the “homosexual community” by calling what it really was–thereby, the “play on words”, calling it “child sex abuse” rather than homosexual pedophilia–the true definition of their sordid behavior.
I must play “devil’s advocate” when it comes to the Catholic church homosexual pedophilic priest “problem”…The Catholic church was “caught between a rock and a hard place” and had every right to be concerned about how many false claims would be made by those parishioners who belonged to the parish at the same time as this behavior was going on. Follow the money… Of course, there is (and was) absolutely NO EXCUSE for this homosexual pedophilic behavior… make ’em pay…
Sad to say, the homosexuals are at it again, encouraging the “psychiatric community” to change the definition of pedophilia from a psychiatric “disorder” to a mere “lifestyle”, not unlike what was done for homosexuality. Sick, huh??
“For too long, the Catholic faithful have been forced to pay damages and reparations for crimes and sins of predator priests and the hierarchy’s collusion and complicity in covering them up.”
HaHa SSDD. After 40 or 50 years we ought to at least recognize the game. Hide, obfuscate, use influence to manipulate. All highly organized behiviors.
But when it comes time to pay victims, it is just a local church or diocese and their limited resources that are available to right the wrongs.
Why anyone in their right mind would continue to belong to that organization and support it with their attendance and their monetary contributions, instead of walking away, is beyond me. If you continue to belong to that organization and contribute to it financially, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
Nothing will change until priests are allowed to marry. Grown men have to have some outlet for their passions instead of sodomizing each other or their parishioner’s children.
Sorry if that’s direct, but its the truth.
I don’t see that happening because gay guys are turned off by normal married guys with families. They remind them of how sad and abnormal they are.
Obviously the Catholic ‘Church’ is a pedophile / homo sex cult. For every person who has come forwards there are probably 10 that haven’t. No doubt, over the last 50 years (world wide) there have been over 1,000,000 children molested by these monsters, masquerading as ‘holy people’.
All their cult rituals – holy water / smoke / confessions / worship of the Virgin / exorcisms – all theater for the real act of molesting children.
The Pope not only has to resign, the Catholic Church has to modernize – and put all the butt fuckers on notice to clear out.
People are so brain washed that some are voting ‘thumbs down’. On comments like this.
Dutchman, once again you display your douche baggery. I have no dog in this fight, but I have never seen someone who plays so fast and loose with “facts”. Over 1,000,000 children molested? Really? Please provide a link. Why not 10,000,000 children? A quick look at census figures do not support your exaggeration. In fact, why not claim that all children in the U.S. have been molested, as it sounds all the more impressive. From now I’m referring to you as dutchbag as you without a doubt display the most laughable claims on this site. Out.
Let’s do a little math – I said 1,000,000 world wide in 50 years.
1,000,000/50 = 20,000 year – world wide. As in all these types of crimes – only a fraction of those violated ever come forward. I would say 1 in 10 is even a low estimate.
Just Google this subject – they have a list of 4,000 priests that have been accused.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44209971
In August 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury named more than 300 clergy in a report which found more than 1,000 children had been abused
Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children – mostly boys.
If some priest is butt fucking a kid – you can bet he’s been doing it regularly to many, many others.
You say you’re not – but you sound like a brainwashed Catholic.
Ah, Dutchbag, trying to cover your tracks as you are so easily outed as a fraud. Please provide a link to your numbers, not your biased conjecture. Like I said if you really want to cement your place in the upper echelons of douche bags and not some mediocre schmuck that you come off as, please repost as 10,000,000 or 100,000,000 victims as it sounds so much impressive. You’re the one sounding brain washed by your own made up fantasies. Out.
Is Antipope Bergoglio a Sodomite? I Dunno, But His Child-Pimping Boyfriend Sure As Hell Is.
Let’s do a little review, shall we?
February 14, ARSH 2017, I wrote in this space under the title, “Don’t Be Dumb. Obedience Has Nothing to Do With IT. THEY’RE ALL BLACKMAILABLE”:
Antipope Bergoglio is a diabolical narcissist psychopath who is now, and always has been about one thing: PERSONAL POWER. He rules through FEAR, and in Rome EVERY PRIEST, BISHOP, MONSIGNOR and CARDINAL WITHOUT EXCEPTION IS BLACKMAILABLE.
The infiltration of the Church by Freemasons/Communists, who then recruited and promoted ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY SODOMITES for over fifty years now is so intense, that absolutely EVERY PRELATE IN ROME IS BLACKMAILABLE. EVERY PRELATE has sodomite connections, even for the very, very rare prelate that isn’t a sodomite himself. The faggotry is EVERYWHERE, on both the “left” and the “right and the “far right”.
And folks, where there are faggots, children are being abused. Period. There is no such thing as a “harmless faggot”. Scratch a faggot and you’ll find either an active child predator, a developing child molester, or someone who has turned a blind eye to child molestation to protect “friends”. The code of omertà among faggots is every bit as strong, if not stronger than the code of omertà in the Italian Mafia.
Folks, the Vatican is now, for all intents and purposes, a bathhouse. And I am not speaking figuratively. Cardinals, bishops, monsignors, priests, security guards, lay employees, Vatican Museum tour guides, it is a massive, massive network of sodomites, and the code of silence transcends political or ideological sides – or at least it used to. The reason that Bergoglio wields so much illegitimate power is because he, although probably a sodomite himself (I’ve received new information out of Buenos Aires – his private life was a deplorable scandal), is now willing, for the sake of his own lust for power, to leverage sodomitical and child abuse activity and blackmail people without hesitancy. This is a change, and THIS is why the Curia hates him. He isn’t observing the code of sodomitical Omertà, and they are all, every one of them, TERRIFIED that he will expose them, even though Bergoglio himself is also a pervert with a criminal past. And remember, even for the few prelates left that are not sodomites, they have all, every one, “not done enough” with regards to priests that were under their jurisdiction at one point or another.
We’ve all had beaten into our heads for our entire lives that “what people do behind closed doors is their business…” Now we are seeing why that is such a pernicious lie. The filthy, disgusting faggots, by doing their execrable deeds “behind closed doors” have constructed the very matrix of coercion and blackmail that is now being used to DESTROY THE CHURCH AND CAUSE COUNTLESS SOULS TO GO TO HELL. I remember well being haughtily lectured by a man that turned out to be one of the most notorious sodomites in the Vatican today, a man whose b**w**bs are called “a Vatican institution”, that it was mortal sin to even SUSPECT someone of sodomy or being a sodomite without – get this – videographic evidence. How convenient, so long as there is no video, AND the code of Omertà holds.
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Priests should be able to marry. The original church allowed this. This would go a long way to curb sexual perversions. And no queers.
Marry their hand.
As I commented below, gay guys appear to run the place, and it you allow straight married guys in there, it will make them feel uncomfortable, as if they’re living an abnormal lifestyle.
A new understanding? Tolerance? An appreciation for the benign character of that lifestyle?
Look where that’s led. Just more of the same.
Right after every one of them is burned with fire, then we can consider a little moderation.
Castration, properly applied ,would solve this.
That would only solve part of the pitching-and-catching syndrome.
Besides, I like fire. It’s a traditional, drink-your-own cup of wine punishment best dealt back. Properly applied, it’s terminal and even takes the microbes left behind into consideration.
The problem with the Catholic church is that to “reform” it a new denomination must be formed. However if a new denomination is formed, you’re no longer a “Catholic” and hence operating outside the Catholic Church. It’s a theological trap that keeps millions from leaving.
Had my own protestant denomination not broken away from an older denomination, we would still be sitting there, stewing about the rainbow flags they put up outside. We left, and took our money with us.
New denominations are to be celebrated. God gave every Christian (and Catholics too) two legs to walk out of broken churches.
…gave us two legs to walk out of broken churches…
clever
Amen! Can I get a free will and a hallelujah, too?
My first time in church was at the age of 7 for Sunday school and a fistfight.
Told the knacker next to me to shut up, some people might want to hear the sermon. He got up and punched me in the nose. I stood up and punched him in the mouth. The female Baptist preacher threatened to throw us both out.
Those were the days.
Little boy comes home from church with two black eyes. Lady in front of him stood up with her dress in her ass-crack, so he reached up and pulled it out for her. She turned around and punched him.
So, he reached up and tucked it back in.
Two black eyes.
We should actually feel sorry for Catholics like Pat Buchanan. They’re descent people who stay in this abnormal environment because they were brainwashed in 1952 to think “this is it, the one true Church.” So they sit there giving themselves heart attacks and strokes over these people.
It must be like a child having a mother who is a junkie whore, empty refrigerator, yet, still loving her. No one should spiritually have to go through something like that.
I like descent people too, unlike ascending types.
Not poking fun, just hopefully giving you time to fix before the grammar nazis show up.
The solution to this problem seems pretty simple to me. As part of the process of becoming a Catholic priest, you get Mr. Johnson cut off.
If you are a gay priest, that will help deter your activities with the alter boys. If you are not a gay priest, you don’t need Mr. Johnson anyway.
Problem solved.
http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Horrific-allegations-of-abuse-at-Burlington-orphanage-491829421.html