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When homosexual militancy seems
to dictate Church agenda
by Constanza Miriano
Sept. 1, 2018
Translated from her blog by Francesca Romana for
James Martin’s article (1), written in his finest disguise – as victim – obliges me to reflect somewhat on this agonizing McCarrick affair. The Jesuit apostle for all things LGBTQ is increasingly more explicit in his “homosexual” militancy.
Here he is complaining about the witch-hunt against “homosexual” priests in an article re-tweeted by Spadaro, who is also “very loyal” to the reigning pope who recently said that at the least suspicion, homosexuals, must not even enter the seminary.
Unfortunately, complaining and victimhood are the hobbyhorses of these militants (no coincidence that these are often considered feminine personality traits more than masculine).
By means of this complaining and victimhood, by means of this talk about discrimination and non-acceptance, homosexual people, on the contrary, have imposed their agenda at all levels with extreme aggressiveness and ideological violence.
First they succeeded with quite a few governments to impose their ‘road-map’
[more than a road map, they have imposed their world view!] - blocking parliaments for months, betraying real priorities,
inventing a world where homosexual people are victims of nastiness and violence on a daily basis and ‘it is very urgent in the name of civil rights to deal with this issue’, much more urgent than poverty, education and unemployment.
But, as Bret Easton Ellis says,
they are not asking not to be discriminated against, they want to command. An agenda presumably dictated by ‘a higher direction’ I’m not able to decipher, but whose effects are glaring (for example, how otherwise can the parting-words of former Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni be explained: “I’m proud to have led a government which passed DAT (Advanced Healthcare Directives)
[a law which is a virtual green light for euthanasia] and to belong to a party that passed civil union laws
[allowing same-sex 'marriage']. (2)
Now they are doing the same thing in the Church – by occupying center-stage obscuring the rest – with the result that, at present, many men of holy faith and very sound doctrine*, no longer have the courage to tell the truth about homosexuality: that it is a disorder, that homosexual relations are sins.
As usual the Church ‘gets it’ when everything is over. Even as homosexual priests become consultants in Ministries, running courses that teach ‘homosexual fidelity’, and climbing, bit by bit, working their way up to manage real estate, money and cardinalships and dictating the agenda for the newspapers, the Church seems still to believe the hoax that they, the homosexual priests, are suffering because they don’t feel accepted. Perhaps some [priests] really believe it but they don’t know what’s actually going on.
People with same-sex attraction suffer not because they are not accepted, something increasingly, evidently false (I’m still waiting for them to tell us a true story about this, of someone badly-treated in the Church because of their inclinations).
The Magisterium remains their only hope of exiting from their suffering, which will not pass if everyone pats them on the back. It will not pass until it is faced head on.
The Pope said on the flight home from Ireland that a psychiatrist can intervene [to 'cure' same-sex attraction] in young people “but no longer after 20” , However, I know a lot of people who have faced and won this battle even at much later than 20, with the help of someone by their side who told them the Catholic truth about same-sex attraction [and what the Church teaches about chastity]. The work of a doctor alone is not enough - spiritual work is also needed.
The Vatican's official press bulletin then corrected the Pope’s statement, by writing “many things can be done” [about correcting same-sex attraction] and removing the word psychiatrist from the pope's statement.
The indefatigable Martin, grabbing at straws, scrambling, made haste to explain to us that the Pope meant to say that the children need psychiatric help because they feel discriminated. After twenty then, dear Martin, is there no longer any discrimination? So all this stuff you preached in Dublin [and in your book] about homophobia is false? Choose!
Admit that the Pope said what he said – psychiatrist (we have the recording), expressly, because he meant to address the issue of treatment
[an issue fully disproved in the 1980s after many bishops, especially in the USA, considered sexual abuses by homosexual priests as nothing more than the manifestations of a psychiatric disorder that could be 'cured' with the right 'treatment].
Perhaps the Pope in his mea culpa for the abuses in Pennsylvania didn’t say the word homosexuality at all
specifically not to offend, not to let anyone feel unaccepted, not to rub salt in the self-inflicted wound of [self-indulgent] homosexuality. Perhaps he only wanted to speak about the abuses and not the plague of homosexuality among ministers of God, as certainly not all homosexuals commit abuses. Perhaps he wanted to avoid the risk of equating clerical homosexuality with sex abuses.
Certainly, not all homosexuals commit abuses, but the overwhelming majority of the abuses are committed by homosexuals. And homosexual practice among adult consenting priests is an abomination, independent of the consensus.
It is an abomination first of all for he who commits it - and the father of those priests must condemn it, for the good of their souls, for their eternal salvation and for their life here on earth. If, as we believe and say, homosexuality is a disorder, this influences the entire life of the priest.
We are not male and female only in bed, we are in the way we look at the world, in our judgments, in our emotions, in the way we love others.
The priest is called to a virility even greater than that of the layman, the married man. The priest in the confessional needs a great deal of testosterone and also in dying to himself for the sake of the faithful, the way Jesus fulfilled the call of being profoundly man though he is God.
A homosexual priest who doesn’t fight his inclinations cannot be a good priest and the Church must not be afraid to say this, and indeed the Pope says it: they must not even enter the seminary.
It is not that homosexuals are not virile, it is that they feel wounded in their virility, and ought to be helped to become proud of being real men, whatever wounds they have suffered. True acceptance is to tell the truth with gentleness.
We are all on a path of constant conversion. We are all sinners and all of us are confronted with a disorder (hopefully only one!). Our disorders stop us from being united to the Lord and living our lives in a fruitful and ordered way.
For example when one lives in circumstances of adultery, one’s entire life enters into a sort of schizophrenia, and one is unable to do the normal things [in life] with an undivided heart. All of life becomes adulterous, since affectivity is our center, and the Church guards this with great wisdom. For this reason we have the Sixth Commandment, for this we have Humanae Vitae, for this we have the indissolubility of marriage.
I don’t know the why of all this cautiousness, but if it is about not distancing people, to make everyone feel accepted, not to be divided, perhaps it would be worthwhile looking at what has happened recently to all the “homosexual-friendly” governments in Italy. Almost all of them have been swept away, gone.
What is clear in the opinion of voters [in the last Italian election] is that the homosexual cause cannot impose itself in this ideological and false manner. Therefore, if consensus is the objective, it seems to me what is happening in the Church is what has happened in the political scenarios of many countries: Hollande, Cameron, Renzi, Zapatero, Hillary Clinton, had all the mass-media in their favor, but the common opinion was very far from their narration imposed from ‘above’.
We cannot vote in the Church, and Her true children will continue remain to this Mother however soiled Her garments are. Nonetheless, many are going through a time of disorientation and suffering: many very clear, good words have been said, but perhaps some actions have created confusion.
Why, for example, didn’t Fr. Mike Schmitz (3) go to speak in Dublin instead of Martin? Fr Schmitz, who wrote a marvelous book about same-sex attraction, filled with intelligence, comprehension and delicacy but in line with the Magisterium. This is a priest who gives courses to men on virility (4), how to be real Christian men and who is well-loved and followed by many. He knows how to inflame hearts with the pride of belonging to Christ, without, however, attacking anyone. Plus, as a bonus he made two “Ironmen”. For me many priests are superheroes, but if they swim for 4 kilometers, pedal for 180 and then run a marathon, well then, they are even more so!
NOTES: 1) www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/08/30/witch-hunt-gay...
2) Gentiloni was Prime Minister under the leftist Partita Democrata which was humiliatingly defeated in the last Italian elections by center-right parties who are now carrying out a conservative agenda
3) www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/01/10/made-for-love-father-mike-schmitz-on-gods-plan-for-authent...
4) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VkO9tNB5w&t=1832snon
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