Let’s look at the past speakers. Please note that many of these entries have quotes from the REC. Also, I’d start googling this years speakers. Many of them are found below. Why is it that Cardinal Mahoney invites these types who more often than not spew their usual crud right at his “congress”. I’m not seeing people like Bishop Bruskewitz, Fr. Groeschel, Fr. Fessio and a plethera of other faithful priests invited.
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe In Cdl. Mahony’s presence, the 2006 keynoter, a former Master General of the Dominicans, urged thousands of listeners to see" Brokeback Mountain,"
In 2005 he rapped the Vatican’s then-pending document discouraging the admission and ordination of homosexual seminarians.
• Gwynne Guibord This “partnered” lesbian Episcopal priestess, once an official of the “gay” Metropolitan Community Church, is credited with persuading the National Council of Churches to scrap an endorsement of traditional marriage in 2000. Also, she
endorsed the Sex Information and Education Council’s (SIECUS’s) manifesto that calls for “sexual and reproductive rights,” i.e., killing preborn babies. On March 4, 2005,
Cdl. Mahony’s newspaper, The Tidings, ran a photo of her wearing a black shirt and Roman collar.
• Abp. Rembert Weakland The former Milwaukee prelate gave the keynote address at the 2001 REC. Abp. Weakland resigned in 2002 after admitting he’d paid $450,000 to a man who’d accused him of trying to rape him. For years, Abp. Weakland
made his seminarians go through “Sexual Attitude Restructuring” (SAR), a dayslong program designed to destroy their Catholic morals and brainwash them into approving or practicing sinful and even lethal acts. SAR immerses participants in films of men, women, children and animals committing depraved acts. It an orgy of XXX-rated pornography on multiple
screens.
• Bp. Kenneth Untener The late Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, ran a sex-training program for his seminarians that made them watch pornographic movies. In one film, several men committed lewd acts while discussing “the salvific mission of Christ.”
The Vatican later shut down this seminary, reputedly a homosexual hotbed. Plus, Bp. Untener once stated, “The Church is seriously mistaken in its prohibition against women
priests.”
• Fr. Gerald Coleman This former rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California, backs pro-“gay” “domestic partner” laws, even though the Holy See has warned the U.S. bishops against those who seek to “manipulate the Church by gaining
the often well-intentioned support of her pastors with a view to changing civil statutes and laws.”
• Rev. Richard Sparks At the 2001 REC, the Berkeley Paulist spewed vile speculations about the Holy Family and even discussed his privates. (In 2006 he admitted he’d gone
too far.) He was on the committee that set up sex ed guidelines to be imposed on Catholic schools. He has said, “I am not anti-choice” and has slammed the idea that truth is superior to dissent. At the 2001 L.A. Religious Education Congress, Fr. Sparks, while acknowledging Church teaching on the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God, said of her relationship with Joseph, “But if somebody says, ‘Do you think Joseph ever wanted to jump her bones?’ Do you think Joseph ever thought, ‘God, why can’t we consummate this thing?’… Now all I’m saying is – even if they didn’t have sex, did they ever neck? Or did they maybe cuddle and snuggle? Did he ever sort of fondle his wife? Did she ever kind of fondle him?”
• Bp. Donald Trautman At the 2006 REC, the Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, criticized and poked fun at the proposed new Mass translations, e.g., the words “consubstantial,” “Incarnate” and “His holy and venerable hands.” He opposes “a return to
devotionalism,” “rigidity in rubrics” and “the liturgical mentality prior to Vatican II.”
• R. Scott Appleby This Notre Dame academic co-edited a book that belittled “fundamentalist” Catholics who hold “a belief in God and in absolute truth…and a desireto be faithful to God by following church teaching.” They’re “pathetically ineffective,” he said, because they prepare people “for a world that no longer exists.” He included pro-lifers, homeschoolers and Pope John Paul II!
• Dr. Diana Hayes In her keynote address to the Women’s Ordination Committee in November, 1995, she declared, “The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house; dismantling of the entire house is needed, from within and
without, using tools of our own creation.”
• Rev. Bryan Massingale The Cardinal’s pick for Saturday keynote speaker, this Liberation Theologian from Marquette University publicly opposed Wisconsin’s 2006 Marriage Protection Amendment, which that state’s bishops backed, to ban “gay
marriage” and “gay civil unions.” In 2004 he told fellow priests the “new Church” will be “more sensuous and feminine.” Also, he quoted Richard Schoenherr, who discerns a “decline in sacramentalism and rise in Bible-based worship” and a
“change from a transcendentalist to a personalist construction of…sexuality.”
• Edwina Gateley At the 1993 conference of CTA (at which she often speaks), this radical feminist, New Ager and priestess advocate donned vestments and “celebrated” a " Mass." She gave the keynote talk at Dignity USA’s May, 2002,
“gay” Catholic convention. Several bishops have barred her from speaking in their dioceses.
• Fr. James Martin, SJ He told the 2005 REC we need “public models” of “healthy gay priests for Catholics to reflect on,” to counter “the stereotype of the gay priest as child abuser.” At the 2006 REC, he mocked and disputed the new Vatican document
nixing ordination of homosexuals, saying it implied that they “are not fully human” and that “gay priests are responsible for the sexual abuse crisis.” “[Gay] seminarians and gay priests are the Church’s new lepers,” he whined, casting them as the victims.
• Fr. Richard Rohr At the March, 1997, pro-“gay” New Ways Ministry Symposium, he described his all-male retreats, in which men remove clothing and touch each other in “wounded areas,” as he calls them. Abp. Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe once
reprimanded Fr. Rohr for presiding at a lesbian “wedding.” Also, Fr. Rohr advises Catholics to use the New Age/occult Enneagram.
• Sr. Fran Ferder She rejects the Church’s teaching against non-marital sex as a sign of Vatican fixation at an adolescent psychological level. In the Dec., 1995-Jan., 1996 Call to Action News, she said, “The whole Church must hear what homosexuals]
are really saying, especially those gays and lesbians who do not experience their sexuality as a lifelong commitment to celibacy.”
• Fr. Michael Crosby At the 2006 REC, this prominent Church-basher rapped “clericalism, sexism [sic] and heterosexism [sic]” and “unequal power…between homosexual and heterosexual people.” At a 1999 CTA conference, he knocked the Vatican for “dictating” to the local bishops.
• Jim Wallis Cdl. Mahony’s choice for Sunday keynoter is this non-Catholic, far-left activist, who backed the Communists in Vietnam and founded the Post-American magazine (now Sojourners). In 2006 he advised U.S. senators and representatives on ways to get believers to vote Democrat, even though that party is pro-“gay” and proabortion.
• Thomas Groome This laicized priest from Boston College wants not only women priests but also women bishops. He mocked Pope John Paul II’s Ad Tuendam Fidem as “a pretentious attempt…to stifle conversation and dialogue” among theologians.
CatholicCulture.org says he dissents from “a wide range of Church teachings” and shows “an anti-Roman attitude” and “a deeply embedded skepticism in regard to the doctrinal content of Catholicism.”
• Dr. Greer Gordon At the 2006 REC, she rapped the Vatican’s “assumption” that we must “curb the sexual urges or desires of our homosexual presbyters,” but not of our heterosexual priests. The new document against “gay” ordinations is good in parts, she said, but could “force us into repressing people about their sexuality.”
Where did you learn about this? Can you explain what they are? I haven’t heard this before. Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not disagreeing with you. This is just the first I’ve heard about it. And if it is true I think more people need to know. 
I can’t believe they make the school kids go. Mine would definitely have the flu that weekend. California Catholic did a good job outlining some of the dissenting speakers. Too bad there’s so many more to give bios on. 
Not only are the speakers bad but then we have the Mass where it appears the goal is to break as many of the rules in Redemptionis Sacramentum as possible.
