CATHOLIC CHURCH,
HOMOSEXUALITYThu Feb 21, 2019 - 1:25 pm EST
Vatican holds abuse summit on feast day of saint who heroically fought clerical homosexuality
Matt Gaspers
February 21, 2019 (
Catholic Family News) — As we endure the opening of the Vatican’s
summit on “The Protection of Minors in the Church” (Feb. 21-24), it is interesting to note that the four-day meeting happens to coincide with the feast of
St. Peter Damian (Feb. 21, post-conciliar calendar; Feb. 23, traditional Roman calendar), author of the
Book of Gomorrah and the Church’s most zealous champion against clerical sodomy, which was rampant during his lifetime (A.D. 1007–1072) as it is today. . . .
. . . “Overall, 81% of victims were male and 19% female” (pp. 6, 69). Granted, the 2011 John Jay College companion report to which Cupich referred — “
The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” — inexplicably concludes that “priests with a homosexual identity or those who committed same-sex sexual behavior with adults” are not “significantly more likely to sexually abuse children” (p. 119), the fact remains that a clear majority of abuse has been homosexual in nature, as Cardinal Müller and others have emphasized.
“Archbishop Scicluna declined to discuss possible homosexual reasons connected with the abuse of minors and vulnerable adults,”
reported Edward Pentin of the
National Catholic Register , "but underlined the importance of transparency . . .
. . . And most recently, in an
article for the
National Catholic Register , the former apostolic nuncio stated in reference to the summit, for which he is “praying intensely”:
Why does the word ‘homosexuality’ never appear in recent official documents of the Holy See? This is by no means to suggest that most of those with a homosexual inclination are abusers, but the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of abuse has been inflicted on post-pubescent boys by homosexual clerics. It is mere hypocrisy to condemn the abuse and claim to sympathize with the victims without facing up to this fact honestly. A spiritual revitalization of the clergy is necessary, but it will be ultimately ineffectual if it does not address this problem. . . .
. . .
St. Peter Damian, pray for us!
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