Having read that document, all I can say is that I have concluded that I shouldn’t place much store by hysterical conspiracy theories.
If the Church is ‘riddled’ with powerful homosexual officials who quietly and effectively conspire to subvert the running of the organisation, how then can it be that the Church repeatedly makes public statements attacking that which this vast homosexual conspiracy would supposedly hold dear? You would think that the opposition to homosexual legal unions/marriage would have been muted at best, with only individual bishops coming out against it. But no, the entire Church organisation does so.
Secondly, how did the conspiracy, should it exist at all, get to be so large? How did this minority sexual proclivity (let’s leave aside all other arguments about why homosexuality exists, since it clearly does exist) get to hold so much sway in the higher echelons of the Church? Is the author of this paper genuinely saying that there has been a giant coordinated attempt at swamping the Church with homosexuals? Not every priest becomes a bishop. In fact practically none of them do, so how come so many clerics in positions of power made it there whilst also happening to be homosexual - and how were they not identified earlier? If this one particular author is so good at finding conspiracies and it is so obvious to him, then why not to anyone else who was already in power in the Church?
The whole piece is a series of insinuations and suppositions. It draws from individual cases of accepted fact and applies conclusions of supposed conspiracy across the wider Church. With made-up words like “homoideology”, “homolobby”, “homoclique” and, best of all, “homomafia”, one has to take this entire report as the work of someone who is blowing something out of all proportion with reality. Just because the author of the report is a priest does not protect him from overblown rhetoric and over-reaction.
Yes, there clearly are homosexuals in the Church. There are in every walk of life. It’s a basic fact of life. Homosexuals do jobs just like everyone else does and there have been some very good and holy priests who have also happened to be homosexual (one of which, indeed, to my certain knowledge has had a Cause for Sainthood proposed by many people).
While some people have political instincts that make them seek publicity for a cause that is important to them, such as the homosexual rights ‘lobby’, that’s no different from, say, the animal rights lobby, or the religious rights lobby. To leap to a judgement that because there are some homosexual priests (and that some of them are bad priests) then there is a concerted conspiracy by this ‘lobby’ to infiltrate the Church and that this has actually been successful is a bold and completely unsupportable claim. The author even goes so far as to blame “neuroses, heart diseases and other complaints” in priests who aren’t homosexual on the homosexual lobby! Talk about far fetched!
The author is right to worry about immoral priests just as he is right to worry about people being immoral elsewhere in life, but to go so far as to make the claims that there is an organised or de-facto “homomafia” in the Church is alarmist nonsense.
