Saturday, December 10, 2022
Serious Accusations Against Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, What’s Going On?
Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, priest, Jesuit, theologian, is best known for his art in sacred space, which can be described as the preferred art of the Holy See.
(Rome) Is Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik a sex offender? Will the next abuse allegation hit the Church like a thunderbolt? The Slovenian Jesuit is not personally known to most Catholics, but many are familiar with his mosaics, which he in an unmistakable style adorn the sacral spaces of some of the most famous pilgrimage sites such as Fatima, San Giovanni Rotondo and Lourdes and the churches of Kraków dedicated to St. John Paul II and Washington [ugh]. He also designed the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Apostolic Palace. Fr. Rupnik is currently completing the mosaics he designed on the facade of the Brazilian national shrine Aparecida. But what about the allegations? Caution is advised.
The art of the Slovenian Jesuit can be described, at least indirectly, as the style of sacred art favored by the Vatican, given the promotion in three pontificates. There were divided opinions about this undue preference, but these are not the subject of this article. In any case, the esteem of the Holy See is so great that in 2016 Pope Francis celebrated a Holy Mass in the Apostolic Palace for the Centro Aletti led by Rupnik. P. Rupnik is a priest, Jesuit, theologian and artist. For many years he has been the central figure of his order's study center “Ezio Aletti”. Has Pope Francis now prevented an excommunication latae sententiae of his brother by his protective, even covering-up, hand?
Who blames the allegations? The website Silere Non Possum (“I can't keep quiet”) and a site called – nomen est omen – Left, which is linked to a left-wing theory magazine. The churchman was guilty of "sexual and psychological violence". On closer inspection, however, it could be a matter of two corners. The news has meanwhile also been picked up by media outlets that are close to tradition and critical of the Pope. Maybe we shouldn't jump on every bandwagon, at least not in haste.
P. Rupnik was born in 1954 in Zadlog, Slovenia. In 1974 he entered the Jesuit order and in 1985 he was ordained a priest. He obtained a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University and studied at the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived at Centro Aletti since 1991, which he managed until 2020. He teaches at the Gregorian and the Pontifical Liturgical Institute and runs two "studios" at the study center, one for spiritual art and one for theology. He was or is consultor of several dicasteries of the Roman Curia.
The Sacrament Chapel designed by Rupnik in the new church in San Giovanni Rotondo
First, a word about Silere Non Possum. The blog has existed since March 2021 and is run by Marco Felipe Perfetti, who at the time went public as a law student at the University of Bologna and who, as the editor of the “Vatican Code of Criminal Procedure”, is now also being questioned by the media about the case of Cardinal Angelo Becciu. The Korazym website mistakenly referred to him as a lawyer, but that would have been a bit too premature. A major concern of the blog is the fight against "homophobia" in the Church, including threats of legal action in state courts against priests who oppose the gay agenda.
This already anticipates that the accusations against P. Rupnik are not of a homosexual nature. A good 80 percent of cases of sexual abuse by clerics are homosexual acts.
Allegations against the Jesuit go back to 1995, when a member of the women's order Comunità Loyola, which was founded in Ljubljana in the 1980s and is close to the Jesuit order, complained that she had been plagiarized and that she had suffered "mental, physical and spiritual abuse" in 1992/93. Father Rupnik was the spiritual assistant and confessor of the community of sisters and a friend of the founder and superior general Ivanka Hosta. The problems which arose ended with the removal of Rupnik after a dispute between Hosta and the Jesuit.
This break was so traumatic for some sisters that they left the order and followed Rupnik to the Centro Aletti in Rome, which he headed. The male members of the center are almost exclusively Jesuits and form a household. But there are also numerous female employees who are in no way inferior to their male colleagues in terms of academic training and who teach at various universities. The women who followed Rupnik to Rome should also be counted in this context.
The matter became public because letters to Pope Francis that three different sisters of the Comunità Loyola had written to him became known. At least one of them has been published. The writer says she has given up the "search for religious life." Because of the refusal to listen to her, she had herself released from the Order. In the letter she expresses her indignation that Father Rupnik, despite “the serious allegations leveled against him, for which I have been called as a witness more than once, continues to lecture throughout Italy and publish his catechesis on YouTube.”
The Rupnik case is therefore a case in another case, that of the Slovenian women's order, and dates back more than 25 years. Whether and what role the women who followed him to Rome might also play does not seem to be the question at the moment. The prosecutor quoted by Left, who remains anonymous, speaks of "knowing at least three sisters" of the Comunità Loyola, upon whom Rupnik inflicted "mental and physical violence" in the early 1990s, but she herself obviously not.
It's also unclear if Left and Silere are quoting Non Possum from the same letter, although they appear to be basing this on the same source. The woman, who claims to have been interviewed by the Vatican on several occasions, concludes “that I was not believed. After so much suffering, I have a legitimate need to know if the Church considers Father Rupnik to be a reliable teacher.” This is an allusion to the fact that the Jesuit publishes catechesis on the Internet. The letters would have reached the Pope "certainly", but there has been no answer to this day.
Cardinal Vicar De Donatis in the chapel of the Great Roman Seminary designed by Rupnik
What happened? In 2019, the women's order founded in Ljubljana underwent a visitation. In December 2020, with the approval of Pope Francis, the Congregation for Religious appointed an Apostolic Commissar. Msgr. Daniele Libanori, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome and himself a Jesuit, was appointed as Commissar. The latter is questionable, although he has been known for his severity in similar cases in the past.
The Commissar was dispatched quietly. The starting point was not P. Rupnik, but the accusation of abuse of power and the oppression of fellow sisters by the founder of the order and general superior Ivanka Hosta. However, a significant number of the sisters defend themselves against this Roman intervention, which is seen as an "act of persecution", and reject the accusations.
But did P. Rupnik also become a case in this case? Has it been too "idealized" up until now? Wasn't the prosecutor believed because the person she accused is held in high esteem or because her testimonies are not credible? She herself indicated that she had thoughts of suicide. At that time, a quarter of a century ago, P. Rupnik was also her confessor. However, the allegations remain vague. Sexual violence is also hinted at, but everything seems blurred.
“In the beginning, the community was characterized by abuse of conscience, but also emotional and allegedly sexual abuse by Fr. Marko Rupnik. As a friend of the foundress and several sisters from the very beginning, he had a constant closeness and presence in the personal lives of all the sisters and the community as a whole. When the final separation from Father Rupnik was completed due to the great suffering of some sisters, it was a great burden for the sisters. Rupnik's responsibilities have never been fully clarified; on the contrary, they were practically hushed up and not denounced by those directly involved, but also by Sister Ivanka, who knew about it.”
The accusation becomes doubtful when the author completely leaves the factual level of the already less than concrete allegations, which seem to come more from hearsay, and generalizes her allegations by calling on the Pope to "take all means to protect them and to give voice, dignity and freedom of conscience to other many victims of these new religious movements and new communities.”
Is someone leading their very private, exaggerated campaign? The anonymous source cited by Left claims that harsh sanctions were imposed not only on the women's order but also on Father Rupnik in January 2022. He has to lead a life of seclusion, "no sermons, no public celebrations and a ban on confession," writes Silere Non Possum.
The fact is that Father Rupnik already gave up the management of the Centro Aletti in 2020, but still runs an artistic and a theological "atelier" there. His resignation could be put in the distant future with the Commissioner's appointment a few months later, but not January 2022. What happened earlier in the year?
On January 3, 2022, Father Rupnik was received in audience by Pope Francis. The Vatican press office did not name a function. Today, the management of the Centro Aletti is held by the theologian Maria Campatelli, who manages the publishing house of the study center and the theological studio "Cardinal Špidlík". P. Rupnik was therefore only ad personam with the Pope, which is rarely the case.
Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
Nothing became known about the content of the audience, since neither the Holy See nor Father Rupnik commented on it. However, it does not look like the Jesuit will be punished. In the event of a conviction, distance is sought and contact is avoided. The anonymous prosecutor, on the other hand, sees the audience as a moment when Francis personally informed his confrere about the "tough sanctions" imposed on him. A rather erroneous interpretation given Vatican customs.
There is little sign of a travel ban and other strict conditions: Last May Fr. Rupnik led a retreat for priests in the Italian province. On November 30, he received an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Paraguay. The Jesuit is free to move about, appears in public and is active on the Centro Aletti website as before.
The anonymous source says the priest "forced her, with pressure and blackmail, to do things that I reported to the right place in good time." But "everyone has spread the cloak of silence over it". And further: "After my first report, nobody helped me, neither the community nor the then Archbishop of Ljubljana nor Father Rupnik's superior, with whom I spoke and tried to explain what had happened."
The woman would like to know the result of the investigations against Fr. Rupnik by Msgr. Libanori and the competent dicastery. The question is whether and in what form Msgr. Libanori was commissioned to do this at all. In any case, his appointment as acting head of the women's order Comunità Loyola has nothing to do with an investigative assignment. The same source, while seeking clarity, claims that Monsignor Libanori has concluded that "the victims heard are credible and their narrative stands". That is an act of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The presentation is confusing and doesn't seem to hold up.
Silere Non Possum and Left raise the question of whether Pope Francis is covering up "the abuse of Rupnik" and recall the Inzoli case, which once brought such an accusation to the head of the Church in Italy. Now it is known that the so-called “Bergoglio system” has beneficiaries. Especially in connection with homosexuality, which shouldn't bother Left or Silere Non Possum. However, this does not allow any generalization. The mere reference to an allegedly prevented excommunication latae sententiae raises serious doubts. An excommunication in connection with a crime cannot be “prevented” at all. Anyone who commits the act automatically incurs excommunication. Therefore, excommunication as a penalty after due process is the rule.
According to what has become known so far, the charges against P. Rupnik are too thin, much too thin. What if he's guilty? Then more concrete evidence is needed. But what if he's innocent? Then an attempt is made to throw dirt at him, because, as is well known, something always gets stuck. What remains for the time being are doubts that smack of character assassination. And it is in the nature of doubts that they gnaw. Pope Francis did what he always does when he wants to defend someone who is under attack: he showed himself demonstratively together with Fr. Rupnik.
On January 3, 2022, Pope Francis received the Slovenian theologian and artist in audience
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Centro Aletti/Giuseppe Nardi/Facebook/VaticanMedia(Screenshots)
Friday, December 9, 2022
Ukraine Conflict: Has Pope Francis Changed Course?
Pope Francis received Grand Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk in audience in early November, with some consequences.
Highlights by Andreas Becker
“Pope Francis continues to offer himself tirelessly as a peace mediator," writes Vatican scholar Sandro Magister. But has Francis lost his credibility as a neutral mediator in the Ukraine conflict? If so, who will be able to launch the necessary peace initiatives in this war in order to bring Moscow and Kiev, or rather, as some say, Moscow and Washington, to the negotiating table?
To the annoyance of western state chancellery and opinion makers, Francis stayed away from hasty condemnations in order to be a possible contact for all parties to the conflict. Behind the scenes, Vatican diplomacy is working hard to explore opportunities for dialogue. Unofficially, Francis has offered to conduct peace negotiations in the Vatican as neutral ground. The Pope is the highest-ranking Western authority that rejected unilateral blame on Russia and blamed NATO, i.e. Washington, for the outbreak of the war. In May he said in an interview that NATO had barked too loudly in front of Russia's doors and provoked Moscow. He had also denounced that war was a product of the arms trade in order to sell arms and test new ones. He insisted that he was not talking about a Russo-Ukrainian war but about a new world war. This is also an indication that the interests involved go far beyond what appears at first glance. Francis went so far as to question the possibility of a "just war" at all. (See Roberto de Mattei: Is war always unjust?)
However, things may have changed in the past ten days, according to some commentators. Has Francis also withdrawn from the “race” for peace like the ranks of European politicians before him? Does the unconditional formation of a front help on the way to peace, or does it actually prevent it?
Surprisingly harsh words towards Santa Marta have recently been heard from Moscow. The reason for this were statements made by Francis to the American Jesuit magazine America. (See hacker attack against the Vatican – who is behind it?) The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was outraged:
"This is not even an anti-Russian stance, but an outrageous distortion of the truth."
The Russian Ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeyev, with whom the Vatican had previously been in close and friendly contact, reacted "outraged" and spoke of "insinuations".
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov initially held back, but then spoke up to brand Francis' statements as "un-Christian":
"The Vatican has said that this will not happen again and that it is probably a misunderstanding, but that does nothing to strengthen the authority of the Papal States."
The representatives of the Vatican Secretariat of State had tried to extinguish the fire and tried to calm it down at the highest level.
The cleverness and a faux pas
But what did Francis say that caused such outrage in Russia? In an interview with America, Pope Francis pointed to Western pressure to condemn Russia's President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, and explained why it is not wise to constantly condemn those you want to bring to the negotiating table.
In doing so, however, the pope made a diplomatic faux pas, if it was not intentional: in order to exercise the prudence he had called for, but still meet Western expectations, Francis pronounced condemnations, albeit in the third row and not generalizing in concrete terms. He said he had "a lot of information about the cruelty" of Russian troops in Ukraine. Not enough, the pope added:
"The cruellest in general are perhaps those who come from Russia, but not from the Russian tradition, like the Chechens, the Buryats and so on".
In his attempt to name no one and crack a nut by numbers—Chechens make up 1 percent of Russia's population, and Buryats just 0.3 percent—his criticism was given a racist tongue-in-cheek slap. The Russian leadership had to react to this in order not to endanger the internal cohesion of the many peoples, ethnic groups, races and religions. The Chechens in the North Caucasus are Muslims, the Buryats in Siberia are Buddhist Mongols.
In the southeast (pink) the Russian occupied and annexed areas; in the west (outlined in red) the majority Catholic area, (dashed red) the areas with strong/significant Catholic minorities.
Communication errors are anything but impossible. Francis often speaks spontaneously and gives numerous interviews. Above all, however, he tries to respond to his respective interlocutors, and they were Americans. That makes the tightrope walk difficult.
When the official website of the Holy See was hacked shortly after the publication of the America interview, the finger was immediately pointed at “the Russians” in the West. But restraint is the mother of wisdom. Francis said numerous other things in the interview that caused little joy in the West.
Shevchuk's visit to Rome
Since then, the question has been whether there was a misunderstanding or whether Francis changed course after almost ten months of war. There is a lot to be said against it. Francis is known for his insistence on a position once taken. The main features of his geopolitical ideas are also known. It is even less credible that he wants a war until the "victory of Ukraine", that is, the defeat of Russia.
It is therefore necessary to look at what happened in the days leading up to the interview. The America interview took place on November 22nd and was published on November 28th. On November 7, Francis had an audience with Grand Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Recently it has often been said that Francis and Shevchuk, who still know each other from Buenos Aires, have a close, friendly relationship. But that is only partially true. When the historic meeting between the Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow took place in Cuba in 2016, loud tones of serious resentment could be heard from the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine, which is united with Rome. Francis felt compelled to make special gestures to sort out the discrepancies to some extent.
Rather, it is a certain Ukrainian distrust that has shaped the mood ever since. During the audience, Shevchuk made intensive efforts to win Pope Francis over to the Ukrainian cause, which does not mean the humanitarian aspects, but rather the one-sided political support that Francis had not previously granted in the way that the Kiev-Brussels-Washington axis wishes. It is said that Shevchuk pulled out numerous stops and managed to get Francis to write a letter directly to the Ukrainian people. This letter, very moving, was published on November 24 and is not only based on a suggestion by the Ukrainian Grand Archbishop, but also recalls his own statements in language and style so clearly that the authorship can essentially be attributed to Shevchuk.
Francis complied to a large extent with the wishes that were brought to him by the Uniate Church leader on behalf of the Ukrainians. Shevchuk also goes back to the fact that Francis, in this letter from the Holy Father to the Ukrainian people, but already at the general audience on November 23, at the Angelus on November 27 and on November 28 in the America interview, in the 1932 /33 million Ukrainians starved to death in what was dubbed a “horrific genocide.” The pope spoke of "extermination by starvation" achieved by Stalin, the communist dictator, through an "artificial" famine.
This corresponds to Francis's diplomacy: he speaks of a historic event in order to stand by the Ukrainian people, without directly taking sides in today's event. Francis went so far as to speak of a "historical precedent".
In the wake of Shevchuk's visit and the papal letter, media efforts increased to claim Francis for the anti-Russian boat. However, the change of course is being written more about by interested parties. A source in the Vatican Secretariat of State described Francis' choice of words in relation to the American magazine as "imprudent". According to the Secretariat of State, Francis gave Shevchuk a little too much guidance. However, there is no question of a course change.
It was not Shevchuk who endangered the line of the Vatican, but the spontaneity of Pope Francis.
No to arms sales and seven point peace plan
The peace movement in Italy, strongly influenced by left-wing Catholic circles, which Francis has in mind, categorically rejects arms deliveries to Ukraine. But the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also wants to continue this, signaling that she will submit to Washington's foreign policy. At the end of November, she obtained a mandate from parliament to be able to continue the transfer of arms and armaments to Ukraine throughout 2023. Francis has so far not endorsed or even shown understanding for arms deliveries.
However, the Pope never went as far as Andrea Riccardi, the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio. In the spring, Riccardi had called for Kiev to be declared an “open city” in order to prevent bloodshed and destruction, which would have meant Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian capital without a fight. At the big peace rally on November 5 in Rome, where Riccardi gave the closing speech, it was hardly surprising that there were no Ukrainian flags to be seen.
Francis is closer to the position of Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, which writes daily in favor of peace in Ukraine but is just as outspoken against arms shipments seen as an expression of a proxy war. Editor-in-chief Marco Tarquinio doesn't say it openly, but makes it clear enough that in this war the Ukrainian army, which has been upgraded by the NATO countries, is an auxiliary force of the Biden government to weaken Russia.
From this perspective, too, the Ukrainian people are seen as victims, albeit less of Russian aggression than of Washington's geopolitical egoism.
So far, however, the Vatican has not officially backed the seven-point peace plan drawn up by the two prominent Catholic intellectuals Stefano Zamagni and Mauro Magatti and presented in the October issue of the magazine Paradoxa. Zamagni is President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, under Francis an important center of the Pope's political initiatives; Magatti is a professor of sociology at the Catholic University of Milan and secretary of the Social Weeks of Italian Catholics, a study conference first held in 1907 at the suggestion of the economist Giuseppe Toniolo, which has been held every two years since then to "raise awareness of the true Christian social message". reach. The impetus for this was a social encyclical addressed to Italy's bishops by Pope Pius X in 1905.
The seven-point peace plan, as presented in Zamagni's Avvenire at the end of September, provides for:
1. Neutrality of Ukraine, which renounces NATO membership but retains the full right to become a member of the EU. A UN resolution is to introduce mechanisms for monitoring, so that the peace agreement is guaranteed to be respected.
2. Ukraine is guaranteed full sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. A corresponding declaration of guarantee is to be made by the five permanent members of the World Security Council (USA, Russia, the People's Republic of China, Great Britain and France) as well as the EU and Turkey.
3. Russia will retain de facto control of Crimea for a number of years, during which the two sides will seek a lasting diplomatic solution, also de jure. The local population will get free movement of people and capital both to Russia and to Ukraine.
4. The Lugansk and Donetsk regions remain an integral part of Ukraine, but retain economic, political and cultural self-government.
5. Russia and Ukraine will be given secure access to Black Sea ports to conduct their normal trading activities.
6. Gradual lifting of Western sanctions against Russia in parallel with withdrawal of Russian troops and arms from Ukraine.
6. Creation of a multilateral fund for the reconstruction and development of the devastated areas of Ukraine, including Lugansk, Donetsk and Crimea, in which Russia participates on the basis of a fixed key. (Specifically, reference is made to the experiences with the Marshall Plan.)
The plan essentially follows the western post-war order for Europe, which categorically rules out annexing territories to another state (which is why Kosovo and Moldova and the behemoth Bosnia-Herzegovina exist). On the other hand, it is acceptable for Brussels and Washington for member states to break away and achieve sovereign statehood – but only if this corresponds to the political interests of Brussels and Washington (see the partition of Czechoslovakia, the dissolution of Yugoslavia and, most recently, the separation of Montenegro from Serbia). Territorial integrity is invoked where it does not correspond to the plans of Brussels and Washington (see the prevented secession of Catalonia, the Basque country, South Tyrol, Scotland, Corsica). Poland's intention to annex Poland's western Ukraine until 1939, which was claimed by the Russian side or the media inclined towards it, completely ignores reality. Although Lviv was once a predominantly Polish city, the population of western Ukraine has always been largely Ukrainian. Within the framework of Western doctrine, at best an independent Republic of Crimea would be conceivable, possibly even the independence of individual oblasts. However, only in theory. In practice, there is currently not the slightest willingness to downsize Ukraine in favor of new, more pro-Russian states.
The prospects of the seven-point peace plan, which takes this into account, are nevertheless completely uncertain. However, it shows the direction in which Vatican diplomacy is currently working.
Image: VaticanMedia/Wikicommons (Screenshots)
Trans: Tancred vekraon99@hotmail.Com
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Aberrosexual Priests “don’t want to hide anymore”
Blurred image of priests, blurred priesthood, homosexual passions as the cause.
Thoughts by Giuseppe Nardi
50 priests in Italy who describe themselves as homosexual have come forward to denounce the Church's "internal homophobia". They announced in a document that they "no longer wanted to hide". This marks the beginning of the next stage in the attempt to influence outsiders with allies in the Church. It is daily newspapers in the orbit of George Soros' media cartel that threw the stone in the water. The left-leaning Italian daily Domani took the first step, which was followed yesterday by the equally left-leaning Spanish publication Público – on the second Sunday in Advent.
Homosexuality is an outrageous sin, which is why it automatically entails excommunication as a punishment, leading to self-exclusion from the Church community because the state of grace that is essential for communion, community with Christ, is lost. So there is hardly a greater contradiction than a homosexual priest. Pope Benedict XVI therefore insisted that candidates with a homosexual problem should not even be accepted into a seminary. It is also a reason for impediment to consecration. This guideline for the seminaries was also confirmed by Pope Francis. So the question is of very serious concern, regardless of whether an over-sexualized world is aware of it.
Choosing a Sunday in Advent, the time of preparation for the Solemnity of the Coming of the Lord, for publication is a significant expression of a desacralizing intention. The media mentioned form the amplifier to accuse the Church of “deep-seated homophobia” and to pillory it.
In fact, it is the Christian message that opposes homosexuality in history. It was Christianity that defeated homosexuality, widespread in antiquity and among pagan peoples. The return of homosexuality is no accident, but a direct expression of the decline in faith and a return of paganism. The "enlightened" opinion that Christianity can be eliminated because it can also be done without religion has proven to be a devastating fallacy over the past 250 years. Where Christianity wanes, substitute religions take its place, and “progress” toward a relapse into dark paganism begins.
A movement of "homosexual priests" is therefore an insoluble contradiction. This applies all the more as it wants to establish a sinful state. A suggestion that can be described as perverse in the true sense of the word.
The document began in a course for "pastoral workers" in Bologna, a center of modernism. This initially raises doubts as to whether all the signatories are priests. The document has since been circulated at the events taking place as part of the “synodal process” for the Synod of Bishops on synodality desired by Pope Francis. This shows what critics have said in other contexts, that Francis initiates initiatives that lead to structural usurpation in order to force a paradigm shift on the Church that removes it from doctrine and order.
The Italian initiative finds its actual starting point in the homo initiatives of some clerics and bishops in the German-speaking area, especially the German Bishops' Conference. What had been started at the Second Vatican Council - that the Church should heal from its German character - finds its continuation in a new eruption. And yet the Church was hit hard once before, half a millennium ago.
The homosexual priests present themselves as victims. Victims of silence and oppression as they are unable to speak about their "homosexual orientation" either with their families or in the Church. But is that true? They could do it: honestly, they should have done it before they entered the seminary, but at the latest before they were ordained a priest. It's still possible now, but that requires honesty. What credibility can a priest entangled in a lifelong lie claim? Doesn't that have to influence his whole work? A one-off, uncontrolled impulse must be cleaned up through repentance in the absolution in the sacrament of penance. There are well-known examples of this, as is the case with other serious sins. God is merciful and the Church has always passed on this mercy. A "deep-seated" problem of sexual identity disorder also calls for more in-depth treatment of the problem from a qualified source. The signatories of the document themselves complain that their psyche has been hurt, but they claim that this is due to the Church’s "homophobia". At the same time, they do not see the injuries they inflict on their office, the sacraments, the Church as a whole and, above all, on their salvation and that of others.
The homosexual priests demand "immediate recognition" and claim that their homosexual passions are willed by God, since "that is how" God created them. In addition, there is no study in Italy of the kind carried out by the French Bishops' Conference in 2021, which found that nine percent of priests were "depressed" and eight percent were alcohol dependent. The investigation was launched after seven priests committed suicide over a four-year period. However, this is a far-reaching, complex subject area with many aspects, not least of which is that the image of the priest and the understanding of the priesthood eroded in the Church itself after Vatican II.
Domani also quotes psychiatrist Raffaele Lavazzo, who reported in the progressive Dehonian journal Il Regno that, in the past, latent homosexual tendencies sometimes came to light in priestly patients after several sessions, whereas today such priests would speak openly about it, “like someone who has taken the rudder of his own boat and steers it safely, at least to appearances".
In the "synodal path," according to Domani, homosexual priests see an opportunity to turn things around. In the spirit of the homosexualized zeitgeist, priests who have been dishonest with themselves, but above all with the church and want to live out their homosexuality, see the unique opportunity to have their unbridled impulses recognized. For this the Church should change its revealed teaching and tradition.
But how seriously do these priests take their vocation and ordination? A homosexual priest offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is an intrinsic contradiction, as would a woman at the altar. The complementary order of the sexes is reflected in the Holy Mass. Jesus Christ was male, the Scriptures speak of the spotless yearling male lamb, also of the ram sacrificed by Abraham in place of Isaac, and of the firstborn. The male priest is the head of the Church on behalf of Christ, just as Christ is the head of the Church. In the divine and natural order of the sexes, the Church is feminine. Man and woman form a real unity and only they do that, since they become "one". This is expressed in the Holy Mass by the priest at the altar and the faithful in the nave. It reflects the marital bond between a man and a woman in a figurative sense. A Protestant pastor once said: "The Catholic pastor is married to his congregation, but then I prefer to be married to my wife." He had said something important about the priesthood without understanding it himself. Conversely, a woman at the altar would therefore be an expression of homosexuality, which is sterile, the same applies to a priest with homosexual passion. Fundamental aspects of the ordination and altar sacraments are thus touched upon, and even more so, they are called into question by homosexuality.
Image: Vatican.va (screenshot) edited
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG
Monday, December 5, 2022
Preppy Taylor Marshall Names Them
Edit: amazing! Let’s see how he does against the approved Hasbara trolls!
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