Timothy Birdnow

Our very own Fay Voshell has an outstanding analysis of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal. See it at Life Site News.

Here are a few excerpts: "As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn noted in his exhaustive research on leftism, there were two main political thrusts to the French Revolution hidden behind the ubiquitous and high-sounding slogan of liberté, égalité, fraternité. One was the sexual politics exemplified by the Marquis de Sade’s horrifyingly perverse ideological leanings. The other was the embrace of a leftist definition of equality. Such was the success of two foundational ideological tenets of the French Revolution that by 1968, the slogan of French "revolutionaries” had become Egalité! Liberté! Sexualité!

Gradually, a very large segment of the secular West and too many within the Christian Church capitulated to the sexual revolution envisaged by de Sade--which brings us to where the Catholic Church finds itself today: Exposed as an institution whose hierarchy has allowed the systematization of homosexuality and sexual predation. The abuse, which has been going on for decades, has been most recently revealed by a Grand Jury Report on sexual abuse within dioceses in Pennsylvania.

The systematization of the de Sade revolution in sexual morality within the Catholic Church is perhaps no more clearly revealed than in a mural commissioned by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.

The mural bears an uncanny similarity to the scurrilous cartoons of French Revolution depicting orgiastic entanglements of the flesh. It also appears to be a mockery of Michelangelo’s "Last Judgment.” In Michelangelo’s work, the sins of mankind are judged by a stern-faced Christ, the Judge of all mankind. In Cinalli’s work, Christ is portrayed as nonjudgmentally lifting all up to Heaven."

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"What conclusions may be drawn from the current crisis within the Catholic Church?

First: Today’s Catholic church is in danger of capitulating to and actually fostering contemporary progressive sexual mores as promoted by the LGBTQ movement rather than insisting on universal religious and moral principles it has upheld for two thousand years. It has failed to see it is embracing syncretism rather than orthodoxy; it has absorbed the radical sexual culture of the left rather than repudiating it.

Second: The capitulation of the Church to perversion that is clearly anathema to its core moral principles means it sets up no contrasting position of moral authority to the world, the flesh and the Devil. By allowing the perversion of church culture, the Catholic Church is losing its ability to speak to the rot in secular culture.

Third, the Catholic Church must shoulder great responsibility for the fruits of secular sexual culture. It’s voice on the issues of same sex "marriage” and sexual morality are now considerably muted. In fact, segments of the Catholic church openly support the LGBTQ agenda, using the church’s spiritual authority to advance causes openly opposed to orthodox Catholic teaching. It is not too much to say some in the church, like Father James Martin — who is currently welcoming LGBTQ Catholics at the World Meeting for Families — are in the vanguard of a movement that is infiltrating the Church.

Is it fair to ask if the church’s structure, riddled as it is with predators, may be allied with the burgeoning spread of pedophilia and homosexuality? In fact, according to recent reports, priests within the diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania actually operated a child porn ring. Isn’t the consequence that secular pedophile rings may operate with impunity, knowing full well the church will not blow the whistle? "

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Read this whole brilliant essay at Life Site news.

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