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A three-part part series by
Phil Brennan @ NewsMax on the corruption of Catholic seminaries in the
USA:
Anti-Catholic
Experts Fuel Churchs Scandals
Veteran investigative reporter Michael S. Rose has written a frightening
account of the corruption of the Roman Catholic seminary system in the
United States.... According to the Wanderer, a nationally distributed
lay Catholic newspaper, Wicker was rejecting more candidates for the priesthood
than he was approving. But thats just the beginning. An article
by reporter Gregory Flannery, an ex-seminarian himself, revealed: Men
who wish to become Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati are
first assessed by the Worshipful Master of Mt. Washington Masonic Lodge
642. In the May 8, 1991 issue of Mt. Washington Press, a weekly
newspaper, Flannery reported that Wicker was a fallen-away Catholic and
noted that participation in Masonic sects is condemned by the Catholic
Church. Wicker also admitted to being a member of another sect condemned
by the church, the Rosicrucians. When area Catholics complained about
the idea of a Masonic master passing on candidates for the priesthood,
Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk defended him.... NewsMax.com asked Rose
if this nonsense was still going on. Although many seminaries are
getting better, the nonsense is still prolific, he said.
Orthodox candidates are still being turned away in droves, heterosexual
seminarians are still being sent to psychological counseling and booted
from school, while liberal-minded and pro-gay seminarians are given deferential
treatment, put in charge of others, advanced and ordained.
Homosexual
Culture Undercuts Priesthood
Heterosexual students at a number of seminaries were persecuted
by the gay subculture. Reporting homosexual behavior by classmates could
get them expelled, as could resisting homosexual advances. Rose cites
scores of cases of heterosexuals driven out of seminaries because they
refused to accept the gay culture. In Cozzens book, The Changing
Face of the Priesthood, he wrote that there has been a heterosexual
exodus from the priesthood due, Rose notes, in part to the unrestrained
gay subcultures in some seminaries, the resulting overwhelming gay
clergy culture will have an effect on how the laity views the priesthood
and it will have an effect on incoming vocations. Potential candidates
for the priesthood who are heterosexual will be intimidated from joining
an institution where the ethos is primarily that of a gay culture.
Anyone wondering how the church could have got itself in the mess it is
now experiencing need look no further than the pages of Roses extraordinary
book. What we are seeing today are the results of a gay priesthood being
loosed upon parishes all across the nation, where they have abused impressionable
young men they treated as fresh meat to satisfy their unnatural
sexual urgings.
False
Teaching Sabotages Aspiring Priests
Michael S. Rose examines the destructive effect of what he terms
heterodoxy on seminarians struggling to absorb and adhere to the ancient
doctrines of the church, handed down from the Apostles for 2,000 years.
Many faculty members are adverse to teaching what the Church teaches,
and some even find it onerous to hide their disdain for Catholicism,
Rose wrote. The seminarian who arrives on campus expecting to find
faculty and staff who love the Catholic faith and teach what the Church
teaches can be sadly disappointed. Among the students obstacles
to learning the authentic tenets of their faith, Rose reveals, are being
forced to read textbooks written by noted dissenters from Catholic
teachings such as theologians Richard McBrien, Edward Schillebeeckx,
Hans Kung and Charles Curran, who parrot the dogmas of Catholic
dissent. .... Many of the ideas being taught in seminaries today,
Rose wrote, go way beyond the scope of even these mainstream
errors of Modernist doctrine. Aggressive feminist theories often put forth
by religious sisters devoted to liberation theology and various incarnations
of Jungian psychology make it clear that some faculty members who are
entrusted with the formation of future priests do not support the Catholic
priesthood as the Church defines it. In fact they do not support the Church,
her hierarchy, her Eucharist, or her liturgy. Tragically, throughout
the U.S. today, men taught these heretical doctrines are spreading error,
distorting the liturgy, sowing doctrinal confusion and changing the faith
of countless Catholics.
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