Now think for a minute about the people to whom the Pope is listening, and about what constitutes the mainstream of Catholic thought today. Sadly, both would recommend that the Pope meet with, and listen to advice from, Father Martin!
Both in the United States and in the Vatican, the quest that Father Martin represents—the drive to make homosexuals feel comfortable in the Church—enjoys solid support, especially among the hierarchy. Very few bishops would dare to challenge the Jesuit propagandist; many enthusiastically support his work. Check the endorsements on his books. Notice how many diocesan assemblies appear on his busy list of speaking engagements. His pleas for an open attitude toward the LGBTQ agenda are treated with great respect at Catholic universities and episcopal assemblies.
We don’t know exactly how Father Martin’s private audience with the Pontiff was arranged. But it is easy to imagine that if he sought the audience, dozens of influential prelates would have supported his request, and few if any would have recommended against it.
How can we explain the popularity of this priest, whose support for gay ideology puts him in clear conflict with the teachings of the Church? Father Martin cleverly dances around the line that separates compassion for homosexual people with acceptance of homosexual acts. But his support for “gay” Catholics—that is, those who identify themselves in terms of a sexual disorder—is problematical in itself.
But can we go a step further, and question the artifice that pretends “gay” Catholics are celibate? After all the scandals of the past few decades, isn’t there abundant evidence that a vigorous homosexual lobby is at work within the Church? Moreover, that lobby is strengthened by the acquiescence of many clerics who, while not themselves homosexual, are unwilling to oppose the activists. In text one of his most important essays, the late Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, described these latter clerics as “tames,” and argued persuasively that they “tames are more effective agents of the gay agenda than gays themselves.”
Actually the life of Father Mankowski (which ended, abruptly, five years ago today) and his brave lonely battle against homosexual ideology, sheds an interesting light on the question of Father Martin’s audience with the Pope. In 2017, Father Mankowski reviewed Father Martin’s book, Building a Bridge, for First Things. The review was civil, scholarly, and devastating. In Chicago, where Father Mankowski was stationed at the time, Cardinal Blase Cupich was so enraged by that negative review that he called the local Jesuit provincial, threatening to take disciplinary action.
Consider the contrast between the treatment of these two Jesuit priests. Father Martin was lionized by Catholic institutions for his work supporting the gay agenda; Father Mankowski was silenced for defending Church teaching.
Go here to read the rest. The Lavender Mafia is a cancer on the Church.
“”Moreover, that lobby is strengthened by the acquiescence of many clerics who, while not themselves homosexual, are unwilling to oppose the activists. In text one of his most important essays, the late Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, described these latter clerics as “tames,” and argued persuasively that they “tames are more effective agents of the gay agenda than gays themselves.”””
I actually know very few priests and deacons who are not “tames” and those too are for the most part -silent.
Saint Paul …….pray for our Holy Catholic Church Militant.
May God raise up courageous young MEN who will preach the Truth in the face of weak, shallow actors.
“Although they claimed to be wise, in reality they became fools, 23 exchanging the glory of the immortal God for images fashioned in the likeness of a mortal man or birds or fourfooted animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore, God abandoned them in the sinful lusts of their hearts to impurity and the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and offered worship and service to the creature rather than to the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 [a]That is why God abandoned them to their shameful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices. 27 Likewise, men gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameful acts with men and received in their own persons the fitting penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since these people did not see fit to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their depraved way of thinking and to all types of vile behavior. 29 As a result, they are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice. Reveling in envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful, as they devise new ways of doing evil and rebel against their parents. 31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. 32 Although they are fully cognizant of God’s decree that those who behave in this way deserve to die, they not only do these things themselves but also praise all those who engage in such conduct.”
Romans 1:22-32
To counter the attacks on Our Holy Catholic Church we need to pray for Good and Holy Priests.
Please consider adding this prayer to your morning or evening prayer routine;
St. Therese: Prayer for Priests
O Holy Father,
may the torrents of love
flowing from the sacred wounds
of your Divine Son
bring forth priests like unto the beloved disciple John
who stood at the foot of the cross;
priests, who as a pledge of your own most tender love
will lovingly give Your Divine Son to the souls of men.
May your priests be faithful guardians of your Church,
as John was of Mary,
whom he received into his house.
Taught by this loving Mother
who suffered so much on Calvary,
may they display a mother’s care
and thoughtfulness towards your children.
May they teach souls
to enter into close union with you through Mary who,
as the Gate of Heaven,
is specially the guardian of the treasures
of your Divine Heart.
Give us priests who are on fire,
and who are true children of Mary,
priests who will give Jesus to souls
with the same tenderness and care
with which Mary carried the Little Child of Bethlehem.
Mother of sorrows and of love,
out of compassion for your beloved Son,
open in our hearts deep wells of love,
so that we may console Him
and give Him a generation of priests
formed in your school
and having all the tender thoughtfulness
of your own spotless love.’
—St. Thérèse
Thank you for your considerations.
Let the Lavender Mafia be dissolved into nothing more than a bad memory on this journey towards Heaven. For over 2,000 years the Church has been marching along in the seeking of the everlasting city to come.
It has never grown dismayed or discouraged at the challenges she found herself in. On the contrary, she lifted up great souls who encouraged, inspired and strengthened the Body of Christ. Let this Truth excite our resolve to participate in this battle by small sacrifices, fervent prayer and great confidence that Christ the King will see to it that His Holy Catholic Church will be cleansed of the impurities that try to attach themselves within His Body.
Conversion Conversion Conversion
Jesus WE Trust in You.
You’d hope the Church might consistently resist grossness in the larger society. There’s no reason to pay gay agitators any mind. It’s done because occult homosexuality is a severe problem in the clergy and because masses of people in the church-o-cracy have attitudes which resemble randomly selected NGO employees.
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A fellow I see in fora like this from time to time says, ‘the left has no limiting principle’. You can see that in the agitations of purveyors of identity politics and nowhere more so than those whose clients are populations of sexual deviants. Conservative politicians fifty-odd years ago alternated between being asleep at the wheel and being rhetorically flat-footed in dealing with these characters and their promoters and by about 2015 had caved-in entirely to them. Every concession made to them was a piece of territory from which they demanded (with the help of enablers) more concessions.
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If you’d expanded the applicability of an entrapment defense, reduced consensual sodomy to a misdemeanor offense like prostitution, made it policy in local police departments to limit undercover operations to efforts at suppressing species of organized crime, and limited raids on private gatherings to situations where you had excessive noise or you had lewd acts visible to neighbors or passers-by, that should have been enough. Gay agitators asking for anything more than that should have been told to go hang. The decision-making class has no trouble ignoring people when that’s what the lot of them feel like doing. (That there were any gay bathouses in this country in operation after 1984 is an indictment of the public health trade and blue governments alike).
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As for the transmania, how did we arrive at a situation where the activities of the ghouls in the world of psychiatry, medicine, and surgery were permitted to operate legally much less the situation where insurers were compelled to pay for this poisoning-and-mutilation spree? You want a bill of particular contra the mental health trade, their peregrinations in regard to sexual deviance might be the top count. Other counts would include their foray into psychosurgery, recovered memory nonsense, and the decades-long investment in psychoanalytic thinking.
We should neither be surprised nor troubled that Fr Martin is so popular.
I am sure Arius’s social calendar was quite full back in the day.
God will sort it.
I’ve got ideas about how He ought to do it and the timeline, but I must believe that His solution is better. That’s part of my cross.
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Martin is just the faceman for the organization. The fact that Msgr. Burrell wasn’t shamed into oblivion and installed as a pastor and is suing the app by which he was outed, with the support of his bishop, is all you need to know. While I believe in the efficacy of prayer, it won’t divert the Tiber to clean the Augean Stables in the Vatican. That’s on us to do the work of the Lord.
Art Deco.
Your comment is worth reading again.
***Conservative politicians fifty-odd years ago alternated between being asleep at the wheel and being rhetorically flat-footed in dealing with these characters and their promoters and by about 2015 had caved-in entirely to them. Every concession made to them was a piece of territory from which they demanded (with the help of enablers) more concessions.***
Lack of moral conviction or grease the wheel for favors?
Just wondering what you think that played the biggest role in this derelict of duty. (?)
Maybe a combination of things, but the culture was and still is to some extent, hell bent on forcing the thought on the general populous, that gay is okay, and the trailer of trash that is pulled behind them is ok too.
Was the cancel culture, back 25 years ago, as prevalent as it is today?
The tiny percentage of homosexuals in our society would have little effect on our laws and culture without the support of the great number of those who practice contraception.
The contraceptive mentality cannot argue against sodomy, because the same argument would lead them to reject contraception.
Humane Vitae was right.
Lepanto-
I agree with you, but think your scope is too limited.
The overarching idea that opens the portal to homosexuality is the error that sex outside of marriage is permissible.
Certainly, contraception encourages sex outside of marriage by making it less likely to result in conception. However, it is society’s acceptance of sex outside of marriage that makes society unable to decry homosexual behavior without taint of hypocrisy.
“That’s on us to do the work of the Lord.” Bill
It’s a collaboration of work.
Prayer and action. Valley of Berachah, or valley of Blessing, recounts the trust the chosen people had when armies were gathered to wipe them out.
Jehoshaphat and all the people with him bowed to the ground in worship of God who had given them the answer they had looked for. And then two groups of Levites stood up to praise God with “voices loud and high” (verse 19).
The next day they rose early in the morning and went out to the place God had said.
As the army was getting ready to go out, Jehoshaphat encouraged them: “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper” (verse 20).
The king appointed a choir singing praise to God to lead the army. After all, the battle was God’s and the end result was certain!
And so, the army marched out with singing: “Praise the LORD, for His mercy endures forever” (verse 21).
The enemies turned on each other.
They wiped themselves out.
In a very small way I interpreted what took place recently, going into the Presidential election, as the Democrats turned on each other. Kamala pushed in. Joe’s dementia. Denials. Cover-ups. Botched interviews and biased media with egg on their faces.
After all, the Battle was God’s, and the end result was certain.
The very same God is here.
If we have that unwavering confidence in God and boldly sing His Song of Praise there isn’t any doubt that He will conquer today’s battles too.
May we, like Jehoshaphat and all the people with him, bow to the ground in worship of the One True God, The Blessed Trinity.
The tiny percentage of homosexuals in our society would have little effect on our laws and culture without the support of the great number of those who practice contraception.
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Not an adept of philosophy, but I think that’s called a ‘category error’.
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The most marginalized group on the planet are the same sex attracted people who try to remain celebate.
We, the people must bring our LGBTQ+ brethren to surrender their hemorrhoidal sphincters, their worn out journey to perdition, their vacuous venture into nothingness and assume their true place in their perfected sovereign personhood found only in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Blessed be God.
With God with us who can be against us?
The LGBTQ+ want to be welcomed on their terms. The LGBTQ+ do not accept the Law of God.
All men must follow the law of God or be banished to hell.
Bruised,
Widespread acceptance of contraception, in its societal separation of sex from babies encouraged not only fornication, but:
Divorce
Adultery
Abortion
Sodomy
Ect.
Not that our matters now, but i think I figured out what Fr. Martin meant that Leo was continuing Francis policies towards his community. It was merely that he didn’t cancel their Jubilee pilgrimage.