Below is a post I did in 2006 which gives some perspective on where the Church with Francis is today:
The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) dissented from definitive Catholic
teaching when it endorsed homosexual marriage. The Catechism of the
Catholic Church states that “homosexual acts are intrinsically
disordered…[and] under no circumstances can they be approved.”
The
“Catholic” lay operated national newsweekly said, "The ruling by the
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts allowing same-sex civil marriage
is a beneficial step along the path of human understanding and human
rights."
As a Special Commentary Columnist for NewsMax during the
height of the Catholic scandal in 2002, I first became acquainted with
NCR because of the lay-group Voice of the Faithful (VOTF).
In the summer of 2002, I received this e-mail from a NewsMax reader:
“Could
you please direct me to a reliable assessment of the group Voice of the
Faithful? A local ‘chapter’ is meeting this afternoon in Nashville, and
it has been characterized by a local priest as ‘just conservative
Catholics who want some changes.’”
In researching the lay reform
group it emerged that NCR (considered the New York Times of Catholic
liberals) was pushing VOTF as a solution for the Catholic sex-abuse
scandal, even as the lay-group was being promoted as “just conservative
Catholics who want some changes.”
The National Catholic Reporter
is the most popular Catholic newspaper in the United States.
The publication has a readership of 120,000- with 40% of its reader
being religious or clergy. It is in 96 countries and a frequent winner
of the Catholic Press Association’s Award for General Excellence,
according to the NCR website.
The research revealed a cover-up by
NRC and VOTF. Kelly Clark of The Lady In The Pew website in a review of
my new book The Hidden Axis summarized what was brought to light:
“Fred
Martinez delivers plenty of much needed ‘tough love’ to the Church in
America today. Hidden Axis covers much ground including a neat turning
of the tables on the lay group called Voice of the Faithful. VOTF was
ostensibly formed in response to the sex-abuse scandal and ‘cover-up’
and is in fact actively participating in the continuing cover-up by
incessantly refusing to acknowledge the link between the scandal and
homosexual priests.”
VOTF’s Priest of Integrity and the Homosexual Agenda
The
winner of the first VOTF Priest of Integrity Award, the Rev. Thomas
Doyle on the Internations Justice Federation website, in 2003, attacked
some articles including mine, which exposed the cover-up as well as the
"sex-experts" that helped to create the vast majority of Catholic
scandal headlines. Doyle said:
"The articles are based on
writings of Dr. Judith Reisman who has apparently devoted her life to a
critical study of the work and methods of Dr. Alfred Kinsey... Reisman,
herself not a clinician but with a Ph.D. in communications, claims that
Berlin and Money are Kinsey disciples whose primary agenda is putting
sexual abusers back on the street and promoting the so-called
"homosexual agenda."
"Reisman, and those who support her
contentions, claim that the [Doyle-Peterson-Mouton] ‘Manual’ was
actually intended to support this nebulous "homosexual agenda"
...Fortunately Dr. Riesman’s allegations and the contentions of those
who build on her ideas, are taken seriously by only a few and those few
are limited to the extreme ‘right’ (for lack of a better term) who seem
obsessed by sex in any form, and with homosexuality in particular."
[http://www32.brinkster.com/interjustice/rcscandals3.html]
Doyle
failed to mention that in 1991, the widely respected British medical
journal The Lancet verified Reisman’s research when it demanded that the
Kinsey Institute be investigated, writing:
"The Kinsey reports
(one in 1948 on males and the companion five years later) claimed that
sexual activity began much earlier in life…and displayed less horror of
age differences and same-sex relationships than anyone at the time
imagined. It was as if, to follow Mr. Porter again, ‘Anything goes’. In
"Kinsey, Sex and Fraud," Dr. Judith A. Reisman and her colleagues
demolish the foundations of the two [Kinsey] reports."
In the document "How Junk Sex Science Created a Paradigm Shift in Society, Legislation and the Judiciary," Reisman said:
"Based
on his [fraudulent scientific] data, Kinsey claimed that children
enjoyed sex and the real harm of adult-child sex stemmed from
‘hysterical’ parents, teachers and professionals who reacted with anger
and horror to children’s disclosures. Based on his findings, many
legislatures lightened or eliminated penalties for sexual
offenses…toward children as ‘victims’ in cases of incest and child
molestation."
Doyle also decided not to speak about what the
Doyle-Peterson-Mouton manual said—and Bill Clinton would appreciate
this—that "exposing the genitals" to unfamiliar persons "represents one
of the ‘victimless crimes.’"
But the main problem is that the
manual uses the standard gay activist spin that the gay movement and the
media used to censor the Vatican and all conservatives who attempted to
report the link between homosexuality and sexual abuse by priests in
2002.
The tactic, as used for the most part in the Executive
Summary of the manual, is to say that the scandal is about pedophilia
and then claim that pedophilia is not associated with homosexuality, but
is a heterosexual problem or at most a heterosexual/homosexual problem.
The
gay activist expert and psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, who wrote the
book "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth," which the Congressional
Record of May 1996 called the "best book on homosexuality written in our
times," states this is a standard spin. He writes:
"Activists
are aware of the adverse effect on the gay-rights movement that could
result if people perceived any degree of routine association between
homosexuality and pedophilia…They have denied this association by
focusing on the (true) fact that—in absolute numbers—heterosexuals
commit more child molestation than homosexuals." "But careful studies
show that pedophilia is far more common among homosexuals than
heterosexuals."
According to an article by Register Correspondent
Ellen Rossini, "Although heterosexuals outnumber homosexuals by a ratio
of at least 20 to 1, homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of
the total number of child sex offenses," said Tim Dailey, a senior
fellow for culture studies at the Family Research Council. (The National
Catholic Register, September 15-21, 2002)
[http://www.ncregister.com/register_News/091002sem.htm]
With the
above in mind I said in my book, "If VOTF and the liberal bishops really
want to end the church scandal, then they have to stop covering up the
gay part of 90 percent of the scandal [The February 2004 National Review
Board Report says 81 percent of the victims were males]. If VOTF and
Doyle really want to end the pedophilia part of the scandal, then they
have to expose the fraudulent scientific data eliminating penalties for
sexual abusers and the Kinseyan ‘experts’ who are advising the bishops."
If not, then VOTF needs to take the advice that Doyle gave in Canada in 2002:
"Any institution that enables the cover-up, protects the abusers or the authorities that hide them, doesn’t deserve to exist."
National Catholic Reporter’s Standard Gay Activist Spin
National
Catholic Reporter and Fr. Richard McBrien (the biggest name among
liberal Catholic theologians supporting VOTF) can be included in the
list of those who covered-up the "link between the scandal and
homosexual priests."
On April 5, 2002, NCR was using the standard
gay activist spin. The spin entails saying that the scandal is about
pedophilia and then claiming that pedophilia is not associated with
homosexuality. McBrien in a 2002 NCR article wrote:
"Even though
prominent psychiatrists and psychologists have been reminding us on
television and in news interviews that there is no necessary link
between homosexuality and pedophilia, the popular view to the contrary
still holds sway in many parts of the church and in society at large."
[http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1141/22_38/84970282/p1/article.jhtml]
On
March 12, 2004, the National Catholic Reporter, in an article by Doyle,
was still covering-up the fact that the scandal was overwhelmingly a
homosexual priest sex-abuse problem. Although now he and the NCR weren‘t
using the gay spin that the scandal is about pedophilia and then
claiming that pedophilia is not associated with homosexuality. The NCR
and the Doyle spin now was:
"Others have tried to unsuccessfully
minimize the issue with the hardly newsworthy revelation that only a
small percentage are really true pedophiles and most victims are above
the age of reason. Again, a resounding so what? Abuse is abuse, and
that’s the point, not the age of the victims...The spin also tries to
blame the press, the lawyers and the so-called dissenters and
unorthodox."
[http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/031204/031204d.php]
For
Doyle, VOTF and the National Catholic Reporter enforcement of orthodox
morality in penal law and canon law are not the solution to sexual
wrongdoing. Instead for these groups a change in the church government
is the solution. Doyle in the March 12, NRC article said:
"This
is all much bigger than a challenge to celibacy, injustice or the
monarchical governmental system. It is all of the above. If we add the
element of hope to the embattled landscape perhaps we can see it all as a
moment in the age-old evolution of Catholicism from an institutional
kingdom to the people of God."
[http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/031204/031204d.php]
New York Times and NCR’s Desired "Unusual Pope"
With
this desired change in the “old order” of the "institutional kingdom"
in mind, it must be remembered that the timing of the media’s "breaking"
of the sex-abuse Catholic scandal story was when Pope John Paul II’s
health appeared to be deteriorating during masses. In fact the media was
sending correspondents to Rome with expectation of a papal conclave.
Was the media’s "breaking" of the sex-abuse Catholic scandal story, timing or coincidence?
Either
way the media’s intent was to use the story to promote dissent. That is
why during the height of the scandal “ CNN trots out folks like
...CNN's guest 'expert,' Sr. Bridget Mary Meehan, who calls for
'structural changes' that allow laity greater say. Meehan and others of
her ilk expect that once the laity is given control of the Church, it
will relax sexual morality” according to journalist Mary Jo Anderson.
On
June 14, 2002 Anderson in the WorldNetDaily reported: "The Globe and
others have known for over a decade about the growing gay sub-culture in
the Church, but the Globe and others [notably the New York Times and
most of the mass media] simply winked—they are no less guilty of a cover
up than Cardinal Law. It did not seem worthy of print. Until, that is,
Pope John Paul II, the disliked “reactionary” pope and others faltered
during Christmas masses."
According to Anderson the goal of the
scandal reporting was "to use this crisis to create chaos so large that a
new pope will have to deal with the crisis as his first order of
business. If a momentum is built that insists that the old order is the
problem, perhaps the cardinals can be stampeded into electing an unusual
pope: a candidate approved by the New York Times and the United
Nations.” [http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp? ARTICLE_ID=27962 ]
The TV journalists and Times’ "unusual pope" would be a pontiff who is receptive to the gay agenda.
Ex-CBS
insider Bernard Goldberg in his book "Bias" Goldberg said, "The problem
is that so many TV journalists simply don’t know how to think about
certain issues until the New York Times and the Washington Post tell
them what to think. Those big, important newspapers set the agenda that
network news people follow."
The gay movement appears to set the
agenda for the New York Time, which sets the agenda for the rest of the
media. NewsMax ran an article about Accuracy in Media’s Reed Irving’s
inquiry into the NY Times bias. Irving said Richard Berke, a national
political correspondent for the Times, spoke at a gathering of the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Irvine says that Berke
assured the homosexual group that the Times would remain very receptive
to the gay agenda because "three-fourths of those who regularly attend
the daily meetings that determine what will be on the front page of the
Times the next morning are ‘not-so-closeted’ homosexuals."
The
Times‘ “unusual pope" also would be a pontiff who is receptive to the
ordination of women. The New York Times, a few years back, gave Fr.
McBrien the opportunity to attack the Pope. He said to the New York
newspaper:
"There are literally millions of Catholics in the U.S.
alone who see no reason why women can't be ordained, and they're not
going to decide they're not Catholics and stop going to church...it is
the Pope and the Vatican who will be seen as being out of step."
[http://sfbayc.org/magazine/html/ctanews.htm]
The National
Catholic Reporter (a long time forum for dissent against the definitive
Catholic teaching against women's ordination ) on Sept 10, 1999 in an
article by Michael J. Farrell said that they must remain steadfast in
their support of Fr. Richard McBrien despite "letter writers who
criticize the paper for carrying the syndicated columns of the Notre
Dame professor."
"The complainers' main complaint, it seems, is that McBrien is not sufficiently deferential to the pope," Farrell said.
"
It is no secret that this papacy has placed loyalty to the Holy Father
high among its priorities. An atmosphere was created in which criticism
of the pope was regarded as defiance. This attitude has flourished in
right-wing circles in this country."
[http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1141/39_35/56458761/p1/article.jhtml?term=]
VOTF Supporter Fr. McBrien and a Former National Catholic Reporter Contributor
In
the March 12, NRC issue there appeared an editorial supporting an ad
that VOTF placed in the New York Times two days after the National
Review Board released the "Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church
in the United States." In the ad, VOTF was still covering-up the
homosexual link to the scandal, but NCR supported the lay organization
because the "ad had the sound of a campaign getting underway."
The Times ad according to the National Catholic Reporter petitioned signatures for the following:
That
Pope John Paul II "meet with an international delegation of
victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse";That the pope hold responsible
those bishops "who knowingly transferred sexually abusive clergy" and
accept or call for resignations "where appropriate";That each U.S.
bishop disclose details of their oversight in transferring abusive
clergy and clergy who have credible allegations against them.
[http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/031204/031204q.php]One
of the main supporters of VOTF and possibly the most posted columnist
on the lay-organization’s website, Fr. McBrien made a similar plea.
According to the January 29, 2004
The Observer online, an independent newspaper serving Notre Dame:
"
In the Jan. 27 Observer article "Campus, Seminary Reacts to Priest
Scandal, ‘Fr. Richard McBrien asserts that the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops' audit of its program for preventing sexual abuse by
priests ‘could have been prevented if the Church has responded properly
when allegations began coming to light over 25 years ago.’ According to
McBrien, "some ... dioceses were not as forthcoming - and still are not
- as they should be.’"
However, it appears that McBrien might
not be an appropriate person to call for “the pope [to] hold responsible
those bishops "who knowingly transferred sexually abusive clergy" and
accept or call for resignations "where appropriate." According to The
Observer:
"Given his current sanctimonious condemnation of the
Church regarding clergy sexual abuse, one might assume McBrien, to use
his words, "responded properly" when [ Fr. James] Burtchaell's
[homosexual] sexual misconduct was brought to his attention. To the
contrary, McBrien concealed Burtchaell's conduct; he did not discipline
him or remove him from contact with students. In short, McBrien
continued to put Notre Dame students at risk of a known sexual
predator." "Although McBrien had knowledge of [the former National
Catholic Reporter contributor] Burtchaell's crimes as early as 1989,
Burtchaell's sexual abuse of Notre Dame students was not made public
until late 1991. When asked about Burtchaell's serial sexual abuse of
students after concealing knowledge thereof for more than two years,
McBrien refused to "comment on the matter." See National Catholic
Reporter (Dec. 6, 1991)."
[http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/2004/01/29/Viewpoint/Mcbrien.Forced.To.Deal.With.His.Past-590959.shtml
and http://www.natcath.com/crisis/120691.htm]
Apparently,
NCR and McBrien need to investigate themselves to see if they
"responded properly" when sexual misconduct was brought to their
attention.
What Structural Changes do VOTF and NCR Want to Make?
McBrien
and the National Catholic Reporter in their writings and accommodating
coverage of Voice of the Faithful have steadfastly supported VOTF’s
stated goal for a campaign to change the Church’s structure. In 2002,
James Likoudis told me what these structure changes might be: "Richard
P. McBrien oozes with admiration for this group [Voice of the Faithful]
seeking to restructure the Church, democratize it, gain financial
control of it, and subordinate our Bishops to this new lay class of
secular feudal lords and professionals," Catholics United for the
Faith’s Likoudis said.
"It’s a power grab under the guise of more
‘lay participation’ and is made up of those dissenting liberals and
radicals who do not like Catholic moral teaching but do like Dignity and
GLAAD [radical homosexual organizations].
"In the summer of
2003, when I asked editor of Crisis Magazine and former professor of
Philosophy at Fordham University, Deal W. Hudson, what are the
structural changes that Voice of the Faithful wants to make. He said:
"They’ve
never defined them in any way. So the only conclusion you can come to
is that the kind of structural changes they want are those represented
by the people they invite to address their meetings," Hudson said.
"Which are those who want ordination of women, married priests, to end
priestly celibacy and finally to end Vatican authority over the parishes
in the United States."
In 2003, the VOTF website
(www.votf.org/Structural_Change/structural.html) said that the
Structural Change Working Group (SCWG) "has been working to define what
VOTF means by its Goal 3."
According to the site "The group
[SCWG] has also consulted with Fr. Ladislas Orsy, S.J., in an effort to
ensure that its conclusions are sound, and that none of its statements
could be misunderstood. Fr. Orsy has been retained as a professional
outside consultant in canon law and related matters by VOTF."
Fr.
Orsy might be a questionable choice as a consultant for an organization
claiming that it wants to make structural changes in the Church to end
the sex-abuse scandal, at least, according to the American Cardinal
Dulles and Cardinal Ratzinger of the Vatican.
The American
Cardinal in a November 25, 2000 America article
(www.bigbrother.net/~mugwump/Dulles/dulles_online.html) said of the
priest:
"On the papal teaching office, Father Orsy renews his
plea (made in several other places) that Catholics should be free to
dissent from definitive teaching."
Cardina1 Ratzinger in an article published in Céide May/June 1999 (found at www.womanpriest.org/teaching/ratzing1.htm) said:
"Father
Orsy assures us that the new canons were not needed because the
category of definitively proposed teaching "as it appears now in
official documents had not developed yet"...How the author could have
come to this thesis is inexplicable."
A few paragraphs later the Cardinal wrote:
"I
do not find it objective that Fr.Orsy constructs an opposition
[contradiction] between Ad tuendam fidem and Vatican II. [He writes
that] the Council intended no threats and penalties because the Fathers
of the Council "trusted that truth will attract by its own beauty and
strength" ... In fact, a large number of the bishops of the world wish
today for the "sharpening" of the penal law; this is a consequence of
the cases of priests guilty of paedophilia. The protection of the rights
of the accused priests has become so strong that the bishops feel
powerless in cases when for the sake of the faithful they should have
the power to intervene."
Pray an
Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as for the
Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
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Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
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