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"ST. PETER DAMIAN'S BOOK OF GOMORRAH: A MORAL BLUEPRINT FOR OUR TIMES"

by Randy Engel, dated June-July 2002, can be downloaded free at her website.

St. Peter Damian is considered to be a Father of the Church. He was very strict in his rejection of homosexual acts on the part of priests. In this booklet Engel applies Damian's words to our present scandal, demonstrating what a weak response our bishops and those in the Vatican have offered us.

She cites part of Canon Law which would seem to indicate that there is a possibility that some priests and bishops may be officiating while in a state of excommunication:

Quoting Holy Scripture concerning "the blind leading the blind," (Matt 8:4, Luke 5:4) Damian continues, "...it becomes perfectly clear that he who is oppressed by the same guilty darkness tries in vain to invite another to return to the light of repentance. While he has no fear of extending himself to outstrip the other in erring, he ends up accompanying his follower into the yawning pit of ruin."

Since this practice remains a common one today within the homosexual underworld of diocesan priests, bishops and religious and between pederast priests and their young victims, it may be well to recall that under the revised 1983 Code of Canon Law, the absolution of a partner (clerical or layperson) in a sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue is invalid, except in danger of death (Can. 977) and a priest who acts against the prescription of Can. 977 incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, the lifting of which is reserved to the Apostolic See. (Can. 1378 #1) Unless the offending priest has his excommunication lifted by the Sacred Penitentiary or the Holy Father, he has not been validly absolved. Should he attempt to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in a state of mortal sin he compounds his offenses with the grave sin of sacrilege.

A priest can validly consecrate while in a state of mortal sin. Can a priest validly consecrate while excommunicated? Can a bishop validly ordain while excommunicated? Is it possible that in some dioceses there are priests who are not validly ordained yet who are saying Mass regularly and dispensing other sacraments? Have some of our children been invalidly confirmed? Are marriages perhaps invalid? This could be a very serious situation.

Engel places the start of homosexual activity within the priesthood in the early 1900s:

My own research traces the start of the American Church's pro-homosexual paradigm shift to the early 1900s, with the breakdown of this specific Church discipline beginning first in religious orders and then filtering down to the secular clergy.

The number of known homosexuals accepted into the seminary and subsequently ordained, as well as the rise of prominent homosexual bishops to the cardinalate, was known to rise significantly under the pontificate of Paul VI and has continued under the reign of Pope John Paul II.

Referencing a CNS news report on homosexuals in the seminary that quoted "some anonymous Church officials" Engel writes

...care will be taken not to offend the 'delicate sensibilities' of homosexual candidates to the priesthood by attempting 'to impose an arbitrary norm' against them. Translation -- the Holy See has no realistic and concrete plans to systematically dismantle the hierarchical diocesan and religious order homosexual network already in place throughout Catholic dioceses in the United States and around the world.

This is essentially what Lee Penn said in the SCP article which I quoted yesterday--that the dioceses were simply left to disintegrate without involvement from Rome.

Engel says that the USCCB

has always been a major force in the Church's homosexual network. Clerical homosexuals with a creative bent and penchant for novelty are often attracted to programs of 'liturgical renewal' or Church 'wreckovation'. Homosexuals with pederast inclinations, on the other hand, tend to go 'where the boys are,' that is, parish schools and youth centers and institutions such as orphanages and camps run by religious orders.

If religious orders preceded diocesan clergy in ordaining homosexuals, it is significantly disturbing that our focus has been on the diocesan clergy while the religious orders have gone largely unscrutinized.

Engel also indicates that the cure must come from the top:

St. Peter Damian clearly enunciates in the Book of Gomorrah, true reform in the Church begins at the top -- with a strong and independent papacy. Unfortunately, the papacy today is neither strong nor independent and it too shares in the corruption.

The nagging question, as always, is why, and what is the nature of the corruption at the top?

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!