Now, what would the prince of this world like to see
more than what ex-priest James Carroll has called for in his recent screed in the Atlantic: the abolition of
the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Why? He says because the Church’s
reputation and membership have suffered under the continual revelations of
sexual abuse by those he erroneously labels "pedophiles, in reality the homosexual network of priests aided by
bishops(homosexual and heterosexual), and cardinals who’ve protected each other
at the expense of many victims. In his own words:
Clericalism
is both the underlying cause and the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic
catastrophe. Only by dismantling the clerical hierarchy can the Church end the
perpetual scandals, move into the modern age, and preserve the faith of its
believers.
Let us set the record straight by quoting a victim of priestly sexual abuse: "both
clericalism and homosexuality in the clergy are major proximate causes
of the scandal. It’s not either-or; it’s both-and. That is why blaming one
without the other is a form of ideological scapegoating [emphasis
mine] which, in turn, both conceals and reveals the true root of the
problem." So much for Carroll's mislabeling of the source of the sin as "pedophilia."
The former priests' screed necessitates stating moreof the relevant facts concerning the homosexual priest crisis, the latest in a
bevy of scandalous behaviors which have attacked the Church since her inception
at Pentecost in the first century.
Carroll goes on to push for transformation of the
whole of Catholic belief: ending celibacy for priests, the exclusion of women
from the priesthood, bringing the laity into positions of power, fostering
equality for women as administrators in the Vatican: “Yes to female sexual
autonomy; yes to love and pleasure, not just reproduction as a purpose of sex;
yes to married clergy; yes to contraception; and, indeed, yes to full
acceptance of homosexuals,” Carroll writes. “No to male dominance; no to the
sovereign authority of clerics; no to double standards.” It seems to me that “yes”
to sexual autonomy, the libido, contraception, and full acceptance of
homosexual sexual activity in the world are, after “the spirit of Vatican II’s’
opening of the Church’s windows to the spirit of the age of the 1960s sexual revolution the root cause of the present crisis. Be not afraid. Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, to the
close of the age.” God needs nothing from James Carroll, but he? Oremus.
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