News Item: : Charity Needs Clarity
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Tuesday 22 May 2018 - 10:29:36

The Harm Done by Betrayal

A good priest from another diocese who was in seminary when I was, has been speaking with palpable sadness about how the general perception of priests has been so radically damaged, by the evil actions of those traitorous priests who have sexually abused minors.

Like many Catholics on Merseyside, we have been suffering a great deal ourselves recently, in the wake of the terrible news about Thomas Wood. He was a traditional-seeming priest who offered the Traditional Latin Mass on a regular basis; beautifully restored his traditionally ordered church; who had allowed us to give catechesis in his parish several years ago; and who had even blessed our new home when we first got married in 2002.

Like many other folk, we've suffered a great deal of anguish since Spy Wednesday this year, when local media revealed the distressing court-case details of his having criminally viewed the sexual abuse of children on internet chatrooms, whilst also commenting on those chatrooms about what he would like to do to children.

So bad was this news that, at times, it has been all we could do to remain at the foot of the Cross of Calvary with Our Lady of Sorrows.

Whilst Our Lord has gradually given us the grace to forgive and pray for his redemption, we have also felt keenly for the numerous Catholic families who have been so cruelly betrayed by him. We also found the official press statement of the Archdiocese of Liverpool to be minimalistic and lacking in pastoral care for those who have been so badly betrayed and hurt. It is a dreadful crucifixion. Please do pray for all who have been damaged by all of that.

The Situation Around the World Expressed in Chile

The abuse of minors, the seemingly casual breaking of vows of chastity, the presence of a homosexual subculture and the ongoing revelations of dreadful cases of paedophilia and ephebophilia in parts of the priesthood, have all been horrific aspects of the more general apostasy of these times.

The painful story of Juan Carlos Cruz, who has been at the centre of the awful Fernando Karadima case in Chile, has been harrowing to observe as it unfolded in the media during past months.

I would say that the remarkable mass resignation of all of the Bishops of Chile, having all the appearances of a cheap publicity stunt, has only served to exacerbate the already bad situation.

Whilst such a move has purportedly given Francis the appearance of having acted decisively, it also fails to distinguish between the guilty and the not-guilty; whilst also presenting the world with something that looks like a cheaply, degrading subversion of the supernatural nature and authority of the episcopal office.

One particularly ugly dimension of this whole saga has been the fact that Cruz, a former seminarian claiming to have been sexually abused by Karadima, said that some of those bishops had depicted him as a ''pervert'' in order to accuse him of lying about the abuse itself.

For Cruz's sake, and for that of all those who have been cruelly abused by wicked and un-Catholic narcissists using the Church of Christ as a cover for their evil deeds, I am glad that he has finally felt that he has been listened to and heard by Church authorities, who can actually do something to bring perpetrators to justice and bring healing for the victims like himself.

Cruz' cries for help, and those of countless others like him, should never have been left to fester like they have.

Thanks be to God, I have never suffered sexual abuse in the seminary, but I have experienced grave psychological and spiritual abuse at the hands of anti-Catholic modernists; some of whom even made me fear for my physical safety at certain key times. I was also once threatened that, to get ''safely'' along the cloisters and corridors back to my room each night at the close of day, I had to be lucky every single time; whereas the one threatening me, ''only had to be lucky once''. Nice Christian environment, hey?!!! Like others, I also experienced some unwelcome attempts at ''grooming'' by homosexualists in that sadly unholy environment. Needless to say, I gave these short thrift when they occurred. I also kept my room locked at night. When a radically in-your-face homosexual arrived as a new guy and calmly asked whether the seminarians slept together at night, I double-locked it! I wish someone in authority in the Church would listen to, or even just acknowledge the existence of, my ongoing cries for help, in light of the damage all of this has done to my soul.

Anyway, it is positive that Juan Carlos Cruz at last feels that he has been listened to.

Francis Said What?!!! (And he wasn't even on an aeroplane...)

Ostensibly, it could also have been good to know that Cruz has been able to meet with Francis for acknowledgement of his suffering and pastoral support. Even more, that Francis had moved beyond his own earlier disturbing protectionism of all things Karadima; in which he had even publicly denounced Cruz' claims as mere ''calumny''.

However, as you will by now be only too aware, the problem is that Cruz, who describes himself as a homosexual, has told mainstream media that Francis has now said to him: ''Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like this and loves you like this and I don't care. The pope loves you like this. You have to be happy with who you are.''

Since that initial statement, the mainstream media from here to Los Angeles, and indeed throughout all of the world, has been loudly touting headlines with the general theme: ''Pope Says OK to be Gay!'' This has been given further mileage by the likes of Fr. James Martin (SJ), chirping noisily on twitter with comments like: ''Pope Francis: ''God made you gay.''

Good gracious, so radical is this news, that it has even been discussed by Alex Jones on Info Wars Radio, under the headline, Subversive Pope!

Of course, as is ever the case with Francis, this statement by a party who claims to have been told something by Francis, permits Francis to advance another radical cause or trial balloon, whilst also being afforded the protection of plausible deniability.

All along, from the giving of Holy Communion to adulterers, to the ''sharing'' of Holy Communion with Protestants, to the none-existence of Hell, to support for transgenderism, and on to encouragement for homosexualists, this has been the motif of the Francis era. This pattern is itself consistently reinforced by Vatican press officials, with their non-commital mumbles and blather about private pastoral care of individuals.

In this case, like so many others, the matter is no longer private, nor even about an individual, because a false and even blasphemous impression is being given throughout the whole world, which will only serve to obscure orthodox teaching; endanger countless souls; serve as an occasion of sin to those experiencing same-sex-attraction; damage the Church's mission; confuse the Faithful; bemuse onlookers; put people off conversion; and leave orthodox Catholics who speak out dangerously exposed in an already hostile culture.

Francis' supposed suggestion to Cruz ignores the revealed wisdom of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the constant teaching of the Magisterium. It fails to convey the full mysteries of the Natural and the Divine Law; the Human Person; the Creation; Fall; Redemption; Original Sin; Concupiscence; Actual Sin; Mortal Sin; Confession; Chastity; or Grace.

It was this kind of partial teaching, one that promotes the notion that ''God made you gay'', which caused so many faithful Catholic observers to lament the content of Archbishop Malcolm McMahon and the Catholic Education Service's ''homophobic bullying'' materials for young school children last year.

Charity with Perspicuity

Whatever impression Francis might give, and however far and wide this is promoted by mainstream media and false teachers lurking within the Church, the authentic teaching of the Church on this matter is articulated with clarity in paragraphs CCC 2357-2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

In attempting to obscure the clarity of these teachings, some try to suggest that they are doing so out of charity for those experiencing homosexual tendencies.

That this is not the case was powerfully, and tragically, brought out in an on-line comment, made several years ago, by a young man in the UK who was experiencing same-sex attraction and homosexual feelings; but who was also struggling in order to cooperate with grace in living a chaste lifestyle.

This courageous chap explained, with deep sadness, how undermined and confused he felt whenever he heard about Cardinal Vincent Nichols' un-Catholic comments on ''gay marriage'' or homosexual civil partnerships, or of his support for LGBT-Masses and dissenting individuals, or groups such as Quest, which openly promote homosexual activity within the Church.

He said such things only served to undermine him and leave him feeling that he had no support from those he should most be able to expect it from; especially given the hostility of our present culture over these matters.

Please pray for that young man, especially now that Francis' words can only have added to his Cross.

In light of that man's words, we must ask of Francis, Cardinal Nichols, and all who promote ideologies so clearly at odds with what the Church has received from Christ and handed on to our own times: How is any of that compassion?

We would suggest that Juan Carlos Cruz, and those like the above-mentioned young man, have already been through enough at the hands of false shepherds. They deserve more than glib publicity stunts and false mercy.

What they, like all of us need is, protection and healing from the sinful crimes of predators; the knowledge that those predators are being brought to justice; conversion and healing from their own sins, pastoral support to grow in Christ's loving freedom; and the truth, which Our Lord has promised will set all people free (John 8:32).

All of which can be summed up succinctly by stating that Charity Needs Clarity.

Another week has arrived in which Francis' words, actions and failure to correct false impressions by clearly proclaiming Catholic Truth, have done enormous damage to the mission of the Church, as well as to souls, throughout the entire world.

Dear readers, we must remain very close to Our Lady. I imagine that Heaven will not let such things go on indefinitely.

Our Lady of Quito - Pray for us!

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