The
Pink Elephant
in
the Church
Fr.
Charles Dahlby
GUEST
COLUMNIST
Reprinted
from The Remnant
21170
www.RemnantNewspaper.com
As a Catholic
priest, I have an investment in issues that affect the Church and the people of
God. And, as a Christian, I have an obligation to speak
out. So let me make the following
points as clearly as I can:
1) Most of
the scandals and evils we see in the Church today are brought about primarily by
homosexuality. Homosexuality is an
objective moral disorder and unacceptable in the priesthood! For nearly two thousand years the
teachings of the scripture, the magisterium, and
Tradition—the three sources of revelation which give us truth—have all agreed:
homosexuality as an “abomination”!
Only recently have Phil and Oprah and a few TV sitcoms disagreed. But God doesn’t change, and Phil and
Oprah won’t be on the throne to judge us!
2) Even though Church documents forbid the
acceptance of homosexuals into the seminary and, quite obviously, their
ordination to the priesthood, those in authority have for years looked the other
way, (don’t ask, don’t tell) and homosexuals have flocked into the Church. Now
they have positions of authority! They use this authority to protect and promote
one another, creating a distinct subculture that is rapidly becoming dominant.
This sub-culture is the ideal homosexual environment. As a priest no one
questions why you aren’t married.
You get respect that you don’t necessarily earn. You have a target-rich
environment, especially if you have a school, and, if you slip up and get
caught, the civil authorities will not want to prosecute you because you’re a
priest and, as we have seen, the Church will cover you, defend you, and may set
you up in another parish or even another diocese so you can continue to prey on
God’s people.
A homosexual
predator could not hope to find a more friendly and supportive environment than
priesthood in the American Catholic Church!
3) The fact that the leadership of the
Church so obviously refuses to deal honestly with homosexuality in its midst is
a proof of its very powerful presence and authority. The effort expended to
avoid the obvious truth is evidence that gross ignorance cannot explain this
blindness, only a conscious and premeditated effort to avoid what is so
clear! Because it is done with
awareness, it crosses the line from human weakness to genuine malignant
evil!
4) To those who try to avoid the truth and
hide behind some phony facade such as “addiction” or claim the answer will be
found in a good workshop on chastity are either fools or liars. Get a few old diocesan directories and a
magic marker and go through them: How many heterosexual priests died of
AIDS? How many heterosexual priests
have been pedophiles? How many
heterosexual priests have been sources of sex scandals? (Only a small percentage
of which ever reach the newspapers!) How much money have heterosexual priests
cost the Church in lawsuits, pay-offs and cover-ups?
5) Many
priests are aware of homosexuals in the priesthood but they do not have the
spirituality or the courage to confront the issue, so they lapse into a false
charity that is nothing more than an excuse for doing nothing. (This is a
response that Jesus certainly did not allow!) Or they try to wash their hands of
anything outside their parish boundaries. (Also not
allowed!) Worst of all are
those priests who know that evil is occurring, do nothing, and actually console
themselves with the absurd idea that they are serving the Church. They have been formed by a seminary
system that is designed to produce “churchmen,” not saints. These neo-Pharisees have confused the
“means” with the “end” and have made the Church an idol! They have been perfectly willing to
sacrifice truth, innocence and even the souls of Gods children as long as they
keep up the facade. It is a sick and perverted illusion of love that would allow
a priest to stand by silently while his brother destroys his own soul and the
souls of others! These people must
surely tremble at the thought of God’s judgment!
6) Yes, as we
must love all sinners, we love homosexuals! If they can carry the cross they have
been given they can become great saints.
But they have no place in the priesthood! Weak and evil leaders have sat around
patting themselves on the back at how “enlightened” and “charitable” they have
been in that stirring “Cor ad cor” they had with “Father” regarding his little problem.
While “Father” has a whole new target-rich environment in another parish or
another diocese! (After a little counseling of course!) And while the warmth
of false charity fills them, more children are destroyed!
The people
are asking “When will it end?” It
won’t! As long as we ignore the
“elephant in the room”, as long as we prefer the comfort of false charity and
absolutely refuse to deal with the truth, the scandal and the destruction of
faith will continue. It will, in fact, get much worse! The “vocation crisis” is due in large
part to the rise of the homosexual subculture in the Church. They have such power that Fr. Andrew
Greeley has labeled them the “Lavender Mafia”! (A very
appropriate term since the RICO laws are now being used against the
Bishops of the Church!)
Many young
men who have stood up against the homosexual agenda in the seminaries have been
labeled “homophobes” and “rigid” and treated as though they are the sick
ones. If they somehow manage to get
ordained and then discover the truth, they experience terrible frustration. They realize that they have no place to
go to get the problem “fixed”! It
does no good to go to the bishop when the bishop is the problem! The chancery staff,
the Monsignori, were appointed by him. For example, right now there is a young
man in the seminary in
The few
priests foolish enough to speak openly about the scandal of homosexuality in the
priesthood have soon learned that they will receive no help or support from
anyone. The people don’t want to
believe it. The newspapers won’t
print it. The district attorney
won’t prosecute, after all, his is an elected position, and the only thing more
pointless than writing to the bishop is writing to “
Only when
they got hit in the purse did these bishops have a sudden attack of
morality. The bishop of
The truth is,
a few money-grubbing lawyers have done more to keep our children safe than the
entire NCCB and all its committees! People simply don’t want to believe!
I was once
relating some information I had been given by two male prostitutes concerning
their clergy clientele. The person
I was speaking to said: “How could
you believe them if their prostitutes?”
I explained that people didn’t go to Douglas Park late at night to pick
up saints! I have always found more
honesty in sinners than in false shepherds!
Now the
priesthood has come to be considered the primary “gay profession.” We are the butt of jokes and presented
as a pathetic caricature in the media. If the new document from
So the real
issue is –
HOMOSEXUALS IN THE PRIESTHOOD! The solution is – GET THEM
OUT!