To understand better the action of the homosexual movement inside the Church, we are publishing excerpts from the recently published book, The Breached Dam: The Fiducia Supplicans Surrender to the Homosexual Movement. Authors José Antonio Ureta and Julio Loredo discuss the terrible process leading up to the release of the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans, which allows priestly blessings to those in irregular or homosexual relationships. The following text describes the four arguments used to justify blessings for homosexual partnerships.
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More than twenty years ago, Paul Varnell, a pioneer of pro-homosexual journalism, wrote in the Chicago Free Press that the fundamental controversy “is not discrimination, hate crimes or domestic partnerships” but “the underlying moral condemnation,” for “if we convince people that homosexuality is fully moral, then all their inclination to discriminate, engage in gay-bashing or oppose gay marriage disappears.” He concluded: “So the gay movement, whether we acknowledge it or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberation movement, but a moral revolution aimed at changing people’s view of homosexuality.”1
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Thus, the homosexual movement initially fought to eliminate the offense of sodomy from criminal codes and for the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the list of psychiatric disorders in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III), which it did in 1973.
Demanding That the Church Accept Obscenity
However, that was not enough. Homosexuality had to be accepted by the various religions, particularly Christianity. Since the seventies, the homosexual movement has set up multiple associations specifically for this purpose. One that is still active today, Soulforce, described its mission twenty years ago as follows:
“We believe that religion has become the primary source of false and inflammatory misinformation about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. Fundamentalist Christians teach that we are “sick” and “sinful.”… Most conservative and liberal denominations refuse to marry us or ordain us for ministry. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that our orientation is “objectively disordered” and our acts of intimacy “intrinsically evil.” …We believe these teachings lead to discrimination, suffering and death. Our goal is to confront and eventually replace these tragic untruths with the truth that we are God’s children, too, created, loved, and accepted by God exactly as we are.”2
The Rise of Homoheresy
It is precisely this replacement that is beginning to become a reality in the Catholic Church with the unprecedented authorization for priests to bless premarital, adulterous, and homosexual pairs.
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However, such a gigantic change in the Catholic Church’s pastoral care and doctrine could not have happened overnight. It was prepared, on the one hand, by a stealth invasion of homosexuality in numerous seminaries and novitiates and, on the other hand, by infiltrating Catholic environments in the sixties with moral relativism and homosexual ideology, giving rise to what was later dubbed “homoheresy.”3
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A direct and well-placed observer reported on this infiltration, the then-Father, later Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Pope Benedict XVI. After his papal resignation, when the sexual abuse scandal and the Vatican’s involvement in the case of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick emerged, he published an extended study in the Bavarian monthly Klerusblatt blaming the abuse crisis in the Church predominantly on the Sexual Revolution and the collapse in seminary formation. He describes how the breakdown in priestly formation reached the absurd point where one bishop, who had been a seminary rector, made seminarians watch pornographic films to render them resistant to conduct contrary to the Faith!
A Conspiracy Among Cliques
Even worse, “in various seminaries homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly.” This moral relativism developed, he states, because until then, moral theology was primarily based on natural law. However, “in the Council’s struggle for a new understanding of Revelation, the natural law option was largely abandoned, and a moral theology based entirely on the Bible was demanded.” “Consequently, there could no longer be anything that constituted an absolute good, any more than anything fundamentally evil.”4
Without mentioning him directly, the former Benedict XVI pointed to his compatriot and colleague at the University of Tübingen, the Redemptorist Father Bernard Häring, who, with his manual titled The Law of Christ, revolutionized moral theology in a personalist sense in the years leading up to the Second Vatican Council.
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Footnotes
- Paul Varnell, “Defending Our Morality,” (originally published in Chicago Free Press, Aug. 16, 2000), IGFCultureWatch.com, accessed Apr. 18, 2024, https://igfculturewatch.com/2000/08/16/defending-our-morality/.
- Soulforce, “What Is the Primary Goal of Soulforce?” Soulforce.org, accessed Jan. 2004, www.soulforce.org/main/faq.shtml. (Printed 2004 website documentation in TFP archives.)
- This expression was coined by Fr. Dariusz Oko, Ph.D., in his essay “With the Pope Against the Homoheresy,” originally published by Theologisches 9, no. 10 (2012): 403–426, where he wrote:
I began my work as a struggle against a deadly, external threat to Christianity, but then gradually discovered that the division is not that simple. The enemy is not only outside the Church, but within it as well, sometimes perfectly camouflaged, like the Trojan Horse. We are dealing not only with the problem of a homoideology and a homolobby outside the Church, but with an analogous problem within it as well, where homoideology takes the form of a homoheresy…
…Remembering to ‘recognize them by their fruit’ (cf. Matthew 7:16), based on the publicly known events of the last quarter of the century, the reaction of the Holy See and the documents it issued, we must clearly, explicitly and resolvedly say: yes, there is a strong homosexual underground in the Church (just like in many other places), which—depending on the degree of involvement of its members, depending on their words and deeds—may be referred to as homoheresy, homolobby, homoclique or even homomafia. (Dariusz Oko, “With the Pope Against the Homoheresy,” Rorate-caeli.blogspot.com, Feb. 16, 2013, https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html)
Fr. Oko and the editor-in-chief of the theological journal were condemned by a German court for supposedly “inciting hatred” against homosexuals in another article denouncing the “lavender mafia” inside the Church. Cardinal Gerhard Müller reacted to the court sentence drawing a parallel with the persecution of Polish intellectuals during the time of Poland’s occupation by Nazi Germany and praising Fr. Oko’s work as “a courageous act that deserves the respect of all decent people.” (LifeSiteNews Europe, “Cdl. Müller Speaks Out in Defense of Polish Priest Sued by Germany for ‘Hate Speech,’” LifeSiteNews.com, Aug. 19, 2021, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-muller-speaks-out-in-defense-of-polish-priest-sued-by-germany-for-hate-speech/)
- Joseph Ratzinger, “Full Text of Benedict XVI essay: ‘The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse,’” Catholic News Agency, Apr. 10, 2019, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/41013/full-text-of-benedict-xvi-essay-the-church-and-the-scandal-of-sexual-abuse.