I don't even know what you're talking about. All I know is I started a thread, arguing that the scandal and crisis of pederasty and pedophilia was not due to faggotry among the ministerial priests and bishops. I was roundly and conclusively shouted down. I licked my wounds, and considered where I went wrong. To me, the question wasn't about whether a priest or bishop was a faggot, but whether or not he was a criminal, and everybody told me no. It's about faggotry.
So I licked my wounds, and I considered all the rumors and stories I had heard, things like that the Church no longer ordains faggots.
And then ofc Pope Francis, to the rescue (as per normal), tells the whole World, we need to get faggotry out of the seminaries.
That was all before Pope John Paul II revised and updated the Catechism, saying faggotry is inherently disordered.
That was all before the electors elected Pope Benedict XVI, who had actually written the words of the Catechism about faggotry being intrinsically disordered and absolutely immoral (John Paul commissioned Benedict to revise and update the Catechism)
And then Francis was elected, and people thought, Oh look, the Roman Catholics are going to start being pro-faggotry. No. This is all based on conspiracy and "dog whistles". Let me tell you about a dog whistle. It's when someone says "faggot", that you know they're no ally of faggotry, and Pope Francis said "faggot" and he said we need to get faggotry out of seminaries. That's a dog whistle. It means to those who can hear it, The Church is never going to change the Apostolic teaching on faggotry, it is absolutely gravely immoral and disordered and diabolic. Period. That's what Francis said, in dog whistle. He's not changing the Church's teaching on faggotry.
So if faggotry in the ministerial priesthood was the root cause of the child sex abuse problem, what more would you want the Roman Catholic Church to do about it, then doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on faggotry being completely gravely sinful, and on directly working to prevent any faggots from ordination?
And believe me, I don't mean faggot in a bad way, I just mean what they do, where their proclivities lie, they can't help it, their disordered desire isn't their own fault, but a faggot is someone who engages in faggotry, and that's what faggot means, is someone who actually engages in faggotry, not just someone who's got a disordered desire or attraction, there are plenty of people who have safely discerned celibacy rather than ever indulge that temptation. Those who have not ever indulged it, are not faggots. Faggots have actually done it. They've dipped their toe in the water, so to speak. That's a faggot. But the one who never does that, even if he wants to do it, is no faggot. He discerns celibacy. There are plenty of people who discern celibacy though they have no such desire, and there are those who do have that desire or attraction or temptation. Celibacy is available to everybody. And sometimes it's just obv what you're called to do.
For me as a Catholic, this is my thought on the paedophilia The Catholic priesthood used to be a good place for a pedophile violent criminal absolutely immoral man to hide out, and avoid justice. If there were criminal naïveté, then the other priests were guilty of that, but criminal naivete...
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