By R. Cort Kirkwood
June 21, 2002

(AgapePress) - When the Catholic bishops completed their conclave in Dallas, they had no more addressed the real problem in the priesthood than they had before, because it would rattle the Roman Catholic Church down to the catacombs.

That problem is homosexuality, not pedophilia, and more than a few bishops and priests, and even some orthodox Catholics, have said nothing forbids the ordination of homosexuals.

They can and should control their sexual urges just as heterosexuals do, we are told, and the Catholic Church must not be unjust.

But here’s what the bishops aren’t telling Catholics: a 41-year-old law in the Catholic Church forbids the ordination of homosexuals, which might just be the reason the bishops won't discuss the genuine source of the underlying corruption.

The Law
John Vennari, writing for the Roman Catholic Faithful website, reveals that ordaining homosexuals is forbidden in the document, “Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders.” Published February 2, 1961, it appears in the Canon Law Digest, which presents “Officially Published Documents Affecting The Code Of Canon Law.”

Says the crucial paragraph, “Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers.”

Well, we all know what those dangers are, and so did the Catholic Church fathers who wrote the law.

Oddly, when an official from Roman Catholic Faithful asked the papal nuncio, the pope’s legate in Washington, D.C., to send him a copy of the law, the nuncio refused: “Kindly be advised that the document, which you request, was reserved to the use of the bishops,” the nuncio wrote. “Thus I regret that I am unable to help you in this matter.”

How a church law can be “reserved for the use of bishops,” anymore than a civil law can be “reserved for the use of judges,” is a mystery, but one understands the urge for secrecy.

Why Not Release It
Bringing attention to this obscure law, reaffirmed by a statement from the Vatican in 1990, would prove the bishops are violating it.

For the bishops, this might conjure the fearsome specter of even more lawsuits against the Catholic Church, although one wonders how the legal situation could get worse. For Catholics in general, it begs the obvious question of how so many homosexuals were ordained, again, in contravention of church law.

Answering that question turns a light into the dim corners of Catholic seminaries, where sexual corruption is unbridled and a “gay subculture” flourishes, according to Goodbye Good Men, a new book about the training of priests.

The sleaze is so bad, the book reveals, that some seminaries have become lavender cathouses with nicknames like “Pink Palace” and “Notre Flame.”

What the Bishops Don't Want
This sexual scandal signals the beginning of the end of the unvarnished heresy, apostasy, liturgical abuse and political agenda of the liberals, feminists, homosexuals and quack theologians in the Roman Catholic Church.

They know it, and it explains the obscurantist rhetoric about the moral disease killing the priesthood, and the nonsense about “pedophilia summits,” a term the media have used that disguises the truth.

The corrupt Catholic bishops want to stop the bleeding, and that is why, where homosexuality and canon law are concerned, they have taken a another vow:

Silence.