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CLERICAL HOMOSEXUALITY 101 FOR CATHOLICS

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Exploring the historical celibacy connection​


When I was in the seminary, I had no idea how many of my fellow seminarians were homosexuals. The reason is that we often project onto others what we see in ourselves. If a faithful husband sees a friend having dinner with a beautiful woman he knows is not his wife, he may approach him anticipating that the woman is a visiting relative or business partner. However, if an unfaithful husband sees a friend having dinner with a beautiful woman who is not his wife, he may not approach him, assuming that his friend is also having an affair. Had I been a sexually active homosexual seminarian, I would have been in a much better position to identify who was straight and who was gay amongst both the seminarians and the seminary faculty.

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Reading the entire body of witness and experience of this former Navy Chaplain presents, to any faithful Catholic, a gravely serious challenge and opens us to a very dangerous temptation. The temptation is satan's work and plan. The challenge to steadfastly and courageously hold fast to the traditional Catholic Faith even in the temptation, is God's work and plan. Men and women insisting on remaining in the shallow end of the sea, near the beach - close to the land - safe on the earth - are in greatest danger. Where faith can be thin - shallow - to survive in comfort with this passing world - this is satan's most fertile soil: easy low-hanging fruit, easy to steal away their confused and darkened souls.

But the stronger ones learned long ago that the world's treasures are cheap glass beads and hollow praise from liars, worth nothing more than noise to souls seeking the purity of melodious choirs of angels in worship of the One True God, more precious than this world can imagine. To them, to those who have tasted the real and the eternal, no temptation from the father of lies can shake them loose from the Rock of Truth.

To these latter ones I say you need to read this; you can take it, it can prepare you for the sufferings and plagues to come. Judgment is due, long due, and it is near.
 
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