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The solution is simple. Stop pretending that celibacy was ever a good idea, and start ordaining married men.

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I think you summarized it perfectly.

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Maybe a great first step would be stop ordaining open and out perverts?

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That won't happen as long as the pope and most of the voting members of the Church hierarchy are members of the Lavender Mafia. Because the laity are not "voting" members, their voices are not heard and their objections are ignored as long as they continue to "pay, pray, and obey." You need to STOP putting money into your parish collection baskets with a note, "I will continue supporting the Church only after abusive and sexually promiscuous bishops and priests are laicized or excommunicated."

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This suggestion always annoys me for the silliness of the naivete; it's a very American response. People who object to all the shenanigans are normal Mass-going regular folk, but they're not funding all the s's. The fiver you pop into the collection basket isn't paying for McCarrick's flights to China or the Holy office rent-boy-and-cocaine parties. They're paying for the parish to get the plumbing fixed. The diocesan tax doesn't make it to Rome either. The money doesn't come from us. In Rome it comes from real estate holdings the Church has had since Charlemagne. In DC it comes from McCarrick's globalist billionaire friends.

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To date, silence, just like Francis who did not respond to allegations that he had sex with Jesuit novices in Argentina. They feel they are above the law and don’t answer to anyone.

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This article makes abundantly clear to the world that homosexual clergy are on the rise. The homosexual bishops are the very clergy eho decades ago equated homosexual relations with the relations experienced between s as married man and woman. If homosexual love is the same as heterosexual love, then which of the two male homosexual lovers is to imitate the wife by being impregnated

The ecclesiastical bishops have destroyed the faith of millions of Catholics without even one serious expression of shared clerical opposition to this pretense that homosexual and heterosexual love are the same. Really? Ever meet an impregnated man? Interesting question? What would you say? !

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He was long suspected as being the gatekeeper in the Maciel affair. It was only after Dr Wanda Poltawska made an end run around him (being a personal friend of John Paul II) that the truth seeped through to the conned pope). She was much maligned with the standard LC whisper campaign afterwards. Of course, the truth eventually came out…

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oh please... We're still playing the "He didn't know" game?

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This is so well written and documented…the scourge of pedophilia is far more systematic than the Church, though the Church has been targeted…

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Thank you for this report, which makes the reporting Michael Voris used to do on Church MilkToast pale by comparison. At this point, I have no doubt that the Catholic hierarchy is a systemic mess of corruption, dominated by a Lavender Mafia, who are just playing clerics. God help us when all this is finally exposed and people wake up.

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How is this even news? Everyone in Rome has known this for decades. It's like saying you didn't know about McCarrick; everyone knew.

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You are "echoing "what I said in the past. In a recent email to the editor of Complicit Clergy who was contacted by someone who questioned the veracity of my article on Cardinal Dziwisz and Wieslaw Walawender, I wrote, "You are probably familiar with Father Darius Oko who teaches at the seminary in Krakow. He has suffered much for exposing clerical homosexual behavior. My sources say that he believes Polish clergy know about Dziwisz, his homosexual orientation, and his relationship with Nardotto, just like many U.S. bishops and priests knew for years about McCarrick's 'thing' for seminarians and young priests. Remember what Bishop Lopes said, 'Everyone knew'."

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It wasn't just clergy. Anyone involved in the Catholic media knew as well, both McCarrick and Dziwisz. And please, let's just get ahead of the exhausted "JPII couldn't have known" tropes. Enough of that.

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If all this is true, this is disappointing, disturbing, depressing.

How has the Cardinal responded?

In fact, how do we know the ground truth of all these allegations? What if this is a massive character assassination campaign against the Cardinal?

And I disagree with Pope Francis in a number of things, some of which are serious. But this allegation of abuse against him? What are the facts and where can they be found?

Extraordinary assertions require extraordinary evidence and I see none here.

Hey, I’m jaded and no longer impressed by our human capacity for evil, even among those who should know better, those we were raised to show great respect.

But as an analyst by trade, I need more facts: who, what, where, when, why, and how. I hope and pray that as a professional yourself you may be able to provided them at your earliest convenience.

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Who, what, when, etc. are very important questions which I ask. Also, I don't usually rely upon one source. It's like abuse cases. If you say I abused you when you were my altar boy, and I deny it, then it's your word against my word. However, if Billy and Bobby come forth and say that I abused them too in another parish, then your allegation is going to be taken far more seriously. Vigano came forward with allegations from Jesuit novices who were different from the Jesuit source I have who alleges that Bergoglio sodomized a Jesuit novice positioned on a chair in Cordoba. My source cannot come forward because he is still a priest and he would suffer the fate of Vigano or Strickland if he went public. Like the 12 seminarians and priests whom Richard Sipe interviewed, their "John Doe" identities were kept private for fear of retaliation. If you break confidence, no one will ever confide in you as a journalist or a priest. I was also given information about one of the groomed Jesuit novices who left the Jesuit Order and is very active in the Buenos Aires LGBTQ community. Like priests who were groomed in the seminary and became active homosexuals, they rarely reveal who introduced them to gay sex in the seminary because that person often became a close friend. I found no reason for the former Jesuit to invent the story about Bergoglio in Cordoba. It was not like Bergoglio did him in and he is inventing allegations to defame him. Consider the fact that I don't know any bishop or priest who would argue that Francis is heterosexually oriented. Straight guys don't surround themselves with known gay guys like Ricca, Fernandez, Martin, etc. Insofar as 73% of gay men have acknowledged having had sex with 11-19-year-old adolescents, it should not be surprising that Francis may be guilty of the allegations that both Vigano and I received. I cannot say exactly how many "John Dow" former novices are known to Vigano. Remember, Francis is only one of a number of popes accused not only of being a homosexual, but also of having preyed on minors and vulnerable adults like Pope Leo X and Julius III who had sex with with 15-year-old Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte whom he made a cardinal at the age of 17. You may not have pictures of two men having sex, but if you see them hanging out in gay bars and affectionately leaving with someone at night, might you be led to believe that they are sexually active gay men even without hard-core photographic evidence? If I'm married and you accuse me of having sex with a woman in the neighborhood, if I'm innocent I'm going to deny it and go after the person who started the false rumor. If I'm guilty, however, and if I know someone may have proof, then I'll be inclined to take the 5th. Francis never denied the allegations and has never returned to Argentina where there is a lot of "dirt" on him, some of which was documented by French filmmaker and investigative journalist, Martin Boudot.

As far as Dziwisz is concerned, I am 100% sure that he covered up abuse that was reported to him personally, some of which took place in the US, and one incident that took place in the Marriott Hotel in Krakow. I met Karol Wojtyla when he was a cardinal, and I only met Dziwisz after Karol was elected pope. JP II was definitely straight and Dziwisz was as gay as John Magee, the personal secretary for Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II. Dziwisz's relationship with his Italian boyfriend is no different than Msgr. Battista Ricca's relationship was with Patrick Haari in Uruguay. Catholics need to accept that, at any given moment in time, no more than half of all Roman Catholic clerics lead celibate lives. So, why should people be surprised when a priest or bishop is accused of being sexually involved with someone? And to answer your question, my sources in Poland report that he has not denied the allegations about his homosexual relationship or that he purchased a very expensive apartment for his Italian partner. As I wrote, I'm not surprised that he is involved in a homosexual relationship (which at his age may not involve much sex), but I am upset with the evidence I have that he destroyed the vocation and life of former seminarian Wieslaw Walawender whose life you can read about at www.gomulka.net/Walawender.pdf

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Got it. Much better. I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

Time to hit the catacombs I guess, because I ain’t leaving the Church.

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