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"... Freely you received, freely give”.
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Matthew 10:8 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in
the last days.
2 People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having
a form of godliness but denying its power. Have
nothing to do with them.
6 They are the kind who
worm their way into homes and gain control over
weak-willed women, who are
loaded down with sins and are swayed
by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these
men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as
far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But
they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their
folly will be clear to everyone.”
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2 Timothy 3:1-9 :: New International Version (NIV)
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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Hebrews 5:6 :: King James Version (KJV)
Therefore, I say:
Know your
enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles,
you will never be defeated.
When you
are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of
winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your
enemy and of yourself,
you are sure to be defeated in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc
There are two ends not to be served by a wanderer.
What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the
pleasure which springs from desire, which is base, common, leading to rebirth,
ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and hardship,
which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.
- The Blessed
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http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-1996/Jacksonref.html
Maddox,
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=32204
Sarah
Kershaw. (
http://www.iht.com/articles/92083.html
Smith,
Allyson. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26848
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Joe Amico, an addiction specialist and co-chairman of the
National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, said people look for sex
at public places for different reasons.
“It’s very often people who have very
suppressed sexual issues,” he said. “For example, men who are gay who may be
married. When they’re seeking anonymous sex, they assume nobody’s going
to recognize them.”
Amico said that not
everyone who engages in such behavior is a sex addict.
“If
you went to cocktail party on a Friday and saw somebody who was drunk, does
that make them an alcoholic?” he asked.
Many
men who seek sex with other men, Amico
added, don’t consider themselves homosexual.
“There
may be other issues in which people use sex to deal with it,” he said. “Some people use sex as a
way to deal with stress, or to numb their pain.”
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Sexual minorities retie
umbilical cord
Mumbai, October 11:
RECLAIMING their local identities, sharing tales of oppression, of hope and hot
cups of tea, the speakers all had a story to tell, at the lectern and also
during the break. On the first day of the three-day, first ever International
Lesbian and Gay (ILGA) Asian regional conference A to Z - The Other Asia, 80
delegates registered, with a significantly higher attendance of women’s groups
than in other mixed conferences.
Organised by the Humsafar Trust and Aanchal, the
delegates have come from countries including
being a historical event for Asian lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) groups, it was
unfortunate that many Indian organisations did not
attend. Said Betu Singh, a founder member of Sangini, a support group for lesbian and bisexual women in
Rosanna Falmer-Calder, a female representative of ILGA Asia and co-ordinator for Women’s Support Group in
Most discussions
underlined the importance of relocating one’s identity in the regional. ‘‘We
are quite envious of
Shelly Kaw of the UNIFEM Global Programme
on Gender, HIV and AIDS agreed with her. Shyam, an
HIV-positive patient from Tamil Nadu, pointed out
that the level of social ignorance of the disease is high. ‘‘People expected me to
have sores and falling hair. A common comment was that I don’t look like an
AIDS patient. The
divide between the north and the south is so high that it is very difficult to
network or get help,’’ he said.
Laxmi, a hijra from the
Dai Welfare Society, spoke about reclaiming the word ‘hijra’.
‘‘Western terminologies like ‘transgendered’ do not echo my communities’ sentiments. In
fact, this community has existed since mythological times when they were known
as kinaras. Being a hijra is being
part of Indian soil.’’ Sakira a transgendered male to female from Malaysia, also pointed
out that the dominant religion in Malaysia is Semitic, so the acceptance level
of trasgendered people is high.
NRI Sandeep Roy, editor of the Trikone
magazine, spoke of many Asians seaking asylum in the
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Homosexuality is
not explicitly outlawed in
…
They were all
ordered to pull down their pants and show their underwear, as officers from the
government's Vice Squad told them that colored
underwear was evidence
of homosexuality, they said. All
were wearing white underwear…
…
Still, Nabil Osman, a government
spokesman, said homosexuality was "sharp contradiction with our religious
values."
He added: "You
are allowing homosexuality abroad. It is not accepted here, and everybody
should accept that what is good for
…
All of the
convicted men were also sentenced to three years' probation, meaning that they
must either stay under house arrest at night or report
to a police station at 6 p.m. every day and stay there until 6 a.m. for a time equal to their jail sentence.
…
While he dreads
returning to jail, being branded a homosexual weighs more heavily.
"Our future is
just gone," he said. "There is no tomorrow for me."
…
"We all knew
it was a bit dangerous to go to the Internet."
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Confab pushes homosexuality in Church
'Gay' ministry blames hierarchy for child sex-abuse cases
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Posted:
By Allyson Smith
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
As priest molestation scandals explode throughout the
Pro-gay Catholic speakers and workshop leaders, including two U.S.
bishops, offered ideas for creating a more homosexual-inclusive Church at the
New Ways Ministry Fifth National Symposium, titled "Out of Silence God Has
Called Us," March 8-10 at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Ky.
New Ways Ministry was founded in 1977 by Sister Jeannine Gramick and Rev. Robert Nugent. It was the subject of a
20-year
Nugent is now doing parish and adult education work. Sister Gramick transferred to the Sisters of Loretto
and continues to speak and write about homosexuality and church reform. She
attended the
During his Friday night opening plenary speech, Eugene Kennedy, a former
Maryknoll priest and professor emeritus of psychology
at
"In the sexual abuse of the children, we observe a pattern that is identical
to that with which the organizational Church has used and still uses in
relating to its people," said Kennedy. "Many of these priests who
victimized the young were themselves victims when young. Many, perhaps most of
them, were neither heterosexual or homosexual, but rather asexual – that is,
immature in their human development – children themselves who live ... in
seminaries and novitiates that have kept them underdeveloped through programs
in which the divided model of personality is efficiently and rigorously
enforced."
Kennedy added, "We might say that the sexual abuse of children is a
symptom of the human abuse of adults refined and practiced by ecclesiastical
bureaucrats over the centuries."
Creating homosexual-friendly Catholic schools
During a focus session titled "Catholic Schools and Gay/Lesbian
Youth," Lou Ann Tighe, a gay-straight alliance
moderator at Creighton-Derham Hall High School in St.
Paul, Minn., asserted, "We have a crisis today among students who are gay
and lesbian – and I'm going to say bisexual and transgendered
too – in our Catholic schools. This crisis is not based on confusion or
ignorance about Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality. I believe we teach it
clearly, and the students understand it very well," but "with so much
attention on the regulation of homosexual behavior, too little attention has
been given to listening to the pain in their hearts."
Tighe gave the following suggestions for creating homosexual-welcoming
Catholic classrooms:
Listen to (gay and lesbian) students "unconditionally."
"Have cues in your environment that suggest inclusion," such
as posters and symbols.
Establish student groups that educate students, faculty and other
groups.
Don't use labels such as "gay" or "lesbian." However,
said Tighe, "If the kids 'self-label,' then we
need to be very solicitous and protecting of them."
Encourage teachers to select books that have gay and lesbian characters
in them.
Eliminating 'heterosexist' parishes
At a session on "Challenging Heterosexism in Parishes,"
professor Helen Deines of
Deines offered several tips for increasing the visibility of homosexuals
within Catholic churches, including:
Build safe spaces.
Craft a "principled consensus statement of inclusion."
Increase personal contact with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons by bringing in speakers such as an
"out gay priest," "a PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays) mom" and homosexual partners in committed relationships.
Challenging 'stereotypes' about 'lesbian sisters'
In a focus session titled "Lesbian Women in Religious Life,"
Janet Rozzano, a Sister of Mercy from
Lesbians are always sexually active.
A lesbian sister always has sex on her mind and is likely to try to
proposition other sisters; therefore, they are not well-suited to religious
life.
It is sinful to be a lesbian.
We don't want or need [lesbians] in our community.
Women who are friends with lesbians are probably lesbian themselves.
If lesbian sisters are more open, people will think all [sisters] are
lesbians.
On Saturday night, approximately 50 nuns met to discuss
One of the discussion leaders was Sandra Yost, a Sister of
At a Friday pre-symposium conference for parents of homosexual children
and pastoral ministers, Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
told parents, "The first thing that I think needs to be said that's very,
very important if we're going to love our children is simply to recognize that
homosexual people are not disordered people. They are psychologically healthy
people. ... Homosexuals are as healthy as anyone else."
Gumbleton added, "Homosexuals are able to
function and grow at least as well as heterosexuals. They are able to be
creative, put in a hard day's work, act as citizens, help
their neighbor. Somewhat surprisingly, they make love more humanely, largely
because they are better able empathetically to feel what their partner is
feeling."
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: "The number of men
and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do
not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must
be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity."
However, the Catechism also states: "Homosexual acts [are] acts of
grave depravity," and "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.
They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of
life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be
approved."
The future of Catholic homosexual activism
At a closing plenary session on Sunday morning, New Ways Ministry
presented a 12-point statement on "Lesbian/Gay Ministry in the Catholic
Church: A Vision for the Future" to be read at the annual meeting of U.S.
bishops this fall in Washington, D.C.
The statement calls upon "Church leaders at all levels to pledge to
find new ways to communicate the truth of Christ to lesbian/gay people,"
including:
Developing educational programs "that reflect accurate images of
gay/lesbian people."
Fostering "a climate among young people
that is knowledgeable and respectful of lesbian/gay reality."
Providing "supportive work atmospheres so that lesbian/gay Church
personnel – clergy, lay, religious – can disclose their sexual orientations to
colleagues and constituents, if they so choose."
Providing "educational and personal/spiritual
development programs for gay/lesbian priests, religious, seminarians, and
candidates."
Asking that "all Catholics and people of good will respect and
celebrate the diversity of people with which God has blessed us."
Conference organizers disobey
In January,
"New Ways Ministry does not promote the authentic teaching of the
Catholic Church," wrote Bertone, citing
"the confusion and scandal which will inevitably arise from this
event." As an alternative, Kelly invited participants to attend one of the
regularly scheduled Masses at the nearby archdiocesan Cathedral of the
Assumption.
New Ways Ministry issued a statement that it would go ahead with the
Mass as planned, citing canon law and the
Several conference attendees were overheard denouncing remarks made in a
March 3 New York Times interview by Pope John Paul II's
spokesman, Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who questioned
whether ordinations of homosexuals were even valid.
"People with these inclinations just cannot be ordained," said
Navarro-Valls. "That does not imply a final
judgment on people with homosexuality. But you cannot be in this field."
Michael S. Rose, author of "Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic
Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations From the Priesthood,"
told WorldNetDaily, "Considering that a gay
subculture has dominated many U.S. seminaries for the past three decades, it
seems rather bold – even while illogical – for gay pressure groups to press for
more 'acceptance' of the gay agenda inside the places where Catholic priests
are supposed to be formed according to Christ.
"The fact is that homosexual promiscuity and homosexual harassment
are rampant in many seminaries," said Rose. "This in itself, not to
mention other factors, drives many good, holy, orthodox men away from the
seminaries and their vocations to the priesthood. The results, as recent news
reports and court documents evidence, are now obvious."
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SUFFER THE CHILDREN
'Gay' culture in
Catholic Church grows
Priest says scandal
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By Toby Westerman
© 2002
WorldNetDaily.com
A "gay"
culture is growing among clergy of the American Catholic Church that receives
support from members of the hierarchy as well as from those directly involved
in the training of priests, according to a Catholic priest-theologian.
As the scandal of
clerical abuse within the Catholic Church in the
With nearly one in
four Americans counting themselves as Catholic, the burgeoning crisis of sexual
abuse by the Church's clergy directly impacts American society and family
values. While the number of priests and bishops involved in abuse remains
unknown, it is reliably estimated to be no more than 2 percent of the total in
the
In an exclusive
interview with WorldNetDaily, an influential Catholic
priest, author and lecturer opens up the murky underworld of the homosexual
clergy, its recruiters and its protectors.
The Rev. Charles
Fiore, a Catholic priest for 42 years, has fought the homosexual influence in
the clergy almost from the date of his ordination. With degrees in philosophy
and theology, as well as clinical training at Menninger's
and the State Hospital in Topeka, Kan., Fiore has both condemned the actions of
homosexual priests and counseled the victims of their abuse.
Originally ordained
a Dominican priest in 1961, Fiore's primary duties involved college-level
teaching in various Catholic institutions in the
Fiore was a close
friend of priest/author Malachi Martin and supplied Martin with significant
material for his later works. Having appeared on radio and network television,
Fiore has written numerous articles concerning clerical abuse.
Prolonged illness,
however, has curtailed most of Fiore's activities.
Although gratified
that the
"The problem
is not clerical pedophilia," Fiore told WND, "but
homosexuality." The distinction is important, Fiore noted, because most
victims of Catholic clergy abuse are adolescents.
"Strictly
speaking," Fiore stated, "pedophilia is the sexual molestation of a
pre-pubescent child of either sex," but the overriding problem is the
abuse of older children from 12 to 18. "More than 90 percent of the cases,"
Fiore observed, "involve the clerical molestation of teen-age young
men."
In reporting
clerical abuse, "the grand taboo in
"Pedophilia is
done only by an aberrant few," but society "looks upon homosexuality
as an alternative way of life," explained Fiore.
His introduction to
how some cases of clerical child abuse are handled came early on in Fiore's
priesthood.
He related that in his
first assignment, while teaching in a college and living in a parish, he found
himself scheduling altar boys for the week's services, since the priest who
usually performed the task was on vacation.
While directing the
servers, a group of three boys approached Fiore and complained of the other
priest's behavior, describing various forms of inappropriate touching.
In turn, Fiore and
another priest relayed the altar boys' complaints to the pastor and suggested
that the miscreant priest be questioned and possibly removed from contact with
the boys.
Fiore recalled the
pastor telling him to "mind your own business," and Fiore responding,
"It is my business; it's the business of all of us."
The matter was
referred to the Dominican provincial superior, resulting in the offending
priest's transfer – to an all-boys school in another state – and the transfer
of the young priests who related the altar boys' complaints, while the pastor
who demanded silence over the issue remained in his position.
Later in his
career, Fiore observed the tactics of one Monsignor Edward Egan, who once
served as an assistant to John Cardinal Cody in
Egan, currently
Cardinal Archbishop of New York, is surrounded by accusations of clerical abuse
against a number of priests. While now expressing willingness to cooperate with
authorities, as archbishop of
Under Cody in
Fiore also said
that he personally knew of many instances where families collapsed due to the
strain from such tactics, and family members left the
Church in disgust.
Having counseled
close to 100 victims of clerical abuse, and after he wrote on the topic, Fiore
was contacted by victims and their families regarding their own experience with
abusive priests and allegedly indifferent bishops.
Ultimately, Fiore
left the Dominican Order in 1992 and, with the permission of
The
role of bishops
As the accusations
of the guilt or complicity of the
While Cardinal Law
of Boston and Egan of New York are in the glare of media attention after
charges of abuse in their dioceses became public, another media investigation
is quietly proceeding into the activities of other bishops who worked closely
with the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago.
In 1993, an
admittedly active homosexual, Stephen Cook, accused Bernardin
of sexually abusing him when he was a seminarian in
Nine months before
his death in September 1994 from AIDS, Cook was visited by Bernardin,
who wrote about the meeting in the
According to
traditional Catholic belief, if Cook died unrepentant, he would place himself
outside of Christ's mercy.
A media
investigation currently is looking not only into allegations concerning Bernardin's relationship with Cook but also alleged homosexual liaisons with other bishops and seminarians, WorldNetDaily has learned.
Although the
hierarchy has only reluctantly begun to come to terms with homosexuality in the
clergy, members of the laity have fought instances of clerical abuse for years.
One of the leading lay Catholic organizations
seeking to expose and eliminate clerical abuse is Roman Catholic Faithful in Petersburg,
Ill., near
The organization's
founder, Steven Brady, says his group, which has been in existence since 1996,
succeeded in forcing the resignation in 1999 of the bishop of
Ryan denies any
wrongdoing, but his resignation claiming ill health immediately followed a
threatened suit by Roman Catholic Faithful. Although he resigned his position
as bishop of
Regarding the
current publicity given to clerical abuse, Brady said he hopes the media exposure "keeps going" because
it "is the only way issues will be addressed." He congratulated the media for being "more willing [than in the
past] to cover these stories."
Pope
throws up his hands
Despite the
Catholic Church's traditional ban on homosexual activity, the "gay"
culture within the Church has its apologists.
Rev. Donald Cozzens, former rector at the Archdiocese of Cleveland
seminary, suggested in his 2000 book, "The Changing Face of the
Priesthood," that each bishop should determine what percentage of
homosexuals priests would be acceptable in his diocese.
In addition, the
term "celibacy" has taken on an entirely different meaning in some
seminaries from the traditional understanding of the word.
Some seminary
professors and students hold "celibacy" refers only to being
unmarried, but not necessarily refraining from sexual activity.
Because the
Catholic Church is a "top-down" organization, lead by an unelected,
appointed hierarchy, the question arises: What did the pope know, and when did
he know it?
Throughout the
1970s and 1980s, the
The extent of the
problem of priest-abusers was further clarified by a report commissioned by the
bishops and the Apostolic Delegate (Papal representative) to the
In the early 1990s,
a group of priests, including Fiore, assembled a dossier on ecclesiastical
problems in the
Kunz also assisted
in the founding of Roman Catholic Faithful. In 1998, Kunz was mysteriously
murdered, and the police thus far have been unable to make any conclusive
progress toward solving the murder. Fiore described Kunz as "having no
enemies – except those who hated the Church."
According to Fiore,
the dossier was sent by courier to
Dsiewicz brought the file to the
pope's attention. The pope briefly examined the documents, Fiore says, put them
aside and then, referring to his previous attempts to lead and discipline the
bishops regarding various issues, exclaimed, "I've told them, and they
don't listen to me."
John Paul II, in
effect, admitted that the
What the pope found
difficult to effectively confront – the exposure of clerical abuse in the
Many Catholic
bishops and faithful priests in the
Fiore responded to
the often-posed assertion that the solution to clerical abuse is a married
clergy. "That's not the issue," Fiore stated, saying that in his
private counseling he encountered victims of abuse at the hands of married
Protestant and Jewish clergy, as well as by married, non-clerical men.
"The highest
instance of sexual abuse," Fiore noted, "is among white, Anglo-Saxon,
married males – and the
victims [of sexual abuse] are primarily their own children."
Instead of relaxing
traditional Church teaching on celibacy, Fiore demanded a greater – and more faithful – emphasis on the
virtue of chastity, which calls for observance of Church law concerning
sexuality as it pertains to one's calling in life – priest, married
or single lay person.
In response to Cozzens, Fiore said that the ranks of priests and
seminarians should be "zero percent" homosexuals, and he urged
careful formation and guidance of seminarians by seminary personnel faithful to
Church teaching.
Finally, it is the
ultimate responsibility of Catholic bishops to certify the moral rectitude of
those they ordain to the priesthood, Fiore stated.
When WorldNetDaily asked Fiore if he ever received payment for
his counseling services, he said, "Yes, once – and only once. I split a
dozen brownies with one of my young clients, whose mom had baked them for
me."
Related story:
Bush's 'soul
reading' irks priest
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‘Kids at risk if homosexuality is legalised’ (Monday,
Express News
Service
Speaking at an open
house discussion organised by NGO Prayas,
Prasad said: ‘‘Unnatural carnal offences have no legitimacy on the grounds of
fundamental liberties and human rights. Our individual behaviour
is subjected to social morality, social conditions and social behaviour.’’
Prayas will be sending a plea to Law Minister Arun Jaitely ‘‘on behalf of the
street children at risk’’.
The Minister criticised the case filed by NAZ Foundation to legalise homsexuality and amend
Article 377 of the Constitution, which makes sex between men illegal.
The Foundation,
which works on AIDS, had filed a case last year to amend the Article on
‘‘unnatural sexual acts’’, arguing that it was a human rights violation against
the sexual minority.
Naz Foundation members said that countries all
over the world had recognised the rights of the gay
community but
Social workers
working with Naz said that people kept their
homosexuality under wraps because it’s illegal. This was preventing them from
extending the AIDS campaign to the community. ‘‘The police exploits Article 377
to put gay people behind the bars and abuse them,’’ said a Foundation worker.
Amod Kanth, Joint
Commissioner of Police and Prayas general secretary,
said those below 18 years and living on the streets are
often subjected to violence and sexual abuse. At least 20 per cent of the
street children have been sexually abused. ‘‘Boys are often abused by men,
belying the perception that the male child is safe,’’ said Kanth.
Shaleen Rakesh
of Naz Foundation, however, pointed out that the
rights of homosexuals are now openly recognised and
accepted in the United States and it was the ‘‘stigma related to AIDS rather
than the disease which may be lead to suicides or alcohol abuse’’.
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not
merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its
muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not
merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot
die. It waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I
waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For
there is One within
thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears
witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen