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How The Pederasty Cover-Up Will Make Civil War Within The Catholic Church
Since his election, Pope Francis has done everything within his power to soften and subvert the church’s teaching concerning human sexuality. He also packed the College of Cardinals with the Lavender Mafia.
Sixteen years ago, reporters at The Boston Globe conducted an extensive investigation of the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Not long thereafter, reporters elsewhere detailed similar abuse in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the like. The word used in the press to describe what had been going on was pedophilia, which is a misnomer deliberately employed to cover up what journalists then considered and still consider now an inconvenient aspect of the truth.
As a report commissioned by the National Review Board of the American Catholic bishops and issued in 2004 revealed, something like 81 percent of the victims were boys, and very few were, in the strictest sense, children. They were nearly all what we euphemistically call young adults. They were male adolescents on the younger side — at the age when boys as they mature can briefly be downright pretty.
What was involved was what its advocates call man-boy love: a sexual relationship between a grown man who serves as a mentor and a boy who is under his care or simply admires or stands in awe of him. The ancient Greeks, who practiced this systematically in the classical period, called this phenomenon pederasty, and I wrote extensively about it 26 years ago in the first part of my hardback book, “Republics Ancient and Modern” (the pertinent chapter can be found in the first volume of the paperback edition).
In the course of these investigations, a number of other things came to light. First, a priest named Gerald Fitzgerald — who in 1947 founded a small religious order named Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete to counsel priests who had difficulty with alcoholism, substance abuse, celibacy, and the like — had for decades been trying to alert the American bishops and officials in the Vatican (including Pope Paul VI) to the fact that priestly pederasty (which, he said, was unheard of before World War II) was a growing problem within the American Catholic Church. He had persistently tried to persuade the hierarchy to forbid the perpetrators’ supervision of boys and to laicize them, all to no avail.
It also turned out that in 1984, when a scandal of this sort broke out in the diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, a Dominican priest named Thomas P. O’Doyle — who was a canon lawyer working for the Papal Nuncio in Washington and had seen numerous reports of a similar kind cross his desk — joined with a Louisiana lawyer named F. Ray Mouton, Jr., and another priest, a psychiatrist named Michael Peterson, who directed a hospital for troubled priests and knew a great deal, to conduct an extensive investigation of clerical misconduct along these lines throughout the United States.
The report these three men produced was sent to every bishop in the country in May 1985, and then it was ignored. Bishop after bishop continued the long-standing practice of covering up the scandals that arose, of paying off the victims, eliciting from them a non-disclosure agreement, and transferring the perpetrators from one parish to another and even from one diocese to another.
Not long after the scandal first broke and the National Review Board issued its 2004 report, I was a guest at a dinner hosted by a Catholic friend, as was a highly intelligent, young local priest who, everyone knew, would someday become a bishop. By then it was evident to anyone who bothered to read the report that pederasty, not pedophilia, was the problem, and I had long known that there were seminaries in the United States that were essentially cathouses in which all of the cats were male.
When talk turned to the clerical scandal, I suggested that the fatal decision the American bishops had made in 1985 to continue covering everything up must have come from Rome. If, I argued, every diocese followed the same procedures, the bishops must have received guidance from the center.
Could it then be the case, I asked, that this was not a peculiarly American problem — that this was going on elsewhere, all over the world; that Rome was the epicenter; and that the Papal nuncio in Washington or his superiors at the Vatican were complicit? Could the colleges in Rome, established for the education of especially promising seminarians from all over the world, in effect be gay bordellos and promotion into the hierarchy for many a young priest came at a price?
My host knew what I was talking about. He had once been a Jesuit novice, and had been expelled from the Jesuits by the provincial for complaining about the sexual misconduct going on in the novitiate all around him. What I remember most vividly, however, was the silence of the young priest at the dinner table. He had been talkative. Now he said not a word. He was even then a handsome young man, and had studied at the North American College at a time when he was no doubt even more striking. As we left, I remember saying to my wife, “He knows more than he is willing to divulge.”
I do not mean to say that he was complicit. I doubt that very much. I do mean to suggest that he had received unwanted attention and knew that, if he talked about it, it would halt his clerical career.
Later, of course, it became evident that my suspicions of Rome were justified. In the intervening years, there have been scandals identical to the American scandal in Canada, Australia, Belgium, Bavaria, Ireland, Honduras, Chile, and elsewhere.
A few years ago, we also learned that a host of high-level figures in the Curia were being blackmailed by their male lovers. I am told that Pope Benedict, who had by that time contracted Parkinson’s Disease, resigned his office in this connection because he knew there needed to be a purge and he feared that he did not have the physical stamina to carry it out. In his memoirs, Pope Benedict touches on the “gay lobby” and confesses to a lack of resoluteness. As everyone understood at the time, the task of cleaning house was to be left to his successor.
In the interim between Pope Benedict’s papacy and that of his successor, we received another indication of the depth of the problem. In the newspapers of Scotland, we learned that Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien, a cardinal and archbishop who was the primate of Scotland, had been buggering seminarians and young priests for years and nothing had been done in response to the complaints they had submitted to the Papal Nuncio. It was only when they went public in 2013 that the Vatican acted.
Unfortunately, however, Benedict’s successor was Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, the man who calls himself Pope Francis. As a Belgian cardinal named Gottfried Daneels — who had been removed as an archbishop because he had covered up the pederasty of another Belgian cardinal and had come out in support of contraception, divorce, gay marriage, euthanasia, and abortion — revealed in his memoirs, Bergoglio’s candidacy was promoted by the St. Gallen Group, a part of what Catholics call “the Lavender Mafia.”
This disgraced figure stood on the balcony with Bergoglio after he was elected pope. He was chosen to say the prayer at the new pope’s inauguration. And there was joy in the ranks of those inclined to break the vow of celibacy.
If you want to get a sense of what such people thought, I suggest that you read “The Vatican’s Secret Life,” an article that appeared in Vanity Fair in December 2013. It is an eye-opener. Its author, Michael Joseph Gross, is not scandalized by what he found. He celebrates it and, tellingly, never once mentions, even under the guise of pedophilia, the propensity of prominent priests to indulge in pederasty. As Gross observes:
At the Vatican, a significant number of gay prelates and other gay clerics are in positions of great authority. They may not act as a collective but are aware of one another’s existence. And they inhabit a secretive netherworld, because homosexuality is officially condemned. Though the number of gay priests in general, and specifically among the Curia in Rome, is unknown, the proportion is much higher than in the general population. Between 20 and 60 percent of all Catholic priests are gay, according to one estimate cited by Donald B. Cozzens in his well-regarded The Changing Face of the Priesthood. For gay clerics at the Vatican, one fundamental condition of their power, and of their priesthood, is silence, at least in public, about who they really are.
Clerics inhabit this silence in a variety of ways. A few keep their sexuality entirely private and adhere to the vow of celibacy. Many others quietly let themselves be known as gay to a limited degree, to some colleagues, or to some lay people, or both; sometimes they remain celibate and sometimes they do not. A third way, perhaps the least common but certainly the most visible, involves living a double life. Occasionally such clerics are unmasked, usually by stories in the Italian press. In 2010, for the better part of a month, one straight journalist pretended to be the boyfriend of a gay man who acted as a ‘honeypot’ and entrapped actual gay priests in various sexual situations. (The cardinal vicar of Rome was given the task of investigating. The priests’ fates are unknown.)
There are at least a few gay cardinals, including one whose long-term partner is a well-known minister in a Protestant denomination. There is the notorious monsignor nicknamed ‘Jessica,’ who likes to visit a pontifical university and pass out his business card to 25-year-old novices. (Among the monsignor’s pickup lines: “Do you want to see the bed of John XXIII?”) There’s the supposedly straight man who has a secret life as a gay prostitute in Rome and posts photographs online of the innermost corridors of the Vatican. Whether he received this privileged access from some friend or family member, or from a client, is impossible to say; to see a known rent boy in black leather on a private Vatican balcony does raise an eyebrow.
I recommend that you read the whole article. The author interviewed a great many clerics in Rome, and makes it clear that they were delighted with the choice of Bergoglio and his selection of advisers.
They had reason to be delighted. Since his election, Pope Francis has done everything within his power to soften and subvert the church’s teaching concerning human sexuality. He put the Lavender Mafia in charge of the two Synods on the Family held in 2014 and 2015. They tried to push through their agenda; and, when the assembled bishops balked, they got a tongue-lashing from the pope, and he inserted in the final report without comment two paragraphs that had not received the requisite two-thirds vote.
All of this — including the machinations of the St. Gallen Group and the role Daneels played — is laid out in detail by an English Catholic, who was in Rome during the early year of this papacy, and who writes under the pseudonym Marcantonio Colonna. The title is “The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy.”
In the last few weeks, we have received further evidence of the power of the prelate-pederasts. A grand jury convened in Pennsylvania has revealed that Donald Wuerl, while bishop of Pittsburgh, covered up a priest-run child-porn ring and a host of other abuse cases involving something on the order of 100 priests, using the age-old trick of pay-offs and non-disclosure agreements. This did not stop him from being named archbishop of Washington DC and of being made a cardinal — which is to say, a Prince of the Church.
He was not even high on the list of possible nominees submitted by the Papal Nuncio. Someone powerful in the Vatican wanted him promoted, and Pope Francis responded to the news of his guilt not by ordering an investigation into Wuerl’s promotion, but with a dodge — by attributing collective guilt to us all.
This past weekend, the chickens finally came home to roost. We had already learned of the predatory conduct of Theodore McCarrick, Wuerl’s predecessor as cardinal-archbishop of Washington. The evidence showed that he had buggered altar boys and seminarians while auxiliary bishop in New York, bishop of Metuchen in New Jersey, and Archbishop of Newark. Formal complaints had been lodged against him as the 1990s and continued to be lodged in later years, but they were ignored, and he was nonetheless promoted.
On Saturday night, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was the papal nuncio in Washington from 2011 to 2016, released an 11-page testament, revealing that Pope Benedict had learned of McCarrick’s conduct, had acted against the man in 2009 or 2010 by silencing him, prohibiting him from travel, and forbidding him to say mass in public; that in 2013 he had himself personally warned Pope Francis against McCarrick, spelling out in detail the man’s misdeeds; that Francis had reversed the restrictions imposed on McCarrick by Benedict, taken him as his chief American advisor, and ignored the advice of the Papal Nuncio and accepted that of McCarrick in choosing archbishops and bishops for the United States. This includes Blaise Cupich, the cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, and Joseph Tobin, the cardinal-archbishop of Newark.
Viganò also did something on Saturday night that, as far as I know, no high-ranking prelate has done in more than six hundred years. He called on the pope to resign.
In the meantime, Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume, former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C. has emerged to confirm that Viganò‘s predecessor had been instructed to confine McCarrick by Pope Benedict, that he had witnessed the confrontation with McCarrick, and that everything else that Viganò had said was true. To this, we must add that Viganò named names in the Vatican, specifying which high officials had obstructed the investigation into McCarrick’s conduct.
As all of this suggests, we are now at a turning point. The Lavender Mafia controls the papacy and the Vatican overall, and Pope Francis is packing the College of Cardinals, who will elect the next pope, with sympathizers. Pope Francis and his minions have now been exposed, named, and shamed; and there will be a civil war within the Roman Catholic Church.
Either Francis leaves and his supporters and clients are purged, or the church is conceded to those who for decades have sheltered and promoted the pederasts and those who regard their abuse of minors as an indifferent matter. It is time that those bishops, archbishops, and cardinals who are innocent of such conduct stand up and force a house-cleaning. In the meantime, the laity should speak up loud and clear.
This article originally appeared on Ricochet.com and is reprinted with the permission of the author.
Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history.
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Hillary’s Emails Were Hacked by China and the FBI Did Nothing
By Dick Morris
A new dimension to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is emerging this week. It appears that all of her emails — including those containing classified information — were hacked by a Chinese state-owned company and forwarded verbatim, in real time, to Beijing.
The Daily Caller reported that the Chinese company inserted code into Clinton’s private email server and forwarded a copy of every email she sent or received to Chinese intelligence.
President Donald Trump confirmed that “Hillary Clinton’s emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China.” He called on the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate, otherwise, he said “their credibility will be forever gone.”
Fox News reported that the inserted code “was discovered in 2015 by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), which then warned FBI officials of the intrusion.”
The report continues: “A source briefed on the matter confirmed to Fox News the details of the (Daily) Caller’s reporting, and said that the ICIG was so concerned by the revelation that officials drove over to the FBI to inform agents — including anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok — of the development after it was discovered via the emails’ metadata.”
During the campaign, Clinton denied that she sent or received classified information over her private server and federal investigators claimed they could discover no foreign hack.
But the current story contradicts both of these assertions and indicates that much of the material on her emails was classified and that the Chinese used the opportunity to monitor and read all the emails sent to or from the American secretary of state.
Peter Strzok, the key FBI agent investigating the Clinton emails, was fired by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and by the FBI for his anti-Trump texts during the email investigation.
If indeed it was Strzok who had evidence of the Chinese hacking and did nothing about it, we are facing a very serious new development in this 3-year-old scandal (one that totally eclipses the accusations of Russian interference in the election).
Fox News also reported that “a May 2016 email from Strzok … said ‘we know foreign actors obtained access’ to some Clinton emails, including at least one ‘secret’ message ‘via compromises of the private email accounts’ of Clinton staffers.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) questioned Strzok during a House Oversight Committee hearing in July about the discovery by the inspector general’s office.
“You were given that information, and you did nothing with it,” Gohmert told Strzok in July.
Strzok remembered meeting with the ICIG officials, but could not recall the contents of the meeting. “If there was a lead, I gave it to the team,” he claimed.
Fox News reported that “Gohmert was surprised that his questioning about it in the Strzok hearing in July didn’t generate more media attention, but noted that the press seized (instead) on a comment he made shortly afterward when he asked Strzok, ‘How many times did you look into your wife’s eyes and lie about Lisa Page?'”
But, Gohmert said, he considered the China hacking “critically important,” adding that “there are countries that would pay a tremendous amount of money to know what Clinton was saying, doing and thinking through her emails, what she’s doing, who she’s going to meet, what she thought about meetings.”
This new revelation is certain to ratchet up pressure on the DOJ to intensify its investigation of Clinton’s emails.
Hillary in Trouble? Trump Demands DOJ Go After Her Following Report That China Hacked Her Email Server
President responds to the bombshell news about a Chinese intelligence operation's actions aimed at private messages
President Donald Trump used his direct line to the American people overnight to alert them to an alarming development in the matter of Hillary Clinton’s unsecured email server — and to advise both the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address it immediately — or face the consequences.
Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!
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In the tweet, the president notes that classified information contained in Hillary Clinton’s emails — which went through an unsecured server that she kept in her home in Chappaqua, New York, roughly an hour north of New York City — was obtained by China in a hacking operation.
Further, Trump said that addressing the matter should be the FBI and DOJ’s “next move,” lest they risk further damage to their credibility.
Trump cited several examples of both organizations’ “missteps,” including those related to “Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, [and the] Dirty Dossier.”
The president appears to be referring to a bombshell report that appeared earlier this week from The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).
In it, the outlet detailed the activities of a public, Chinese, state-owned company operating in the Northern Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C.
The company apparently infiltrated Clinton’s private email server and inserted code that forwarded “courtesy copies” of “nearly all” of her sent and received emails, in real time, to the Chinese company.
The reported hack was in effect throughout Clinton’s term as secretary of state — and it was part of an intelligence operation, according to the same outlet.
Though the publication did not reveal either of its two sources of the troubling revelation, statements from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) during a judiciary hearing in July hearing appear to corroborate its veracity.
In that hearing, Gohmert noted that the FBI failed to act on the information concerning the hack by a foreign entity, which Gohmert said at the time was not Russia-related.
A pair of FBI memos referred to the Justice Department in early July of 2015 contained a warning that “classified information may have been disclosed to a foreign power or to one of its agents,” according to the DCNF report.
Peter Strzok and Sally Yates were among the officials briefed on or otherwise familiar with the alleged breach and criminal referral.
Though one of the unidentified sources the outlet cited — a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues — said he knows the identity of the Chinese company that hacked the server, the individual declined to name it specifically, saying he “would be in a lot of trouble” if he were to do so.
Only three nontechnology-related, Chinese, state-owned companies were operating in Fairfax and/or Loudon counties in northern Virginia during the time period in question.
A second source, identified as a “government staff official” familiar with the findings of the intelligence community inspector general (IG), said the Chinese company that hacked the emails was not technology-related.
The DCNF — the nonprofit arm of The Daily Caller — narrowed the possibilities considerably, however.
Only three non technology-related, Chinese, state-owned companies were operating in Fairfax and/or Loudon counties in northern Virginia during the time period in question.
Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.
A second source, identified as a “government staff official” familiar with the findings of the intelligence community inspector general (IG), said the Chinese company that hacked the emails was not technology-related.
The DCNF — the nonprofit arm of The Daily Caller — narrowed the possibilities considerably, however.
Only three non technology-related, Chinese, state-owned companies were operating in Fairfax and/or Loudon counties in northern Virginia during the time period in question.
Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.
Anti-gun “reporters” swarmed this Red Sox slugger for his pro-gun statement
The national sports media will go to no end to shame professional athletes who disagree with them politically.Their goal is to silence athletes who hold “non-PC” views while they laud Trump-haters like LeBron James and Black Lives Matter-supporting national anthem protesters.
But their plan backfired when they went after Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez.
Martinez is one of the Red Sox best players and is vying for a Triple Crown (leading the league in batting average, RBI, and home runs) – a feat that has only happened one time in the past four decades.
But instead of asking him about his season, the media dug up a six year old social media post.
Martinez shared a post with a picture of Adolf Hitler with the quote, “To conquer a nation, First disarm its citizens.”
The baseball star captioned it, “This is why I will always stay strapped! #thetruth”
When the media got their hands on it they thought they would have a field day.
But Martinez refused to cave in and he shut them down brilliantly:
“I love my country. I love this country and I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment. It’s something that I take pride in. It’s something that I’ll back up.
“I don’t want this distraction. You guys are talking about something that happened six years ago. I posted it and that’s why I’m out here talking about it, but I’m worried about a championship. I’m worried about winning a championship. Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs, and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That’s what makes us American. We’re all not going to agree on the same things, but that’s what makes this country so great.”
Martinez is Cuban-American.
He stated, “most of my family was run out of Cuba by a brutal dictator.”
His story illustrates just how important our Second Amendment rights are.
The media thought they could push their anti-gun narrative after the recent shooting in Jacksonville.
But the American people aren’t buying it.
Scott Sullivan@SullyBunz
JD MARTINEZ#RedSox DH @JDMartinez14 explains his controversial Instagram post from 2013 #WBZ #instagram
You Won’t Believe Who Is Going To Replace John McCain
After John McCain died from brain cancer, pundits wondered who would replace him.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will select a replacement in the coming days.
And there is one name on the list that is bad news for Donald Trump.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will select a replacement in the coming days.
And there is one name on the list that is bad news for Donald Trump.
A Short List Emerges
For months, reporters have been guessing who Ducey would
pick to replace McCain.
pick to replace McCain.
Arizona law states that McCain’s replacement must come from his party, so Ducey will need to select a Republican.
But which Republican remains an open question.
Experts floated some familiar names like former state treasurer Jeff DeWit, former Congressman Matt Salmon, and former Senator Jon Kyl.
McCain’s replacement will run in a special election in 2020 to serve out the final two years of McCain’s term, then run for re-election in 2020.
That’s why this pick is so important.
Not only will the new Senator have to vote for Trump’s agenda, but they also must be a conservative who can hold the seat.
Conservatives Outraged By One
Name
John McCain’s wife Cindy had sent out signals she was interested in replacing her husband.
Republicans were furious at that thought.
Cindy McCain supports abortion and homosexual marriage.
She is even more liberal than her late husband.
If Ducey selects McCain’s wife, it will end two political careers.
First of all, Ducey will put his re-election at risk.
The governor needs conservatives to win in November.
“If Ducey were to pick Cindy McCain, it would be suicidal for his reelection chances. His base would just go crazy,” an Arizona Republican told Politico.
If Ducey picks McCain, he risks conservatives staying home.
In addition, McCain would lose a Republican primary in 2020.
One Republican told Politico, “The governor needs to pick somebody who’s conservative enough to get through a tough primary against someone who can raise a lot of money.”
“If I’m the White House, and I’m thinking down the road, I want someone who makes Arizona not something to worry about,” the Republican said.
Conservatives want a Trump ally to replace McCain.
Ducey picking Cindy McCain would be a slap in the face to Arizona Republicans.
Her husband feuded with Donald Trump right up until his passing, and experts believe Cindy McCain would pick up this fight were it left off.
Ducey’s Likely Move
However, pundits do not expect Ducey to name Cindy McCain to fill her husband’s seat.
The political cost is too high.
They believe Ducey will name a conservative who will be loyal to Trump and be able to hold the Senate seat.
Media outlets have reported that Ducey may choose Michael McGuire, who is a military pilot and state official.
Ducey would please Trump supporters and honor McCain’s military service by picking McGuire.
Although, no one knows who Ducey will actually pick.
Ducey has hidden his thoughts on the matter because he is running in a Republican primary.
His pro-Trump challenger made Ducey selecting Cindy McCain a campaign issue.
Ducey will likely make his pick after McCain is buried.
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