British Bishop Links Traditional Catholicism to Pedophilia
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Photo: Is this man "extreme" and "flamboyant" in vestments and rubrics as Bp. Burns says?
Much akin to likening laws against robbing banks as the main cause of bank robberies, Bishop Tom Burns of the Diocese of Menevia, Wales, has stated from the pulpit that the homosexual rape of pre-pubescent boys by a very small percentage of Catholic priests was caused by the following liturgical attitude;
"Those who go to extremes to express the Mass in a particular way..." by way of "Flamboyant modes of liturgical vestments and rubrical gestures."
And according to the cleric still in good standing within the Catholic Church, the reason for "extremes" and "flamboyant modes" happens to be Clericalism (the anti-priest notion that from an eccesiastical perspective, priests wield too much power);
For priests who offended [committed pedophilia], I’m not sure that their abuses grew out of the rule of celibacy; abuse happens within otherwise good families too. I’m more convinced that it grew out of the clericalism of the past. That clericalism risks raising its head today among those who again are looking for identity in status, not service. They want to be treated differently.
The Bishop's argument that Clericalism is the root cause for pedophilia fails to hold water in light of Newsweek magazine's report in April, 2010 that;
"The rate of abuse by Catholic priests is not higher than these national estimates [for the average male]."
It defies common sense that Clericalism fuels pedophilia simply because there aren't any clerics in Corporate America, family owned businesses or any other segment of American life other than that of Tradition-minded Catholics.
Bishop Burns also fails to mention that in a John Jay School of Law study commissioned by the USCCB, it was determined that more than eighty percent of the abuse at issue was of a homosexual nature.
The same John Jay study cites that the number of reported victims of male-on-male sexual abuse are as follows;
- 353 in the 1950s.
- 1,264 in the 1960s.
- 2,129 in the 1970s.
The number of priests in the 1950s was greater than it was in the 1970s, yet the number of homosexual rape skyrocketed as the number of Traditional-minded priests passed away and the number of theologically liberal-minded slowly took over the ranks of the priesthood.
And The Catalyst For The Collapse...
In a previously published Examiner article, it's been cited that just about everything Catholic, from the number of priests to the number of Faithful that attend Mass, has been swirling the drain ever since the so-called fresh breeze of Vatican II hit the shores of the United States like a Cat-5 hurricane.
Prior to the 1970s, the vast majority of those in the English-speaking world never even heard the word 'pedophilia', more or less even understood the meaning.
And not since the ultra-liberal takeover of Catholicism since the closing of the Second Vatican Council and the corresponding takeover of the seminaries by the Lavender Mafia, has there been not only a rise in homosexual misconduct and crimes, but an overall abandonment of Catholicism by a majority of the Faithful.
What Progressive Catholics Really Want...
Bishop Burns seems to have forgotten that ordained priests are of a higher ecclesiastical state than those of the laity, no matter how badly Roman Protestants desire for the laity to be equal to (or greater than) that of priests.
The so-called Progressive Catholics have enamored themselves to anti-clericalism to such a point that they would delight in seeing priests essentially become nothing more than Eucharistic sperm donors, flitting from parish to parish, consecrating hosts and hearing the rare Confession of the relative handful of mainstream post-Vatican II Catholics who still retain the vague recollection that Penance is still a Sacrament.
Regardless if His Excellency Bishop Burns wants to admit it or not, the cause of pedophilia isn't the acceptance of Clericalism... it's the acceptance of homosexuality.
Source - The Telegraph
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