Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy

For anyone who wishes to give such a narrow analysis should read "AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle," a memoir recovered from a man who died in an auto accident. "AA" here refers to "Anti-Apostle," a man recruited by the Soviet Union to enter Catholic seminary to subvert it from inside. He was the 1025th such person recruited for that job. Among the works of these anti-apostles was to recruit homosexuals into the seminaries. Especially the most perverse of the homosexuals. Many seminaries became home of large homosexual orgies and men who wished to join the seminary for legitimate reasons went away. These deviant men, recruited to be a source of decay within the Church, are the men who abused children. Almost all the abuse was homosexual in nature, a stark contrast to society at large. They also wreckovated Catholic architecture, replacing the beautiful with the banal, the ugly. They did the same to the Catholic Mass following Vatican II and we are only now beginning to recover from these things.

Interesting enough, the abuse crisis is exactly what caused the reform to undo the work of the anti-apostles. There is a significant contrast between priests who came up in the 1950's and 1960's and priests who are being ordained today. If you want to rape boys, you have much better opportunity elsewhere. All eyes are on the priests. People like you talk about how priests are members of a pedophile ring. Who wants that reputation? If you really do want to rape boys, you become a public school teacher or you coach youth sports. If you become a priest despite the glares, the insults, and the threats, then you must really believe what the Church teaches about sin, virtue, death, judgement, heaven, and hell.

The inflection point was the moment Pope Benedict XVI ordered a clearing out of the seminaries. Each house of formation and education was to be investigated with the purpose of rooting out those who abuse their positions for perverse desires and who are not focused on the mission of the Church. At this point good men could make their way through seminary without being rooted out by the perverts. The mainstreaming of the LGBTQ+ movement has taken anyone with any interest in that lifestyle and given them a much easier outlet. The respect and cover offered by the priesthood is gone and society celebrates what the church sees as sin. Those persons whose focus was on adult relationships have society celebrating their choices. Those who want to abuse children, they are entering professions with easier access. In the past few years I have seen multiple "teacher of the year" winners be disgraced by charges of child sexual abuse. We see in these people an "emotional congruence with minors," something that does come off as a good when teaching but has a devilish underbelly of perverse desire and abuse.

Times have changed. If you wish to see how, I encourage you to visit parishes staffed by newly ordained priests. You will notice a serious difference from what you saw years ago.