Report on Gay Cabal in Vatican Forced Pope to Resign…? -The iPINIONS Journal

There is no gainsaying that Pope Benedict XVI is abandoning the Vatican ship of state in troubled waters. It is bad enough that Cardinal Roger Mahoney and Archbishop Jose Gomez, Mahoney’s successor as leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the United States, are having a Cain and Abel-like struggle over the release of documents proving that, for decades, Mahoney actively covered-up for pedophile priests; or that is it becoming increasingly clear that this pope did little to hold officials like Mahoney to account for engaging in such cover-ups.

Now comes this:

The Italian media are reporting that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after receiving the results of an internal investigation, delivered in a 300-page, two-volume dossier, that laid bare a sordid tale of blackmail, corruption, and gay sex at the Vatican.

The respected Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported Friday that the report stamped ‘Pontifical Secret,’ contained ‘an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish’ inside the Holy See.

(USA TODAY, February 24, 2013)

Except that, if the results of this internal investigation came as such a shock to Benedict, it reflects a symptom – not of the physical frailties he cited as cause for his abdication, but of dementia.

For here’s how he himself appeared to be condoning the machinations of gay priests while condemning the sins of pedophile priests (i.e., condemning the sin not the sinner) almost five years ago:

I am deeply ashamed, and we will do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future. I do not wish to talk at this moment about homosexuality, but about pedophilia, which is another thing.

(Huffington Post, April 16, 2008)

To be sure there is no determinative correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia. But the pope’s attempt to whitewash the enabling relationship between pedophile priests and the (gay?) church officials who covered-up their abuses constrained me to admonish him as follows.

A gay cabal in the Vatican continues to indulge and cover-up the sexual exploits of gay priests, including abuse by pedophiles.

(“The Pope Comes to America,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 16, 2008)

Frankly, gay cabals have been making a mockery of every religious edict the Holy See has issued for centuries.

The only difference now is that the stench of the pedophile scandal is causing even reporters to turn up their noses at everything that stinks in the state of the Vatican. I personally saw this play out just yesterday on CNN:

After John Allen, the network’s Senior Vatican reporter, blithely remarked that he believes there really is a gay cabal in the Vatican, anchor Natalie Allen (no relation) asked how, given the insidious and pervasive nature of the corruption and sexual scandals, the Papal Conclave could possibly pick a new pope who is not tainted. But before he could answer, she quipped, quite irreverently, but instructively:

The only way is to choose a nun….

Meanwhile, nothing demonstrates how desperate the Vatican is to calm these troubled waters quite like the extraordinary step it took to issue a papal denunciation of reports about homosexual priests turning Vatican City into a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah:

It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave … that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions.

(Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, Reuters, February 23, 2013)

Except that no sooner had the Vatican issued this denunciation than the pope was obliged to accept the resignation of Britain’s top Catholic, Cardinal Keith O’Brien. He was forced to resign over allegations that he not only covered-up for pedophile priests, but also made inappropriate sexual advances on a number of seminarians under his charge in the early 1980s. He will become the first cardinal to be excommunicated from a Papal Conclave in church history.

But the real issue here is not what political and sexual mischief goes on behind Vatican doors. Rather it is the cardinal hypocrisy inherent in a gay cabal – with unchecked religious power and authority – damning other homosexuals to Hell, and doing all it can in the meantime to deny them their basic civil rights. Self-abnegation is one thing, but this smacks of pathological self-hatred … reductio ad absurdum.

Apropos of Hell, I pray God has reserved a special place there for pedophile priests and the church officials who enabled and covered-up their pandemic sexual abuse of little children. But I pray there is a place nearby for all gay clergymen, like Cardinal O’Brien, who preach about the moral turpitude of homosexuality on Sunday morning after engaging in gay sex on Saturday night.