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Dear Friends and Benefactors,
I have been asked on many occasions if the Society is
going to make a statement concerning the pedophile scandal that has rocked the Novus Ordo
establishment throughout this country these past six months. It had seemed to me
better to follow the advice of Saint Paul concerning such vices —"let it not so much as be named among you" (Eph 5:3). However, the
incredible publicity given to priestly pedophilia, so as to make it a subject of
conversation, alas, in every town and every walk of life throughout the country,
obliges us to abandon the silence that Catholic modesty imposes on us. It must
first be acknowledged that this is a part of a media campaign against the
Catholic Church, both from without and from within; from without by those who
will do anything to discredit the priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and from
within by those infiltrators, bishops and cardinals included, who are using this
crisis to launch a direct attack on priestly celibacy. Both deliberately
overlook the fact that the vast majority of such acts, incredibly common as they
are in our perverse society, whether criminally prosecuted or not, are committed
by married persons.
However, the astonishing number and frequency of cases
that continue to come to light is clearly the sign of an extremely grave
disorder that threatens the very existence of the Novus Ordo church.
There can be no other explanation than a giant cover up operation. Whereas
before Vatican II a priest committing such a crime had to be suspended from all
priestly duties and declared as publicly immoral, and in more serious cases to
be deposed from the priesthood (Canon 2359,§2), since Vatican II these criminal
perverts have been allowed to continue to destroy and scandalize young souls.
Why would the bishops be so blind as to allow this to continue, at such
spiritual and financial cost? Why would the Pope appoint in 1998 a bishop
convicted of pedophilia in 1996 to succeed another pedophile bishop, as was the
case in Palm Beach, Florida? Lame excuses about following the advice of
psychologists are not the real reason. It is the homosexual network.
In fact, this crisis is not deep down a crisis of
pedophilia at all. It is the infiltration and penetration of the perversion of
homosexuality into the very marrow of the Novus Ordo hierarchy. The
homosexuals have become so strong that their agenda cannot be resisted by the
modernists. As all authorities state, the vast majority (90%-95%) of the cases
of so-called pedophilia are committed with adolescent boys. The final communiqué
of the Vatican—U.S. church leaders’ summit on April 24 admitted this when it
stated: "Attention was drawn to the fact that almost all the cases
involved adolescents and therefore were not cases of true pedophilia".
Pederasty is the name given to this particular perversion, and it is a form of
homosexuality, and a particularly disgusting one. This is not only because such
boys are especially vulnerable victims. It is also because it is by this
perversion that homosexual men corrupt boys and make them homosexual like
themselves, destroying their innocence and reproducing their vice in them. Many
authors who have commented on the proportion of homosexual men in the "Catholic"
priesthood in the U.S. have come up with numbers between 30-60 % of all priests,
and rather at the higher level when it comes to young priests. They are not all
"active", but they are all necessarily disposed towards this kind of perverse
behavior. This is the iceberg of corruption of which the reported cases of
pedophilia are but the tip.
The problem is that these
incredible numbers of homosexuals having infiltrated their way into parishes,
chancery offices and diocesan administration throughout the country, they
continue to support their own. While they might deplore some of the excesses
that turn public opinion against the clergy, they will continue to protect and
cover up for their perverse orientation. This is the reason why, no matter how
great the settlements, no matter how great the scandal, this crisis will
continue, as it has done already for twenty years. There is no effort to exclude
homosexuals from the seminary, even in the wake of the present crisis, and a
recent article on Mundelein, the largest Seminary in the U.S., pointed out that
despite this scandal their doors are open to homosexuals, provided that they are
not "active".
It is in the light of these facts that it is simply not
good enough when the Pope stated his response to this "crime" and
"appalling sin": "To the victims and their families, wherever they may
be, I express my profound sense of solidarity and concern" (April 23
address, §1). It is not good enough to express solidarity, to preach the power
of Christian conversion, and to blame this on a deep-seated crisis of sexual
morality in society as a whole (§2 & 3). The only action that will stop this
abuse, that can help shame-faced Catholics to be once again proud of their
Church, is the total and complete eradication of all homosexuals from the ranks
of the clergy and the religious. No such action was even proposed by the
Cardinals’ meeting in April. Vague propositions concerning modifying the process
for dismissal of pedophiles, and a visitation of seminaries make no reference
whatsoever to the problem of homosexuality and the need to exclude it from
seminaries and houses of formation. Cardinal George from Chicago, on returning
from the Vatican meeting, made no bones about the fact that he does not adopt or
approve of the policy of "zero tolerance" for priests having committed acts of
pedophilia, that he still has priests active in the diocese who have been guilty
of it, and that he would not like to send such priests away, since they could
not find a job. If such a disgusting perversion does not inspire zero tolerance,
than what possibly could? How could the priesthood be compared to a job? What an
indicator of the interior putrid corruption of the Novus Ordo, that has
gone so far as to destroy the most basic concepts of natural morality!
Needless to say, the suggestion by the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith that a return be made to the 1961 Instruction on
the Choice and Formation of Candidates to the States of Perfection and Holy
Orders was quite simply ignored by the Cardinals’ meeting. This instruction,
in fact, magnificently summarizes the Church’s teaching up until Vatican II
concerning the requirements for entry into the priestly and religious life, and
in particular the obligation of perfect chastity. After stating the principle:
"The virtue of chastity must be counted amongst the indices
and signs of a divine vocation, and necessarily so. It is in large part chastity
that characterizes those who aspire to enter the sacred army and that enables
them to persevere in it," (§29)
it then lists all the faults and vices that are
impediments, excluding a candidate from following a vocation. Among these rules
is found this one:
"Finally, those who are affected by the depraved
inclination for homosexuality or pederasty must be excluded from the vows of
religion and from ordination. Community life and the priestly ministry would be
a grave danger for them." (§30)
No truer words could be spoken.
This does not refer to active homosexuals, but to those men who, (sometimes)
without any fault of their own, suffer from this perverse inclination, for
example due to childhood abuse or lack of good male role models. Such persons
can certainly love and serve God, as long as they fight against this perverse
inclination. However, they must remove themselves from all occasions of sin,
which means all regular contact with men and boys. The priesthood is always an
occasion of sin for such individuals, which is why they must absolutely be
excluded, and why if they sincerely want to serve God, they will exclude
themselves. Of course, this does not fit well with the gay agenda.
However, as we all know, this
problem is much deeper. The failure of priests to observe their vows of
celibacy, their acting as wolves clothed in sheep skins to destroy their own
flock, does not happen by chance. Why, in fact, have they forgotten these
terrifying words of Our Lord:
"But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me,
it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and
that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Mt 18:6)?
Without a doubt because the Novus Ordo church, with
its all-pervasive humanism, has destroyed the very sense of what the priesthood
is, and why it exists, its very identity. They have forgotten that in order to
save souls the priest must remember that he is another Christ, a mediator
ordained to offer sacrifice to Almighty God and in reparation for sin, and that
it is only on condition to being wedded to Christ and to His Church that he can
be of any help to souls. This is how Pope Pius XII put it in his magnificent
1954 encyclical On Holy Virginity:
"This then is the primary
purpose, this the central idea of Christian virginity: to aim only at the
divine, to turn thereto the whole mind and soul; to want to please God in
everything, to think of Him continually, to consecrate body and soul
completely to Him."
It is consequently not primarily
on account of the apostolic ministry, but by reason of their service at the
altar, that all priests are obliged to make the vow of celibacy. How far removed
from such an ideal are the abominations of which we hear, and yet how directly
do they flow from the destruction of the altar of the sacrifice, replaced by the
protestant table of the humanist meal!
However, Pope Pius XII also points out that it is not
enough to have a high ideal; one must also take the means to remain faithful to
it, namely "flight and vigilance, by which we carefully avoid the occasions
of sin". He rightly castigated as "pernicious" those who even then
pretended that young clerics should learn chastity by being exposed to immodesty
and forbidden books, quoting from scripture: "he that loveth danger shall
perish in it" (Eccli 3:27), and ordered rather the separation from
the tumult of the world and the training in Christian modesty to prepare for
this particular combat. We all know how the post-Conciliar church has despised
these recommendations, having lost all sense of the priest’s consecration to
God.
Allow me to conclude with the cry
of alarm of a truly holy Pope, so different from the platitudes and the humanist
response of John Paul II. It was in 1908 that Saint Pius X had this to say, on
the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood,
concerning the sins of neglect and slothfulness of the priests of nearly a
century ago:
"Alas! how many evils have happened far and wide, and are
happening today, unworthy of God and His Church, a menace to the Christian
flocks and a detriment to the priestly character. While We, beloved sons, from a
conscientious sense of duty, consider these evils, Our soul is oppressed with
grief and in Our groaning We cry out: Woe to the priest who cannot
maintain his dignity, but pollutes the name of the holy God, before whom he
ought to be holy. The corruption of those who are in the highest places is the
most abject of all others. Great is the dignity of priests, but great their fall
if they sin."
We cannot imagine with what horror he would be afflicted
at the present time, and with what energetic vigor he would rid the Church of
those perverts who are polluting it within. Let the comparison be an example of
how completely the post-Conciliar hierarchy has failed in its task to fault this
tidal wave of immorality, and betrayed faithful Catholics. Let it be an
inspiration to us not to be overcome by human respect and political correctness
in our combat for truth and purity.
Yours faithfully in the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Fr. Peter R. Scott
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