The New Pope Must Purge the Church of the Lavender Mafia
Many who have written on the needed characteristics of the next pope have said such things as “The next pope needs to call the bishops to proclaim the faith boldly; to restore respect for the sacraments; to unify the polarized elements of the Church.” Few pundits note that purging the Church of the Lavender Mafia, of the homosexual priests and bishops who run the Church, is arguably the most important and the most difficult of all tasks a new pope will face.
Pope Benedict failed to do the cleanup because he was old, frail, and sick—but even more so because the resistance to his efforts was so strong. Pope Francis, through appointments and his protection of bishops accused of sexual abuse and cover-up of abuse, has only strengthened the Lavendar Mafia. See the recent article by Damian Thompson on Francis’ favorable treatment of predators.
Undoubtedly, many Catholics are still oblivious to the dominance of the Lavender Mafia in the Church. The sex abuse crisis has opened the eyes of many, since bishops have been so lax in dealing with sexual abuse. Their weak response shows us that they are not healthy heterosexuals; for if they were, they would be enraged about the abuse in the Church and society and would not have let hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children to have “gone missing.”
I have written about this problem before. In short, after Vatican II there was a huge exodus of heterosexual priests and seminarians for a variety of reasons (some claim as many as 20,000); the priesthood was becoming more of a social-work profession and that didn’t require ordination. Also, many believed the Church was going to permit married priests. Ironically, this led many heterosexual men to leave the priesthood or seminary and get married; they believed that once the requirement of celibacy was lifted, th
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