READY TO SACRIFICE A PRO-HOMO POPE

It's odds-on that the secular media will soon turn on Pope Francis. And for moi, it can't happen too soon.

I've been reminded today of an appalling story I heard some time back which has been engulfed, in what I laughingly refer to as my memory, by a tsunami of appalling stories concerning priestly pederasts in the Catholic Church ever since that infamous report by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury.

It's the story of an Italian bishop, Vincenzo Paglia, and the massive homoerotic mural he commissioned for his cathedral church of Terni-Narni-Amelia, featuring Jesus Christ modelled on a local homosexual hairdresser because Paglia considered that Jesus is thought of as "too masculine".

Paglia supervised every detail of the mural and had himself included, embracing a naked man among the netsful of nude homosexuals, transsexuals, prostitutes and drug dealers jumbled together in erotic poses, whom Jesus is carrying heavenwards. The artist, a homosexual Argentinian, wanted to include depictions of copulation but Paglia and his cohort, a Father Fabio Leonardis, said it wasn't necessary because the work already demonstrated the 'freedom that man has in reality in this world and the next.'

Well pardon me, but the Catholic Church teaches that those who exercise that sort of 'freedom' and die unrepentant will suffer eternal damnation.

This man Paglia was promoted to the archbishopric, to head the Pontifical Academy for Life. Pope Francis then appointed him president of the St John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Life - but not before sacking all its orthodox members.

Under his presidency the Pontifical Academy for Life issued a new sex education programme which includes lascivious and pornographic images. A psychologist involved in its production suggested that Paglia be evaluated in accordance with the norms of the Dallas Charter, which is meant to protect children from sex abuse. 

What really disturbed the psychologist was that "the pornographic images in this programme are similar to those used by adult sexual predators of adolescents". Does this incident not give us a glimpse of the methods used by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to groom young people for illicit sex? 

Paglia's next move was to remove from the statutes the requirement for members of the Pontifical Academy to sign a declaration of fidelity to the Church's teaching on the right to life. And at last someone did something. In February this year all Academy memberships were terminated, leaving Paglia and his staff at the head of an empty organization. 

But Paglia's still there. That obscene mural is still there, in a Catholic cathedral in Italy. 

And Pope Francis who promoted Paglia is still there, in the Vatican. 

But the secular, left-wing media, formerly the Francis Fan Club, are scenting blood. They've weighed the mass of evidence and the mass of popular opinion and may be about ready to sacrifice a pro-homosexual pope, simply because he's the pope. If they can bring down this pope, they surmise they can bring down the next.


My eldest brother was named Peter Damian. He drowned in 1958. I adored him. What did the Saint and Doctor of the Church my brother was named for have to say, 900 years ago, about priests and pederasty?

He saw sodomy, especially in the priesthood, as a terrible plague that threatened to bring down the wrath of God.

"How am I loving my neighbor as myself," asked St Peter Damian, "if I negligently allow the wound, by whom I do not doubt him to be dying a cruel death, to fester in his soul? Seeing therefore the spiritual wounds, should I neglect to cure them by the surgery of words?"

St Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, denounced prelates for their 'cruel mercy' and 'impious piety' in refusing to punish evildoers.

'Book of Gomorrah' by St Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church: recommended reading for Pope Francis.