Per Parts 1 and 2 of this series, blaming "The World," and in this case, "The Sexual Revolution," for the latest installment of clergy perversions (it's definitely not the first time - see Book of Gomorrah), is not just wrong, it lays bare the real problem.
And here it is:
And here it is:
The refusal of our Church leadership to own the fact that "As the Church goes, so goes the World," ... and NOT the other way around.
And this fact ("As the Church goes...") is never clearer than in the facts which led up to the so-called "Sexual Revolution" - which our Church leadership apparently now wants to blame!!
Long before Woodstock (1969), and "The World's" orgasmic lust for "The Pill" - which essentially precipitated the sexual nirvana of sex without babies (i.e. consequences) - our Church (specifically Pope John 23) opened the Box (Pandora's) which led to both Woodstock and the Western World's rabid rush to contracept and abort itself out of existence.
In 1963, the now sainted Pope established The Pontifical Commission on Birth Control to examine the question as to whether or not Catholics could morally use The Pill to avoid pregnancy.
In 1963, the now sainted Pope established The Pontifical Commission on Birth Control to examine the question as to whether or not Catholics could morally use The Pill to avoid pregnancy.
It was an absurd proposition to begin with.
But it was the 1960's, and it appears Papa John wanted to show that...well, at least he "cared."
It's easy to see that John never intended the Commission to go anywhere. He only commissioned six non-theologians as members and separated the Commission from the Council (Vatican II), keeping personal control over it.
However, within weeks of opening both the Council and the Commission, something happened that John didn't plan on.
However, within weeks of opening both the Council and the Commission, something happened that John didn't plan on.
HE DIED.
His successor, Paul VI, had the opportunity to close what should have never been opened. But it appears Paul (now also sainted) was even more eager to show the 1960's that he too "cared."
Instead of shutting down the investigation into a question that could only have one answer:
Paul expanded the Commission membership from the original 6 members to 72!, and included several secular members who cared little about THE CHURCH.
NO!
As you might imagine, the then-progressives in The Church went wild with glee. Paul's continuance and sudden exponential expansion of the Commission could only mean one thing:
In fact, Paul all but sealed the deal, when, upon expanding the Commission in 1964, he said THIS:
Catholics would soon copulate without the "threat" of babies, just like everybody else!
In fact, Paul all but sealed the deal, when, upon expanding the Commission in 1964, he said THIS:
"We say frankly that so far we do not have sufficient reason to consider the norms given by Pope Pius XII on this matter [of contraception] as out of date and therefore as not binding. They must be considered as valid, at least until We feel obliged in conscience to change them." - Paul VI Acta apostolicae sedis (AAS) 56 (1964) 588-59, 1964 address to the special papal commission on the use of contraceptives.
Anyone familiar with "pope-speak" will recognize that Paul isn't just giving his personal opinion (as Francis is so prone to do on airplanes), Paul is using the Papal "We," meaning, he is speaking magisterially, doctrinally, even dogmatically, and in the name of The Church.
Amazingly, Paul cast his comments as a response to a previous Pope (Pius 12), and then lets us know that said "opinion" is subject to change if "We" (the papal We) feel obliged in conscience to change them."
Read that again:
"until We feel obliged in conscience to change them."
That one phrase opened the door for Catholics to, "in conscience," contracept, abort, divorce, engage in fornication and homosexual sex, vote for pro-abortion polices and politicians (i.e. the Kennedy's) and ultimately, for the Church's own priests and bishops, to rape and molest trusting young boys (and some girls) at will, in the name of "conscience" and "born that way."
The now-dead, "Mass-Molester" (literally) of the Archdiocese of Agana, Fr. Louis Brouillard, even testified in a deposition:
"At that time, I did believe that the boys enjoyed the sexual contact and I also had gratification as well,"
Brouillard said in his affidavit.
I.E. "IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT."
6. However, the conclusions arrived at by the commission could not be considered by Us as definitive and absolutely certain, dispensing Us from the duty of examining personally this serious question. This was all the more necessary because, within the commission itself, there was not complete agreement concerning the moral norms to be proposed, and especially because certain approaches and criteria for a solution to this question had emerged which were at variance with the moral doctrine on marriage constantly taught by the magisterium of the Church.
Read that highlighted part again.
Paul tells the Universal Church that the only reason what has always been "intrinsically evil" must remain "intrinsically evil" is due to the lack of a "complete agreement" (i.e. a unanimous vote) by something called a "commission."
Well it was almost unanimous. Only 7 member of the 72 dissented. The majority voted in favor of lifting the Church's "ban" on birth control.
Paul tried to put the horses back in the barn on July 29, 1968, the date he promulgated Humanae Vitae.
Woodstock would begin on August 15, 1969.
No. It ain't the "sexual revolution...:
And NOTHING will change until we, the LAITY...call our leadership to account. And Guam has a good beginning.
