HOMOSEXUAL ICEBERG THREATENS TO SINK THE BARQUE OF PETER

The McCarrick scandal, appears to confirm that a veil of secrecy exists among powerful members of the Episcopacy who have tolerated, if not promoted by their silence, homosexual immorality within the ranks of both Bishops and the Clergy.

But this latest high-profile scandal is only the tip of the iceberg which threatens to sink the Barque of Peter.

Here is just a “partial list” of homosexual assaults and immoral behavior known factually to have been committed by Bishops and Cardinals.

In 1998, Austrian Cardinal Hans Hermann Cardinal Groer was forced to resign over homosexual activity.

In 2013, Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien stepped down over sexual harassment of seminarians and Priests.

Since 2015, the Church in Chile has been wracked by a scandal involving Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, who is accused of covering up sex crimes committed by his alleged lover, Father Fernando Karadima, one of Chile's most notorious pedophiles.

In May of this year, Chile's Bishops were summoned to the Vatican en masse, where after meeting with Pope Francis, every one offered his resignation.

At present, two Cardinals in Chile (one of whom is on the Pope's Council of Cardinals that oversees reform) are under heavy suspicion for covering up homosexual abuse in their country. 

In February 2018, male prostitute Francesco Mangiacapra published a 1,200-page dossier containing the names and photos of 40 of his “clients” — all of them Priests and seminarians paying for sodomy with parishioners' money.

In March, Guam Archbishop Anthony Apuron was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors by a canonical panel in Rome.  His Clerical status remains intact.

In April, the Vatican, after using diplomatic immunity to shield him from prosecution in Canada, arrested Holy See diplomat Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella on child pornography charges.
  
In May, 40 Honduran seminarians published a letter asking Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga to clean up their Tegucigalpa seminary, overrun by a homosexual network.  After the letter went public, Cardinal Maradiaga slammed Catholic media for covering the story, but did not deny the presence of a flourishing gay subculture.

In June, Msgr. Luigi Capozzi, Secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, current head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts and close adviser to the Pope, was arrested while hosting a “cocaine-fueled gay orgy” in his Holy See apartment.  The Vatican Press Office refused to comment on the scandal.

In July, Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson resigned over sex abuse cover-up, after being found guilty in a secular trial and handed a prison sentence. 

The same month, Honduran Auxiliary Bishop Juan José Pineda resigned over homosexual and financial improprieties.

Again in July, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the release of a Grand Jury report detailing the crimes of more than 300 predator Priests in six of the State's eight Dioceses.  The product of a two-year investigation, the nearly 900-page document is being described as "the worst report ever." 

Again, this is only a partial list of scandals involving Bishops and Cardinals.  To attempt a complete listing would tax the length of this post.

Faithful Catholics, Clergy and lay, will no longer allow the miscreants to get away with their abuse of power.

Priests, following the heroic example of the laity, are beginning to speak up and admit to what they experienced personally as well as their knowledge of improprieties by their Bishops.

Pope Francis needs to understand that a partial and arbitrary response to this corruption will no longer pass muster with Catholics who are quite literally fed up with the scandal and the conspirators who have allowed it to fester.

Faithful Catholics are beginning to demand a thorough housecleaning of the ne’er do wells.

Such a cleansing is long overdue.

I ask that you join with me in prayer asking the Holy Spirit to intervene for the good of the Church, for the restoration of the sanctity and dignity of the Episcopacy, and for the good of souls who have entrusted their spiritual well-being to the care of their Bishops and their Priests.

Come, Holy Spirit, come!