Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Diocese of Worcester and the ordination of homosexual men



Although I have had extensive psychological testing and screening for the United States military (as part of my security clearance for military intelligence) and while looking into a religious community which turned out to have a modernist agenda in opposition to the Magisterial teaching of the Church (as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Papal Encyclicals and Conciliar documents) and have received glowing reports which indicate that I am free of any pathologies - including a homosexual inclination, I am not permitted even to APPLY for priestly studies within the Diocese of Worcester.

Meanwhile, the Diocese of Worcester has ordained homosexual men to the priesthood.  For example, a psychological evaluation in 1977 prior to the ordination of Fr. Jean Paul Gagnon  indicated that the candidate had possible "sex role identification" problems. See here.

Strange huh?  Especially since, as I warned in the pages of The Wanderer back in 2002, Canon 1040 of the Code of Canon Law states that: "Persons who are affected by a perpetual impediment, which is called an irregularity, or a simple impediment, are prevented from receiving orders." 

Irregularities arise either from defect (ex defectu) or from crime (ex delicto).  It seems clear that a homosexual inclination, which the Church teaches is "intrinsically disordered," would constitute an irregularity ex defectu.  And, as Father Heribert Jone, O.F.M. Cap., J.C.D. explains: "An irregularity is not a penalty, but a means to safeguard the dignity of the clerical state and office by excluding those who are unqualified for the service of the altar."

Why then did the Worcester Diocese ordain Jean Paul Gagnon?  If a psychologist warned that he had possible "sex role identification problems" why did he receive the green light for ordination?  Was/is the diocese actively recruiting men with homosexual tendencies for the priesthood?  If so, how does this safeguard the dignity of the clerical state?  And is a man with a homosexual inclination validly ordained?  I submit that such an ordination is not valid.  The homosexual inclination, "though not a sin in itself, nevertheless constitutes a more or less strong tendency to an intrinsically evil behavior from the moral standpoint.  For this reason, the very inclination should be considered as objectively disordered." (Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Pastoral Service for Homosexual Persons, No. 3).

We know that the Diocese of Worcester has permitted a culture of dissent for years.  Those of us who follow the Holy Father and the Magisterial teaching of the Church know that the current Bishop - Robert McManus - usually ignores our concerns expressed charitably in countless letters.  But does the diocese have an agenda to actively recruit homosexual men for the priesthood while turning orthodox heterosexual men away?


3 comments:

Jonathan said...

Disgusting. Seems like the diocese is looking only for a certain type of candidate....one who is either overtly homosexual or confused about his identity.

Anonymous said...

are you familiar w/this book?
Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church

it lays out the foundation for gay seminaries after Vatican II.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0895261448

Daniel said...

It is becoming ever-more obvious that the Worcester Diocese has a dissenting and a homosexual agenda.

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