Folks, this according to the Catholic League:
POPE BLAMES PRO-PEDOPHILIA CROWD
December 21, 2010
In his Christmas address yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI chastised priests who have molested minors, saying it had reached an "unimaginable dimension." He also tried to put the problem in a broader context, and for this he has been condemned. The pope said, "In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children. It was maintained—even within the realm of Catholic theology—that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself."
Among those condemning the pope is Sinead O'Connor. "Exactly who held the theory that pedophilia was fully in conformity with man and with children? Please give us their names."
Catholic League president Bill Donohue answered O'Connor today:
You want names? Here they are: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Jean-Paul Satre, Simone de Beauvoir, André Glucksmann, Roland Barthes. All of these French intellectuals—and there are many more—signed a petition in 1977 demanding that all the laws on sex between adults and minors be stricken. Years earlier, in the U.S., Alfred Kinsey justified pedophilia, claiming that "the current hysteria over sex offenders" was detrimental to child development. So did his colleague, Wardell Pomeroy. Moreover, many other writers and activists have expressed a tolerance for pederasty that is extremely dangerous. They include Larry Kramer, Camille Paglia, Allen Ginsberg and John Money. And, of course, NAMBLA is expressly organized to further the cause of man-boy sex. So commonplace is this perversion that some scholars use the term "BLs" to refer to "Boy Lovers."
The Holy Father was not wrong about some Catholic theological circles getting caught up in this insanity. In the 1970s—the pope was right about the decade—under the auspices of the Catholic Theological Society, Anthony Kosnick's book Human Sexuality was published. Adopted by some seminaries at the time, it sought increased tolerance for every conceivable sexual deviancy. In other words, the pope got it right.
Commentary. Some make sure that Miss O’Connor – who once ripped Pope John Paul the Great’s picture during a Saturday Night Live showing – receives the answer to her question. Remember the names: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Jean-Paul Satre, Simone de Beauvoir, André Glucksmann, Roland Barthes, Alfred Kinsey, and Wardell Pomeroy; Larry Kramer, Camille Paglia, Allen Ginsberg , John Money and Catholic “moral theologian” Anthony Kosnick. They are all the architects and cultural enablers of the child sexual abuse scandal in the Church, and beyond. They were part of that ugly smoke of Satan that crept into the Church in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
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Deeper, more pertinent question: how did such perversion ever gain entree into Catholic seminaries? How did Catholic seminaries ever arrive at such a state as to make this even remotely possible?
Thank you so much for this post. I will post a link to it in my blog. Very good blog you have.
About this particular post: it should be all over the internet. The more people who read it, the better.
Thank you Anastasia and Paula for your kind comments.
Anastasia, good questions. The answer is sin, the capital ones, the ones that enter through intellectual pride and hubris, by people who think they know better than the Lord and his Church. That's how.
-Theo
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