Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

H/T to Terry Nelson of Abbey-Roads2:

The Battle For Normality; A Guide For Self-Therapy For Homosexuality Van den Aardweg

“Van den Aardweg asks the question: ”why are so many protestant and catholic homosexuals, male and female alike, interested in theology, and why do they not infrequently want to be ministers or priests?” he says that part of the answer lies in their infantile need for sympathy and contact. and i quote: ”they view church professions as soft and sentimentally ‘caring’ and imagine themselves in them as being honored and revered, elevated above common human beings. they see the Church as a noncompetitive, friendly world where they may enjoy high status and be protected at the same time. for male homosexuals, there is the additional incentive of a rather closed men’s community where they need not prove themselves as men; …. and in the catholic and russian orthodox churches, there is the attraction of the garments and the aesthetic rituals, which male homosexuals may, in their childish perception, experience as feminine and which enable a narcissistic showing off, comparable to the exhibitionist joys of homosexual ballet dancers …. These interests stem for the most part, then, from an infantile, self-centered imagination and have precious little to do with the objective contents of Christian belief. What some homosexuals thus see as their ‘calling’ to the priesthood is an attraction to an emotionally rewarding, but self-centered, way of life. these are self-imagined and ‘false’ vocations.”

He goes on to claim that needless to say these priests preach soft, humanistic reinventions of traditional beliefs, especially of moral principles. and a distorted concept of “love.” he also asks *do real vocations never go along with homosexual interests?” he answers,” i do not dare to affirm that fully; perhaps i have seen a few exceptions in the course of the years. but as a rule, a homosexual orientation, whether acted out or experienced only in the private emotional life, must certainly be regarded as a contraindication to the supernatural source of priestly interests.”- Commentary on van den Aardweg

One of the biggest problems of those with deep-seated homosexual tendencies and who identify themselves as “gay” is they are typically unwilling to examine the posibility of emotional conflicts having any correlation to their homosexual tendencies and attractions. This makes for a formula for disaster in a Church which is continually under attack and where the merciful protection from evil is sought by and assured to the humble and obedient. For a little more evidence or insight to the incompatibility between those with deep seated homosexual tendencies and the Roman Catholic priesthood, I included a Zenit interveiw I found a while back, with Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, who is a psychiatrist and author/contributor to the Catholic Medical Association’s document “Homosexuality and Hope.”

These individuals in the priesthood have a significant affective immaturity with excessive anger and jealousy toward males who are not homosexual, insecurity that leads them to avoid close friendships with such males and an inordinate need for attention.

Most of these men had painful adolescent experiences of significant loneliness and sadness, felt insecure in their masculinity, and had a poor body image. Well-designed research studies have demonstrated a much higher prevalence of psychiatric illness in those who identify themselves as homosexual.

Under severe stress they may even experience strong physical and sexual attraction to adolescent males, as has occurred in the crisis in the Church. Frequently, they may have difficulty working in a collegial and comfortable way with heterosexual males.

Unresolved paternal anger is regularly misdirected as rebellion against the magisterium and the Church’s teaching on sexual morality. Unfortunately, their denial, defensiveness and anger block their openness to seek the Lord’s help with their emotional and behavioral weaknesses.

What an injustice it is to all of the souls influenced by the self-imagined and false vocations. The cause of so much pain and dissent, metasized heresy and confusion. May we never doubt the love and endless mercy of God and trust His greater good which comes from all our evil deeds. Using a title I found on the Curt Jester blog as a inspiring source of hope in why we should never stop praying for the protection of all of our priests, especially for mercy on those with the greatest need: “Denying the possibility of conversion is to deny the possibility of grace“.

Part II of Zenit interview.