This book review article was originally posted on September 03, 2006:
Catholic journalist Paul Likoudis in his book “Amchurch Comes Out: The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda” presents a case that sexual revolutionaries are to some extent in control of the American Catholic Church. The key theme of the book is that many of the US bishops are sexual revolutionaries with an agenda.
Their agenda according to the book includes the use of sex education to promote homosexuality throughout Catholic schools, parishes, colleges, etc. These bishops are doing this despite the simultaneous sex scandals of the past two decades. In fact, they have hastened their promotion of homosexuality.
Likoudis said that those who have attempted to expose both the sex scandals and homosexual education, “have been hammered, marginalized, isolated and even excommunicated by their bishops.”
The book documents that since the 1950s many bishop's offices and other top management positions within the Church were filled by men of “perverse sexuality.“ These men created an old boy network with those of like mind to protect themselves as well as corrupt the sexual morality of Catholics in catechism and by sex abuse.
This old boy network according to the book was in large part put together by Joseph Cardinal Berdardin.
The Cardinal, as creator of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference, has been called “the most influential bishop in the history of America.”
Likoudis says in the book that Berdardin has “consoled and empowered dissenters while professing his loyalty to his Roman superiors; as an architect of proposals to deconstruct the Roman liturgy, Catholic education and the all-important field of catechetics.”
Furthermore “Amchurch Comes Out” documents that “ one after another of Berdardin’s closest clerical friends from his native Diocese of Charleston made the newspapers for charges of pedophilia: Fr Eugene Condon, Fr Justin Goodwin, Fr James Robert Owen-Howard, Fr FX Seitz, in addition to continuing allegations against [Monsignor Frederick] Hopwood...[r]eputedly, he was Berdardin’s best friend and seminary roommate.”
Likoudis also shows that not only were Berdardin’s friends were involved in alleged sex abuse, but that some of his closest bishop friends were responsible for pedophiles such as Fr Kos of Dallas.
“Amchurch Comes Out” as well exposes a number of other lesser know bishops and church leaders who were Berdardin clones. The thread that ties all these church leaders together is their pro-gay advocacy and activism “to deconstruct the Roman liturgy, Catholic education and the all-important field of catechetics.”
Fr Wilson who wrote the preface of the book says the reason for this deconstruction is:
“If sexual autonomy is one’s goal, one will not want the traditional Mass as the central symbol of the Faith, for the very form it takes will always seem a reproach... [a] nd as for catechesis: well, why else would one promulgate religion textbooks that avoided subjects such as commandments, precepts of the Church, original sin; why else would one find situation ethics attractive -- unless one were anxious to usher in a new religion, one much more amenable to one’s whims.”
The book is definitely adult reading with many horror stories that can help the reader understanding why the Catholic scandals will continuing to happen unless Pope Benedict XVI makes the reform of the US bishops a major priority.
Click here for Credit Card and Amazon Order of Fred Martinez's book "Hidden Axis":
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Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Mass and the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of the Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of the Mary.
Catholic journalist Paul Likoudis in his book “Amchurch Comes Out: The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda” presents a case that sexual revolutionaries are to some extent in control of the American Catholic Church. The key theme of the book is that many of the US bishops are sexual revolutionaries with an agenda.
Their agenda according to the book includes the use of sex education to promote homosexuality throughout Catholic schools, parishes, colleges, etc. These bishops are doing this despite the simultaneous sex scandals of the past two decades. In fact, they have hastened their promotion of homosexuality.
Likoudis said that those who have attempted to expose both the sex scandals and homosexual education, “have been hammered, marginalized, isolated and even excommunicated by their bishops.”
The book documents that since the 1950s many bishop's offices and other top management positions within the Church were filled by men of “perverse sexuality.“ These men created an old boy network with those of like mind to protect themselves as well as corrupt the sexual morality of Catholics in catechism and by sex abuse.
This old boy network according to the book was in large part put together by Joseph Cardinal Berdardin.
The Cardinal, as creator of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference, has been called “the most influential bishop in the history of America.”
Likoudis says in the book that Berdardin has “consoled and empowered dissenters while professing his loyalty to his Roman superiors; as an architect of proposals to deconstruct the Roman liturgy, Catholic education and the all-important field of catechetics.”
Furthermore “Amchurch Comes Out” documents that “ one after another of Berdardin’s closest clerical friends from his native Diocese of Charleston made the newspapers for charges of pedophilia: Fr Eugene Condon, Fr Justin Goodwin, Fr James Robert Owen-Howard, Fr FX Seitz, in addition to continuing allegations against [Monsignor Frederick] Hopwood...[r]eputedly, he was Berdardin’s best friend and seminary roommate.”
Likoudis also shows that not only were Berdardin’s friends were involved in alleged sex abuse, but that some of his closest bishop friends were responsible for pedophiles such as Fr Kos of Dallas.
“Amchurch Comes Out” as well exposes a number of other lesser know bishops and church leaders who were Berdardin clones. The thread that ties all these church leaders together is their pro-gay advocacy and activism “to deconstruct the Roman liturgy, Catholic education and the all-important field of catechetics.”
Fr Wilson who wrote the preface of the book says the reason for this deconstruction is:
“If sexual autonomy is one’s goal, one will not want the traditional Mass as the central symbol of the Faith, for the very form it takes will always seem a reproach... [a] nd as for catechesis: well, why else would one promulgate religion textbooks that avoided subjects such as commandments, precepts of the Church, original sin; why else would one find situation ethics attractive -- unless one were anxious to usher in a new religion, one much more amenable to one’s whims.”
The book is definitely adult reading with many horror stories that can help the reader understanding why the Catholic scandals will continuing to happen unless Pope Benedict XVI makes the reform of the US bishops a major priority.
Click here for Credit Card and Amazon Order of Fred Martinez's book "Hidden Axis":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1410746186/qid=1099936755/sr=11-1/ref
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Mass and the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of the Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of the Mary.
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