This posting is the sixth part of a larger one and was sent out as a US group mailing prior to posting here on the Thalamus Center.
Contents – PART 6
- “Absolute Papal Power” ≠ Vatican II
- Introduction PART 6 - Gracie Allen and George Burns – Doublespeak & Spin
- Catholic = Truth
- TRUTH = Unconscionable VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE of Benedict XVI & hierarchy - Human Sexuality – Homosexual Orientation
- TRUTH = Child Sexual Abuse – Deliberate Cover-ups by Ratzinger/Benedict XVI & hierarchy – Investigations Found
- Who Does Not Know the Authoritative TRUTH About Homosexuality? How Ignorance Harms Children?
- Benedict XVI ≠ TRUTH – WHY??? Hypocrisy
- Elevating & Hiring – Ruthless & Deceitful Professional THUGS – WHY???
- Watergate & Power ≠ Catholic
- What Can Catholics do Today to – Help Protect all Children?
- We Are All Vulnerable to Committing The Most Inhuman Act Against Our Fellow Human Beings
- How Obedience to Authority Can Turn Evil
- THE UNTOUCHABLES - Benedict XVI & the hierarchy
- CATHOLICS - Question the authority's legitimacy…
- CATHOLICS - When instructed to carry out an act you find abhorrent, even by a legitimate authority, stop and ask yourself…”Is this something I would do on my own initiative?"
- CATHOLICS - Don't even start to comply with commands you feel even slightly uneasy about. Acquiescence to the commands of an authority that are only mildly objectionable is often, as in Milgram's experiments, the beginning of a step-by-step, escalating process of entrapment…
- Non-Violence, Non-Cooperation - Peaceful Resistance
- One – Letters & Many – Copies
- Killing the Secrecy & Protecting Children
- Group Letters – With Valid Signatures
- Anne Rice
“Absolute Papal Power” ≠ Vatican II
“In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church, by applying a form of clericalism that deprived the laity of all power. The celibacy rule also stems from that era...
…The shamelessness with which the Vatican's policy has simply hushed up and neglected the concept of collegiality since then is beyond compare. An unparalleled personality cult prevails once again today, which contradicts everything written in the New Testament. In this sense, one can state this very clearly. Benedict has even accepted the gift of a tiara, a papal crown, the medieval symbol of absolute papal power, which an earlier pope, Paul VI, chose to surrender. I think this is outrageous. He could change all of this overnight, if he wanted to...” Hans Kung - 9/21/11
Read complete report:
“Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend.
(George) 'Where did you get the flowers?'
(Gracie) 'I went to visit Mable.'
(George) 'Yeah, so?'
(Gracie) 'WELL, you told me to take her flowers!'”
George Burns And Gracie Allen
Understanding Political DOUBLESPEAK Through Philosophy and Jokes
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington:
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2008
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DOUBLESPEAK: language used to deceive usually through concealment or misrepresentation of truth…
DOUBLESPEAK – defined: Intentionally deceiving language. Not an outright lie or a tactful euphemism, but systematic use of ambiguous, evasive words and sentence structures to say one thing but mean something else. Commonly associated with bureaucracy…also as a calculated attempt to (1) avoid or shift responsibility, (2) distort reality by making the bad, negative, or unpleasant look good, positive, or pleasant, and vice versa, and (3) confuse by using unfamiliar or concocted jargon… Also called doubletalk or doublethink. Read more:
NY - Archbishop Dolan: GAY MARRIAGE ‘ORWELLIAN SOCIAL ENGINEERING’ - May 13, 2011
Dolan “…says to expand the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage would be…‘perilous to all of us’…[Dolan] called the allegation that anti-gay marriage advocates are prejudiced or bigoted ‘nonsense’”
Minnesota Archbishop Nienstedt: Gay marriage ban is not anti-gay – June 9, 2011
…“Regrettably, the media and some secular commentators have chosen to mischaracterize this measure as ANTI-GAY, MEAN-SPIRITED AND PREJUDICIAL,” wrote Nienstedt…“This is not the case or the intent behind the initiative.”
…Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who says if same-sex marriage is legalized, it could lead to POLYGAMY AND INCEST…
“Pastorally, children flourish best in the context of having both a mother and a father. EVERY SCIENTIFIC STUDY CONFIRMS THIS REALITY,” [Nienstedt] wrote.
But A REVIEW OF 81 STUDIES of many family types released late last year showed the opposite…
Dolan wrote…“If the definition of marriage is continually being altered, could it not in the future be morphed again to include MULTIPLE SPOUSES or even FAMILY MEMBERS?”
Benedict XVI Named Archbishop Dolan Named a CARDINAL – January 6, 2012
New Cardinal - O’Brien Says Md. Same-Sex Vote Threatens Families – February 24, 2012
Introduction PART 6
Gracie Allen and George Burns built their comedy based on the misuse of words. Their comedy was depended on the audience knowing the truth about a situation and then watching how Gracie could innocently twist and spin the meanings of words. They were not being deceptive because George would speak directly to the audience letting them in on the truth. It was entertaining allowing everyone to have a good laugh. “Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_and_Allen
A public relations [PR] specialist is an image shaper. Their job is to generate positive publicity for their client and enhance their reputation. The client can be a company, an individual or a government. In the government PR people are called press secretaries. They keep the public informed about the activity of government agencies, explain policy, and manage political campaigns… Read more:
However, some of these same tactics tend to be used by some politicians, PR strategists, etc. intentionally to deceive the public, to keep their audiences in the dark about the truth of a particular situation. Reading the news media headlines regarding the camouflaging of the truth about Benedict XVI and the hierarchy negligence covering-up the child sexual abuse, often the initial reaction is that the headlines are laughable, similar to the comedic way Gracie Allen would twist the meanings of words.
“I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and
so many of the worst of us get the best of us,
that the rest of us aren't even worth
talking about.”
Gracie Allen
Only all too quickly the realization that the lives of innocent children who were victims is, now being dispensed with (to get rid of) as unimportant. The PR strategists who are responsible for this kind of deception are equally to share the blame as those who hired them. It is only by reading carefully the news reports and checking into the facts behind the headlines that the deception can often be realized. The use of doublespeak tactics are used to spin information, a form of propaganda, to persuade public opinion that favors a particular person, organization, etc. The tobacco companies used spin to save their financial interests and that of their stockholders over the health and lives of their costumers. Regrettably, there is a close similarity to Benedict XVI hired PR spin doctors to hide the harm that he and the hierarchy caused to children by their cover-ups that if this truth be known would cause an avalanche lawsuits. It is understandable why Benedict XVI would fanatically keep trying to shift the blame wrongly onto homosexuals as the cause. However, the authoritative research blatantly does not support Benedict XVI blaming homosexuals. What authoritative research has found is that the hierarchy cover-ups of the child sexual abuse cases is what prolong the harm to children, which evidence surfaced that points the figure at Benedict XVI ordering the cover-ups and the secrecy.
Big Tobacco’s Spin on Women’s Liberation – October 10, 2008
Why do nearly one-fifth of women in America smoke? The answer goes back to an event almost 80 years ago on Fifth Avenue, which is often regarded as one of the most successful P.R. stunts in American history…
The Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC), founded in 1979 by doctors, academics, and attorneys, serves as an umbrella organization that implements tobacco control projects. These projects are funded through grants from institutions such as the National Cancer Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Legacy Foundation and other key organizations. Through these grants, TCRC is able to work with tobacco control professionals to combat the appalling strategies used by the tobacco industry to debilitate public health…
ANTISMOKING CRUSADER: Richard A. Daynard; Using Liability Law To Put Tobacco On Trial – February 14, 1988
WHEN rumors hit Wall Street in late November that Richard A. Daynard, professor of law at Northeastern University, was about to disclose something embarrassing to the cigarette industry, it was enough to send the stocks of tobacco companies down 4 percent.
The ''something,'' disclosed at a news conference called by Professor Daynard on Dec. 1, was a memorandum stating that a lawyer for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had privately acknowledged the link between smoking and cancer….
You Want Fries with That?
Why the food industry deserves to face litigation. By Richard Daynard - May 2003
When I was organizing lawsuits against the tobacco industry in the 1980s and 1990s, the tobacco companies’ favorite spin became like a mantra: “First, they go after cigarettes. Next, it’ll be red meat and dairy products!”
SPIN (public relations) In public relations, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure. While traditional public relations may also rely on creative presentation of the facts, "spin" often, though not always, implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics…
'SPIN is what a pitcher does when he throws a curveball. The English on the ball causes it to appear to be going in a slightly different direction than it actually is…
Not only is that sentence awkwardly constructed (in writing, you get a chance to fix what you say, a benefit denied to talking heads as we mouth off), but also the notion that a curveball appears to curve, but does not, comes strictly out of left field -- that is to say, it's wrong...” "The Spinner Spun," by Safire, William, New York Times. Dec. 22, 1996.
SPIN: attempts to reorient potentially embarrassing or ambiguous actions, (mis)statements, and/or circumstances in such a way as to deflect, minimize, or refute critical attention from a primary target (e.g. party, political actor, journalist or the journalistic profession)… Read complete paper & reference links:
The Anatomy of Spin: Causes, Consequences, and Cure - Kenneth S. Hicks, Ph.D., http://www.rsu.edu/faculty/khicks/essays/spin.htm
Pope: Gay marriage threatens humanity’s future - January 9, 2012
B16: Save the rainforest–Stop gay marriage! - December 22, 2008
…In one respect, the Pope could simply be seen as putting the “nature” in natural law. He didn’t sing Cole Porter, but his theme seems to be along the lines of, “Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it…” The danger, of course, lies in examples like those flaming Central Park Zoo penguins, Roy & Silo, and those peace-loving bonobo monkeys, and such. Just look the other way, kids…
The pontiff’s comments, coming amid the hullaballo over the Vatican’s rejection of a new U.N. move against discrimination (like execution) against gays, or the elevation of gay rights, if you like, is likely not coincidental. The focus on the issue perplexes me, but that’s for another time.
…my central question (apart from why the Pope has to give talks like this right before Christmas–”Happy Holidays, Homosexuals!”) is what seems to be a problematic difference between human rights and natural law. The Vatican (among others) is a great champion of human rights, and rights like religious freedom, the right to life, etc. But it often seems that when it comes to rights they don’t like, natural law is suddenly invoked. What is the relationship between these two? Are human rights “limited” to those that conform to faith’s view of natural law? Or is natural law like a natural revelation, a natural theology understandable (supposedly) to all that is the true human rights “charter”? Read more:
DOUBLE-SPEAK is language designed to evade responsibility, make the unpleasant appear pleasant, the unattractive appear attractive. Basically, it's language that pretends to communicate, but really doesn't. It is language designed to mislead, while pretending not to.
DOUBLE-SPEAK is NOT a SLIP OF THE TONGUE or a mistaken use of language, it's exactly the opposite. It is language used by people who are very intelligent and very sophisticated in the use of language, and know that you can do an awful lot with language.
Read more:
Chicago's Cardinal George - under fire for comparing gay rights movement to Ku Klux Klan – December 22, 2011
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - adviser - saying DEVIL makes people gay – November 4, 2011
Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican's Number 2: Priest Pedophilia Linked To Homosexuality – April 12, 2010 “This is a perverse strategy by the Vatican to shirk its own ethical and legal responsibility by making a spurious and disgusting connection…"
Pope Benedict condemns 'petty gossip' over child sexual abuse scandal – April 28, 2010
Pope Benedict today risked inflaming opinion as he appeared to round on critics of the Catholic church over the widening sexual abuse scandal, saying he would not "be intimidated by ... petty gossip".
Benedict XVI/Ratzinger & Vatican – April 27, 2010
“They did as much as they had at each point in time given the public outcry, and no more.”
Pope Benedict XVI /Ratzinger
ENGINEERED COVER-UP of CHILD SEX ABUSE - Hans Kung - April 4, 2010
...the revelation of the clerical abuse of thousands of children and adolescents, first in the United States, then in Ireland and now in Germany and other countries. And to make matters worse, the handling of these cases has given rise to an unprecedented leadership crisis and a collapse of trust in church leadership.
There is no denying the fact that the worldwide system of covering up cases of sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under [Benedict XVI] Cardinal Ratzinger (1981-2005). During the reign of Pope John Paul II, that congregation had already taken charge of all such cases under oath of strictest silence. Ratzinger himself, on May 18th, 2001, sent a solemn document to all the bishops dealing with severe crimes ( “epistula de delictis gravioribus” ), in which cases of abuse were sealed under the “secretum pontificium” , the violation of which could entail grave ecclesiastical penalties...
Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation – Irish Times
Fr. Hans Kung - Bio
UN Human Rights Council: IHEU calls the Vatican to account over child abuse – September 22, 2009
We urge the Holy See to recognise its responsibilities to children and the CRC, to bring its reporting up to date, and to instruct its dioceses and religious orders to report all cases of alleged child abuse to the civil authorities. We suggest that as an institution that claims to have “the highest moral authority”, it can do no less.
And we urge the international community to hold the Holy See to account.
Irish Church accused of abuse cover-up – November 26, 2009
The report…It found that the Church placed its own reputation above the protection of children in its care. It also said that state authorities facilitated the cover-up by allowing the Church to operate outside the law.
Irish church and police covered up child sex abuse,
says report – November 26, 2009
Irish Catholic Church covered up child abuse, report says – November 26, 2009
The Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation's 720-page report said that it has "no doubt that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up" from January 1975 to May 2004, the time covered by the report.
Ireland - Killing the Secrecy Exposing - Benedict XVI & Roman Curia - Response to Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups - 2011
Child Sexual Abuse – Benedict XVI - Cover-Ups
The INEPTITUDE of BISHOPS Over Many Decades and
Their DELIBERATE COVER-UP of Crimes Against Children - 2011
…The situation in other countries where the crisis has surfaced, with its familiar patterns of abuse, secrecy and misuse of authority, indicates a larger systemic problem, the source of which is much deeper than the sexual revolution of the 1960s. While the John Jay study may shed some light, within limits, on individuals and their aberrant behavior, the real scandal never began or ended with sexual sin. The scandal that still angers and frustrates Catholics involves the ineptitude of bishops over many decades and their deliberate cover-up of crimes against children. The John Jay report is an important first step in understanding the scandal. However, until the hierarchy gets serious about facing down the real demons of its own clerical culture, the crisis festers, largely unresolved.
Child Sexual Abuse DECREASED As
GAY PRIESTS Began Serving The Church – Research Found - 2011
…Since the scandal broke, conservatives in the church have blamed gay priests for perpetrating the abuse, while liberals have argued that the all-male, celibate culture of the priesthood was the cause. This report will satisfy neither flank.
The report notes that homosexual men began entering the seminaries “in noticeable numbers” from the late 1970s through the 1980s. By the time this cohort entered the priesthood, in the mid-1980s, the reports of sexual abuse of minors by priests began to drop and then to level off. If anything, the report says, the abuse decreased as more gay priests began serving the church.
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City
Catholic = Truth
TRUTH = Unconscionable VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE of
Benedict XVI & hierarchy - Human Sexuality – Homosexual Orientation
Causing Ongoing Lifetime Harm to Children
Growing up Gay Globally
& Fostering Hostile Violent Antigay Social Environments
Tinky Winky is Gay
"He is purple - the gay-pride colour;
and his antenna is shaped like a triangle
the gay-pride symbol."
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Understanding Political DOUBLESPEAK Through Philosophy and Jokes
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington:
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2008
VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE refers to unaware states that result from the neglect to take reasonable steps to acquire an important knowledge…Voluntary ignorance constitutes negligence when the detection of danger can be accomplished by reasonable vigilance. http://definitions.uslegal.com/v/voluntary-ignorance/
TRUTH = Child Sexual Abuse – Deliberate Cover-ups by
Ratzinger/Benedict XVI & hierarchy – Investigations Found
Vatican letter “Jan. 31, 1997” told Ireland's Catholic bishops NOT to report child abuse – January 18, 2011
To be Catholic is all about truth, goodness and love. Catholic is based on truth. However, Benedict XVI and the hierarchy have and continue to be dishonest about the truth of homosexual orientation. Their understanding of Catholic is NOT based in truth. Why? Because Benedict XVI’s antigay teachings are unsubstantiated – not proven by authoritative evidence from the bible, science or theories of natural law. Their unsubstantiated antigay teachings, as well as their ongoing relentless public attack demeaning gay marriage have caused and continually cause to children in their early childhood developmental years who grow up to be gay, a considerable amount of psychological and for many physical harm, even death. These harmful effects for most children are lasting throughout their lifetime. Children who grow up to be gay though not raised in similar antigay social environments do not experience these lifetime harmful effects. It is unconscionable of Benedict XVI and the hierarchy to choose to remain oblivious to the truth about homosexual orientation and turn a blind eye to the massive global harm they are causing and continue to cause to children around the world, which is a million times worst than the atrocities committed by Hitler.
Reference links:
Groundbreaking Study Finds Family Acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Adolescents Protects Against Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicidal Behavior in Early Adulthood – by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, December 6, 2010 - FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION is less about sex and more about Love, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - LOVE & RELIGION - by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - April 30, 2009
Nothing in life is more precious than the intimate relationships we have with love ones. Healthy love relationships delight us give us confidence to take on challenges and support us in difficult times…
Letters sent out to:
July 2010
President of the United States
United States Congress
United States Supreme Court
United States Department of Justice
50 United States Governors
Dear -- --------,
My name is Fr. Marty Kurylowicz, a Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan ordained June 16, 1979.
In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different. This feeling "different" is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and last throughout a child’s lifetime.
The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but also affect their families, siblings, friends and anyone whom they might consider special in their lives. They are a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which place at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. They stifle an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offering better ways of maintaining peace among people and improving the quality of life for everyone in the world.
Gay Marriage - “SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE” Does Not Give Churches Or Benedict XVI - The Freedom To Abuse Children or Adults. July 2010 - By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
The Science of Sexual Orientation - Researchers Focus on Twins (Video)
Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation
Sexual Conversion Therapies - by Jack Drescher, M.D.
Sexual Conversion Therapy - Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives (2002) -
edited by Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Michael Schroeder, PsyD, and Jack Drescher, MD
Gay Conversion | Religious Conversion - Transforms the Damned into the Saved | COVERING - Kenji Yoshino – 2002 - The Yale Law Journal
More reference links found below:
Who Does Not Know the Authoritative TRUTH
About Homosexuality?
How Ignorance Harms Children?
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy hold the highest offices in the Church, which are not unlike any top executives and CEO of the top globally corporations, only the Church is oldest and likely the largest. This secular comparison may be shocking for some however it is seriously realistic. Therefore, at these highest offices in the Church, it is highly unlikely that the Church’s top executives (hierarchy) and CEO (Benedict XVI) that they do not know the truth about homosexuality. Also, Benedict XVI and the hierarchy know that they are unable to offer any factual evidence to support their unsubstantiated antigay teachings that would be accepted as authoritative (able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable) evidence by scientists or biblical scholars (reference links found below).
Buying Conventional Wisdom & Assumptions – the terms that are used to define an issue limits the ways we able to think about the issue - Keep us from thinking outside the box. Conventional Wisdom & Assumptions becomes a substitute for thinking. Reference link & example below:
Jesus was making his usual rounds in heaven when he noticed a wizened, white-haired old man sitting in a corner looking very disconsolate.
"See here, old friend," said Jesus kindly, "this is Heaven. The sun is shining, you've got all you could want to eat, all the instruments you might want to play--you're supposed to be blissfully happy! What's wrong?"
"Well," said the old man, "you see, I was a carpenter on earth, and lost my dearly beloved son at an early age. And here in heaven I was hoping more than anything to find him."
Tears sprang to Jesus's eyes. "FATHER!" he cried.
The old man jumped to his feet, bursting into tears, and shouted, "PINOCCHIO!"
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington:
Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2008
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy use the ambiguous concept of “Natural Law” which is a way to throw confusion into the discussion regarding gay marriage. “Natural Law” is a philosophical concept that can be debated endlessly without a definitive answer (see PART 2, & 3 on Natural Law). It is a convenient public way to completely negate all authoritative scientific data and scholarly exegesis of the bible regarding homosexuality that reveals homosexual orientation is in no way sinful that it is a normal natural part of human sexual development the same as heterosexual orientation. The reason for negating this authoritative evidence is that it does not support their antigay teachings, because their antigay teachings are not based on truth, they are unsubstantiated.
The function of propaganda is…not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people…Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924
Benedict XVI, the hierarchy and their hired (PR, IT etc.) professional accomplices use the ambiguous concept of “Natural Law” is meant to perpetuate confusion about homosexuality to intentionally avoid any objective study to find the truth. They mirror Gracie Allen unique comedic tactic of confusing even the simplest situation (i.e. see above quotes). However, Gracie Allen was not intentionally being deceptive because the George Burns And Gracie Allen Show was honestly billed, as a comedy, which made the audience aware of the truth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_and_Allen). If Benedict XVI, the hierarchy and their hired professional accomplices billed their use of “Natural Law,” as a comedy act or as an example of the Naturalistic fallacy then the global audience would know the truth. The truth is their use of the concept of “Natural Law” is a dishonest attempt to imply globally that homosexual orientation is unnatural, this is called the Naturalistic fallacy (Naturalistic fallacy and Homosexuality Against Nature http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/tls98nat.htm ). They are implying that by using the idea that nature should be the ultimate judge of what is right and wrong - meaning if it is not found in nature than it is wrong. This is ludicrous. It has been said when airplanes first began being used for commercial travel “If God intended us to fly He would of given us wings.”
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington:
Understanding Political DOUBLESPEAK Through Philosophy and Jokes
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2008
Natural Law
Naturalistic fallacy
The way the concept of “Natural Law” is misused to falsely label homosexuals as unnatural is an example of the type of propaganda that Hitler would use -
“All propaganda must be popular and
its intellectual level must be adjusted to the
most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
Consequently,
the greater the mass it is intended to reach,
the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be....
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy ongoing relentless public erroneous statements made about homosexual orientation are consistently made blatantly against all authoritative evidence. It seems seriously unlikely that they are so completely ignorant about the facts human sexuality specifically homosexual orientation. That is because gay marriage is and has been heatedly debated globally, at this time. They seem deliberately to be unconcerned about the truth, the authoritative facts. Today, being the “age of information” any public statement made by Benedict XVI and the hierarchy is also made globally. One would think that the fact they are going to be heard around the world would be all the more reason they would want to be as accurate and precise as possible. They would have an entourage of experts to review (if not compose) for accuracy all their public statements. Remember that they do hold the highest offices in the Church that is like the largest global corporations.
What seems to be going on is they are not aiming for truthfulness. It is obvious that they are not aiming their erroneous statements about homosexual orientation to be understood for people of average intelligence but instead their statements seem to aimed to those of the “most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.” Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924 (see above quote for reference link)
If someone claims to be Catholic then each individual Catholic is required to acquire to form a well-informed conscience. This involves a thorough study of homosexual sexual orientation from the best and the brightest - scriptural scholars, scientists from both the medical and mental health fields and natural law moral and legal theorists. The accumulative results will show that Benedict XVI’s antigay teachings (erroneously referred to as Roman Catholic Church teachings) from all 3 areas are unsubstantiated - not based on TRUTH.
WELL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE
Protect Religious Freedom – but not Tyranny in Religion - June 20, 2011
The way to begin for us all, not only the NY State Senators, to protect Religious Freedom and not Tyranny in Religion is by obtaining a well-informed conscience. We start by individually approaching and studying in (great detail because it involves the lives of children) from the best and the brightest (1) scripture scholars regarding the references related to homosexuality and (2) scientists in the field of study of human sexuality, in particular, but [not] limited to, the onset of sexual orientation. The prerequisite to the formation of a well-informed conscience is making a thorough study of all sides of the issue from all available authoritative data and research, including opposing views. Then in this way we are better equipped to decide who and what needs government protection in regards to the gay marriage bill. This exhaustive procedure follows to the letter the Gospel quotation about the “plank” and the” speck.”
“How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”. Luke 6:42
The “plank” for us is ignorance. If we satisfactorily resolve this ignorance, then together we will be able to see more clearly, whether or not, as NY State Senators (government officials) and as citizens we are colluding with the Catholic Hierarchy and are harming children, as was found to be the case in the Ireland Murphy Report.
…This piece of legislation the gay marriage bill is not like any other in that it involves the well-being of children, at its very root…
How I resolved this situation was through hours upon hours of continuous prayer. Afterwards, I came to the realization that my life had already been altered – changed forever. Because there was no way I could pretend I did not know what I knew, how severely children are harmed for life by the unsubstantiated antigay teachings and antigay social norms. I decided that I could not live with the regret knowing that I had a chance to make a profound difference for the better for others, most especially children and that I did nothing. My life would be nothing. I took the bungee jump and I came out to my parishioners. It definitely was not easy, but one thing that happened to me is - I gained a real sense of peace and well-being that has remained constant and unshaken. The scripture passages that kept repeating over and over in my head were:
“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.” Matthew 16:25
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?” Luke 9:25
“Anyone who loves their FATHER or mother more than me is not worthy of me;… Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:36-38
“…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6
Even after Benedict XVI and his accomplices’ mistreatment of me and the serious harm they have caused me that sense of peace has never left me. It is remains rock solid. I believe that is the benefit of spending the time and energy of acquiring a well-informed conscience regarding sexual orientation.
Written by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/06/ny-gay-marriage-bill-gay-catholic_20.html
Benedict XVI ≠ TRUTH – WHY???
Hypocrisy
For Catholics this kind of disturbing reality about Benedict XVI and the hierarchy dishonesty is extremely difficult to hear even harder to accept. The first reaction might be denial and/or killing the messenger. However neither will destroy the truth – the truth that homosexual orientation is in no way sinful or evil rather it is a natural part human sexual development beginning either before birth or every soon after birth that it is just as normal as heterosexual orientation sexual development and the truth that Benedict XVI and the hierarchy lying. Benedict XVI and the hierarchy have access to all this information and research regarding homosexual orientation.
Warning All Church Leaders Against Hypocrisy
“And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.” Matthew 23:8-15
Corruption in the papacy and the hierarchy is not unprecedented in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II in March 2000 made the first public apology for the sins of past popes and members of the hierarchy “…by making a sweeping apology for 2,000 years of violence, persecution and blunders.”
Pope says sorry for sins of church – March 2000
Sweeping apology for attacks on Jews, women and minorities defies theologians' warnings
From the altar of St Peter's Basilica in Rome he led Catholicism into unchartered territory by seeking forgiveness for sins committed against Jews, heretics, women, Gypsies and native peoples…
Pope John Paul II Makes Unprecedented Apology For Sins of Catholic Church, March 12, 2000 - TRANSCRIPT
Elevating & Hiring – Ruthless & Deceitful Professional THUGS – WHY???
“Absolute Papal Power”
“In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church, by applying a form of clericalism that deprived the laity of all power. The celibacy rule also stems from that era...
…The shamelessness with which the Vatican's policy has simply hushed up and neglected the concept of collegiality since then is beyond compare. An unparalleled personality cult prevails once again today, which contradicts everything written in the New Testament. In this sense, one can state this very clearly. Benedict has even accepted the gift of a tiara, a papal crown, the medieval symbol of absolute papal power, which an earlier pope, Paul VI, chose to surrender. I think this is outrageous. He could change all of this overnight, if he wanted to...” Hans Kung - 9/21/11
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Why should Benedict XVI and the hierarchy want to lie about homosexual orientation? What is in it for them to lie? It is not just lying they do - there are tremendous amounts of pressure applied, threats made, and destroying the credibility by attacking the reputation of those who speak the truth about homosexual orientation. Their actions are not unlike the Nazi SA thugs (brown-shirts) they “…stigmatize those who are a threat to the Nation…those who offer resistance to [Hitler’s] dictatorship are mercilessly persecuted” only today w/B16 they are significantly light-years more sophisticated and IT savvy. For the Vatican - money is endless with all due respect – for the hiring of any number of professional accomplices to beat down their opposition, more implicitly all behind close doors. It is just a matter of time for people who have been roughed up begin to compare notes – much in the way the child sexual abuse victims did.
“To 'keep the peace' and maintain law and order, the SA (the Brown Shirts) roamed the streets beating up those who openly opposed Hitler.”
1933 – “They [Nazi Party] stigmatize those who are a threat to the Nation…those who offer resistance to [Hitler’s] dictatorship are mercilessly persecuted by Hitler’s henchmen…Reeducation Centers [are built]…people there are tortured and murdered with his [Hitler’s] consent…”
The S.A. – group of thugs known as the "brown shirts" – was one of the basic tools of the Nazi rise to power.
Watergate & Power ≠ Catholic
Why should B16 feel the need to lie, have the opposition threatened or worst? This all has the feel of the Watergate cover-up. The same directive “follow the money” may apply Benedict XVI and the hierarchy cover-ups. This is just speculation, of course, but if Benedict XVI admitted the truth about homosexuality that it is not evil or intrinsically disordered, then the issue of the finger of blame for the decades of child sexual abuse would fall directly onto Benedict XVI - because he ordered the secrecy and the cover-ups. This is where the money is. Try to imagine the number of lawsuits that would be aimed at Benedict XVI globally and how much money would this amount to? Certainly the amount would be will into billions and billions and likely far beyond. This would clearly seem to be an extremely powerful motivation to lie about homosexual orientation. As well as, the need to hired to the best and brightest PR, IT and thug professionals as accomplices to maintain the cover-up (blaming homosexuals) of the B16 cover-ups.
The Vatican thirst for power divides Christianity and damages Catholicism | Hans Küng - 10/27/2009
After Pope Benedict XVI's offences against the Jews and the Muslims, Protestants and reform-oriented Catholics, it is now the turn of the Anglican communion, which encompasses some 77 million members and is the third largest Christian confession after the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Having brought back the extreme anti-reformist faction of the Pius X fraternity into the fold, Pope Benedict now hopes to fill up the dwindling ranks of the Catholic church with Anglicans sympathetic to Rome. Their conversion to the Catholic church is supposed to be made easier: Anglican priests and bishops shall be allowed to retain their standing, even when married. Traditionalists of the churches, unite! Under the cupola of St Peter's! The Fisher of Men is angling in waters of the extreme religious right…
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Hans Kung Open Letter To Bishops -
Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops - by Hans Küng – 4/04/10
6. Call for a council: Just as the achievement of liturgical reform, religious freedom, ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue required an ecumenical council, so now a council is needed to solve the dramatically escalating problems calling for reform. In the century before the Reformation, the Council of Constance decreed that councils should be held every five years. Yet the Roman Curia successfully managed to circumvent this ruling. There is no question that the Curia, fearing a limitation of its power, would do everything in its power to prevent a council coming together in the present situation. Thus it is up to you to push through the calling of a council or at least a representative assembly of bishops.
All tyranny needs
to
gain a foothold
is
for people
of
good conscience
to
remain silent.
What Can Catholics do Today to – Help Protect all Children?
THE UNTOUCHABLES
There has been reported globally for the past 30 years an overwhelming number of cases of child sexual abuse and in particular that Benedict XVI ordered the secrecy and cover-ups and the hierarchy followed his orders. There is no civil court in the world that can prosecute Benedict XVI and the hierarchy. They are literally above the law - there are no check and balances in the Vatican. To avoid public outrage, Benedict XVI and the hierarchy shifted the blame into homosexuals, which no authoritative research supports. And in doing this Benedict XVI has created hostile antigay social environments that cause lifetime harmful effects to children in early childhood years who grow up gay and it promotes violence and discrimination against adult LGBT people.
The same would be true for heterosexuals, if Benedict XVI and the hierarchy constantly promoted anti-straight unsubstantiated teachings, claiming that they are evil and intrinsically disordered. These false anti-straight teachings would have the same adverse effects on children who would grow up to be heterosexuals in anti-straight social environments.
Sexual orientation is less about sex and more about love, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - - LOVE & RELIGION – 4/30/09
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy antigay unsubstantiated teachings cause explicit and implicit violence that is focused on children who grow to be gay and adults, which is wrongly called Catholic Church teachings. However, by doing so they incorporate all Catholics into their deception twice over to collude with them for covering up the child sexual abuse victims, then for shifting the blame wrongfully onto homosexuals and finally to forget about the harm being caused these 2 groups of human beings allowing them to suffer without end. Benedict XVI and the hierarchy are able to do this, because there is no civil court on earth to hold them accountable for the tremendous harm they have caused and continue to cause to innocent children and adults. Only the public outcry seems to move them to response but only to do as much that is needed to pacify the people and their outcry dies down.
Benedict XVI/Ratzinger & Vatican – April 27, 2010
“They did as much as they had at each point in time given the public outcry, and no more.”
Ireland - Killing the Secrecy Exposing - Benedict XVI & Roman Curia - Response to Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups - 2011
Benedict XVI using the news media with the expertise of PR professionals he attempts to minimize the child sexual abuse cover-ups and to give the impression that he is tacking the issue head on, which the kind of news is not accepted by the victims of the sexual abuse. Benedict XVI last attempt was in February to have what he called a global summit (?) meeting on how to handle the child sexual abuse. But a closer look at the details of this summit (?) there was just over 100 representatives in attendance with only one reluctant adult victim of child sexual abuse invited. It is questionable what kind of summit this really was. Again, this is doing just enough to satisfy the public outcry and no more. (Reference links about this summit meeting at the Vatican are found below.)
We Are All Vulnerable to Committing The
Most Inhuman Act
Against Our Fellow Human Beings
In Part 5, of this series explored Benedict XVI use of false information regarding homosexuals in his relentless antigay propaganda, when it started, and how it may be related to the allegations made against him stating that he globally orchestrated the child sexual abuse cover-ups. Reviewing the research data on propaganda to learn how it is meant to dehumanize an entire group of people, to strip them of their civil rights rendering them powerless and how it is effective in influencing people. Dr. Philip Zimbardo has study in detail the effects of dehumanization and alarmingly found, as did Dr. Stanley Milgram in the 1960’s that we are all vulnerable to committing the most inhuman act against our fellow human beings. Dr. Zimbardo in his latest book The Lucifer Effect (2008) explains how good people can turn evil, as well as offer ways to avoid this process. Dr. David Livingstone in his latest book 'Less Than Human' explores further the process of humanizing our fellow human beings, how we begin to think of them as subhuman and then treat them as such by excluding them of their civil rights. Dr. Milgram’s experiments on obedience to authority, as Dr. Zimbardo and Dr. Livingstone, offer ways to help us avoid being taken by authority to perform acts that go against our personal consciences.
How Obedience to Authority Can Turn Evil
Dr. Stanley Milgram found from his obedience experiments that through obedience to authority turns evil in small incremental steps that slowly increase in aggression and violence against a targeted group of human beings. This helps to explain how Benedict XVI and the hierarchy have incorporated Catholics into their cover-ups of the child sexual abuse. It is by Catholics simply obeying what we believe to be legitimate Church authority without question. However, Catholics were remained by Pope John Paul II as recent as March 12, 2000 that Church authority has not been always so Christ-like in the past, when he publically apologized for their grave sins.
Pope says sorry for sins of church
A PAPAL APOLOGY
Pope John Paul II Makes Unprecedented Apology For Sins of Catholic Church
THE UNTOUCHABLES
Benedict XVI & the hierarchy
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy have been untouchable in answering the truth behind the decades of child sexual abuse cover-ups, because there is no civil court in the world able to hold them accountable. They have continuously against authoritative research tried to shift the blame onto homosexuals. They then allow time to past, the public outcry to die and then they go on as business as unusual ignoring the global injustice they have committed. Who’s to stop them? Catholics would not even seriously think that they could be so unlike Christ.
From Dr. Milgram’s obedience experiments and his results help to give us guidelines to fairly assess Benedict XVI and the hierarchy’s authority and not be seduced into helping to foster social environments that are lawless (1. Benedict XVI and the hierarchy face no accountability for the harm they caused to children by their cover-ups of the child sexual abuse, which they allowed to greatly increased in the number of children being sexual abuse that they could have prevented) and antigay social environments that are harmful, violent and life threatening (2. to innocent children who grow up to be gay and adult LGBT human beings). The way people are lead to being entrapped into doing violent acts against other human beings that are in direct conflict with their moral principles, which they would not do on their own initiative – as mentioned above it happens gradually with small steps.
“Stanley Milgram's famous experiment highlights the powerful human tendency to obey authority. American Psychological Association …
Excerpts:
Findings
Would you obey orders to hurt an innocent individual - even when the authority issuing them has no coercive means to enforce his or her commands? On the basis of one of the 20th century's most important and controversial pieces of research, chances are that you would… Once people have accepted the right of an authority to direct our actions, Milgram argued, we relinquish responsibility to him or her and allow that person to define for us what is right or wrong…
A fourth, and final, application of Milgram's research is that it suggests specific preventive actions people can take to resist unwanted pressures from authorities:
· Question the authority's legitimacy…
· When instructed to carry out an act you find abhorrent, even by a legitimate authority, stop and ask yourself…”Is this something I would do on my own initiative?"
· Don't even start to comply with commands you feel even slightly uneasy about. Acquiescence to the commands of an authority that are only mildly objectionable is often, as in Milgram's experiments, the beginning of a step-by-step, escalating process of entrapment…
· If you are part of a group that has been commanded to carry out immoral actions, find an ally in the group who shares your perceptions and is willing to join you in opposing the objectionable commands. It is tremendously difficult to be a lone dissenter…
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In PART 5 - Obedience to Authority Experiments
CATHOLICS - Question the authority's legitimacy…
CATHOLICS NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES - is Benedict XVI along with his hierarchy to be allowed to turn their backs and even continue to deny harm they caused to the victims of the child sexual abuse? Are they allowed to ignore to be held accountable for their crimes committed against children and harm they cause to children by wrongly shifting the blame onto homosexuals? What does this say about the legitimacy of their authority?
CATHOLICS - When instructed to carry out an act you find abhorrent,
even by a legitimate authority,
stop and ask yourself…
”Is this something I would do on my own initiative?"
Benedict XVI and the hierarchy allow time to past, the public outcry to die out, about the child sexual abuse cover-ups and their shifting the blame wrongly onto homosexuals - and then they go on as business as unusual ignoring the global injustice they have committed.
The new English translation of the Mass - 2011
New Translation of Catholic Mass Makes Its Debut – 11/27/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/nyregion/for-catholics-the-word-was-a-bit-different-amen.html?_r=1
Last November Benedict XVI implemented in all English speaking countries the new English translation for of the Mass. However, this new English translation of the Mass was being put together, including the prorogation during the time that should have been (1) first spent on resolving for each individual victim of the child sexual abuse and (2) making amends for the harm caused and not shifting the blame on to homosexuals.
“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24
CATHOLICS NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES would they on their own go along with accepting Benedict XVI and the hierarchy new English translation of the Mass before above amends is satisfied to the 2 different groups of children?
Minnesota Archbishop Nienstedt implemented last December 2011 a questionable form of a prayer to be said at every mass celebrated in all the Catholic Churches throughout Minnesota. In truth, first, it is a lie, it is a disguised form of hate propaganda and secondly, it is a sacrilege to call it a prayer and order that it is to be read at every mass celebrated throughout Minnesota. Allowing this disguised hate propaganda prayer to be said at mass – is also detrimental in teaching very young children that it is okay to hate some people. This is the same way how Benedict XVI as a very young child was raised in Germany during the rise of Hitler when school children were taught that it was okay to hate Jewish people.
Hitler’s Nazi Propaganda – Targeting German School Children
Minnesota Nienstedt - Archbishop Issues "marriage prayer" for Catholics to recite at mass – December 15, 2011
Reference links:
NY - Archbishop Dolan: GAY MARRIAGE ‘ORWELLIAN SOCIAL ENGINEERING’ - May 13, 2011
Dolan “…says to expand the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage would be…‘perilous to all of us’…[Dolan] called the allegation that anti-gay marriage advocates are prejudiced or bigoted ‘nonsense’”
Minnesota Archbishop Nienstedt: Gay marriage ban is not anti-gay – June 9, 2011
…“Regrettably, the media and some secular commentators have chosen to mischaracterize this measure as ANTI-GAY, MEAN-SPIRITED AND PREJUDICIAL,” wrote Nienstedt…“This is not the case or the intent behind the initiative.”
…Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who says if same-sex marriage is legalized, it could lead to POLYGAMY AND INCEST…
“Pastorally, children flourish best in the context of having both a mother and a father. EVERY SCIENTIFIC STUDY CONFIRMS THIS REALITY,” [Nienstedt] wrote.
But A REVIEW OF 81 STUDIES of many family types released late last year showed the opposite…
Dolan wrote…“If the definition of marriage is continually being altered, could it not in the future be morphed again to include MULTIPLE SPOUSES or even FAMILY MEMBERS?”
CATHOLICS NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES if they would allow this disguised form of hate propaganda to called a prayer and then order it to be said at all the Masses throughout Minnesota?
Our Catholic faith is based on truth and love. “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:45-46
CATHOLICS - Don't even start to comply with commands you feel even slightly uneasy about. Acquiescence to the commands of an authority
that are only mildly objectionable is often, as in Milgram's experiments, the beginning of a step-by-step, escalating process of entrapment…
It is difficult to know what can Individual Catholics and their friends do if they decide the they do not want to comply with Benedict XVI’s New English translation of the Mass and to Nienstedt “disguised hate propaganda prayer” for marriage ordered to be recited at every mass said throughout Minnesota.
This being the season of Lent – the first place to begin is in prayer. FIRST, we should search our own consciences for times in our lives that we have individually committed similar offenses to those of Benedict XVI and the hierarchy. In addition, if reasonably possible, we must make the necessary proper amends required. The sincerity of this spiritual exercise helps remove the superiority attitude that Christ warns cannot be if we want to his followers. It helps us to maintain humility and to be ever watchful in prayer. In essence it makes us more alive, because it helps us to begin removing the blindness that is caused by our pride. True sincerely, in this prayer will give us the courage to be like Christ and stay firm for truth – harming no one.
“How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”. Luke 6:42
The sincerity of this spiritual exercise helps remove the superiority attitude that Christ warns cannot be in us if we want to be his followers. It helps us to maintain humility and to be ever watchful in prayer for truth. In essence it makes us more alive, because it helps us to begin removing the blindness that is caused by our pride.
Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10: 42-45
The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” Luke 6:46-49
Non-Violence, Non-Cooperation - Peaceful Resistance
SECOND, step to remember is non-violence is an absolute must. Nothing can be achieved through violence. Mahatma Gandhi non-violence, non-cooperation and peaceful resistance seem the best way to proceed forward in not complying with Benedict XVI and the hierarchy’s escalating form of entrapment. Already, Benedict XVI and the hierarchy have started publically to humiliate all women that is certainly not Christ’s way.
Catholics and friends of Catholics at masses simply can bow their heads in humble prayer (asking God for help and guidance) and not answer the responses to the new English translation of the Mass. For Minnesota Catholics and friends of Catholics, in addition, to the above, they simply can be seated with their heads bowed in humble prayer (asking God for help and guidance) while Nienstedt “disguised hate propaganda prayer” for marriage is being recited during mass which being said throughout Minnesota.
One – Letters & Many - Copies
THIRDLY, writing letters has great advantages to get a message of truth across. However, these letters are best if sent in paper form through the United States Mail Service. The United States Federal Government then classifies them as a formal document. Emails can simply be deleted even mistakenly deleted and said that they were never received.
Killing the Secrecy
&
Protecting All Children
Suggestions only:
A. Catholics and friends of Catholics can send letters. The letters should be brief. The first paragraph, clearly stating that the “New English Translation of the Mass – 2011” should be immediately discontinued and indefinitely postponed to be use again, until every last child sexual abuse victim has been properly compensated not according to Vatican standards. In addition, proper revelations of the facts of the past 30 years are made public and the criminals brought to justice. The second, paragraph, are for places like Minnesota where Archbishop Nienstedt has brought “disguised hate propaganda prayer” for marriage and ordered that it be recited at every mass said throughout Minnesota. This paragraph can simply stated that the “disguised hate propaganda prayer” for marriage is sacrilegious and is inappropriate to be said at mass or any Catholic service.
B. Letters should be addressed to the local bishop, archbishop or cardinal whatever the case. The letter can be just one page (suggestion only) but it is important that copies of the letters are made and sent to any number of people. The reason for this is that not only are emails deleted, but also even letters can be lost or said they never were received for secrecy purposes. Therefore, copies can be sent to any trust news media reporter locally and/or national.
The names of all the people who are to receive your letter should be listed at the bottom of your letter. This is important for several reasons, I, to help the hierarchy to be honest, 2, that the other addressees are aware that they are a copy of a letter that is being sent to others and 3, to give Catholics a public voice and not allow Benedict XVI and hierarchy to attempt to speak for all Catholics in ways that are threatening – this helps to diminish some of their misuse of power and to become more like servants as Christ intended.
These letters help to break the Silence of Catholics – Begin protecting children – all Children.
Suggestions of other possible addressees:
State Governor,
Local Congresspersons & Senators
Any government official, US president, US Supreme Court Justices
Any Child Sexual Abuse Organizations
Any Parent Organizations of LGBT children
PFLAG, Fortunate Families, Dignity USA, etc.
Group Letters – With Valid Signatures
Suggestions only:
Group letters can be sent – be sure that signatures on the letter are valid. Any forgeries well bring on the Benedict XVI and the hierarchy‘s denouncements implying that all or most of the letters are forgeries.
This is a time when less is more. Major changes in the world were hardly ever brought about by herds of people.
Those who can afford to have their letters notarized and or certified all the better.
In PART 5 - Obedience to Authority Experiments
Anne Rice
Anne Rice – this is not a time to leave the church – that’s what they want her to do the world’s largest corporation. Someone with Ms Rice’s spirit, background, creativity, writing ability and notoriety - she would be more of a threat staying in the Church and helping in doing some Church cleaning for TRUTH. Church cleaning can been done by every Catholic, men and women. Ms. Rice because she is a woman is of special significance in this situation, since women are so devalued by Benedict XVI and the hierarchy. I do not mean in anyway to disrespect her conscience, which it is obvious that it was not an easy decision for her to make. However, with all due respect we could certainly use a “Joan of Arc” for today. We most definitely need women to regain their voice in the Catholic Church – equal to men. Please forgive my ignorance. I do not mean to be disrespectful. I respect that she is a peace. It is easy to understand the anger that is associated with Benedict XVI and hierarchy global misuse of their power, which is first directed against children – the decades of cover-ups of the child sexual abuse and their constant promotion of their unsubstantiated antigay teachings. I look for facts regarding sexual orientation to put the energy of anger to more productive endeavors though I don’t always succeed. It is best to leave anger to Christ.
On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” Mark 11: 15-17
When doing research it is particularly helpful to be able to meet and talk with the professionals in their respective fields of studies regarding human sexuality. How this is what it means to Catholic – not to be afraid but to always be open to learning and growing – rather than stagnating and harming innocent children and adults. I do not have the kind of prestige that Ms. Rice has, which would allow her be well received by professionals in the medical and mental health fields, including the theorists of “natural law.” Nor do I have her aware winning writing ability to present those facts to the public, as a form of teaching. Ms. Rice would be an excellent author to untangle Benedict and the hierarchy doublespeak/spin news media reports. Just searching for the truth and honestly reporting or writing about it is a terrifying threat to Benedict XVI and the hierarchy. They are afraid of the LIGHT; they prefer the darkness and the secrecy, which is regrettable. However, I do not know Ms. Rice personally. I am not well-acquainted Ms. Rice’s activities. I am respectful of Ms. Rice’s decision.
GAY MARRIAGE - Benedict XVI Dismisses Science Reason – Natural Law | Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely | PART 1
GAY MARRIAGE – Understanding – NATURAL LAW & How it can be used? – With or Without - Reason & Rational |To Support - Benedict XVI & Hierarchy’s Vague & Negative Statements Against Homosexuality | PART 2
GAY MARRIAGE – “Doublespeak” Benedict XVI - IRRATIONAL Shift Blame Gays – Evading UN Accusations Global COVER-UPS Child Sexual Abuse “…a COMPLETE FAILURE to take responsibility” | PART 3
GAY MARRIAGE – Non-Violence is Key - Use of Violent Confrontation Strategies - The Moral Arguments of People Who Are Being Unjustly Treated Become Irrelevant – The Use of Violence Only Creates More Violence | PART 4
GAY MARRIAGE – Propaganda Tactics|B16’s Naturalistic fallacy & Homosexuality - Dehumanizing, Depriving Civil Rights, Silencing Gays - Covering Up B16 Crimes Against Children 30+yrs? |PART 5
To be continued:
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Injustice anywhere is a
threat to
Justice everywhere
Martin Luther King
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
What you cannot do is accept injustice.
From Hitler – or anyone.
You must make the injustice visible
– be prepared to die like a
soldier to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
3 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT GROWING UP GAY
A partial list:
1. Sexual orientation is set either just before birth or very soon afterwards
References:
Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality - American Psychological Association
The Science of Sexual Orientation - Researchers Focus on Twins (Video)
Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation
Sexual Conversion Therapies - by Jack Drescher, M.D.
Sexual Conversion Therapy - Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives (2002) -
edited by Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Michael Schroeder, PsyD, and Jack Drescher, MD
Sexual Orientation & ‘Reparative Therapy’
by Jack Drescher, MD – video
Bibliography for Facts about Sexual Orientation
Major - Medical and Mental Heath Associations
Policies & Position Statements - Regarding Sexual Orientation
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Association, AGLP
APSAA, American Psychoanalytic Association
American Psychological Association
American Counseling Association
American Medical Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
Gender Identity Research and Education Society - UK
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Social Workers
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
2. Early psychological development – in a social environment that is anti-gay – causes significant harm to the child’s ability to be in relationships, with others, a job, etc.
References:
Sexual orientation is less about sex and more about love, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - - LOVE & RELIGION
Attachment Theory
Mary Ainsworth: Attachment and the Growth of Love – video
ATTACHMENT THEORY - our first relationship with our carers acts as a LIFELONG TEMPLATE, moulding and shaping our capacity to enter into, and maintain, successful subsequent relationships with family, friends and partners...
Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man
Jack Drescher, M.D. in his book Psychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Mandescribes the complexities related to growing up gay; from his research of developmental narratives of gay adults retrospectively recalling their feelings being gay began in early childhood. These gay feelings had remained constant, and were resistant to being altered. Dr. Drescher explains the contrast of how social norms impact the psychology of the early childhood developmental years of a heterosexual boy and a homosexual boy.
Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development – by Richard A. Isay M.D.
Argues that homosexuality is biologically innate, suggests a natural developmental path for homosexuals, and discusses the problems faced in long-term gay relationships
The overstimulation of everyday life: I. New aspects of male homosexuality
Sidney H. Phillips
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 49:1235-67. 2001
Western heterosexual culture surrounds the homosexually inclined boy in a climate of erotic overstimulation that powerfully affects his development and adult sexual adaptation. This assertion is illustrated through a case presentation of a homosexual man who shared a bed with his brother from childhood into adolescence. Analysis of the patient's transference enactment—repeatedly falling asleep on the couch—gradually revealed the psychic impact of this everyday overstimulation: the creation of a tantalized inner world of longing. The regular occurrence and developmental understanding of adolescent homosexual boys' unrequited love affairs with adolescent heterosexual boys are described and explored. Finally, the overstimulation of everyday life is proposed as a new model for understanding certain behavioral aspects of male homosexuality, such as the avoidance of rough-and-tumble play in childhood and homosexual cruising.
Homosexuality: coming out of the confusion
Sidney H Phillips
Int J Psychoanal 84:1431-50. 2003
In this paper, Dr. Phillips describes the complications of how the historical context of social norms can significantly influence the classification of the components of homosexuality by clinicians causing them to be blind to their own biases. Mindful of our susceptibility to this kind of phenomenon, Dr. Phillips calls to task these biases that pathologize homosexuality simply because it is not consistent with heterosexuality and therefore to be classified as a mental disorder. He offers an alternative description of homosexuality from his clinical research that is consistent with other researchers of early childhood psychological development of children who grow up to be gay.
The Psychology of the Closeted Individual and Coming Out – Jack Drescher, MD
Many LGB individuals report developmental histories with difficulty acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others. This is because, starting in childhood, LGB individuals are often subjected to antihomosexual attitudes, not only from strangers, but also from their own families and communities (Drescher, Stein and Byne, 2005). The childhood need to hide may persist into adulthood, leading many LGB individuals to conceal important aspects of themselves…Read more
Gay Conversion | Religious Conversion - Transforms the Damned into the Saved | COVERING - Kenji Yoshino – 2002 - The Yale Law Journal
Resource Links -- Conversion Therapy
Policy Statements of Professional Organizations
Rockway Institute - Alliant International University
3. Gay teen suicide – Family Acceptance Project - shows relationship between a lack of family acceptance of a gay child and the rate of substance abuse, suicide and others problems
References:
Groundbreaking Study Finds Family Acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Adolescents Protects Against Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicidal Behavior in Early Adulthood – by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, December 6, 2010 - FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT.
Dr. Caitlin Ryan: Reducing Risk and Promoting Well-Being for LGBT Youth: The Critical Role of Family Support – 2009 – podcast
Dr. Caitlin Ryan: Commitment, Intentionality, and Hard Work: What It Takes To Do Culturally Competent, Ground-Breaking Research 2010 – podcast
Family Acceptance Project™ website:
Dr. Caitlin Ryan – Mental Health Matters: How does the “Family Acceptance Project” work? – 2011
Family Acceptance Project™ - Helping diverse families understand how to support their LGBT children – videos
Family Acceptance of LGBT Youth Protects Against Suicide, Depression & Substance Abuse and Predicts Better Health & Self-Esteem
School Victimization of Gender-Nonconforming LGBT Youth Linked with Depression and Quality Of Life In Adulthood
Best Practice Guidelines for Serving LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Family Acceptance Project™ Resource Links:
San Francisco State University Related Programs
LGBT Family-Related Organizations
LGBT Youth Organizations
School-Related Resources
Gender-Related Resources
LGBT Legal Advocacy Organizations
Online Resources for LGBT Youth
Hotlines
Adolescent Health
National LGBT Organizations
LGBT Health-Related Organizations
Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling - By Caitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman
UA professor Stephen T. Russell to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk – 2008
Homophobic families harm gay teenagers, study claims - 2008
Internalized Homophobia and Relationship Quality among Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals - David M. Frost and Ilan H. Meyer - 2009
Journal of Counseling Psychology 2009, Vol. 56, No. 1, 97–109
New Report Shows Inequalities for Children with LGBT Parents
Talking About Suicide & LGBT Populations - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
Preventing Suicide among LGBT Youth by Effie Malley - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
Homophobia Is Killing Our Youth – 2009
Gay Bullying Deaths and Religion: Are Believers the Problem or the Solution? 2010
For Many Gay Youth, Bullying Exacts a Deadly Toll – 2010
Gay bullying and Catholic responsibilities – 2010
Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done – 2010
“Most religious denominations continue to condemn homosexuality as sinful and
provide a rationale for marginalizing LGB people.” - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
Social Environment - Although the social environment itself has not been defined as a risk factor for suicide, widespread discrimination against LGBT people, heterosexist attitudes, and gender bias can lead to risk factors such as isolation, family rejection, and lack of access to care providers. Risk factors may interact in unhealthy ways—for example, internalized homophobia or victimization may lead to stress, which is associated with depression and substance abuse, which can contribute to suicide risk. This risk may be compounded by a lack of protective factors that normally provide resilience, such as strong family connections, peer support, and access to effective health and mental health providers…
Herek and colleagues (2007) describe a framework to understand the social environment for sexual minorities. The framework integrates the sociological idea of stigma with the psychological idea of prejudice. Through stigma, society discredits and invalidates homosexuality relative to heterosexuality. Institutions embodying stigma results in heterosexism, and heterosexual individuals internalizing stigma results in prejudice. The United States legal system has faced challenges by sexual minorities and sympathetic heterosexuals that have led to significant changes. However, the legal system continues to reinforce stigma through discriminatory laws and the absence of laws protecting sexual minorities from discrimination in employment, housing, and services. A minority of states had antidiscrimination laws as of 2005, and most of these only referred to employment and not to housing or services. Most religious denominations continue to condemn homosexuality as sinful and provide a rationale for marginalizing LGB people…
See no Race, See no Gay: What Proponents of a Gay-Blind Approach to Bullying in the Schools can Learn from Race Relations - by Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D. and Nestor L. Lopez-Duran PhD,
2010 - Psychology Today
Bullying, gay teen suicides, and a need for a solution – 2010 - Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, PhD. - clinical child psychologist and researcher, University of Michigan
Bullies and Victims: Boys will be boys or a symptom of distress? 2009 -Child Psychology Research
http://www.child-psych.org/2009/10/bullies-and-victims-a-risk-for-psychopathology.html#comment-47375
The cruelties of STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE on CHILDREN are often subtle, unspoken, unrecognized, and even normalized, regarded by many people as natural or “just the way things are.” Daniel J. Christie - Peace, Conflict, and Violence:
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century.
Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims -122110
Related links:
John Jay Report: On Not Blaming Homosexual Priests – 51711
"No public figure talks more about child safety but does little to actually make children safer than Pope Benedict" 112611
The New John Jay Report on Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church – “The researchers conclude that there is no causative relationship between either celibacy or homosexuality and the sexual victimization of children in the Church.” 51811
Facts about Homosexuality and Child Molestation - Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D.
Roman Catholic Hierarchy child sexual abuse “cover-ups” ordered by Benedict XVI to avoid public outrage & criminal charges falsely accused gay priests, WATERGATE? – January 2, 2010
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