A Guest Document
Homily given at the Church of St.
Raphael in Crystal, Minnesota
by Fr. Robert Altier
August 19, 2018
INTRODUCTION
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The
Homily
In the second reading today St. Paul tells us that we have to make the
most of our opportunity because the days are evil. We aren't just
simply living in days that are evil, we are living in the days that
Isaiah spoke about, the days when they will call evil good and good
evil. And we have been brainwashed into thinking that evil things are
okay, they're not.
So, from this point forward, what I am about to say is completely
politically incorrect and if you have young ears that you don't want to
hear it, you may want to take a fifteen-minute walk.
In the last couple of weeks, we have heard some pretty unfortunate
things. A cardinal of the Church who abused children and young men, and
now in Pennsylvania the grand jury report: 301 priests violated more
than a thousand children. And on top of that we have the episcopal
cover-up, the word episcopal means bishops, so the cover-up by the
bishops. And, it's not just simply a cover-up, it's an agenda.
If you've listened carefully, since 2002 when all this broke, the
bishops keep on coming back to the same point: pedophilia, its
pedophilia, it's pedophilia, its pedophilia. No, it's not. In fact, the
John Jay Institute, the group that the bishops themselves hired to look
at what was going on, came back and said this is a homosexual problem.
86.6% (if I recall correctly) of all of the abuse cases were on
post-pubescent males, and the bishops told them, “No, you go back and
you rewrite it and you say that it isn't a homosexual problem. ”So,
they came back and said, “Well, 86.6% of this is all about
post-pubescent males, but it's not a homosexual problem. ”Like really?
So, pedophilia is the violation of pre-pubescent children, less than 3%
of all of these cases were pedophilia. Ephebophilia is the violation of
post-pubescent children, pederasty particularly, post-pubescent males.
That's what we are dealing with here.
Now we need to make an important distinction, there are some very, very
good people who struggle with a homosexual orientation. All of us
struggle with different things, that doesn't mean that we're a bad
person just because we have certain weaknesses. And the Church
recognizes that that orientation is not evil, it is the activity which
is evil. And so, for these men who want to live a good life and who are
trying to fight against those temptations and the struggles, this is a
cross. And it is a huge cross that they have to carry. In fact, you can
think how much God loves these people if He allows them to carry a
cross that is that big; it's huge.
Now we need, as again we look at our own selves, we can say all right,
there are some, for instance, who struggle with alcohol or people who
struggle with pornography, whatever. If they're really trying to fight
against those temptations these are good people with a weakness. That's
different, for instance, from the drug dealer, or from the guy who is
making pornography, or the guy who is trafficking the women or
something; those people are pigs. The guy who is struggling and trying
to live a good life is a good person with a weakness. And that is the
distinction that we need to keep in mind.
And so, the Church is very clear that even for men with a deep-seated
homosexual tendency, that they are not to go to the seminary. That's
not because the Church is being discriminatory or hates these people,
but rather because the same principle if you look at it and say: would
you take somebody who is struggling with an alcohol addiction to a bar?
It's a point of temptation. We donut allow men into women's convents
because it's not going to be long before somebody's going to be having
problems. And that's what the Church is looking at to say this is not
good.
Go back to when I was in college seminary. I was having a conversation
with another seminarian, in the midst of the conversation he looked at
me and said, “Would you ever consider taking a shower in the women's
locker room?” I said, “Certainly not. He said, “Well, why not?” I said,
“Well, the temptations and the problems…” and he said, “You're right.
Now you know what I have to go through when I go into a men's locker
room. ”I thought, “Oh my goodness…yuck. ”This is why the Church says
even for these good men who are struggling and trying to overcome this,
we donut want to put them in a point of temptation.
So those are not the people that we are having a problem with. The
people that we are having a problem with come from two different
groups, and understand there is an intentional and malicious
infiltration of the Church for the purpose of destroying her from
within. This is what you need to understand.
When I was in the seminary, it was one of the worst seminaries in the
nation. 1983 is when our seminary was at its absolute worst; I started
in ‘85. It was getting slightly better. But these people were so
arrogant. I should point out when I was in the seminary if you were not
homosexual or a radical feminist you were in big trouble. One of the
professors actually was arrogant enough to stand up in front of the
class and say, “Martin Luther had the right idea, but he did it the
wrong way – he left the Church. You can't change the Church from the
outside you can only change it from the inside, so we're not leaving.”
So, these are people with an agenda. And what are the two groups? The
two groups are: number one, a group of predatory homosexuals. They
started their infiltration of the Church in 1924. You want to look it
up? There is a book called The Homosexual Network written in 1982, so
this is 20 years before all of this stuff hit. A man named Enrique
Rueda looked at all of this, studied all of their own publications,
(they were publishing every year the number of seminarians, priest and
bishops they had), he traced it back to when they started, it began in
1924. And then five years later, in 1929, the communists began their
infiltration of the priesthood and the two groups did exactly the same
thing. You want to read about the communist one?
There is a woman by the name of Bella Dodd who was a deep-seated
communist who got out of communism and converted to the Faith. She
testified before congress in 1953, and in that testimony she said that
“We got the instructions from Kremlin in 1929 as to what we were to
do,” and she said, “we were to take the best and the brightest, the
guys who were smart enough to live a double life, good looking guys who
were sociable so that they would be noticed by their bishop, and they
would get promoted, they would become vocation directors, they would
become bishops, they would become rectors of seminaries, they would
have influential positions,” and she said, “we were successful beyond
our wildest imagination. ”She said: “I am personally responsible for
more than 1,200 seminarians, priests and bishops.” And in 1953 mind
you, again, now they started in 1929, in 1953 she said: “We already
have four cardinals in the Vatican.” That was 1953, it's way worse
today.
So, we have these two groups. If you want to read about her, she wrote
a book called School of Darkness, that was published in 1954. You want
to understand why all of the promotion, the propaganda, the agenda? You
can go back and read another book that was written in 1932 by a man
named William Foster. William Foster ran for the president of the
United States in 1924, 1928 and 1932 for the Communist Party USA. In
1932 he wrote a book called Toward Soviet America. And in that book, he
said, “We aren't being able to get to the Americans because of three
things, their morality, their family and their patriotism.” And he
said, “So the way that we are going to attack these three things is
through homosexuality and radical feminism.” They have been
extraordinarily successful.
So, what are we dealing with? We are dealing with a group of predatory
homosexuals who became priests not to serve the Church but to destroy
Her from within. In this, they are at every level. There was – there is
an article that just came out from the Catholic Register in which six
priests from the Newark diocese were interviewed and they spoke about
the homosexual network in their diocese. It's in all of them, not just
in Newark. They cover up for another, they share their victims with one
another, they do all kinds of horrible things. It is so widespread now
that there is actually talk on the federal level of using the RICO laws
against the Church because of this kind of nonsense that's been going
on.
And people ask, “Why donut the good priests speak up?” I was talking to
a friend of mine the other day, he looked at me and he said: “I've
known about this for 50 years and you've known about it for 40 years.”
Yep, it's about time it's coming out. So why didn't somebody speak up?
Number one, if I would have stood here even a couple of years ago,
would you have believed what I am telling you? Number two, who were we
supposed to go to? It was at every single level all the way to the top.
You wanted to be ordained a priest, you couldn't say a word. And even
as a priest you can't.
Again, these priests that were interviewed in the Catholic Register
were interviewed only because of anonymity. It required anonymity
because they were afraid of what was going to happen to them if the
bishops and the people at the chancery found out who it was that spoke.
These people have that much power. And so, we need to realize that. So,
again just to tell you a quick story about how bad things were. When I
was in the seminary, they would put up their communist propaganda, I
would rip it down and every time I would do that there would be an
announcement “Whoever is taking the notices off the bulletin board…
”When I would put up a notice that says we were going to pray the
Rosary, that would get torn down immediately and there was never
anything said. Now having said that, thankfully the seminary today is
way, way better than it was. These young guys are not having to deal
with this trash, but that was the climate at the time.
Now if we just use the McCarrick situation, since that's been in the
news, everyone is disgusted with what this man did to boys and to young
men, and rightly so. But anybody, by the way, who thinks that all of
this is just great – they're such nice people and they're no different
– look at what McCarrick did: that is what predatory homosexuality
looks like.
These are not nice people who are just like everybody else. But as
disgusting as all that is, think about the fact that this man was in
the pulpit for 50 years, he sat in the confessional, he was in the
bishop's office making decisions about priests’ lives, about diocesan
finances, about the direction of the diocese and so on. He served on
Vatican commissions, he was a consultant to the Vatican, he made lots
of bishops. What kind of advice do you think somebody struggling with
some sexual problem in the confessional would have gotten from somebody
like this?
What kind of men do you think might have been elevated to be bishops by
somebody like this?
You now understand why all that we get is fluff and stuff instead of
good homilies? You understand why there are problems in the world that
aren't being addressed? That's what it is about. Where is the doctrinal
integrity? Where is the moral teaching? Someone that is not living it
is not going to teach it. Now there are, after this grand jury report
came out a few days ago from Pennsylvania, there are several more
states already talking about doing their own grand jury investigation.
It will probably go all over the place, so I say that to simply say
there is going to be more in the news coming up.
And as sad as this is, we have to recognize that it is actually
something very good. It is the purification of the Church and that is
going to lead ultimately to Her crucifixion. Not many are going to
remain faithful, unfortunately. But when we look at it and say, “Well,
if this is what is going on in the Church, what are we supposed to do?”
We are supposed to look at Jesus and say exactly what St. Peter said,
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life”.
I have spoken with a number of people in the last week or two about
what's going on; prayerful, holy people and they have all concurred on
the same point – Our Lady's work has finally begun. Praise God!
She gave the bishops 16 years to clean up this mess and they did
nothing. Now we are hearing from the bishops the same exact thing that
we heard back in 2002: “Oh we need more policies and we need to do…”
Nonsense. We need action, we donut need more policies, but nobody is
listening. It’s too late. The bishops are even admitting that they have
lost all of their moral authority. Nobody trusts them anymore, which is
really sad because we do have some really good bishops and they are
going to get lumped into the same group.
But remember, our faith is not in priests, it is not in bishops or
cardinals, it is not even in the Pope. Our faith is in Jesus Christ,
period. And we need to keep our focus on Jesus, He is the one who
founded the Church, He is the one who promised the jaws of hell would
not prevail against her. So, this is a time of trial for the Church,
and the Church is going to appear to be destroyed. The Church is Jesus
Christ. Look at what happened to Jesus. His apostles had to make a
decision: were they going to remain faithful all the way up to Calvary
or were they going to run away?
You and I now have to make that same decision, are we going to remain
faithful or are we going to run away? What we are going through – or is
just beginning – is like a mom with a teenage kid. The mom has told the
kid, “Clean your room, clean your room, clean your room, clean your
room” and they didn't do it. Finally, mom gets tired, grabs a garbage
bag, and heads toward the teenager's room. At that point the kid
panics, but it's too late; there's no stopping mom once she starts for
that room. And the kid starts out by despairing, thinking mom's going
to throw everything away. When it's all done the kid is actually really
happy, the room is immaculate. That’s what's going to happen.
I've been telling people for 20 years that back 2000 years ago Jesus
cleaned out the temple, but He did it like a man: He picked up the big
stuff in the middle of the room. This time He's sending His Mom; she's
going to clean like a woman: there won't be a cobweb left and there
will be no dust, not even in the corners. She’s going to clean house
and it is going to be beautiful. But, it's not going to be pleasant
getting there. The resurrection will happen only after the crucifixion,
and are we going to remain faithful?
So what has happened and what is happening is horrible, it is tragic,
it is disgusting; put in whatever other adjective you want to put in
there trying to describe it, but actually in the Church it's not even
the worst. Depending on which study you read, in public schools
anywhere between 4 and 8 out of every 10 kids is violated somewhere in
their 13 years in public schools by a teacher. That’s all being covered
up too.
So, you'll notice that the media, the politicians, the educators, they
are all focused on the Church because they are trying to keep the focus
off themselves. That's okay because you know what, read the first
letter of St. Peter. He says the purification begins in the house of
God and he said if this is what happens in the house of God what's
going to happen when it goes outside of the house of God? It’s all
going down. It just starts in the Church, praise God, because it needs
to be cleaned up. Our Mother is going to clean the house and she has
begun that work.
St. John Paul spoke of a new springtime, Our Lady of Fatima spoke about
a Triumph of her Immaculate Heart, and after that Triumph she said
there would be a long period of peace and unprecedented growth for the
Church. So that's what's coming. It is not a point of despair, it is
not something we should run away from, we need to remain faithful, we
need to continue to pray and we need to fast because our Lord told us
with this kind of demon only prayer and fasting is going to be able to
get rid of it. So that's a choice we all have to make, we are going to
go through some hard times, but we have that resurrection, the new
springtime, that Triumph of our Lady's Immaculate Heart. So, all I can
tell you is: no matter what happens, remain faithful to Jesus. It is
just that simple.
St. Louis de Montfort told us that in these times, the latter times, he
said that God is going to raise up the greatest Saints that we have
ever seen. Even to the point, he said, that those Saints will tower
over the Saints of the past the way that a cedar of Lebanon towers over
a shrub. Think about some of the great Saints we have, and they are
going to look like shrubs compared to what's coming. And you can be one
of those Saints. There is no reason why you can't. So that's when we,
again, put it into context of what St. Paul said in the Second Reading
today, this is making the best out of the situation. The times are evil
so make the best of your opportunity, he said. Remain faithful to Jesus
all the way to the crucifixion and become a great Saint.
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