Vatican II, Homosexuality & Pedophilia [Paperback]

Atila Sinke Guimaraes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2004

How is it possible that the Vatican remains silent regarding homosexuality and pedophilia in the Catholic clergy? In the United States it is common to link the impunity of these priests to the cover-up of the Bishops. But why were such Bishops in turn not punished or at least strongly censured? Why are many homosexual and pedophile priests being chosen to be become Bishops? Certainly, with such attitudes the Vatican promotes these vices. What is the explanation?

In this book Guimarães offers two reasons:

First, Vatican Council II introduced a new morals in the Catholic Church. This new morality is meant to adapt itself to modern psychological theories that presume sexual desires should not be repressed.

Second, homosexuality and pedophilia infiltrated such high positions in the Catholic Hierarchy that for the present-day Vatican to punish the guilty parties would be tantamount to gravely damaging itself.

These are causes many Catholic suspect, but only few have the courage to express. This book constitutes a noble denunciation made for the love of the Catholic Church, and turned toward Our Lord asking Him to heal her.

The work is also a valuable resource tool, presenting Catholic teaching on homosexuality with quotes from Scriptures, Popes, Saints and Canon Law.

Editorial Reviews

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Bravo! The work is excellent and should strike the conscience of any bishop with the courage to read it! -- Mary Ann Panevska, www.TraditionInAction.org, March 13, 2004

I encourage our readers to read Guimaraes shocking, but true and well documented account of the whole sordid sad affair. -- Michael Cain, editor, www.DailyCatholic.com, March 15, 2004

"I read with fascination and sadness Tradition In Action's' scholarly review of the sex abuse scandal within the Church. We cannot talk too much or get angry too often that such conduct would occur within our faith community. Thank you for thinking of me." -- - ex-Governor Frank Keating, past chairman of the National Review Board

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"As with all your books the statement on the back cover is ever so true 'What many Catholic suspect ... only a few have the courage to express.' You are, indeed, outstanding among those few "noble denunciators."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Tradition In Action, Inc. (March 3, 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0972651624
• ISBN-13: 978-0972651622
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,364,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely brilliant - the best of its kind, April 19, 2008

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W. C. Bonner "young fogey" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vatican II, Homosexuality & Pedophilia (Paperback)

This is the Holy Grail. A methodical, systematic review of the origins and outcomes of the priest sexual abuse scandal from the viewpoint of a devout Catholic rather than an atheist on the faculty of a journalism school.

Guimaraes has created a work that should be referred to both today and in 50 years by:

- presenting the complete Scriptural and Magisterial proscriptions against homosexuality

- outlining the documents from Vatican II used to rationalize the more lenient Vatican documents to follow

- demonstrating how bishops and seminary rectors believed lenient statements from the Vatican in the 1970's and 1980's provided cover for their recruitment of homosexuals to the seminary

- reviewing how the breakdown of morals associated with homosexual activity in the seminaries resulted in ordained priests believing that the same license should extend to boys they came in contact with

- providing a list of every single publicly identified case of clerical sexual abuse in the United States from 1985 until 2003

- perhaps most disheartening, revealing how the Curia actually demanded that the proposals of the USCCB after the June 2002 meeting be changed so that it would be more diffcult to remove abusing priests from ministry

- demonstrating (in the 'sophisms' section) how a return to orthodoxy will be the only successful way to prevent a re-occurence of this scandal and how "liberal" proposals are doomed to failure in that regard

I wish the distribution of this was better, because it deserves to be regarded as the definitive historical document of the most tragic episode in the history of the church in the United States. Buy this for every one you can afford to, and lend it to everyone else.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pink Elephant, April 18, 2005

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John T. Turner (Nevada City, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vatican II, Homosexuality & Pedophilia (Paperback)

If this book was not so thououghly researched and footnoted a reader might suspect the author's intentions. If one thinks that the pedophelia scandal has gone away or that simply a few bad priests that slipped through the cracks into the priesthood, buy the book! Remember that 85% of the victims were young males! Of course, the priests who victimized these boys were homosexuals! And, you might ask why bishops protected them! Within the ranks of the clergy lives a pink elephant and this beast is protected by a lavender mafia. If you are curious as to the orientation of the clergy, buy the book. You'll be shocked.