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We might as well call it the Perverted Priest Problem. Some men of homosexual inclinations are using their place within the Catholic Church to gratify themselves sexually. More disgusting than Cardinal McCarrick’s behavior is the widespread network of prelates who must have been covering for him. But even these men aren’t the whole story. The very day the news about Cardinal McCarrick broke, the Vatican released the working document for the upcoming Synod on Youth.It used the “LGBT” acronym, the first such use in a Vatican document. This shows that high-ranking prelates are running interference for people like McCarrick. As everyone knows by now, the Vatican removed Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from ministry, due to credible allegations that he abused a minor 47 years ago. As events have unfolded, more credible witnesses have accused the cardinal, each more revolting than the last. Compared with horror of this magnitude, vocabulary in a Church document may seem like a trivial matter.

Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes criticized fellow German Cardinal Reinhard Marx ’s suggestion that Catholic priests should consider “blessing” same-sex relationships liturgically. Marx’s idea “truly seems sacrilegious” and “ignores the clear Revelation of God,” Cordes wrote in a response on kath.net. Dr. Maike Hickson translated it at  One Peter Five . “The Church is in its pastoral care bound to Holy Scripture and to its interpretation through the Church’s Magisterium,” wrote Cordes. “Marx does not even mention that homosexuality always contradicts the Will of God,” citing church teaching through the centuries. Rather than being about receiving “God’s assistance for themselves,” those engaging in sodomy and wishing to have it “blessed” by the Church “aim with their request at the recognition and acceptance of their homosexual way of life and its ecclesial valorization.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “under no circumstances” can homosexual activity “b

93-year-old Gregory Baum , a famed Canadian Catholic ex-priest, has in his latest book revealed that he secretly led an active homosexual life for decades. Baum, who was a   peritus  or expert at the Second Vatican Council , reportedly composed the first draft of the conciliar document   Nostra aetate , the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions . Baum advocated for the elimination of the Church’s efforts to encourage Jews to recognize Christ as the Messiah and has since pushed social justice and liberation theology. The influential cleric reveals candidly in   The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway , “I did not profess my own homosexuality in public because such an act of honesty would have reduced my influence as a critical theologian.” “I was eager to be heard as a theologian trusting in God as   salvator mundi   and committed to social justice, liberation theology, and global solidarity.” Baum was also influential in t