Randy Engel Randy Engel, one of the nation's top investigative reporters, began her journalistic career shortly after her graduation from the University of New York at Cortland, in 1961. A specialist in Vietnamese history and folklore, in 1963, she became the editor of The Vietnam Journal, the official publication of the Vietnam Refugee and Information Services, a national relief program in South Vietnam for war refugees and orphans based in Dayton, Ohio. She recorded for the Voice of America and Radio Saigon. In 1970, she received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptional and meritorious service to Vietnam." http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/engel/131110
Wow direct and to the point and backed up with credible research.... maybe this letter should come with warning: "Graphic Content"
Whoa! That is one good article. Bet she had to have a drink after that. Heck, I might need one!! I do however object to one paragraph which throws a wrench in the thing with scandal. How does she know this?????
Extensive article, but lacking in charity and respect for the Holy Father. Examples: " I must assume that your unfortunate decision to use the politically correct language of gayspeak was deliberate. In normal times this action might have been overlooked with a wink and a nod, but in wartimes it smells of treason and corruption." "Yet you seem totally oblivious to the use of ideology by the Homosexual Collective when it is presented right in front of your nose." "The bottom line is that Kairos understands, as you apparently do not, that in any war, verbal strategy is as important as military strategy." "You show little or no appreciation of the depths of depravity, violence and degradation associated with the act of sodomy..." "The sooner you correctly identify pederasty, and its handmaiden, homosexuality, as major factors in the clerical sexual abuse of minors as well as the corruption and disintegration of the Catholic priesthood and religious life, the sooner you will become part of the solution rather than part of the problem." Honoring our Father is a commandment, not a suggestion. St. Catherine of Siena wrote letters to popes, and the letters were strong but always infused with love. And she didn't publish them abroad to call attention to herself.
We should never use the term 'gay' to describe homosexuals. Gay is a social constuct that attempts to justify an abominable lifestyle. True love is to tell and speak the truth in love. Scripture is clear that those living and practising that lifestyle shall not inherit eternal life. The price of an eternal soul is always paid for by the precious blood of the Lamb.
My point is, there is no love in that letter! I don't disagree with the facts as stated, but with the lack of charity. She is condescending and insulting. Another example: "This is how you spell T-R-A-N-S-P-A-R-E-N-C-Y." I wouldn't use that tone in a letter to President Obama, let alone the Pope!!! I heard Dr. Scott Hahn say that Fr. Michael Scanlan told him during his interview for employment at Franciscan University, "The Lord is offended by pride, especially when you're right." This woman seems to be very bright, and wrote a book that seems to be an exhaustive look at the scandal of homosexuality in the Church. But as St. Paul said, "If I speak in human and angelic tongues* but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. (I Corinthians, 13:1) We will be judged on our love.
I agree with your point on pride. However she has been at this a long time, and I am sure she is frustrated and feeling no one is listening. How long can this apostasy last?
What we have here is an acknowledged expert, who has invested much time and study into the causes and effects of this great sin as it relates to the Church but who has little influence outside the Church correcting someone who is clearly not an expert but who has enormous influence in the world. She points up the fact that he may be (at the very least) 'playing into the hands' of enemies of the Church and I am personally very glad that she did so. It needed to be said though it might have been done with a little more diplomacy. To refer to Ricca's 'problems' as 'sins of youth' is disingenuous when he was in his forties and in a position of some influence when several serious alleged incidents occurred. The facts appear to be that the 'homosexual lobby' in the Curia doctored files relating to a recommended appointee (Ricca) to make a fool of a Pope who was elected as a strong man to clean up the 'Augean Stables' of the Vatican when he made his very first appointment. The Pope believes in collegiality acknowledging that he needs the expertise of others and is interested in bringing women to the fore of Church government. I don't understand why Randy Engels doesn't have a very important role in the Vatican as I write.
[quote How long can this apostasy last?[/quote] OOOOH NOOOO! Thats like asking, how bad can it get? or after childbirth, "That wasn't so bad..", or "My kids would n-e-v-e-r do that...!" I'm just saying...
I don't understand why Randy Engels doesn't have a very important role in the Vatican as I write.[/quote] Great idea! Why do things like this never happen?
You are probably right Kathy, there is however a holy/just anger which is virtueous... Justifiable indignation. It is permissible and even laudable when accompanied by a reasonable desire to inflict justifiable punishment. Christ himself was filled with righteous anger against the vendors who had desecrated the house of God. Such anger is allowable only if it tends to punish those who deserve punishment, according to the measure of their guilt, and with the sincere intention to redress what harm may have been done or to correct the wrongdoer. Otherwise the anger is sinfully excessive. The necessary provision is always that there is no tinge of hatred and no desire for revenge.
MS7, I have not investigated this "scandal", but there was a priest who was Padre Pio's "selected" understudy to continue the fight against ecclesiastical freemasonry, Mgr. Luigi Villa. I have been afraid he may be true. Here is a piece of his book No to the Beatification of Paul 6: Paul VI – according to experts in heraldry and nobility – was a descendant of converted Jews. In addition, he had been “initiated” into the Lodge of B’nai B’rith. Prince Scotersco wrote that the election of Card. Montini to the papacy was due to the intervention of some representatives of the High Jewish Masonry of B’nai B’rith. The most prominent and powerful collaboratotors of Paul VI were Freemasons. Among these: - Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, his personal Secretary from 1967 to 1978; - Cardinal Jean Villot, for many years Secretary of State of Pope Paul VI; - Cardinal Agostino Casaroli the man to whom he entrusted his Ostpolitik; - Cardinal Ugo Poletti, representative of Paul VI in the Diocese of Rome; - Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, Prefect of the “Congregation for Bishops”; - Cardinal Joseph Suenens, one of the great electors of Paul VI; - Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, to which Paul VI entrusted the Liturgical Reform; - Cardinal Franz Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna; - Cardinal Achille Lienart; - Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, president of the IOR, linked to the Mafia. Other evidence of Paul VI’s membership into Freemasonry are: - On the tile N. 12 of the “bronze door” of St. Peter’s Basilica, there is a “five-pointed star” inscribed within a circle imprinted on the back of the left hand of Paul VI. - The Monument to Paul VI, on the Sacro Monte of Varese, glorifies the three betrayals of
I have a great love for St Catherine of Siana, Kathy , she is my favourite saint. St Tereasa of Avila used to say, 'I am a child of the Church'....and this is so very,very true of St Catherine. She burnt herself out like a little candle giving her whole life for its conversion. I think it was in Rome itself that she offered herself up as a sacrificial victim for the ending of the schism and her offering was accepted. As far as I recall she mentioned that she felt as though her very bones were on fire after her sacrifice to God was accepted and she died not long afterwards. Many souls have offered themselves up for the Church and their sacrifice was accepted. I think one of the reasons why her to-the- point letters to the Pope, to Cardinals and Church luminaries were so generally accepted was that they were very much couched in the language of love, that they were coming from a woman of huge prayer and a heart over flowing with love. That they were , 'In the family' , so to speak. We can take critique from , 'In the family', which if it came from outsiders would make us slide into a rage. I have to say that the older I grow and the more I find out, the less I know. The only thing I do know is that the Holy Father and the Church needs prayer and sacrifice and love. I have no magic solutions or insights. All I have is love and prayer. St Catherine has so much to teach us, in this as in much else. "Comfort you, dearest father," she writes to Raimondo: "Concerning the sweet Bride of Christ: for the more she abounds in tribulations and bitterness, so much the more Divine Truth promises to make her abound in sweetness' St Catherine
http://www.drawnbylove.com/Scudder letters.htm LETTERS DESCRIBING THE EXPERIENCE PRECEDING DEATH "Fightings and fears within, without," had long been Catherine's portion. Now the end was at hand. From girlhood she had confronted a great contradiction. The sharpest trial to Christian faith throughout the ages is probably the spectacle presented by the visible Church of Christ. This abiding parable of the contrast between ideal and actual was perhaps never more painful to the devout soul than in Catherine's time, and perhaps we are safe in saying that no one ever suffered from it more than she. Her whole life was an Act of Faith: faith the more heroic because maintained against the recurrent attacks of spiritual doubt and despair. At more than one point in her career we see her, overwhelmed by the seeming failure of the divine purpose, lifting her whole being into the Presence of God, there to receive reassurance, none the less satisfying to her vigorous intellect because conveyed through the channel of mystic ecstasy. One such experience may be quoted here. It dates apparently from the time of her greatest disappointment in Gregory; we can judge of its significance and depth from the fact that she afterward recorded it more fully, and used it as the basis for the first book of her "Dialogue." "Comfort you, dearest father," she writes to Raimondo: "Concerning the sweet Bride of Christ: for the more she abounds in tribulations and bitterness, so much the more Divine Truth promises to make her abound in sweetness.... When I had thoroughly understood your letters, I begged a servant of God to offer tears and sweats before God, for the Bride and because of the 'Babbo's' weakness. "Whence instantly, by divine grace, there grew in her a desire and gladness beyond all measure. She waited for the morning to have Mass, it being the Day of Mary; and when the hour of Mass had come, took her place with true self-knowledge, abasing herself before God for her imperfection. And rising above herself with eager desire, and gazing with the eye of her mind into Eternal Truth, she made four petitions there, holding herself and her father in the Presence of the Bride of Truth. "First, the reform of Holy Church. Then God, letting Himself be constrained by tears and bound by the cords of her desire, said: 'Sweetest My daughter, thou seest how she has soiled her face with impurity and self-love, and become swollen by the pride and avarice of those who feed at her bosom. But take thy tears and sweat, drawing them from the fountain of My divine charity, and cleanse her face. For I promise thee that her beauty shall not be restored to her by the sword, nor by cruelty or war, but by peace, and humble continual prayers, tears and sweats, poured forth from the grieving desires of My servants. So thy desire shall be fulfilled in long abiding, and My providence shall in no wise fail you.' "Although the salvation of all the whole world was contained in this, nevertheless the prayer reached out more in particular, entreating for the whole world. Then God showed in how great love He had created man, and He said: 'Now thou seest that every one is striking at Me. See, daughter, with what diverse and many sins they strike at Me, and especially with their wretched abominable self-love, whence issues every evil, with which they have poisoned the whole world. Do you then, My servants, adorn you in My Presence with many prayers, and so you shall mitigate the wrath of divine justice. And know that no one can escape from My Hands. Open the eye of thy mind and gaze upon My Hand.' And lifting her eyes she saw held in His grasp all the universal world. Then He said: 'I will that thou know that no one can be taken from Me; for all are under either justice or mercy; therefore all are Mine. And because they came forth from Me, I love them unspeakably, and shall show them mercy by means of My servants.' Then, the flame of desire increasing, that woman abode as one blessed and grieving, and gave thanks to the Divine Goodness: as perceiving that God had showed her the faults of His creatures that she might be constrained to arise with more zeal and greater desire. And so greatly increased the holy fire of love, that she despised the sweat of water she poured forth, through her great desire to see a sweat of blood pour from her body: and she said to herself, 'Soul mine, thou hast wasted thy whole life. Therefore have so great losses and evils fallen on the world and on Holy Church, in general and in particular. So now I wish thee to atone with sweat of blood.' Then that soul, spurred on by holy desire, arose much higher, and opened the eye of her mind, and gazed into the Divine Charity: where she saw and felt how much we are bound to seek the glory and praise of the Name of God in the salvation of souls." In this remarkable passage we see Catherine's high and increasing sense of responsibility. Her tears and sweats are to cleanse the face of the Church, and through the grieving desire of the servants of God, redemption is to be accomplished. She was never, as we know, one of those Christian fatalists whose optimism leads them to inaction. From the day when, reluctant, she left her little cell, she threw her power with unwearied constancy and courage into the life of her day, repugnant though its problems might be to her natural temper. Catherine was, however, profoundly convinced that social salvation was to be wrought, not by work alone, but also by prayer; or rather, for the antithesis is false, that the forces which re-create society are set in motion in the invisible sphere. Constant intercession, and the uplifting of that "holy desire" which is the watchword of her teaching into a sacrificial passion--these are the means from which she hoped for reform and purification. In younger life, she is said to have prayed that she might be made a stopper in the mouth of Hell to prevent other souls from entering; through the quaint mediaeval figure one reads the prevailing impulse of her life. The longer Catherine lived, the darker became the religious prospect. She saw her aims in practical politics realized one by one, only to mock her by spiritual failure. Those whom she best loved disappointed her ideal. She witnessed iniquity in high religious places, violence and corruption enlisted in the defence of truth. As she watched these things, the sense of an inward expiation to be accomplished became overpowering. It summoned her to death, and at the same time offered her a unique consolation. These letters must now speak for themselves. They were written shortly before her death to Fra Raimondo, who, sadly though he had failed her, remained her most trusted friend. We have impressive accounts from other sources of Catherine's slow _transitus_--of the long weeks during which she was literally dying, and by her own choice, of a broken heart. They corroborate many of the details here given. But of still higher value is this transcript by the woman herself--minutely painstaking, while yet obviously composed under strong excitement--of the experience in the secret places of her soul. The first of these letters is written under stress of emotion so intense that coherence is hardly possible. The mind is baffled in seeking to find human speech which shall even adumbrate reality. What Catherine has to describe is the culmination of her earthly life: the final triumph of faith over despair, the final offering of herself as a sacrificial victim, in obedience, as she believes, to the express Voice of God. The second letter is more calm. The sacrifice has been accepted. She is dying, not indeed by the violence of men, like the martyrs for whose fate she has yearned, but by the agony of her own heart, breaking for the sins of Holy Church. "I in this way," she writes exulting, "as the holy martyrs with blood." And her agony is serene and joyous; her last thoughts are for others; her soul is full of the victory of peace. Outwardly, all was confusion around her; but her own life--the only region in which unity is within our reach--was rounded into a harmonious whole. To read the expression of that life in her letters is to follow one of those tragedies that are the salvation of the world.
Catherine of Siena is one of my favorite saints also. She live through such difficult times in church history when at times all seemed lost. She always displayed love and respect for the Pope and honored him as Christ's representative on earth. Prayer and sacrifice are what are needed now for the restoration of faith and for the leadership of the church. I find traditionalists hard to take in their continual carping and negativity towards the Pope. Pride is a very dangerous thing we must rely totally on Christ who is guiding his church along a perilous path but Jesus is at the helm. He will not desert his flock if we but trust Him Mary
The question I had was from the article that basically said Paul VI was involved personally in homosexuality. I know Casaroli was a Jesuit who gave JPII fits. JPII wanted to oust them all after the Sandinista debacle and the Liberation Theology overthrow. Thats very interesting. Thank you for doing the research.
It is always the secretary of state, notice that? Anyway, here is an open letter written to all the cardinals (as was the last piece): PAUL VI HOMOSEXUAL Witnesses of the homosexuality of Paul VI are: The homosexual writer, Robin Bryans who wrote of the homosexual relationship between Msgr. Montini and Hugh Montgomery. Homosexual and former Ambassador, Roger Peyrefitte, who spoke of his homosexuality by saying that Paul VI, Archbishop of Milan, was in a secluded house to meet guys ad hoc. The “New York Times” who also had the name of a famous Italian actor, Paolo Carlini, who had become a frequent visitor of Paul VI to his private apartments in the Vatican. Abbé Georges de Nantes who exposed allegations of homosexuality against Paul VI, citing a variety of sources. The writer, Franco Bellegrandi, who wrote on the following facts: - the blackmail of Montini by the Soviets to force him to reveal the names of the priests and bishops secretly sent by Pope Pius XII across the Iron Curtain; - the process of “homosexual colonization” of the Vatican during the reign of Montini; - the nightly interventions by the police of the Archbishop of Milan, Msgr. Montini who was found several times on the streets of the city in civilian clothes and in dubious company; - the authorization given by Montini to his lover Paolo Carlini to come and go as he pleased from the apartment of the Pope, in the Vatican; - the blackmail of Montini by the Masons, threatening him to reveal certain facts about his homosexuality, unless they would obtain from him the approval of cremation, always denied by the Church. - Card. Pietro Palazzini possessed two large folders full of documents that show, conclusively, the impure and unnatural vice of Paul VI. The homosexuality of Paul VI was instrumental in the paradigm shift that saw the rise of the “Homosexual Collective” in the Catholic Church in the United States. In the midst of these [in this Homosexual Collective], there were: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Cardinal Terence James Cooke, Cardinal John Wright, Archbishop Rembert Weakland George, Bishop James S. Rausch, Bishop George Henry Guifoyle, Bishop Francis Mugavero, Bishop Joseph Hu
