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The Rite of Sodomy volume iii i Books by Randy Engel Sex Education—The Final Plague The McHugh Chronicles— Who Betrayed the Prolife Movement? ii The Rite of Sodomy Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church volume iii AmChurch and the Homosexual Revolution Randy Engel NEW ENGEL PUBLISHING Export, Pennsylvania iii Copyright © 2012 by Randy Engel All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, New Engel Publishing, Box 356, Export, PA 15632 Library of Congress Control Number 2010916845 Includes complete index ISBN 978-0-9778601-7-3 NEW ENGEL PUBLISHING Box 356 Export, PA 15632 www.newengelpublishing.com iv Dedication To Monsignor Charles T. Moss 1930–2006 Beloved Pastor of St. Roch’s Parish Forever Our Lady’s Champion v vi INTRODUCTION Contents AmChurch and the Homosexual Revolution ............................................. 507 X AmChurch—Posing a Historic Framework .................... 509 1 Bishop Carroll and the Roots of the American Church .... 509 2 The Rise of Traditionalism ................................. 516 3 The Americanist Revolution Quietly Simmers ............ 519 4 Americanism in the Age of Gibbons ........................ 525 5 Pope Leo XIII—The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove ......... 529 6 Pope Saint Pius X Attacks Modernism ..................... 534 7 Modernism Not Dead— Just Resting ...................... 538 XI The Bishops’ Bureaucracy and the Homosexual Revolution ... 549 1 National Catholic War Council—A Crack in the Dam ...... 549 2 Transition From Warfare to Welfare ........................ 551 3 Vatican II and the Shaping of AmChurch ................ 561 4 The Politics of the New Progressivism .................... 563 5 The Homosexual Colonization of the NCCB/USCC ........ 566 6 The Collapse of Catholic Seminaries ....................... 570 7 AIDS Outs Active Homosexual Clergy ..................... 579 8 “Gay” Jesuit Network Outed by the Kansas City Star ..... 584 9 Dr. Michael Peterson and the St. Luke Institute ........... 586 XII The Cardinal O’Connell and Cardinal Spellman Legacy ........ 615 1 An Open Secret ............................................ 615 2 The Life and Times of Cardinal William H. O’Connell ..... 616 3 The Anatomy of an Early Clerical Scandal ................. 627 4 Leading Double Lives ...................................... 629 5 The Rise of Father Francis Spellman ....................... 634 vii CONTENTS 6 The Battle for the Archdiocese of New York ............... 641 7 Cardinal Spellman—The Man ............................. 649 8 Spellman’s Double Life— “Who Would Believe That?” .... 652 9 The Kingmaker and His Court ............................ 661 10 Terrence Cooke—The Heir Appparent .................... 662 11 Bishop Francis J. Mugavero and the St. Matthew Community ................................... 666 12 Howard J. Hubbard Ordained a Bishop ..................... 668 13 Homosexual Charges Against Bishop George H. Guilfoyle 672 14 The Battle for Springfield, Mass.—Weldon or Wright? .... 676 15 The Murder of Daniel Croteau ............................. 683 16 Bishop Thomas L. Dupré—Another Murderer of Souls ... 686 17 The Saga of John Cardinal Wright .......................... 688 18 The Secret Life of Bishop John Wright ..................... 697 19 Wright Adopts Father Donald Wuerl as his Protégé ........ 706 20 Wuerl Rides Wright’s Coattails to Bishopric ............... 712 21 The O’Connell-Spellman Legacy Continues ............... 714 The Leonine Prayers Index viii VOLUME III AmChurch and the Homosexual Revolution While it is true that the floodgates of homosexuality in AmChurch were opened ever wider after the Second Vatican Council and the pontificate of Pope Paul VI, the moral rot had taken root decades, even centuries, before. This volume opens with a historical review of the role of Americanism in the Catholic Church in America and how this heresy provided the foun- dation for the establishment of AmChurch and its ultimate corruption and takeover by the Homosexual Collective. Chapter 11 follows up with an in-depth look at the rise of the Homo- sexual Collective within AmChurch, most especially the role played by its dual bureaucracy, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC). On July 1, 2001, the bicameral NCCB/USCC was merged into a single entity, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Chapter 12 is a tale of intergenerational homosexuality in AmChurch during the first half of the 20th century. It highlights the lives of three prominent homosexual prelates, Cardinal William O’Connell of Boston, Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York, and Bishop (later Cardinal) John Wright of Worcester and their heirs in AmChurch through the next two generations. It is no coincidence that the earliest pederast/homosexual scandals in AmChurch occurred in the greater Boston area where Cardinals O’Connell, Spellman and Wright once plied their vice. These three prelates produced an entire contingent of homosexual bishops and cardinals, some of whom continue to hold positions of power in the American hierarchy today. 507 THE HOMOSEXUAL COLLECTIVE Chapter 10 AmChurch—Posing a Historical Framework Introduction It’s hard to believe these days that there was a time in our nation’s his- tory when our land was all Catholic, but there was. Unfortunately, I had forgotten this simple fact of history, when by some happy grace I happened upon Gary Potter’s remarkable essay, “When Amer- ica was Catholic,” excerpted from After the Boston Heresy Case and I was reminded that long before the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, Spanish and French Catholic missionaries had civilized and Chris- tianized much of the territories that would become the United States of America.1 Potter recalled that among the early Franciscan Spanish missionaries to Mexico was Father Juan Juarez who was appointed the first bishop within the present territories of the United States in 1528.2 In addition to the Spanish Franciscans and later Dominicans and Jesuits who established mission churches and schools for the large indigenous Indian populations of the New World, there were the French missionaries who accompanied Italian-born Giovanni Verrazano in his 1524 exploration of the East Coast from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and brought the Faith and European civilization to these shores.3 In 1601, Carmelite Friars accompanied the expedition of Don Sebastian Viscayno who set out to explore the coast line of the Californias.4 So dominant was the Catholic presence in America, said Potter, that long after the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, “three quarters of the territory of North America—all the land West of the Mississippi—remained Catholic.” 5 “From a Catholic point of view, the importance of the takeover by the predominately Anglo-English-speaking Protestant United States of the lands west of the Mississippi cannot be exaggerated,” Potter concluded.6 Bishop Carroll and the Roots of the American Church ...the true church is one, as by unity of doctrine, so by unity of government, and she is catholic also. Since God has placed the center and foundation of unity in the chair of Blessed Peter, she is rightly called the Roman Church, for ‘where Peter is, there is the church.’ Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae7 509 THE RITE OF SODOMY That the Roman Catholic Church in America had been able to stave off the formation of an American Church (AmChurch) for almost 300 years is a tribute to the strong faith of our immigrant forebears and the foreign priests and religious orders who continued the struggle against “Amer- icanism” long after the Catholic hierarchy had made its decision to cast its lot with America rather than Rome. The American hierarchy came into being with the creation of the primal See of Baltimore on November 16, 1789, by Pope Pius VI, the first and only Catholic diocese in the infant nation, followed by the consecration of Amer- ican Jesuit John Carroll as Catholic bishop-elect of Baltimore at Lulworth Castle, Dorset, England on August 15, 1790. Bishop Carroll enjoyed full centralized powers over all the territories, properties, parishes and priests in the United States. Contrary to popular opinion, any revolution worth its salt always begins at the top. Since the Roman Catholic Church is, for better or worse, a hierarchical church, its structure was well suited for John Carroll’s vision of a new American Church (AmChurch) of which he was to be a prime architect—a Church made in the likeness of the New Republic—unfettered by Roman chains. His first salvo against the Roman Church was launched at his con- secration when he deleted the ritual oath to “extirpate heretics” so as not to offend Protestants.8 The Carrolls of Carrollton were among the richest of the first families of the original thirteen colonies and the largest landowners in Maryland. John Carroll was born in Prince George’s County, Maryland on January 8, 1735, the youngest son of a well-to-do Irish merchant father, Daniel Carroll and a fabulously wealthy mother, Eleanor Darnall Carroll. At the age of 12, John was sent to a Jesuit grammar school for one year at Bohemia Manor on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and then ship- ped abroad to be educated at the Jesuit College of St. Omer’s in French Flanders famous for its liberal education, training in good manners and commitment to “republicanism.” 9 He entered the novitiate of the Society of