The Rite of Sodomy volume iv 1 Books by Randy Engel Sex Education—The Final Plague The McHugh Chronicles— Who Betrayed the Prolife Movement? 2 The Rite of Sodomy Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church volume iv The Homosexual Network in the American Hierarchy and Religious Orders Randy Engel NEW ENGEL PUBLISHING Export, Pennsylvania 3 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 978-0-9778601-8-0 NEW ENGEL PUBLISHING Box 356 Export, PA 15632 www.newengelpublishing.com 4 Dedication To Our Lady of Fatima 5 6 INTRODUCTION Contents The Homosexual Network in the American Hierarchy and Religious Orders . 739 XIII The Growth of the Homosexual Network in AmChurch . 741 1 The Logic of Networking . 741 2 St. Sebastian’s Angels Network . 743 3 Bishop Reginald Cawcutt and the Fallen “Angels” . 748 4 American Hierarchy Denies Existence of Clerical Homosexual Network . 752 5 1961 Vatican Instructions on Vetting Potential Seminarians . 753 6 A Reality Check for Homosexual Cardinal Theodore McCarrick . 758 XIV Homosexual Bishops and the Diocesan Homosexual Network . 763 1 Wolves Not Shepherds . 763 2 Bishop Joseph Ferrario . 764 3 Bishop Joseph Keith Symons . 777 4 Bishop Anthony O’Connell . 785 5 Bishop Patrick Ziemann . 796 6 Bishop Daniel Ryan . 811 7 Archbishop Rembert Weakland . 822 8 Bishop James K. Williams . 835 9 Bishop Joseph Hart . 842 10 Bishop George Rueger . 849 11 Bishop Robert H. Brom . 854 12 The Homosexual Clerical Overworld and Underworld . 861 13 Father Paul Shanley: A Prototype Homosexual and Pederast . 862 vii CONTENTS XV The Special Case of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin . 889 1 Bernardin’s Rapid Clerical Career Rise . 891 2 Homosexual Priests and Prelates in the NCCB/USCC . 893 3 Bernardin and “The Many Faces of AIDS” . 897 4 Bernardin and the Immaculate Heart Seminary Scandal . 905 5 The Truth About the Steven Cook Affair . 905 XVI Homosexuality in Religious Orders . 919 1 Religious Orders and the Evangelical Counsels . 920 2 The Homosexual Colonization of Religious Orders . 923 3 The Order of Friars Minor . 928 4 The Society of Jesus . 938 5 The Order of Preachers . 942 6 The Society of St. John . 954 7 The Legionaries of Christ . 973 8 The Society of the Divine Savior . 981 XVII New Ways Ministry—A Study in Subversion . 1003 1 The Transformation of Sister Jeannine Gramick . 1004 2 Father Robert Nugent and His “Story” . 1007 3 The Quixote Center—Parent of New Ways . 1009 4 Catholic Religious Orders Back New Ways . 1013 5 The Catholic Coalition for Gay Civil Rights . 1019 6 Vatican Investigation of New Ways Begins . 1021 7 Vatican Orders the Formation of the Maida Commission . 1023 8 The Ideological Writings of New Ways . 1026 9 The Reactivation of the Maida Commission . 1060 10 CDF Intervenes in New Ways Investigation . 1065 11 Final Thoughts on the New Ways Debacle . 1072 The Leonine Prayers Index viii VOLUME IV The Homosexual Network in the American Hierarchy and Religious Orders Volume IV on the homosexualization of the American hierarchy and the diocesan priesthood and religious life opens with a relatively short Chapter 13 on the nature and function of the clerical homosexual network in AmChurch. The chapter includes an examination of the American and international homosexual communications network known as St. Sebas- tian’s Angels, and the 1961 Instruction, Religiosorum institutio On the Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders, which, if enforced by Rome and implemented by bish- ops and religious superiors, would have rendered the question of a St. Sebastian’s Angels clerical network moot. Obviously, homosexual networks flourish where the bishop himself is a homosexual as was the case with the Archdiocese of Boston under Cardinal O’Connell and the Archdiocese of New York under Cardinal Spell- man. This holds true for smaller dioceses also such as Brooklyn under Bishop Francis Mugavero, Springfield under Bishop Christopher Weldon, and Worcester under Bishop John Wright. Chapter 14 begins where the O’Connell-Spellman legacy leaves off. It provides a detailed study of additional profiles of homosexual bishops within the American hierarchy, some of whom are deceased, and how their vice influenced their own diocese as well as the overall clerical homosex- ual network within AmChurch. The list of homosexual American bishops presented in this book is not by any means complete, but it is sufficient to demonstrate how deeply ingrained the homosexual network is in the American hierarchy. Chapter 15 examines the career of homosexual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and the unique role he played in the homosexualization of AmChurch. Chapter 16 on homosexuality in Religious Orders in the United States singles out six institutes for study—the Franciscans, the Jesuits, the 739 Dominicans, the Society of St. John, the Legionaries of Christ and the Salvatorians. The segment on the Society of St. John enables us to explore how homosexual clergy can exploit seemingly “traditional” religious orders. In contrast, the investigation of the Society of the Divine Savior (Sal- vatorians) permits us to view the homosexual colonization process of a “liberal” and highly secularized religious order. The study of the Salvatorians is of particular importance because it shows how one or two homosexual leaders with the cooperation of a small group of sympathizers can take over and ultimately control an entire order, especially when they are backed by the Society’s superiors in Rome. Chapter 17 on New Ways Ministry highlights the extraordinary careers of homosexual political activists Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, and brings together all aspects of the Homosexual Collective in AmChurch including the role of the American bishops and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in supporting and promoting New Ways and its founders. In this final segment on the operations of New Ways, we can see how homosexual diocesan and order priests and bishops and fellow travelers work together to undermine the Catholic priesthood and religious life and the doctrines and moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. It also confirms the total ineptitude of the Holy See in dealing with the Homosexual Collective that exists within the Church today. 740 THE HOMOSEXUAL COLLECTIVE Chapter 13 The Growth of the Homosexual Network in AmChurch The Logic of Networking Networks do not come about by spontaneous combustion. They are not woven out of thin air. They are living entities that once created must be directed and managed in order to survive or else they die. Networking is especially crucial where one of the objects is subversion as is the case with the homosexual colonization of the Roman Catholic Church. Once a priest or religious, whatever his rank, enters and attaches himself to a homosex- ual network it is often difficult, if not impossible, for him to free himself from it completely. As in the secular world, defection is frowned upon. Although there are many different types of homosexual networks in AmChurch, they all have as their primary function, the provision of sexual partners for homosexual/pederast clergy in an atmosphere of relative safety from the law—both secular and ecclesiastical. These clerical networks perform other tasks as well. They can be used as a tool for the recruitment of new members. Homosexual networks can assist in damage control when one of their members has been uncovered. Homosexual networks can provide access to power and open the doors to advancement within AmChurch and the Vatican. Network connections can be used to get a promising homosexual seminarian into the North American College in Rome, an important stepping stone for ecclesiastical advancement. They can also place an ambitious, upward-bound homosexual cleric in a strategic position in one of the many bureaucracies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. It is no coincidence that many homosexual bishops have strong connections to the NCCB/USCC and its successor, the USCCB. Timetable In terms of establishing a timetable for the emergence of the Homo- sexual Network in AmChurch, we know from the previous chapter on the Spellman and O’Connell legacies that an informal homosexual network existed in AmChurch shortly after the turn of the 20th century. By 1982, when Father Enrique Rueda published his groundbreaking work, The Homosexual Network, the network was fully operative and func- tioning at the highest ecclesiastical levels in AmChurch. Interestingly, in December 1980, two years before the Rueda book appeared, Oblate priest Richard Wagner outed the clerical homosexual network in AmChurch in his doctoral dissertation, Gay Catholic Priests: A 741 THE RITE OF SODOMY Study of Cognitive and Affective Dissonance, for the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.1 In his highly publicized report Fr.Wagner stated: The gathering of the sample of fifty gay Catholic priests was the most diffi- cult part of the process. The circumstances which mitigate against the par- ticipation of gay lay people in studies of their sexual attitudes and behaviors were considerably compounded in this study of gay priests. The fear of dis- closure, possible reprisals, ambivalent attitudes, and feelings of guilt were some of the concerns that stood in the way. In fact only one thing made the process possible. The gay priest, like any marginal personality, needs a sup- port system. There is an informal network of gay priests operative in just about every section of the country. It is this network that was utilized in the recruitment of respondents.2 In the late 1980s, Chicago priest-sociologist-writer Fr.