<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-article-content gmail-col-sm-10"><h1 class="gmail-article-title">Cardinal decries Vatican ‘silence’ on homosexuality at abuse summit</h1><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-decries-vatican-silence-on-homosexuality-at-abuse-summit">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-decries-vatican-silence-on-homosexuality-at-abuse-summit</a><br></div><div class="gmail-article-content gmail-col-sm-10">ROME, February 27, 2019 (<a href="http://LifeSiteNews.com">LifeSiteNews</a>)
— <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Organizers of the recent Vatican sex abuse summit <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">deliberately
avoided the issue of homosexuality</span> in order to <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">advance a “homosexual
agenda</span>” in the Church and protect homosexual networks that thrive in
“climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence,” a cardinal has
said. </b></span><div class="gmail-article-text-wrapper">
<p>In a new <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-brandmueller-silence-on-homosexuality-in-church-cries-out-to-be-br">interview</a> with Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register, German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said that <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><em>“</em>discussing
the problem of homosexuality would have become dangerous for them,
because it’s evident <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">there is a network of homosexuals within</span> the
Vatican.” </b></span></p>
<p>“That’s the problem, there’s no question,” he said.</p>
<p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>This is a silence that calls ou</b></span>t <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>to be broken</b></span>,” the cardinal added.
He said the “work of journalists” plays a crucial role in breaking
through this wall and therefore<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">urged </span>journalists to continue to “be
strong, decisive, and clear” in exposing <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">scandals</span>, </b></span>even when they meet
with no concrete consequences or punitive measures.</p>
<p>Cardinal Brandmüller’s remarks come<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> one week after</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>he and US Cardinal
Raymond Burke co-signed an open letter</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>to bishops attending the Vatican
summit on the protection of minors in the Church</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>to end their<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> silence
on moral corruption in </span>the Church and return to upholding the divine and
natural law.</b></u></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The two cardinals, who also signed the 2016 <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-burke-addresses-the-dubia-one-year-after-their-publication" target="_blank"><em>dubia</em> </a>asking</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b>Pope Francis to clarify his moral teaching in </b></span><em><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b>Amoris Laetitia</b></span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> </b></span></em><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>called on bishops to raise their voices against<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> moral corruption in</span> the Church.</b></span></p>
<p>“A decisive act now is urgent and necessary,” they said, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>calling for
an end to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the “plague of the homosexual agenda” in</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the Churc</b></span>h, organized
networks of protection, and <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>a “climate of complicity and a conspiracy
of silence.”</b></span></p>
<p>In his Feb. 25 interview with the Register, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Cardinal Brandmüller said
he was “very disappointed” at <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the outcome of </span>the meeting</b></span>, and that the
root causes were not discussed.</p>
<p>“We’ve said all that needs to be said,” he said. “It all depends on
what will be done now, but the silence about homosexuality is a real
problem. We have written our letter as observers from the outside;
neither Cardinal Burke nor myself are involved.”</p>
<p>Asked how much of the problem is due to a collapse in the Church’s
moral doctrine, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Brandmüller said</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the lack of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">moral doctrine</span> is the
“root” and can be traced back decades. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>“In the late 1960s early 1970s, the teaching of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">morals</span> at the
[Pontifical] Gregorian University [in Rome] was heretical,</b></span>”<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> he said.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>
“That was the time of [dissenting] lecturers: [Jesuit Father Josef]
Fuchs, [Father Bernard] Häring, and [Father Charles] Curran. They were
offering their teaching, the boys listened to these lectures, and then
began practicing [homosexuality]."</b></span></p>
<p>“The North American College at that time was a center of homosexuality,” Cardinal Brandmüller said.</p>
<p>The cardinal praised lay initiatives like last week’s silent protest
in Rome, which brought together 100 men and women to “oppose the
Vatican’s policy of silence about homosexuality,” ahead of last week’s
Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse.</p>
<p>“Everyone is authorized to express his opinion, and this was a good
protest,” he said. “We live in hope and trust in divine Providence.” </p>
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