They Who Understand

Book Review by George Kocan

“The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church,” by Randy Engel, New Engel Publishing (2006), Export Pennsylvania, 1283 pages; www.riteofsodomy.com

TV cameras recently caught the Archbishop of San Francisco giving Holy Communion to men dressed up like what can best be described as blasphemous clowns.  They wore heavy make-up to hide their sex and costumes to make them look like nuns.  No one could miss the fact that homosexuals staged this hateful stunt to mock the Catholic Church. 

Yet, Archbishop George Niederauer dutifully presented the sacred hosts as if nothing was wrong.  Later on, he apologized, pleading ignorance.  We are to believe that after living for two years in San Francisco, Niederauer does not know who or what the self-styled “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are. Naturally, intelligent Catholics and other observers of the culture wars are mystified.  They just do not understand. . .

However, Catholics do exist who understand and would be more than willing to clarify the issue.  Steven Brady understands.  An owner of a pizza delivery service, Brady devoted nearly all of his spare time to exposing the predatory homosexuality of his prelate, the Bishop of Springfield, Il, Dan Ryan.  Ryan became notorious for cruising for teenaged boys and even trying to force himself on his priests.  As of this writing, Brady is recovering from severe injuries resulting from a motorcycle accident.

Fr. Alfred Kunz understood.  He helped blow the whistle on Ryan by collecting Brady’s information and contacting the right people in the Vatican to take action.  Police found his body in his rectory in a Wisconsin parish, dead of multiple stab wounds.  Fr. John Hardon, one of the top Jesuit theologians in the country, understood.  Also having good contacts, he and Fr. Kunz planned on going to Rome together to persuade the Vatican to do something. Presumably, Fr. Hardon died of natural causes.  He was in his 80’s.  The Vatican eventually removed Ryan from his position.  Yet, he still enjoys all the perks of a priest and bishop in good standing with the Church.

Fr. Charles Fiore, a Dominican priest, understood.  Once a leader in the pro-life movement in Illinois, until he ran into problems with Chicago’s Archbishop, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, he moved to Wisconsin.  Fr. Fiore embarked on a crusade to rid the Church of homosexuals, especially those in the Chicago area.  Fr. Fiore apparently died from a fall off a ladder at his home.

Malachi Martin, a former Jesuit, understood.   A prolific author of books and novels describing the corruption both in the Jesuit order and the Catholic Church, took a special interest in the Kunz murder.   Martin also wrote a 700 page book, “Windswept House,” which told the story of an occult, Satanic conspiracy of pederast priests led by the Archbishop of Century City, a veiled reference to Cardinal Bernardin.  I heard Martin discuss his book with Milt Rosenberg, a radio talk show host on WGN.  He admitted that his novel centered on Bernardin but explained that he did not make that explicit in the story because he did not want to have his “kneecaps blown off.”  Martin died from an accident in his home.

Francis Pellegrini, an organist and choirmaster in a Chicago parish, understood.  In May, 1984, police his found the body of Francis Pellegrini on the property of his parish.  The unknown assailant(s) bound his hands with barbed wire and stabbed him more than 20 times.  Police surmised that either a woman or a homosexual committed the crime.  Pelligrini’s girlfriend said that he planned on exposing a sex-ring of priests known as “The Boys’ Club.”  Pellegrini expressed the desire to leave the club, which practiced occult rituals as well as sodomy with boys. 

Andrew Greeley, pundit, apologist for the Democrat Party, author of “steamy” novels and a Catholic priest, understands.  He described such a club in one of his autobiographical books.  However, he explained that he had no fear of the Boys’ Club, because whom he knows and what he knows has been written down and placed in a safe place, just in case anything happens to him. 

Finally, Randy Engel, the author under consideration, understands.  No, my interpretation of the above events does not appear in her book.  That does not make it a flawed book.  I listed them to draw the reader’s attention to the depth of the corruption that does exist in the Church, which she doggedly and faithfully chronicles.

The history of corruption and homosexuality in the American Church goes as far back as the revolutionary war with England.  She has produced a serious and well-researched book.  There is much more to the Bernardin story and Engel tells it well, in infuriating and heart-breaking detail. When parents complained that priests in the Chicago suburbs were molesting their boys, the Cardinal told his lawyers to play hardball.  When the parents went to court, he counter-sued.  His remedy was to assign the abusing priests to other parishes, where they continued their abuse.  In one family, two of the abused boys committed suicide when they grew older.  Engel names names, places and dates.

Engel’s book does not stop with Bernardin but examines the homosexual influence throughout the American Church, including New York’s Francis Cardinal Spellman and Milwaukee’s Archbishop Rembert Weakland.  It deserves wide exposure, as a lesson to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, on how subversives have infiltrated the Church and turned it into a playground and vehicle for their own agenda.  She relates how Bella Dodd, a top Communist union organizer in New York, converted to Catholicism and divulged her role in recruiting 1100 young Communist men into Catholic seminaries.  Readers learn that the “homosexual collective,” as Engel calls it, targeted the Jesuits and Dominican orders for penetration and subversion.  They learn how homosexuals took control of seminaries and systematically screened out candidates to the priesthood who actually believed in Church doctrine.  They learn that Cardinal Bernardin made 28 priests bishops, many of whom will carry on his peculiar legacy.

Through intimidation, blackmail and goodness knows what else, the homosexual collective has rendered the leadership of the Church, including perhaps most of the bishops, silent and toothless.  As far as I know, Randy Engel still enjoys good health.

George Kocan’s thrilling novel, “The Boys’ Club,” came out in 2006.

Comments

[Pete Speer]

Thw Catholic Church has much to answer for. I say this as a practicing Catholic, a firm believer in the dogma, but with a great sadness regarding the cover up of the pederasty and the rewards given to the leaders who did that cover up for years.

Cardinal Law of Boston is wrapped up in the mantle of the Curia, when the best that should have been given him for nearly bankrupting the Boston archdiocese should have been a ascetic post in some desert monastery, or assistant pastor in a Darfur refugee camp.

The Bishop's conclave in which Cardinal George was a leader was a cover up of the highest order, with Cardinals Law and Mahoney (of Los Angeles) lurking in the background, while other Archbishops who have similarly bankrupted their provinces strutted around.

In Chicago, only the retired and dead old queens were brought up, and we still have continuing revelations of the younger set of homosexuals and pederasts coming to light while Cardinal George bobs and weaves. He is breaking the hearts of many Catholics, but clearly does not give a damn.

Springfield, Joliet, Milwaukee, and only God and the suffering khow wherelse. Catholics are dropping by the waysude, collections are down.

Conversions are down as well as George and the rest try to vie with the evangelicals and the storefront ministries for the hearts and minds of the Hispanic communities -- even playing games with our Country's heritage as they support illegal aliens and ignore as they have for some time the plight of our native and legal immigrant poor.

And they wonder why vocations are down.

[Anonymous]

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[Anon.]

Fine but you neglected to point out that the author of that book is an anti-semite who believes that the all Popes since P12 have been homosexuals and probably not even real Popes. She is exploiting real problems to serve an essentially anti-Catholic agenda.

[George Kocan]

This is nonsense, real nonsense. Obviously, "Anonymous" has not read the book and wants to change the subject from the subversion of the Church by homosexuals to the author.

[Reader]

Just so we are clear, Engle says in her book that she has access to 'inside knowledge' that 'can be corroborated' that Ratzinger is gay (page 1171) and continues that her sources say he 'has acquired expensive taste in designer shoes and accessories,' and has a reputation for 'slight eccentric behavior' and a 'penchant for disguise' and 'has been secretly visiting his old residence... disguised in black clerical robe in the company of…his very handsome 48-year old private secretary and traveling companion...'

Does this sound like 'a serious and well-researched book'?

If you want to have real fun, look up some of her sources, like Mary Bell Martinez, Piers Compton’s The Broken Cross published by the holocaust-denying Veritas Publishers, or the origins of her argument against the validity of the Novus Ordo Mass (page 1164, footnote 91) or her conspiratorial theories on traitorous nature of 'international Jewry' (page 296).

[George Kocan]

Engle’s Sources
Nice try, but no cigar...
The answer to “Reader’s” question is, ‘yes.’ Unlike “Reader,” Engel took pains to accurately cite her sources. Here is what she really said on page 1171: “The ‘gay’ activist group Outrage!London is continuing its campaign...to obtain ‘inside knowledge’ on the ‘sexuality’ of...Ratzinger...with details that can be corroborated....” “We do not know whether Ratzinger is gay,” said the Outrage Queer Intelligence Service, “but if he is he deserves to be outed because he is arguably the most homophobic of all Vatican leaders.” Furthermore, it was La Stampa (an Italian publication) that reported that the pope visited “his very handsome secretary.” Her source for Ratzinger’s eccentric behavior is a “Rome correspondent.” This is indeed a vague reference. In this case, I trust Engel’s abilities to evaluate evidence and not “Reader’s.”
Orthodox Catholics have complained to Rome for years about corruption in their parishes. They have sent reams of documentation spelling out the apostasy and heresy of bishops, priests and nuns, about abuses of the Mass, about outright hostility to tradition piety and decorum, but Rome did nothing. Even when the affairs of homosexual priests abusing boys came to light Rome refused to take disciplinary action. None of this makes any sense, unless the power and influence of a “homosexual collective” is recognized, as Engel has described in her book.
The Pope (Ratzinger), according to Engel, has appointed the “gay friendly” William Levada to lead the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Levada was the Archbishop of San Francisco. George Niederauer replaced him, the man who apologized for sacrilegiously giving Holy Communion to men who dressed themselves up to look like nuns. One can only hope that the appointment of Levada was based on his qualifications as a solid theologian and efficient administrator rather than something else.

The New Mass
Engel does not make a claim denying its validity directly. She quotes at length from a Papal Bull, which authoritatively outlawed any Masses that deviated from tradition. “Reader’s” argument, then, is with Pope Pius V and not with Engel.

International Jewish Conspiracy
This is all made up. No such Jewish conspiracy appears on page 296. On the other hand, she quotes with approval a Mossad agent on how to recruit spies. This comes in the context of a discussion of sodomites as spies and traitors. They make good material for such occupations because of their, “immaturity, sociopathy and narcissism.” Because of their activities in Britain and the U.S. on the behalf of Communism, the Soviet Union had completely compromised the intelligence agencies of both countries during World War II and beyond.

Other Sources
Martinez’s accounts of attacks on liturgical tradition and sympathetic priests in France are similar to reports that I have seen here in the U.S. This makes her a reliable source in my book. The same goes for Compton. According to Engel, in a footnote regarding the occult, “Compton was the literary editor of the highly respected English Catholic weekly The Universe.” I do not know anything about Veritas Publishers and their views on the persecution of Jews during World War II.

[Anonymous]

Now, wait.

Anonymous read the book, and the website.

Anon is the one who is spouting rubbish.

Get your Anonymous handles right.

[BoMeister]

seems the only holocaust deniers are the Anon types who are really anti-Catholics, seemingly abortoholics signing up here with ad hominem attacks against an excellently researched author who has sacrificed much and gotten many death threats for her heroic work on which she makes a pittance, unlike the $100s of millions these sodomites have ripped off from the sheeple in the pews.

These same people also deny the Abortion Holocaust of 50 million by surgery and 100s of millions by abortifacient high grade steroid pharmaceuticals.

Gimme a break and read the book before rendering ad hominem attacks as your shallow analysis.