{"id":2993,"date":"2025-02-16T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulscience\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:25:22","slug":"what-did-theologians-teach-about-pedophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulscience\/2025\/02\/what-did-theologians-teach-about-pedophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Theologians Teach About Pedophilia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_3005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3005\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3005\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/2048\/2025\/02\/church-53192_1280-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: ArtTower \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><h2>SOUL SCIENCE #26\u2014Clip<\/h2>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uid50t\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v6f6cb1\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v6f6cb1\",\"div\":\"rumble_v6f6cb1\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The Return of Common Sense<\/h2>\n<p>On last week\u2019s episode of SOUL SCIENCE, I asked whether the pope was Catholic. I wasn\u2019t joking either.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I pointed out that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Confronting-Pope-Suspicion-Special-2021\/dp\/B092P6ZJCH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3026\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/2048\/2025\/02\/cps-book-cover-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"330\"><\/a>, to be Catholic, a person is required to affirm and profess the teachings contained in the Nicene Creed. This is a condition of baptism, the gateway sacrament to Church membership.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, we recite the Creed at every celebration of Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n<h2>Apostolic Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>One of the essential teachings of the Creed concerns the role of the Apostles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Apostolic mark of the Church means that we adhere to Apostolic teaching. And so, included in this essential Apostolic teaching are the very unpopular doctrines concerning sexual morality. Two of the most hated teachings on sexuality can be found in St. Paul\u2019s letters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homosexuality is \u201cunnatural\u201d and disordered, (Rom. 1: 24\u201327).<br>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>All sexual immorality condemns a person to hell, (1Cor. 6: 9\u201310).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Apostolic mark of the Church enunciated in the Nicene Creed establishes these teachings as immutable and nonnegotiable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And Pope John Paul II defended the Church\u2019s Apostolic sexual morality in his writings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(See the Catechism and <i>Veritatis Splendor<\/i> for details.)<\/p>\n<h2>Pope Francis Rejects Apostolic Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>So what are we to make of the constant pronouncements of the many Church shepherds who publicly reject these Apostolic doctrines? As I have documented many times, since the publication of <i>Amoris Laetitia, <\/i>there has been a very public movement by some Church leaders to reject Apostolic teaching on sexual morality. These leaders claim\u2014<i>falsely<\/i>\u2014that new \u201cscientific\u201d research refutes the traditional Apostolic teaching on homosexuality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Who are these leaders? One of them is Pope Francis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Nicene Creed establishes that <i>anyone<\/i> who rejects Apostolic teaching and authority is <i>not<\/i> Catholic. And not Christian either. Therefore, Pope Francis and his followers are not Catholic.<\/p>\n<h2>My Critics Respond<\/h2>\n<p>That was my argument. And I got a lot of pushback in the comments section. But interestingly, none of my<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>critics offered even a single rebuttal to my argument. None of the points of my argument were addressed at all. Instead, criticism was<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3017 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/2048\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-16-at-2.27.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"312\"><\/h2>\n<p>aimed at me personally.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cYou\u2019re not a professional theologian.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t have a doctorate in theology.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have two responses to my critics. First, it was observed on Twitter-X by a Dominican priest that Francis supporters have no arguments or offer any justification for the pope\u2019s controversial statements. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You will notice that there is very little exposition of Francis\u2019 arguments . . . or an explanation or defense of Francis\u2019 position with arguments. \u00a0\u2014Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Francis Supporters Have No Defense.<\/h2>\n<p>So this is a pattern with the Francis camp that others have observed as well. It\u2019s not difficult to understand why.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Francis supporters offer no substantive defense of Francis, because, frankly, <i>there is no defense of Pope Francis.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now I come to my second response.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My critics insist on having the right credentials. What I showed in my book <i>Confronting the Pope of Suspicion <\/i><b>was that professional theologians from the 1970s were responsible for the most vile ideas ever printed on paper. See what I mean:<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>\u201cWhat Did Theologians Teach?\u201d<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>The great tragedy in the Catholic Church was that too many agreed with the \u201cscientists\u201d that a theologically-informed morality was obsolete. New theology textbooks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Human-Sexuality-Directions-American-Catholic\/dp\/0809102234\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Human Sexuality<\/i>, from the Catholic Theological Society of America<\/a>, were arguing for a scientific approach to sexual morality (pp.53\u201356). They agreed with psychologists that the absolute and universal morality of the Bible was invalid (HS p. 97), and they rejected divine revelation as an authentic source of sexual morality (HS. p. 54). The morality of homosexuality should come\u2014<i>they insisted<\/i>\u2014 not from divine revelation, but from science. And scientists were saying that homosexuality was a \u201cnatural variant\u201d of human sexuality (HS p. 59).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/9183\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/9183<\/a> [HUMAN SEXUALITY\u2014NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN CATHOLIC THOUGHT]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The \u201cScientific\u201d Conclusions of <i>Human Sexuality<\/i><\/h2>\n<p>Cultural anthropology was the source for much of the reasoning in<i> Human Sexuality. <\/i>The argument reduces all cultures and values to mere subjective opinion. Because all cultural values are subjective, to prefer your culture to another is mere cultural prejudice and bigotry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thus, a \u201cscientific\u201d study of human sexuality ought to objectively look at <i>all<\/i> human societies and cultures. And we should not be dismissive of other cultural values, lest we succumb to prejudice and bigotry. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That was the setup.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The reader of the diabolical text was gaslit into believing that he has to be open to any sexual practice that was ever approved of in any human society.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So which sexual practices did the text mention which required an unprejudiced reevaluation? Quite predictably, homosexuality was at the top of the list. Here are some of the others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Mate-swapping<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> incest<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>bestiality<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Did Theologians Teach About Pedophilia?<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>One theology text used in some seminaries in the seventies was <i>The Sexual Language<\/i> by Andre Guindon. It specifically addressed the question of pedophilia. <strong>According to Guindon, scientific research revealed that pedophilia was not harmful to children and that the real victim was \u201cthe defenceless pedophile\u201d who is \u201cscapegoated\u201d by \u201cparents and citizens who pose as do-gooders\u201d (p. 374).<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/abbott\/100124\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">One book<\/a> reported that <i>The Sexual Language <\/i>was used at the seminary where Rudy Kos studied, a priest who was later convicted of pedophilia. That very same seminary hosted Fr. Paul Shanley to give a guest lecture. What was his topic? Shanley was a public advocate for the legalization of pederasty. After the <i>Boston Globe<\/i> report came out in 2002, Shanley was arrested and convicted of child molestation. (\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/8260\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/8260<\/a> )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><i>Human Sexuality<\/i>, Again<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Human-Sexuality-Directions-American-Catholic\/dp\/0809102234\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LC2NSGZYGABL&amp;keywords=human+sexuality+new+directions&amp;qid=1566848816&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=human+sexuality+new+d%2Cstripbooks%2C147&amp;sr=8-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Human Sexuality<\/i><\/a>, asked the ominous question about what to do if your particular desires are not approved by society. Here is its disturbing answer:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c[E]nlightened and well integrated individuals might well free themselves of conflict by . . . reflecting on the relativity of their society\u2019s sexual ethic and proceed discreetly with their own sexual project.\u201d \u2014<\/b>HUMAN SEXUALITY\u2014NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN CATHOLIC THOUGHT, P. 56<\/p>\n<p>Did you get that? If your desires are <b>ILLEGAL<\/b>, PROCEED ANYWAY! BUT DISCREETLY! On the same page, it explains its answer. The denial of one\u2019s sexual desires is harmful to one\u2019s \u201cpersonal growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A THEOLOGY TEXTBOOK ENCOURAGED SEMINARIANS TO PURSUE THEIR ILLEGAL SEXUAL DESIRES!!!!!!!!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/8260\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/newwalden.org\/archives\/8260<\/a> )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now you know exactly where the sex abuse scandal came from.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>From professional theologians.<\/b> Common sense and moral decency are more important than a theology degree. But the greatest tragedy? That Pope Francis promotes \u201cthe most vile ideas ever printed on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has revived a 1970s heresy that was the direct cause of the priest sexual abuse scandal. 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