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This essay is dedicated to Howard Zinn who has been an unfailing infuence in the creation of it...
Perhaps, once, the Roman Catholic church served a purpose. We may say
that it was an antidote to Roman paganism, and offered its followers a truly
vital alternative that emphasized the theological virtues of faith, hope, and
charity (faith, hope, and love). Ancient times called for these curative
worths to countercheck the excesses of Roman emperors and those who
would after imitate them, almost forever, throughout History. It might also
be supposed that homosexual (gay) persons, in the beginning of the
church's history, were welcomed to inhabit convents and monasteries in
order to protect them from the physical and psychological abuses that they
had to endure and still do in modern times. The Roman Catholic church,
while always condemning gayness, in fact offered gay people the chance to
lodge in their convents and monasteries, as if in a secret club-like
atmosphere, where they could reside protected from the social stigma of
being unlike others in their very own social standing. Such a haven became
attractive to harassed gay people, thus allowing the Roman Catholic church
to be guaranteed an ever-present fount of gay men and women to fll up
their recruiting retention goals. For centuries, this convenient
accommodation was a blessing for all. It is no more.
It cannot be said that all nuns and priests indulge in pedophilic practices. It
cannot be said that all priests and nuns are gay individuals. It cannot be
said that there are not nuns and priests who neither practice pedophilia or
are gays. But, what can be said is that there are upper-level members of the
Roman Catholic church's hierarchy who desire to enwrap the existence of
pedophilia, as they enfold their fnancial holdings, within the wrappers of
deceit and denial and just wait for everyone to just forget about the matter.
In other words, to permit pedophilia to sustain itself, in other words to
insure that the Roman Catholic church's despotism remains intact and
everlasting.