The New Oxford Review Nov. 2006
In Randy Engel's book The Rite of Sodomy:
Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church (New Engel Publishing,
2006; 724-327-7379;
www.riteofsodomy.com ), she lays out the
invasion, colonization, and the metastasization of the priesthood and
religious life by homosexuals in the Catholic Church.
On the first page of the Introduction, Engel notes that she wrote an
article in The Wanderer (summer of 1987) in which the editor
deleted her reference to "homosexual bishops." She says: "I remember
promising myself" that as soon as "my familial and pro-life duties as
the director of the U.S. Coalition for Life would permit, I would take a
closer look at the members of the Catholic hierarchy…." She names the
names of homosexual bishops with copious citations and notes. This book,
a decade in the making, reveals the homosexual "maelstrom" in the
Catholic Church.
The book was published in July 2006 and has 1,174 pages containing 4,523
endnotes, and a detailed Index. There is some irrelevant material, but
not too much.
Mrs. Engel says her book is not for the faint of heart, which we will
see later.
She says that "neither the Holy Father nor the Church hierarchy appear
to have the necessary will, heart and stomach" to clean up the
homosexuality in the Church's ranks.
In the 20th century, the Second Vatican Council "triggered" the
homosexual colonization in the Church. A lot of this is due to the
pontificate of Pope Paul VI. Engel says that Paul VI was a homosexual,
and she gives evidence for this. Engel says that "Pope Paul VI played a
decisive role in the selection and advancement of many homosexual
members of the American hierarchy...." And it still continues.
Regarding the recent Vatican document on homosexuals in the seminary,
Engel says: "In a Vatican Radio interview on November 29, 2005, Cardinal
Grocholewski [Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, which
is charged with implementing the document] stated this might include a
person who engaged in homosexual acts out of adolescent curiosity; or
while intoxicated; or where he prostituted his body to obtain favors.
High standards, indeed, for the most sublime of all vocations! The
cardinal went out of his way to state that the norms expressed in the
document do not apply to already ordained homosexual
priests,...acknowledging that Pope Benedict XVI, like his predecessor,
Pope John Paul II, has no plans to clean house and mount a serious
attack on the Homosexual Collective within the Roman Catholic priesthood
and religious life."
Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed Donald Wuerl to the Archdiocese of
Washington, D.C. Wuerl was a protégé of Bishop John Wright (initially
the Auxiliary Bishop of Boston). According to Engel, "Wright's
pederastic predilections were an 'open secret' in the Archdiocese of
Boston." Bill Burnett accused Bishop Wright of pederasty. Here is an
instance of where the book is not for the faint-hearted. If you don't
like to read sexually graphic accounts, do not read what Engel has to
say about the rite of sodomy here (for it will make you sick):
Burnett stated that the abuse ritual began with drinks, a Coke for him
and Coke and alcohol for [Fr. Raymond] Page [his uncle] and [Bishop]
Wright. Wright would then undress him, fall on his knees before the
standing boy and cover him with kisses -- feet, penis, nipples and lips.
He and Page would then undress and while the latter stimulated Wright
from behind (without penetration), Bill would fellate the bishop. When
Wright neared ejaculation he would turn Bill around and sodomize him.
Then Page took his turn at raping his nephew.... [We will spare you the
rest of the gruesome story.] When it was all over, Wright handed Bill a
$20 bill like he always did.
Then Bishop Wright was made Bishop of Pittsburgh, and this is where
Wuerl became his private secretary, protégé, and remained at Wright's
side (as he was made a cardinal) until Wright's death in 1979. Is this
guilt by association? Who knows?
Engel writes: "From 1980 to 1985, Fr. Wuerl served as Vice Rector and
Rector of St. Paul Seminary. The seminary had a reputation for rampant
homosexuality going back to the days of Bishop Wright." Then Wuerl
became Bishop of Pittsburgh in February 1988, fulfilling his protégé
role.
Writes Engel: "After Donald Wuerl was posted to the Diocese of
Pittsburgh, he permitted Dignity/Pittsburgh Masses to continue for eight
more years.... Dignity/Pittsburgh was one of the last chapters to be
evicted from Catholic facilities in the United States [on orders from
the Vatican]. According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer Ann
Rodgers-Melnick, 'Banning Dignity was a sad moment for Wuerl.'... Under
Wuerl, the Pittsburgh Diocese has become a stomping ground for
nationally-known doctrinal and moral miscreants including Father (now
ex-priest) Matthew Fox, Sister Fran Ferder, Father Robert Nugent, Sister
Jeannine Gramick, Father Raymond Brown and howling feminists Rosemary
Radford Ruether and Monica Hellwig."
In the summer of 1996, Mother's Watch featured a lengthy article called
"Bishop Wuerl's Magnificent Obsession." Engel mentions a segment
"dealing with Wuerl's exceptional relations with the members of the
Pittsburgh 'gay' community who refer to the bishop as 'Donna' Wuerl...."
We've heard that too.
Engel also has doubts about Pope Benedict's manliness. Engel
says: "Rome correspondents report that the new pope has acquired
expensive taste in designer shoes and accessories, a reputation for
'slightly eccentric behavior' and 'a penchant for disguise.' During
Christmas 2005, the pope was photographed showing off a red medieval
fur-lined hat -- a picture that can only be described as overtly camp.
One month later, La Stampa reported that the pope has been
secretly visiting his old residence at 1 Piazza Citta Leonina disguised
in black clerical robes in the company of another accessory -- his very
handsome 48-year-old private secretary and traveling companion, Don
Georg Gänswein." We know just the mention of this will upset some of our
readers; however, there is no need to jump to conclusions about this.
Let's hope he's straight as an arrow.
But there is a disturbing pattern: Benedict appointed
"gay"-friendly Archbishop William Levada to be the head of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Benedict appointed
"gay"-friendly Donald Wuerl to be Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; and
Benedict appointed "gay"-friendly George Niederauer to be Archbishop of
San Francisco. And Benedict signed the document on homosexuals in the
seminary, a toothless document that can be interpreted any way you want.
Don't expect any reforms in the homosexual colonization of the Catholic
Church, or what Engel calls the "Homosexual Collective." Sweetie-pie
seminarians and priests will continue to flock into the priesthood, and
some of them will advance up into the hierarchy. Business as usual.
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Randy Engel, one of the nation’s top investigative
reporters, began her journalistic career shortly after her graduation
from the University of New York at Cortland, in 1961. A specialist in
Vietnamese history and folklore, in 1963, she became the editor of The
Vietnam Journal, the official publication of the Vietnam Refugee and
Information Services, a national relief program in South Vietnam for war
refugees and orphans based in Dayton, Ohio. She recorded for the Voice
of America and Radio Saigon. In 1970, she received the Distinguished
Service Medal for “exceptional and meritorious service to Vietnam.”
In addition to her writings and relief work on behalf of the VRIS, in
the mid-1960s, Randy Engel developed an intense interest in pro-life
issues including population control, abortion and eugenics, putting her
on the ground floor of the emerging Pro-Life Movement. In 1972, she
founded the U.S. Coalition for Life in Pittsburgh, Pa., an international
pro-life research and investigative agency, and began editing the USCL’s
official publication, the Pro-Life Reporter. Her four-year study on the
eugenic policies and programs of the March of Dimes titled “Who Will
Defend Michael?” quickly put the USCL on the map as the finest pro-life
research agency in the U.S.
Her investigative findings documenting the rise of the federal
government’s anti-life programs at home and abroad served as the basis
for her testimony before Congressional hearings in the U.S. House of
Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Randy Engel’s groundbreaking
investigative findings related to US/AID abortion and sterilization
programs in Latin and South America, Asia and Africa were instrumental
in bringing about major pro-life changes in the Agency for International
Development’s foreign assistance programs.
Many of her original research publications for the USCL including “A
March of Dimes Primer – the A-Z of Eugenic Abortion,” and “The
Pathfinder Fund – A Study of US/AID Anti-Life Funding” have become
pro-life classics and continue to enjoy wide circulation.
In 1995, the veteran pro-life researcher exposed the long-standing
eugenic abortion record of Dr. Henry Foster, President Bill Clinton’s
nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, resulting in the Senate’s failure to
approve the nomination.
Sex Education – The Final Plague, Randy Engel’s first full-length book
on the sexual conditioning of Catholic school children was published by
Human Life International (Baltimore, MD) in 1989 and later by Tan
Publishers (Rockville, IL). Her second book, The McHugh Chronicles – Who
Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement? was published in 1997, while she
continued to gather researching material and conduct interviews for The
Rite of Sodomy.
Over the last forty years, Randy Engel’s articles, have appeared in
numerous Catholic publications including Liguorian Magazine, Our Sunday
Visitor, The Wanderer, Catholic Family News and the Homiletic and
Pastoral Review. She has received numerous awards for excellence in
investigative journalism including the prestigious Linacre Quarterly
Award for Distinguished Writing by the Catholic Medical Association.
Meticulous documentation and references and easy readability are the
hallmarks of Randy Engel’s investigative writings, and The Rite of
Sodomy - Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church is no exception to
the rule. The 1,318-page text contains 4,523 endnotes, a bibliography of
over 350 books, is fully indexed and reads like a top-flight mystery
thriller – except that it is not fiction – it is true.