Friday, October 4, 2013

Obama ‘Hugely Impressed’ by Pope Francis - 10/2/13


President Obama said in an interview on Wednesday that he had been “hugely impressed” with Pope Francis, “not because of any particular issue” but because he seemed to be “thinking about how to embrace people as opposed to push them away.” Photo


Poll: U.S. Catholics embrace Pope Francis - 10/4/13
Pope Francis' comments that the Catholic Church should not focus so much on homosexuality, abortion and contraception have met with strong approval from U.S. Catholics, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday. 




How can you (we) begin talking about restoring the dignity of human life within the global financial structures, of the major world corporations in respecting human beings more than profits, if you (we) blatantly keep maintaining the Vatican's unsubstantiated dehumanizing antigay teachings that has become by Benedict XVI’s obsessive antigay crusade, a global fountain of self-perpetuation of violence?
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A Big Heart Open to God - 9/19/13
“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ Photo


Pope Francis La Repubblica Interview Rocks Church! - 10/1/13
(RNS) Pope Francis has done it again: Just two weeks after the publication of a lengthy, detailed interview in which he expounded on his new vision for the church he has given another interview, this time with the atheist editor of an Italian daily.

Francis had recently written an open letter to Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica, and then called the editor up out of the blue — as is his habit. The exchange, Scalfari wrote, went like this:

“Hello, this is Pope Francis.”

“Hello Your Holiness,” I say and then: “I am shocked. I did not expect you to call me.”

“Why so surprised? You wrote me a letter asking to meet me in person. I had the same wish, so I’m calling to fix an appointment. Let me look at my diary: I can’t do Wednesday, nor Monday, would Tuesday suit you?”


Pope Francis digs at Vatican's narcissistic nature, calls for change - 10/1/13

 Pope Francis, using strong language to condemn a “Vatican-centric view” of the Roman Catholic Church, says that church leaders have too often been narcissists, “flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers.” Photo

Extending his departure in style from his predecessor, Benedict XVI, Francis vowed in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he would do everything in his power to change that view.

“The church is or should go back to being a community of God’s people, and priests, pastors and bishops who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God,” he said...
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/01/20769734-pope-francis-digs-at-vaticans-narcissistic-nature-calls-for-change?lite 

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A Gay Catholic Priest (3a) - Appealing his case – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – to Pope Francis | Part 3a of 4 

Original post date - August 15, 2013

Originally posted: August 15, 2013


Updated links:

Pope Francis - A Big Heart Open to God – exclusive interview – 9/19/13 Photo

Pope Francis - criticized the church obsessed putting dogma before LOVE - over serving the poor and marginalized – 9/19/13“

Pope Francis Accepts Gay Priests - 2013 - - & - - Benedict XVI Bans Gay Priests – 2005

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Pope Francis - … GOSSIP – “...how many times our COMMUNITIES, even our FAMILIES have become a hell in which we CRIMINALLY KILL our brother with words”. – 9/2/13 http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/09/02/pope_francis:_“words_can_kill”/en1-724883
Cardinal Bertone – Benedict XVI must share blame Vatican scandals – Deadly GOSSIP – 9/3/13

Cardinal Bertone - "Boffo method" CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS – defamation of character, falsifying legal document – Calling Boffo a "known homosexual" was a fake – 6/1/12

Ratzinger/Benedict XVI - “CASTING ASPERSIONS” Hunthausen & Kurylowicz – 2/10/13 Photo  - Grand Rapids, Michigan

Pope Francis’s … ‘sympathetic’ remarks signal a more pastoral tone on gays in general, if not a change in church doctrine on homosexuality…  
Bishop David Walkowiak of Grand Rapids, Michigan – 7/31/13


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Obsession with Gay Marriage – 30 years Benedict XVI


INSIDE MAN (movie) 2006


History repeating? - Nazis, Jews, Prescott - Wall Street - Ratzinger, Gays: 9/11, genocide, slave labor, war reparation claims - all cover-ups???  --------------------------------- follow the MONEY Photo





Vatican bank tables first-ever annual report - 10/1/13

The Vatican bank published its accounts for the first time on Tuesday, showing that its earnings in 2012 were 86.6 million euros ($117 million), four times higher than in 2011...

...Pope Francis set up a pontifical commission in June to inquire into the IRO bank's behavior after decades of secrecy and intrigue.
The bank was once a main investor in the failed Banco Ambrosiano. Its chairman Roberto Calvi was found hanging from a bridge in London in a suspected murder by mobsters. No one was ever convicted...


Secretive Vatican Bank Publishes First-Ever Financial Accounts - 10/1/13
The Vatican bank published its financial accounts for the first time in its 126-year history, reflecting Pope Francis's push for greater transparency at the secretive and scandal-plagued institution...
...The Vatican bank has been trying to overcome decades of scandals, most notably the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, in which it was a main shareholder. Then-Banco Ambrosiano Chairman Roberto Calvi—who was called "God's Banker" because of his ties to the Vatican—was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London that year. Foul play was suspected, but nobody was ever convicted...

Vatican bank publishes first ever annual report -10/1/13
The Institute for Religious Works (IOR) has been dogged by accusations of corruption.
The report shows 2012 was a successful year for the bank, with net profits more than quadrupling to 86.6m euros...
...In August Pope Francis stepped up the fight against corruption at the Vatican by strengthening supervision of financial transactions at the bank.
He issued a decree designed to combat money-laundering and prevent any financing of terrorism.
The Pope also recently set up a commission to investigate the bank and report back to him personally...





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A Gay Catholic Priest (3a) - Appealing his case – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – to Pope Francis | Part 3a of 4 
Original post date - August 15, 2013



This posting was sent out as a US group mailing before posting it here on the Thalamus Center.

The letter will be posted in 4 parts.

Background links:

Gay Catholic Priest – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Charged by the Vatican for “Coming Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later – February 10, 2013 (Reposted) --- 4/17/13

Gay Children Pentecost - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz Appeals his Case “Protecting Gay Children 1997” to - Pope Francis - 2013 - 5/23/13



Recapping: Parts 1, 2, & 3


Self-perpetuation of Violence of Child Abuse - 

Unsubstantiated 
Antigay Norms


Gay Catholic Priest - Appealing his case – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – to Pope Francis | Part 1 of 4 

Part 1 of this letter of appeal to Pope Francis; dealt primarily with Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI attack on me two months after I came out in 1997 for the protection for the protection of children from the unsubstantiated antigay social and religious norms. I was ordered at the age of 47 to be sent away in cloud of secrecy to be re-educated on the subject of the sexual orientation of homosexuality. This was a malicious reactionary attack made against me directly to counteract the accepted authoritative research data on homosexuality, to forcefully intimidate me into silence and submission in giving up the truth learned from science.  Photo

The letter addresses the  issue of the self-perpetuation of the violence by the victims of child abuse, as adults. In particular, the violence experienced from the child abuse being forcefully subjected to the unsubstantiated antigay social and religious norms. Benedict XVI spent his first 18 years of life in Germany under Hitler’s fanatical Nazi regime that significantly infiltrated the educational system with the master race glorification ideology, including the malicious propaganda dehumanizing all other races as a threat i.e. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals,etc. Photo - More - More

Many LGB [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual] individuals report developmental histories with difficulty acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others. This is because, starting in childhood, LGB individuals are often subjected to antihomosexual attitudes, not only from strangers, but also from their own families and communities (Drescher, Stein and Byne, 2005). The childhood need to hide may persist into adulthood, leading many LGB individuals to conceal important aspects of themselves.
There are a range of homosexual identities that describe an individual’s awareness and acceptance of same-sex attractions. Closeted individuals cannot acknowledge homoerotic feelings, attractions and fantasies to themselves. They cannot or will not integrate homosexuality into their public personae and these feelings must be dissociated out of conscious awareness...
The Psychology of the Closeted - Individual and Coming Out, 2007, Jack Drescher MD 


Could it be that Benedict XVI is unconsciously repeating Hitler's crime against humanity by taking on a long-accepted social attitude from that period of time?






...The question...what would it have been like for someone growing up gay during the Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 -1945?



What would be the severity of the psychological effects on a boy who grew up to be gay in Germany during the time of Hitler’s NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS 1933 -1945? During the Nazi regime, homosexuals were publicly defamed and falsely accused for the major social problems of that time, which was done to incite massive public hatred and hostility directed against homosexuals. Homosexuals were used for medical experiments, physically mutilated, brutally tortured and exterminated.



Would this child, as an adult, in a severe dissociated state of mind from his own homosexual feelings (Harry Stack Sullivan MD, Dissociative Processes, Clinical Studies on Psychiatry (1956)), unconsciously perpetuate the terrifying horror of the insensitivity he had experienced growing up? If he found himself in a position of authority would he recreate the same social and political environment of violence and terror for homosexuals that he experienced, as a child who grew up to be gay, during the NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS?

AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008 -- A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz





It is a matter of life and death for children globally that the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings be renounced immediately because they are not based on truth, instead they are self-perpetuating of the violence in the world. From the documentation of the past 30 years, Benedict XVI and his regime are prime examples of this kind of self-perpetuating of violence. However, for them it is on a global scale that this violence is being increase in the world and will continued unless you (we) stop it. This renouncement is a matter of immediate education, not a vote, on the authoritative facts of human sexuality of homosexual orientation. A vote on homosexual sexual orientation would be as foolish as voting on Galileo, because the earth would continue to revolve around the sun, no matter how much the Vatican wants to demand it be not so - it cannot be done 


How can you (we) begin talking about restoring the dignity of human life within the global financial structures, of the major world corporations in respecting human beings more than profits, if you (we) blatantly keep maintaining the Vatican's unsubstantiated dehumanizing antigay teachings that has become by Benedict XVI’s obsessive antigay crusade, a global fountain of self-perpetuation of violence?
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Mirroring - Hitler’s Sociopathic Violence 

No Accountability - & - No Reparation



Part 2 of this letter of appeal to Pope Francis; addresses the sociopathic violence of the administration of the Vatican.  Again, this sociopath violence is revealed in the documentation from over the past 30 years that range from the dehumanizing tactics of silencing and removing all opposition that is not in agreement with Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, including suppressing the emerging science homosexual orientation, to the cover-ups of the child sexual abuse cases. Including how no one in the Vatican or among the hierarchy is ever held accountable for their criminal activities or is the proper restitution is ever paid to those harmed.

Is this sociopathic violence also part of the self-perpetuation of violence of the kind of dehumanizing violence taken against groups of people considered to be subhuman i.e. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc. that a child witnesses and or is subjected to growing up for the first 18 years of the child’s life under Hitler’s fanatical Nazi regime in Germany. Benedict XVI proved that his regime is not self-correcting, completely void taking responsibility or making restitution for the harm and devastation they inflicted on human beings, including children. Is it any wonder that lightning struct the very tip of Saint Peter’s Basilica shortly after Benedict XVI resigned from the papacy in February 2013. Part 2, is the documentation of how the self-perpetuation of violence that originates from child abuse can be severely threatening to the lives of future generations. This generational perpetuation of violence continues, until someone has the courage to “Know Thyself” that the cycle of violence is broke. It is the same as removing the plank first one’s own eye before attempting to remove the speck from another’s(explained in Part 3). Again, what does this kind of sociopath behavior by Benedict XVI and his regime mirror to the world, to global corporations about the importance of valuing and respecting the life and dignity of every human being. Photo - More

And now, what kind of sociopathic behavior are you (we) mirroring to the world by keeping the Vatican's unsubstantiated antigay teachings, including contributing the self-perpetuation of violence increasing the violence in and already violent world.  



Impending rules on gay priests create Catholic divide - October 8, 2005 Photo - More
When the Rev. Martin Kurylowicz came out to his Sparta parish eight years ago, he said he had struggled for years with his homosexuality.
The Catholic priest says the struggle would be made harder for many others if the Vatican issues new rules that reportedly would ban gays from becoming priests… 
…"I sizzled when I read it," said Kurylowicz, 55. "It's very hurtful, is what it is. In this day and age, there's no reason for it. It sends a message that there's something wrong with gays."
Kurylowicz said he spoke out then to raise awareness of violence against gays and teach others homosexuality is not a choice but an inborn trait. Church leaders still don't understand that and contribute to gays' poor self-esteem, he said… 
…"Kids as young as 4 or 5 know they're different," said Kurylowicz, a psychotherapist… "They grow up with this pervasive guilt, which sabotages their growth and motivation." The result is thousands of dollars in therapy to accept their natural orientation, he said, adding, "Does the Vatican want to take that on, like the tobacco industry had to take on for the damage it caused consumers? "…
Catholics Coming Out - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - 1997





Building on Truth - Homosexuality 

Church vs. Benedict XVI  &  Reeducated - Submitted or Died


Gay Catholic Priest - Appealing his case - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Pope Francis | Part 3 of 4 

Part 3 below reviews how such brutal violence is over looked and even accepted as the norm, even as children are violently treated and abused i.e. the Vatican's unsubstantiated antigay teachings. It reviews now social psychology concepts as “Blaming the Victim,” “Belief in a Just World,” “Mindless Living,” and the strength of social norms can cause large groups, even whole nations to be blinded from the truth and become complicit even in crimes against humanity that involves children.  

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, 
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 
Therefore, whoever takes the lowly 
position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 
And whoever welcomes one such child in 
my name welcomes me. 
Matthew 18: 3-5

It is becoming like little children, as Christ commanded us to do that we can help prevent the blind acceptance of these forms of violence against children from continually perpetuating an unending increase of violence in the world. Becoming like little children is echoing ancient wisdom to “Know Thyself,” including removing the “plank” before attempting to remove the “speck.”

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye 
and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 
How can you say to your brother,  'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? 
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and 
then you will see clearly to remove the speck 
from your brother's eye. 
Luke 6:40-42

The process to “Know Thyself” involves in part remembering back to our childhood years.  We do this in order to discover and then to prevent, if and how unpleasant situations in our past may unconsciously be continually disrupting us in our adult lives and possibly harming others. Through this process of our remembering back, we learn first hand, how easily a child can be frightened, even overwhelmed i.e.hearing adults yelling or feeling abandoned, and that these events remain alive throughout a child’s lifetime. Personally, knowing this about ourselves, we tend to be more vigilantly careful how and what we subject children to. Through, this process of knowing ourselves removing the plank from our own eye first that begins in our childhood, we are then, helping to decrease the violence in the world. We making the world a safer place for us all, a slice of heaven here on earth. Photo

Equally, disturbing is the fact from 30 years of documentation that Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s view of Vatican II, in particular the document “Gaudium et Spes” would be described as reactionary that openness to the world would never improve the Church. He directly opposed the clear prohibition stated in “Gaudium et Spes” and no one challenged him. Photo - more - (more -> Pope John XXIII - “the church is not a museum of antiques but a living garden of life.”)

“...Gaudium et Spes cannot be said to articulate a reactionary viewpoint. The reactionary intention to disengage from the (extraecclesial) world is expressly rejected. (See, for example, articles 34, 39, 40, 43, 62, 93.) On the contrary, Christians are “stringently bound” to attend to this world and the welfare of their fellows persons (p82, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).

His reactionary view was clearly demonstrated by his continuous fanatical suppression of the emerging authoritative data on homosexuality. By doing this he put at risk the lives of millions of people, including children to the violence of life and death situations, and still no one challenged him. One of the themes of “Gaudium et Spes” is: 

“the development of the human person and human social groups through secular scientific thought and techniques (we understand people better through biology, psychology, sociology, etc.; we encounter one another socially in new ways through industrialization, urbanization, migration, new communications media, etc.)...(p85, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).”

Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI clearly violated this directive especially, regarding his rewriting his own bias views into the teaching on homosexuality of 1992 completely void of any authoritative data from biology, psychology, sociology, etc., as specified in “Gaudium et Spes.” He was clearly acting outside the Catholic Church and yet not a word was said. The Vatican's unsubstantiated antigay teachings, were rewritten independently in 1992 “Catechism of the Catholic Church (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm)” by Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI without the input and agreement of the entire hierarchy (p41, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf). This already raises questions about the authenticity of true Church teachings vs Benedict XVI’s teachings on homosexuality (http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html).  Benedict XVI views are reactionary, especially his success of excluding the emerging science on homosexual sexual orientation. And yet he reeked havoc on the lives of so many people in the Church for the past 30 years and he was able to get away with it. Why? What kind of power did he have over everyone including the hierarchy? He is sure to be a study like Hitler was and is regarding the Holocaust.


Despite Ratzinger’s invocation of the Second Vatican Council, he acknowledges here no earthly forms of authority arising outside of the Church. On the contrary, extraecclesial sources of knowledge are depicted here as posing a threat to the proper catechesis and pastoral service of the faithful: “The Church should be understood as more than a merely social entity, governed chiefly by psychological, sociological and political processes,” Ratzinger writes. “An anthropology which is dominated by the tentative conclusions of the human sciences could well undermine many pastoral initiatives, however well intentioned.” Juxtaposed with the remarks about the limits of the “human sciences” is a catalogue of references to teachings of the magisterium, which offer the kind of sure teaching absent in the extraecclesial disciplines. Thus, if Hunthausen is unclear himself about the way forward, he is invited to have reference to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1976 Declaration on Sexual Ethics, the documents of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, the revised Code of Canon Law, the Congregation’s 1975 Instruction, Inter Insigniores, etc. (These documents signal the Holy See’s possession of superior legal and expert power.) The technical nature of this presentation highlights the fact that this is a communication between one bishop and another. It also underscores Ratzinger’s view that this is an intraecclesial matter that Hunthausen is expected to address with intraecclesial resources Photo


The Rejection of Modern Science: the Nazi Dismissal Policy of 1933
 Colleen Harris, Jacksonville University

...Many of the scientists who left objected to Nazi-enforced methods of science. The Nazis’ “new science” was not objective; it was certainly not the “common property of mankind;” and the party used it to serve its own purposes. In June 1936, Dr. Bernhard Rust, German Minister of Science, Education, and People’s Education and loyal Nazi, declared that Nazism and official ideology were more important than was empirical, objective science. Turning the notion of empirical truth on its head, he argued that “Science which is not in accord with it [German ideology] is not objective.” For Rust, the changes made in German science were only to “enrich itself.” The Nazis maintained that they were basing science on observing nature and its reactions. Non-Aryan, theoretical science, on the other hand, did not expect one clear, definitive answer and considered each partially proven assumption to be a milestone. In Germany, as the New York Times reported, not even “a laboratory worker [could] decide for himself what the philosophy of science [should] be,” implying that science was a merely a tool of the dictatorship to be manipulated by the Führer and his party. Prominent scientists willingly gave themselves and their study to the regime... Photo
Read complete paper:





Part 3a of 4 -  The Appeal letter June 16, 2013 - to Pope Francis - continues:
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Thalamus Center - Early Childhood Psychological Development Growing up Gay                            Fr. Marty Kurylowicz 



The Wise and Foolish Builders
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts 
them into practice is like a wise man who built his 
house on the rock. The rain came down, the 
streams rose, and the winds blew and 
beat against that house; yet it 
did not fall, because it 
had its foundation 
on the rock. 
But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not 
put them into practice is like a foolish man who 
built his house on sand. The rain came 
down, the streams rose, and the 
winds blew and beat against 
that house, and it fell 
with a great crash. 
Matthew 7:24-27



Blaming the Victim - Obscures Truth 
&
 Leaves Children Unprotected


Below - Is a letter sent out by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz to politicians, government officials, lawyers, etc. – informing of my efforts to disclose the the truth of sexual orientation for the protection of children and seeking legal assistance for the retaliation that followed - July 2010

My name is Fr. Marty Kurylowicz, a Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Grand Rapids Michigan ordained June 16, 1979. 

 In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different. This feeling "different" is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and last throughout a child’s lifetime. The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but also affect their families, siblings, friends and anyone whom they might consider special in their lives. They are a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which place at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. They stifle an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offering better ways of maintaining peace among people and improving the quality of life for everyone in the world.

After the New Ways Ministry National Symposium in March 1997, in good conscience I felt intensely morally obligated to "come out" as a gay Catholic priest to my parishioners at Holy Family Parish, Sparta, Michigan USA, to draw public attention to this implicit form of child abuse. This abuse is caused by the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms, in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings. My background study in this area is extensive, far beyond that of the average person. However, since I have come out, I have been subjected to overt as well as covert retaliation coming from the Vatican through the bishops of the Diocese of Grand Rapids. I was ordered to be sent away to be re-educated regarding sexual orientation, to subject myself to conversion or reparative therapy--not a lobotomy, but similar. I refused to consent to this inhuman treatment because of the obvious clinical research data. And because I did so, in retaliation I lost my regular priest salary for the past 13 years, my earned sabbatical terms and my status for any future assignments in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Photo

At the same time, an insider to the Vatican
warned me that I could really get hurt severely by people in the Vatican. And even though this person was dead serious, I passed this warning off as being someone’s overactive imagination that was a bit bizarre. I thought, "After all, this is the USA, what do I have to fear?" However, this covert retaliation has been substantial. My car was repossessed in July 2009 and on June 26, 2010, I lost my home to foreclosure...   Photo

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Gay Catholic Priest - Exposing Truth - Protecting Children

Like So Many Before 

It is quite common to blame the victim of a brutal, dehumanizing situation (i.e. rape), according to the research of social psychology, such as mine, without looking at the total picture of the situation (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/04/blaming-victim-ellen-langer-harvard.html & http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2007/03/episode-7-blaming-the-victim-and-other-biases/#sthash.HcMvcb34.dpbs & http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~jschimel/psych%20241/12%20Angry%20men%5Bnotes%5D.htm). It is human behavior to want to blame the victim, we do to maintained the false belief that bad things only happen to bad people (http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n2/justworld.html & http://www.erzwiss.uni-halle.de/gliederung/paed/ppsych/chap_Guilford_final_final_accepted.pdf). We do this because we like to believe that we live in a safe world, it calms our fears and anxieties from the truth, the reality that bad things can and do happen to good people. 

Personality and Social Interaction
Nicholas Herrera, DePaul University
These simple explanations are comforting, because they reaffirm what most people already believe: Good people do good things and bad people do bad things. However, they neglect the findings of social psychology, which show that behavior is a function of the person and the situation (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/personality-and-social-interaction/200911/attributional-biases-and-violent-soccer-play).

Blaming the Victim
Ellen Langer, Harvard University
We have been explicitly and implicitly taught by our culture to be mindless. We have been taught absolutes when none really exist independent of context. When we think we know something absolutely, we have learned that it is reasonable never to question it, nor to pay attention to how it may be otherwise

Just-World Hypothesis
Renee Grinnell
The idea that people need to believe one will get what one deserves so strongly that they will rationalize an inexplicable injustice by naming things the victim might have done to deserve it. Also known as blaming the victim, the just-world fallacy, and the just-world effect.
Example: Because it’s far too frightening for many to accept that bad things can happen to good people, and therefore that they themselves have no control over whether bad things might happen to them someday, they will instead search for ways to differentiate themselves from victims of ill fortune. For example, outsiders might deride people whose houses were destroyed by a tornado, blaming them for choosing to live in a disaster-prone area or for not building a stronger house

I offer this piece of research on human behavior, to save lives, especially the lives of children by helping to educate how easily crucial information, is discarded that ultimately hurts us all. I am the victim, a gay Catholic priest, of a malicious attack in 1997 by the aggressor, Benedict XVI and his accomplices (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/04/gay-catholic-priest-fr-marty-kurylowicz.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/05/gay-catholic-priest-fr-marty-kurylowicz.html). It would be too easy to dismiss/blame me as the problem, however, then the vital importance of protecting children would, again, be overlooked. Including overlooking Benedict XVI’s covert machinery, his use of the strategy of secrecy, the lack of transparency, to remove those who oppose him i.e. those who dared to reveal the emerging truth about homosexuality (http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/1999c/073099/073099e.htm & http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/gods-rotteweiler-silenced-many-head-doctrinal-congregation & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/vaticans-antigay-teachings-are_1770.html). I am the victim because of my sexual orientation and the fact that I risked my life to draw public attention by my “coming out,” as a gay Catholic priest, specifically for the protection of children from the life-threatening harmful influence of the unsubstantiated antigay social and religious norms i.e. the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings. It begins in their early childhood psychological development years growing up gay. I did this all, in 1997, based on the factual evidence from science and the bible (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/6/1827.full.pdf & http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/just-the-facts.aspx# & http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx & http://www.psychiatry.org/lgbt-sexual-orientation & http://www.bps.org.uk/system/files/images/therapies_attempting_to_change_sexual_orientation.pdf & http://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/ukcp_statement_on_reparative_therapy.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-psychological-facts-about-growing-up.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/11/gay-marriage-sexual-orientation-is-less.html). 

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From the overwhelming documentation, it is evident that Benedict XVI, including the Vatican curia pervasively used the strategy of secrecy throughout his 30 years in power in the Vatican, in their dealings with those who opposed them 
(http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/10/benedict-xvi-character-assassination-of_3.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/crackdown-1983-of-archbishop-hunthausen_29.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/01/gay-marriage-uk-pm-david-cameron-lack.html). The use of the strategy of secrecy has been well documented in research on Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI lengthy investigation of Archbishop Hunthausen in the 1980s, “Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy: A Study of Coping Strategies in the Hunthausen Affair, with Preferential Attention to Discursive Strategies” 2003 by Timothy Peter Schilling (http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).


Tactical applications of the strategy of secrecy might well include: refusing to acknowledge that a conflict exists; minimizing (even insider) access to the conflict handling; keeping the conflict handling out of sight (by keeping silent about it and limiting its handling to private meetings, private correspondence, phone calls); hiding the identity of conflict participants (through silence or linguistic techniques that hide agency); lying; limiting press contacts (refusing interviews, offering minimal press conferences, providing little information in writing); and archiving sensitive documents (p102, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).

Hunthausen’s challenge to the validity of the visitation process and its findings involves a series of assertions. He begins with an attack on the policy of secrecy. Though he allows that “in some extraordinary circumstances secrecy might be warranted, the presumption should nevertheless be against it because open disclosure and candor are far more consistent with respect for persons in a mature church.” As negative developments emerging from the Vatican’s practice of secrecy, Hunthausen cites: the absence of dialogue about whether a visitation was needed in the first place; the Vatican’s failure to provide a “Bill of Particulars” in anticipation of the visitation; and “most devastating” of all, Rome’s refusal to allow Hunthausen to see “the formal Visitation report including the testimony against [Hunthausen] and the appraisal made by Archbishop Hickey.” For Hunthausen, “such unwitnessed, private questionings with no opportunity for the subject of the questionings to face his accusers, or hear or to be informed of their allegations, or to defend himself are not a just manner of proceeding. This kind of an approach seriously wounds the community of faith and trust that is the Church.” By using the image of a “shroud of secrecy” (emphasis mine), Hunthausen suggests that the policy of secrecy is not merely unjust, it is deathly (p196 http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).


A Broader View - Saves Lives 


“‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing 
clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will 
reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do 
for one of the least of these, 
you did not do for me.’ 
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the 
righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:44-46


Benedict XVI/Ratzinger’s 30 yrs of Obsessive 

Suppression of TRUTH

However, I am far from being the first, in 1997, who tried to protect and save gay people. There are so many others long before me, bishops, priests, sisters, theologians and religious who risk their lives to educate people on the emerging truth from the science on sexual orientation that declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder, but rather a normal and natural part of human sexual development (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/vaticans-antigay-teachings-are_1770.html). They were trying to increase the understanding and acceptance of gay people and to help end the prejudice, discrimination and violence against them. I owe my life to these people (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-psychological-facts-about-growing-up.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2009/05/im-thousand-different-people-every_1383.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/03/gay-marriage-unidentified-internalized_26.html). These people in their efforts to increase the ministry to those among us who were most in need of our help, particularly at the onset of 1980s Aids crisis in the USA were threatened by then Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) of being silenced and removed for their work with gay people (http://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/ & http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-07/news/mn-15599_1_congregation). 

Ratzinger, instead, of being empathic towards those who were marginalized, abandoned by society, terrified and dying of then an unknown fatal disease (which would later be known as Aids), he did nothing to help meet their needs. In fact, he did the exact opposite. He was threatening those few who were trying to help and discourage others from helping. He managed to increase further discrimination against these gay people who were dying, their families and friends. From documentation, it is clear that this inhuman treatment of his targeted against homosexuals was intentional. He mirrored a complete lack of human empathy for these people who were already isolated, terrified and dying by increasing their isolations (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/gay-marriage-8-part-series.html). He had so dehumanized these gay people, as undeserving of plain human compassion and respect that they were not to be considered even as the least among us, and therefore no one is obligated to treat them, as if they were like Christ (Matthew 25:44-46). His inhuman treatment of gay people is consistent with Hitler’s Nazi ideology of certain groups of people as subhuman

Ratzinger completely ignore the emerging truth from science on sexual orientation, particularly homosexuality, only increasing ignorance and fear, against gay people dying i.e. Archbishop Hunthausen (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/crackdown-1983-of-archbishop-hunthausen_29.html & http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/gods-rotteweiler-silenced-many-head-doctrinal-congregation & http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf). Ratzinger, issued a letter that was not based on truth (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/vaticans-antigay-teachings-are_1770.html), in its title and content: CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS - October 1, 1986
(http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html). This letter of Ratzinger of 1986 needs to be immediately denounced, as completely inconsistent with Christ teachings and of the Catholic Church. For us to allow this letter to remain would make us complicit with its intent, which is a complete disregard of Christ’s words and makes you (us) worthy of the prescribed sentence for our negligence in our duty to care for our fellow human beings (Matthew 25:44-46). “In its first major statement on homosexuality in 10 years, the Vatican yesterday [1986] denounced all homosexual activity as morally evil and warned bishops to beware of allowing homosexual rights groups to use church property for meetings or religious services (http://articles.philly.com/1986-10-31/news/26062110_1_homosexual-condition-sexual-morality-homosexual-tendencies).”

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Vatican Warning Seen Against Liberal Views on Sexuality - October 31, 1986
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's latest condemnation of homosexual acts, issued Thursday, was seen by some churchmen here as another in a series of blunt warnings to European and North American Catholics to abandon their increasingly liberal views concerning sexuality and other social issues...
The letter, dated Oct. 1 [1986] and made public Thursday, accused gay rights organizations of "deceitful propaganda" and trying to gain a foothold in the church. "Increasing numbers of people, even within the church, are bringing enormous pressure to bear on the church to accept the homosexual condition as though it were not disordered and to condone homosexual activity," it said. Photo
The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the church's watchdog of doctrinal deviation and a powerful force within the church...
"For the Americans, it completes a Bermuda Triangle of condemnation," said one liberal theologian, citing Vatican condemnation earlier this year of Father Charles Curran, an American Catholic theologian at Catholic University in Washington, and Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Seattle, both of whom were accused by Ratzinger of holding unacceptably liberal views on human sexuality, including homosexuality. "It's a triangle of Hunthausen, Curran and Ratzinger," he said.
Hunthausen, an archbishop since 1975, was stripped of much of his authority in the Seattle archdiocese in September because of liberal practices that included allowing the first-ever homosexual Mass in a Catholic cathedral. Curran was banned from teaching moral theology after he refused to disavow views that included respect for homosexuals who develop stable sexual relationships (http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-31/news/mn-8386_1_liberal-views).


CURRENT THEOLOGY 
NOTES ON MORAL THEOLOGY: 1986
Archbishop Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., authored two columns that 30 are the equivalent of a pastoral letter to his people. He first recalls that the Catholic Church has been willing, even if hesitantly at times, to accept truth wherever it comes from and to integrate it with revelation. But often enough that has involved struggle. These struggles brought with them two characteristics: excessive cruelty to human beings and fear. "In such an atmosphere, amateurs—turned theologians—easily became headhunters and leaders were picked, not by their ability to work toward a synthesis of the new knowledge and the tradition, but by the rigidity of their orthodoxy." Weakland uses the first decade of this century as an example. The suppressions associated with the Modernist crisis "resulted in a total lack of theological creativity in the U.S.A. for half a century." The struggle for purity of doctrine, Weakland urges, "must avoid the fanaticism and small-mindedness" of past years of church history. He concludes by citing Pope John XXIII: "Nowadays, however, the spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity. She considers that she meets the needs of the present day by demonstrating the validity of her teaching rather than by condemnations."
There can be no doubt that Weakland was referring to the Curran and Hunthausen cases, for he explicitly states that the integrative challenges of today come from psychology and the human sciences and "thus the troubled territory today is sexuality.”
Weakland's message is pellucidly clear: we should have learned from history that suppression—the type that the Vatican is now pursuing—is no way to deal with the pursuit of truth (p 91  Theological Studies 48 (1987)


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Secrecy & Covert Retaliation 

To Supporters of Homosexuals & Emerging Science 


Ratzinger starting in 1981 was allowed to dismiss the emerging science on homosexuality and victimized innocent people, including children on a global scale.  This inhuman savagery lasted well over 30 years, an incalculable number of people, including children were harmed and killed (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-psychological-facts-about-growing-up.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/gay-marriage-8-part-series.html). Those who oppose him and were later subjected to his covert retaliation. 

Use of courtesy and secrecy keep conflicts from coming into the open and thereby enlisting the support of influential third parties or of the Church faithful in general. By controlling the machinery and keeping the machinery out of sight, the higher- power party is able to reduce the possibility that the machinery will be reconfigured. Hanson (1987, 44-45) has noted that “the Vatican holds an enormous advantage in any closed bureaucratic struggle” with local bishops

Ratzinger’s investigation of Archbishop Hunthausen in the 1980s was considered by some bishops as nothing more than a tactic used to intimidate other hierarchical members into submission. As time continues to march on, it will become more evident that these past 30 years were one of, if not, the darkest times in existence of the Catholic Church under reign of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.  

Homosexuality was the issue that precipitated Ratzinger’s investigations, however, it was never overtly stated up front in any document. Ratzinger’s charges against homosexuality will always be found towards the end of a long list of his complaints/concerns (p153, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).  And like with the Vatican Bank’s money laundering scandals all these complaints/concerns about homosexuality are cloaked the bureaucratic anonymity of all the Vatican’s curia members. Never is it revealed exactly who, in the Vatican, made what complaint or negative assessment against someone being investigated by Ratzinger, again it is yet another level of the lack of transparency 
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/06/26/the-vatican-bank-the-most-secret-bank-in-the-world/ & http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/10/vatican-banker-running-scared-gotti-tedeschi-could-turn-whistleblower.html & http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9VBK7581.htm & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/10/benedict-xvi-character-assassination-of_3.html & pp 200, 211, 268, 269, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).  “This isolation and the hiddenness of the decision making process kept the Roman officials who issued the negative judgments from having to personally come into contact and work with those who were judged (Hunthausen, first and foremost) (p268, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).”

...On the Rome side, the personalities of individual advocates were not allowed to emerge in public and there was great pressure put on Hunthausen to allow the conflict handling to take place out of public view. The emphasis was on the logic of the existing organizational machinery, which should be allowed to have its way: the Roman curia (distant, anonymous) would determine the nature of the problems; canon law and designated Church teachings (both inanimate) would declare the parameters of permissible solutions; and clarification, as necessary might be sought by having quiet recourse again to the Holy See’s expert representatives (the pro-nuncio, curial officials). Especially notable here is the great distant which exists between the Vatican city state -- where decisions regarding punishments are made -- and the local See – where the effects of such decisions were felt... (p268,  http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf)

...The outcomes of these contrasting strategies – Rome’s anonymous maneuvers versus Hunthausen’s highly personal assertions -- varied according to the playing field. If the matter was handled out of public view, Rome tended to gain ground. But when Hunthausen brought matters into the open, Rome was put on the defensive. To be more specific, up until September, 1986, Rome had forced Hunthausen to yield: thus, he was left to accept a visitation of his archdiocese, the imposition of an outsider bishop, and the loss of certain of his own powers of leadership. None of these steps were discussed publicly before they were taken. But once Hunthausen took his case into the open with the announcement of the faculties, the momentum shifted in his favor. Thereafter, Rome was induced to abandon its own preferred appearance of harmony within the leadership, to discuss the case in public, to defend its own actions, and eventually to retreat from the earlier punitive action...(p269, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf)


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Benedict XVI’s endless obsession of antigay violence was not limited to just Catholic sisters, clerics, theologians and religious, but it also played a major part in the political globalization of the work force that led to the pervasive devaluing of human life
 (http://www.pewforum.org/PublicationPage.aspx?id=668 & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/benedict-xvi-bush-2003-against-gay.html). Benedict XVI’s regime of 30 years collapsed under the weight of this endless corruption and devastation of human lives, especially children, because it was never built on truth or respect for human beings. He relentlessly fought against the emerging science of homosexuality. Why did he do this?  Why was he allowed to globally increased the discrimination, violence and deaths of gay adults and children and no one stopped him? Likely, because those who attempted to were silence and removed by Benedict XVI’s well established destructive machine from his office, made up of his hand picked staff and hierarchy members. As people around the world keep advancing in the true knowledge about sexual orientation from science and the bible the more vivid Benedict XVI’s atrocities will be exposed. 

Administrative evil is systemic, in the sense that it exists beyond any one person once its policies are in place and its procedures take control. Nevertheless, I would argue, organizations must have leaders, and those leaders must be held accountable for creating or maintaining such evil. I believe that a system consists of those agents and agencies whose power and values create or modify the rules of and expectations for 'approved behaviors' within its sphere of influence. In one sense, the system is more than the sum of its parts and of its leaders, who also fall under its powerful influences. In another sense, however, the individuals who play key roles in creating a system that engages in illegal, immoral, and unethical conduct should be held accountable despite the situational pressures on them." (From Chapter 15, page 438) — Daniel Effron, Rochester, New York
“The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” 
Philip G. Zimbardo Ph.D.
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Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s 30 years dehumanizing gay people mirrored to the world the Vatican’s approval that a group of people can be singled out to be discriminated against, to be used as a scapegoat, for his responsibility ordering the child sexual abuse cover-ups (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/01/gay-marriage-uk-pm-david-cameron-lack.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/gay-marriage-8-part-series.html). Also, Benedict XVI dehumanizing gay people could be used to create fear, among a less educated people, and used as a political wedge to usher certain people into elected office (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3108349.stm & http://articles.cnn.com/2003-07-31/world/vatican.gay.marriages_1_gay-marriages-civil-unions-gay-couples?_s=PM:WORLD). He has shown that this is possible, even in the face of overwhelming factual evidence to the contrary (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/05/structural-violence-and-children-dont.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/09/vaticans-antigay-teachings-are_1770.html). And no one says a word or if they do, their words are not heard. Why? It will not take much effort to remember that this same scenario has been mirrored many times over in major arenas of the world i.e. political, financial, etc.  

Benedict XVI mirrored Hitler’s disregard for 

Science & Empathy 

What led to Benedict XVI’s downfall was similar to Hitler’s, they both arbitrary dismiss the importance of science and subscribed to use of inhuman brutality on anyone who  dared to oppose them 
(http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/07/part-1-of-4-appealing-his-case-fr-marty.html).  Photo - More 
Hitler’s removal of all the Jewish scientists left him with an educational system that produced obedient, unquestioning male youth students, in great physical shape and drilled on the Nazi propaganda as truth, but were wholly deficient in the basic knowledge of science and math
(http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/03/hitlers-anti-intellectualism-downfall.html).



The Rejection of Modern Science: the Nazi Dismissal Policy of 1933
Colleen Harris, Jacksonville University
In 1933, the Nazi regime in Germany passed the Civil Service Law, which dismissed non-Aryans and the “politically unreliable” from state employment. Exemptions existed, such as those for World War I veterans, but many of these civil servants were forced to accept transfers to other positions. Two currents had flowed together to create the Civil Service Law, the first law of the Dismissal Policy. Long before the rise of the Nazis, many Germans had rejected elements of the modern world of which science is a crucial component. On top of this, Nazi Germans associated Jews with modern science because of the high number of Jews working in science. These dismissals included scientists from teaching and other governmental positions. Of those dismissed from their positions, some left their homeland and some remained in Germany. In either case, the dismissal of professors from their appointments adversely affected German science...

...Many of the scientists who left objected to Nazi-enforced methods of science. The Nazis’ “new science” was not objective; it was certainly not the “common property of mankind;” and the party used it to serve its own purposes. In June 1936, Dr. Bernhard Rust, German Minister of Science, Education, and People’s Education and loyal Nazi, declared that Nazism and official ideology were more important than was empirical, objective science. Turning the notion of empirical truth on its head, he argued that “Science which is not in accord with it [German ideology] is not objective.” For Rust, the changes made in German science were only to “enrich itself.” The Nazis maintained that they were basing science on observing nature and its reactions. Non-Aryan, theoretical science, on the other hand, did not expect one clear, definitive answer and considered each partially proven assumption to be a milestone. In Germany, as the New York Times reported, not even “a laboratory worker [could] decide for himself what the philosophy of science [should] be,” implying that science was a merely a tool of the dictatorship to be manipulated by the Führer and his party. Prominent scientists willingly gave themselves and their study to the regime... Photo
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“Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, chose to stay in Europe, even though he was accused by the Gestapo of being both a "white Jew"—a non-Jew who was supposedly Jewish by culture or ideology—and a homosexual. Heisenberg had had many Jewish associates, which put him at great risk...




Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime (2001)
 By Jean S. Medawar, David Pyke 

Before Hitler's rise to power, Germany outstripped the rest of the world in its scientific achievements. Between 1901 and 1932, German scientists won one-third of all Nobel science prizes; from 1933 to 1960, however, Germany won only eight of these prizes. Medawar, the widow of renowned immunologist Peter Medawar, and British physician Pyke collaborate to narrate an engrossing story of how England and the United States benefited from Hitler's expulsion of Germany's leading scientists. The authors observe that at least 20% of these biologists, physicists and chemists were dismissed from their university posts because they were Jews...
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This deficiency made Hitler unable to compete in the development of the latest state-of-the-art advancements in war weapons.  Hitler was oblivious to the importance of the education of science and math to the male youth of Germany. Hitler wanted his education system though void of science and math - to  solely to produce youths to be brutal, domineering, fearless and cruel (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hitlers-children/). And any student who did not agree with Hitler were removed and sent away to a concentration camp to be re-educated, where they were ruthlessly forced into complete submission or died 
Adolf Hitler said this about the Hitler Youth in 1933: 

"My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes…..That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication...That is how I will create the New Order." Photo


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Benedict XVI - Fanatical Homosexual Repression -  

Created Vatican’s Dissociated Closeted Homosexuals Sexual Behavior 

i.e. Procuring Male Prostitutes, Pornography


Benedict XVI mirrored Hitler’s dehumanization tactics by his unending obsession to eradicate the Church and the world of homosexuals permeated his 30 years of power in the Vatican. The fact Benedict XVI’s antigay obsession was not based on truth, instead he was consumed with endlessly silencing all the emerging authoritative data on homosexual orientation, research overwhelming indicates that such an abnormally fierce homophobic attitude by someone reveals that this person has strong unacknowledged repressed homosexual attractions towards members of the same sex (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/08/benedict-xvi-anti-gay-obsession_197.html) & (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/04/sexual-repression-and-pornography.html). Benedict XVI’s extreme anti-homosexual obsession was and is based on a lie and it is from here that all the corruption in the Vatican stems. Photo 

Benedict XVI in his mania to rid the world of homosexuality, as “intrinsically” and “objectively” disordered only existed in his head, not in reality, in truth.  It is there that he was more than likely violently taught (brainwashed), as described above, for the first 18 years of his life to dehumanize homosexuals and believe them to be intrinsically disordered. Benedict XVI and his curia are a prime global example of the unnatural and life-threatening consequences of the repression homosexuality. Benedict XVI’s 30 years living in the global fishbowl called the Vatican together with all those he hand picked to service in the curia and hierarchy have proven that that Benedict XVI’s antigay teachings (covertly past off as the Church’s teachings) are emphatically unsubstantiated and life-threatening (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/03/gay-marriage-benedict-xvis-obsession.html). Photo 

Benedict XVI’s years in power at the Vatican had based all his recruitment of staff members and appointments to hierarchy on this one piece of untruth and demanded their obedience to it (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/12/j-edgar-hoover-homophobic-men-repressed.html). Resulting in, Benedict XVI, creating over a period of 30 years, a solid homogeneous group, a select population based on one specific untruth, with the highest probability of containing the largest number of homophobic sexual repressed homosexuals than anywhere else in the world. As we have learned from science (like with Galileo) that homosexual orientation like heterosexual orientation is a normal natural process of human development. 


Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret 
(Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back). 
We have also learned that the sexual repression of human sexuality leads to various forms of sexual fetishes, pornography and dissociative behaviors of acting out sexually 


Science Shows What Sexual Repression Actually Looks Like 
by Marty Klein, PhD – 11/8/10
…As reported in the Journal of Economic Perspectives,
* The rates at which people buy pornography are not wildly different from state to state;
* States where people vote for conservative candidates buy more porn than states in which people vote for progressive candidates.
…According to credit card receipts from a national provider of adult entertainment, eight of the top ten pornography-consuming states went Republican in the 2008 election. And the trend goes beyond voting. For example, states where a majority of residents agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage" bought more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. The same difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behavior."
And of course the state with the highest per capita purchase of online pornography is...Utah…
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Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? 
by Benjamin Edelman – 2009
…this paper focuses on the consumption side of adult online entertainment, and in particular on subscriber demographics and consumption patterns of those who subscribe to such websites. On the surface, this business would seem to face a number of obstacles. Regulatory and legal barriers have already been mentioned. In addition, those charging for access to adult entertainment face competition from similar content available without a fee. In the context of adult entertainment, free access offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create records documenting the fact of a customer’s purchase; consumers of free content may feel more confident that their usage will remain confidential. More broadly, measured levels of religiosity in American are high—for example, 68 percent of Americans state that the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, according to the National Election Survey. At the same time, social critics like Levy (2005) and Paul (2005) often argue that the rise of Internet pornography is contributing to a coarsening of American culture. Do consumption patterns of online adult entertainment reveal two separate Americas? Or is the consumption of online adult entertainment widespread, regardless of legal barriers, potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction?
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Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: The Healing Power of Clinical Wisdom (Part One) 
by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. - January 6, 2012
…What we don't know can hurt us. The "unconscious," as Sigmund Freud professed, is the "unknown" or "not known." That portion of subjective experience, which is obscured, invisible to consciousness, at least "at the moment." It consists largely of the parts of ourselves we deny, dissociate, despise, denigrate, dread and generally repress. What we repress comes back to haunt us with a vengeance. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spoke of this phenomenon as "the return of the repressed." Denial or dissociation are repressive defense mechanisms, and serve some necessary function in terms of preserving mental health. But when some significant aspect of ourselves is chronically denied or dissociated (i.e., repressed and made unconscious), the proverbial chickens eventually come home to roost. If, for instance, someone always denies their anger, these feelings will some day resurface tenfold, especially under stress, though the reason for and intensity of their rage may be unclear  and inappropriate to the current circumstances…
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Benedict XVI’s personally hand picked homogeneous group members is based on the group’s total support of a lie, regardless of the overwhelming conflicting factual evidence. This is the unanimous group support for a lie, regardless the incalculable number human lives destroyed, especially children by the violent physical, emotional and employment discrimination would definitely lead to a moral breakdown of the curia and of the hierarchy of epic portions, as it has been reveal is the case (http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vaticans-gay-lobby-round-two). 

Benedict XVI, the curia and the hierarchy’s behavior mirrors to the global population an approved real lack of respect for a concern group human beings, including children, not unlike the social influence of Hitler’s atrocities. However, this opens the door for a rapid decline for the dignity for all human beings.

Equally, disturbing is the fact from 30 years of documentation that Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s view of Vatican II, in particular the document “Gaudium et Spes” would be described as reactionary that openness to the world would never improve the Church. He directly opposed the clear prohibition stated in “Gaudium et Spes” and no one challenged him.

“...Gaudium et Spes cannot be said to articulate a reactionary viewpoint. The reactionary intention to disengage from the (extraecclesial) world is expressly rejected. (See, for example, articles 34, 39, 40, 43, 62, 93.) On the contrary, Christians are “stringently bound” to attend to this world and the welfare of their fellows persons (p82, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).

His reactionary view was clearly demonstrated by his continuous fanatical suppression of the emerging authoritative data on homosexuality. By doing this he put at risk the lives of millions of people, including children to the violence of life and death situations, and still no one challenged him. One of the themes of “Gaudium et Spes” is: 

“the development of the human person and human social groups through secular scientific thought and techniques (we understand people better through biology, psychology, sociology, etc.; we encounter one another socially in new ways through industrialization, urbanization, migration, new communications media, etc.)...(p85, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf).”

Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI clearly violated this directive especially, regarding his rewriting his own bias views into the teaching on homosexuality of 1992 completely void of any authoritative data from biology, psychology, sociology, etc., as specified in “Gaudium et Spes.” He was clearly acting outside the Catholic Church and yet not a word was said. The Vatican's unsubstantiated antigay teachings, were rewritten independently in 1992 “Catechism of the Catholic Church (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm)” by Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI without the input and agreement of the entire hierarchy (p41, http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0206-111237/full.pdf). This already raises questions about the authenticity of true Church teachings vs Benedict XVI’s teachings on homosexuality 
(http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html).  Benedict XVI views are reactionary, especially his success of excluding the emerging science on homosexual sexual orientation. And yet he reeked havoc on the lives of so many people in the Church for the past 30 years and he was able to get away with it. Why? What kind of power did he have over everyone including the hierarchy? He is sure to be a study like Hitler was and is regarding the Holocaust.

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Tsunami of Mindlessly Living 

Sacrificing the Lives of Children - Perpetuating Global Violence

It is not because Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) is of any significance, it is only the position, in the Vatican that he holds, the papacy, it is a schema that powerfully resonates many positive salient aspects associated the position that overrides much of the person’s personal questionable traits and actions, who holds the position (http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2012/09/the-grand-schema-things.html & http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/pdfs/schemaforlanguage.pdf). Therefore, in a situation, claiming being victimized by a pope, these immensely popular positive salient aspects associated with the schema of a pope, the office of the papacy are extremely powerful and like with the force and speed of a tsunami, in a flash they override the reality of the situation and the tactics used to silence truth, completely obscuring any culpability of Joseph Ratzinger’s actions  Photo 
(http://www.radford.edu/~jaspelme/social/schemas%20and%20stereotypes%20handout.pdf). “Mindlessness...it’s the human tendency to operate on autopilot, whether by stereotyping; performing mechanically, by rote; or simply not paying attention. Although exceedingly common, few people (unless they’re practicing Buddhists, perhaps) realize the extent to which they live mindlessly (http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/16/mindlessness.html).” 


Leave them; they are blind guides [of the blind]. 
If a blind man leads a blind man, 
both will fall into a pit. 
Matthew 15:13-14


Truth - or - Social Norms

Just because “everyone” believes something to be true does not make it true. “Everyone” believed that the world was flat and the sun revolved around the earth and used the bible to prove this as fact. It was common knowledge that cigarette smoking was harmless. It is a matter of taking time to check out why we do what we do. Because the power of social norms to influence, even to manipulate and control what we say and do is enormous and can be life-threatening to human lives, even our own. It is a question of just how independent do we think we are and how much out fear of being different, being an individual, we cower and give in and follow what everyone else is doing. So when we feel something is true and real, a fact, it is best to stop and check it out, to see if it is so. This is imperative when it comes to the subject of homosexuality, because the lives of millions depends our sobriety and courage to face the truth. Photo 

Often people will say that homosexuality is just wrong and mindlessly say it is against the bible though without their  ever doing any debt reading of the bible. These same people will rely unknowingly totally on erroneous social norms and find no need to check out any empirical research on homosexuality or human sexuality. It is a real question why they do not. The ability to offer authoritative validating facts on homosexuality determines whether  or not our knowledge is based on truth or on social norms. Those who state that homosexuality and gay marriage is wrong, they are always unable to offer any factual data to back their reasoning either from science or the bible. The best they can only do is continuously discredit the authoritative data on homosexuality.     They always appear to be in the height of an emotional state, in the neighborhood of hysteria demanding they are right. Notice that no one gets emotional explaining Galileo that the earth revolves around sun. It was said that in 2010 Archbishop Nienstedt of St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota
 (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/october-29-2010/minnesota-bishops-on-gay-marriage/7386/)was quite calm and at ease in his announcement that he was sending out 400,000 antigay marriage DVDs that was void of any supporting factual data. Oh, no hysteria? 

There is an episode of the TV show “Candid Camera” of Allan Funt that clearly demonstrates the power that social norms has on us all (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/07/power-of-social-norms-distort-personal.html).

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The Power of Norms and Groups on Individuals: 
Philip G. Zimbardo Ph.D., Stanford University

Whenever I enter an office-building elevator, I automatically turn and face front, do not make eye contact with other passengers, stop talking or speak only in hush tones to a companion. Are these my personal preferences or idiosyncrasies? Hardly, since most people in most elevators behave similarly. Those actions tell you little about me but a lot about the unspoken rules of public elevators. Why do we do it? Unlike signs forbidding us to smoke or advising us what to do in case of a fire, nothing in any elevator says we should act in these strange ways. Our behavior is under the control of unwritten social rules, implicit norms, which govern appropriate elevator demeanor.

We can test if such situational rules are in silent force by violating them and seeing what our own and others' reactions will be. The reactions will be either of distress or laughter at the apparent violation of these unwritten expectations. One of the most popular scenarios in the long history of Alan Funt's ingenious Candid Camera programs is "Face The Rear." An elevator is rigged so that after an unsuspecting person enters, four Candid Camera staff enter, and one by one they all face the rear. The doors close and then reopen; now revealing that the passenger had conformed and is now also facing the rear. Doors close and reopen, and everyone is facing sideways, and then face the other way. We laugh that these people are manipulated like puppets on invisible strings, but this scenario makes us aware of the number of situations in which we mindlessly follow the dictates of group norms and situational forces. Photo

Social norms are expectations shared by the members of a group about appropriate ways to behave in given situations. Norms are the potential "pressure" in situations that: help to define the nature of social reality; form the foundation upon which people base their interaction; and provide a common referent for members' self-evaluation. By means of these mechanisms, norms increase feelings of personal and  group identity...
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Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" Elevator Prank – video
Power of Social Norms - Social Psychology


Philip G. Zimbardo Ph.D., Stanford University


“The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil”

The Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual, or aberrant behavior, we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes, personality, and character, as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge readers to reflect on how well they really know themselves, and how much confidence they have in what they would or would not ever do when put into new behavioral settings...
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Violence of “Foot Binding” & Sexual Repression 

Homophobia & Violence 

The Vatican’s antigay teachings are unsubstantiated, this is plain fact. It is not debatable, it would be like debating Galileo about the earth revolving around the sun and no matter how much the Vatican wants to demand it be not so - it cannot be done 
(http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/pope-described-as-so-averse-to-anything_920.html). Homosexuality is not a matter of debate - but of educating people on the truth, the reality of human sexuality.  Regardless, how many people globally want to follow Benedict XVI and his curia in their delusional thinking about homosexuality, like with Galileo - it will not cause the sun to revolve around the earth. It will, however, because it is a severe form of child abuse that is continuous throughout the early childhood years and beyond causing tremendous violence to the lives of children that as adults, it tends to be a self-perpetuating violence inflicted onto others, thus increasing the violence in the world Photo
 (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/02/perpetuation-of-generational-violence.html). 
This type of child abuse is most inhuman, because it is denying a child of the natural need “to love and be loved” that is even more severe than foot binding. “Foot binding is the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding & http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942 & http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/16/world/la-fg-china-bound-feet-20120416).” Benedict XVI and his curia are prime examples of being victims of severe sexual repression of homosexual feelings and attractions that like with “foot binding” starts early childhood “who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires Photo

Who would I be serving by obeying Benedict XVI - 

Instead of protecting Children, 1997?


If I had remained silent, in 1997, about my sexual orientation and completely forgot my moral responsibility and human empathy to protect children, I could have avoided all the violence directed towards me from Benedict XVI for the past 16 years. However, according to this kind of sociopathic thinking, because I choose to stand up for the truth to protect the lives of children and prevent the self-perpetuation of violence - I am being blamed for all the vindictive attacks made against me. “The message is this: you wouldn’t have so many problems if you were less…YOU (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gender-and-schooling/201207/stop-blaming-the-victim-changing-gender-paradigms-safer-schools-2).” 

Who would I be serving, if I remained silent about the truth of sexual orientation in 1997 and the violence being inflicted on children by the influence of unsubstantiated antigay social and religious norms, i.e. the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings? I have always tried earnestly to build my life on truth. When I have made mistakes in the past, I’ve always tired to quickly own up and admit it, make amends and then begin again. I just was never good at lying, it is not that I am virtuous in this regard. I simply cannot remember consistently long enough that I told a lie, the what, how, who, when, and where I told it. This all creates tremendous anxiety trying to remember, including the nagging fact that I am a dishonest person, which all dissipates, once I just own up to the truth. 

My silence in 1997, certainly would not be serving God by my ignoring the wealth of factual knowledge of a lifetime I acquired (through, academic studies, lectures, APA National Conventions, spiritual direction, personal psychotherapy, parents of LGBT children, LGBT university student and community centers) and refusing to protect children. For me to obey then Cardinal Ratzinger in 1997 (presently Benedict XVI) I would have had to disregard truth completely and the violence being done to children. This is the direct opposite of what God is all about. This is the very source of the deception and corruption that penetrates the Vatican‘s curia and beyond, which you are seeking to reform (http://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191377106/popes-reference-to-gay-lobby-broaches-taboo-topic & http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2013/06/12/pope-francis-laments-gay-lobby-and-corruption-in-vatican-report/ & http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/pope-francis-reform-church_n_3075838.html). It is shocking even to imagine that I would be serving Benedict XVI’s fierce “intrinsically” and “objectively” disordered” suppression of the truth about homosexual sexual orientation uncaring about the human lives, especially the lives of children that are destroyed
(http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/04/sexual-repression-and-pornography.html). For me to keep silent for Benedict XVI and his clerical supporters, so that I could have lived a comfortable life for these past 16 years, would be like selling my soul to the devil. Because my life would no longer be building on truth. It is frightening to think what kind of life this would have been for me, possibly, quite similar to and ending up like many of the members of the curia did repressing the truth about their human sexuality (http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/12/j-edgar-hoover-homophobic-men-repressed.html & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/04/sexual-repression-and-pornography.html & http://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191377106/popes-reference-to-gay-lobby-broaches-taboo-topic & http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vaticans-gay-lobby-round-two & http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2012/10/benedict-xvi-character-assassination-of_3.html). What saved me from not ending up like the Vatican’s curia and Benedict XVI, is that I searched for the truth, spent time in prayer and the scripture. 


...How I resolved this situation was through hours upon hours of continuous prayer. Afterwards, I came to the realization that my life had already been altered – changed forever. Because there was no way I could pretend I did not know what I knew, how severely children are harmed for life by the Vatican unsubstantiated antigay teachings and antigay social norms. I decided that I could not live with the regret knowing that I had a chance to make a profound difference for the better for others, most especially children and that I did nothing. My life would be nothing. I took the bungee jump and I came out to my parishioners. It definitely was not easy, but one thing that happened to me is - I gained a real sense of peace and well-being that has remained constant and unshaken. The scripture passages that kept repeating over and over in my head were: Photo

“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.” Matthew 16:25

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?” Luke 9:25 

“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me;… Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:36-38

“…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6

Even after Benedict XVI and his accomplices’ mistreatment and the serious harm they have caused me that sense of peace has never left me. It is remains rock solid. I believe that is the benefit of spending the time and energy of acquiring a well-informed conscience regarding sexual orientation.  

Written by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

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End of - Part 3a of 4 ---- To be continued







http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2013/07/gay-catholic-priest-appealing-his-case_28.html

Gay Children Pentecost - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz Appeals his Case “Protecting Gay Children 1997” to - Pope Francis - 2013 - 5/23/13


(Reposted) --- Gay Catholic Priest – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Charged by the Vatican for “Coming Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later – February 10, 2013 
 - 4/17/13


(Added Links) --- Gay Catholic Priest – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Charged by the Vatican for “Coming Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later & President Obama’s letter of appreciation - 2012 – 5/1/13


(Original posting) --- Gay Catholic Priest Charged by the Vatican for “Coming Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later | Separation of Church and State - Does Not Protect Children - February 10, 2013 - 2/26/13


My Perspective on LGBT Rights Begins with Children 
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - 5/10/13

Children Growing-up Gay & Vatican's Impact Harmful -GROUPTHINK 
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - 2008
Krista Tippett - Speaking of Faith
American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio


"Reparative Therapy" or "Conversion Therapy" – To Change Sexual Orientation - Lack Medical Justification, THREATEN HEALTH - Are ETHICALLY UNACCEPTABLE - 9/1/12


STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE and CHILDREN --- “Don’t Make Waves” --- Benedict XVI and Curia’s Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups and Gay Obsession – 5/13/13


Gay Marriage – UK PM DAVID CAMERON - Lack of Love & Support of Children is ‘DAMAGE TO FAMILY’ i.e. BENEDICT XVI --- 30 years of GLOBAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER-UPS | Gay Marriages Hurts No One!!! - 1/2/13


GAY MARRIAGE - 8 Part Series - providing Reliable Authoritative Data & Research – Challenges the Accuracy & Truthfulness of Benedict XVI & Hierarchy – Public Antigay Attacks & Tactics - 2012


Do I reject my gay brother? Bishop Gumbleton - Homophobia - "Always Our Children" PBS 1999


SEXUAL ORIENTATION is less about sex and more about LOVE, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - - LOVE & RELIGION ---
Nothing in life is more precious than the intimate relationships we have with love ones. Healthy love relationships delight us give us confidence to take on challenges and support us in difficult times. Photo


3 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT GROWING UP GAY


AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008 -- A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 
December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz








Added References:

Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy: A Study of Coping Strategies in the Hunthausen Affair,
with Preferential Attention to Discursive Strategies
by Timothy Peter Schilling 2003 

New York Gov. Cuomo & NYC Mayor Bloomberg Passing NY Gay Marriage Bill 2011

WELL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE
Protect Religious Freedom – but not Tyranny in Religion - June 20, 2011

The way to begin for us all, not only the NY State Senators, to protect Religious Freedom and not Tyranny in Religion is by obtaining a well-informed conscience.  We start by individually approaching and studying in (great detail because it involves the lives of children) from the best and the brightest (1) scripture scholars regarding the references related to homosexuality and (2) scientists in the field of study of human sexuality, in particular, but [not] limited to, the onset of sexual orientation.  The prerequisite to the formation of a well-informed conscience is making a thorough study of all sides of the issue from all available authoritative data and research, including opposing views. Then in this way we are better equipped to decide who and what needs government protection in regards to the gay marriage bill. This exhaustive procedure follows to the letter the Gospel quotation about the “plank” and the” speck.”

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”. Luke 6:42

The “plank” for us is ignorance.If we satisfactorily resolve this ignorance, then together we will be able to see more clearly, whether or not, as NY State Senators (government officials) and as citizens we are colluding with the Catholic Hierarchy and are harming children, as was found to be the case in the Ireland Murphy Report.

…This piece of legislation the gay marriage bill is not like any other in that it involves the well-being of children, at its very root…
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Below - Letters concerning the canonical proceedings
  


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Below - a copy of President Obama's letter sent to Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - August 28, 2012









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Below - Letter sent out by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – informing of my situation and  seeking legal assistance - July 2010


Thalamus Center
Early Childhood Psychological Development Growing up Gay
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz Photo

July 2010

President of the United States
United States Vice-President
United States Department of State
United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Labor
United States Congress, Senators and Representatives
United States Supreme Court Justices
50 United States Governors
Civil Rights, Employment, Attorneys, Law Firms and Law Schools in USA
Journalists, News media Networks, Reporters and LGBT Organizations

Dear --- ----,

My name is Fr. Marty Kurylowicz, a Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Grand Rapids Michigan ordained June 16, 1979.

In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different. This feeling "different" is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and last throughout a child’s lifetime. The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but also affect their families, siblings, friends and anyone whom they might consider special in their lives. They are a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which place at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. They stifle an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offering better ways of maintaining peace among people and improving the quality of life for everyone in the world.

After the New Ways Ministry National Symposium in March 1997, in good conscience I felt intensely morally obligated to "come out" as a gay Catholic priest to my parishioners at Holy Family Parish, Sparta, Michigan USA, to draw public attention to this implicit form of child abuse. This abuse is caused by the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms, in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings. My background study in this area is extensive, far beyond that of the average person. However, since I have come out, I have been subjected to overt as well as covert retaliation coming from the Vatican through the bishops of the Diocese of Grand Rapids. I was ordered to be sent away to be re-educated regarding sexual orientation, to subject myself to conversion or reparative therapy--not a lobotomy, but similar. I refused to consent to this inhuman treatment because of the obvious clinical research data. And because I did so, in retaliation I lost my regular priest salary for the past 13 years, my earned sabbatical terms and my status for any future assignments in theDiocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

At the same time, an insider to the Vatican warned me that I could really get hurt severely by people in the Vatican. And even though this person was dead serious, I passed this warning off as being someone’s overactive imagination that was a bit bizarre. I thought, "After all, this is the USA, what do I have to fear?" However, this covert retaliation has been substantial. My car was repossessed in July 2009 and on June 26, 2010, I lost my home to foreclosure.

It seems no one wants to touch my case because it deals with the Catholic Church (although, in the last several months, the credibility of the Vatican has fallen considerably with regard to the decades of cover-ups of child sexual abuse cases). My case is about protecting children as young as 4 and 5 years of age. The 2009 amendment to the Federal Hate Crimes Law of 1969 does not seem to cover my type of situation, although it is a type of implicit hate crime. Unfortunately, there is not enough legislation out there to deal with most non-violent discrimination based on sexual orientation, nor enough legal precedent (especially with an entity like the church). It was mentioned to me that possibly Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED) and/or some employment law claims could apply.

It comes down to the fact that there are no US civil laws to protect me (a gay out Catholic priest) in my defense to protect children as young as 4 and 5 years of age. It seems clear that lawyers are often scared of taking on entities that seem more powerful than the legal system and/or cases with no real precedents. Not only do they have to worry about not winning after all the effort they put in (including hours of research, writing memos/briefs, etc--which is all hard when there's not much precedent), but they have to worry about—as I would think--being silenced and harming their careers. I can easily realize that there are risks going up against powerful entities. The religious element of my case makes it difficult for lawyers. Most lawyers would probably not be Catholic and don't really understand the Catholic Church, how it works or what they'd be getting themselves into. This is probably especially true for organizations more geared towards LGBT and other civil rights. A lot of LGBT people are not Catholic for the obvious reasons of mistreatment and my situation seems like it could be a complex intersection of various legal issues as well as religion--probably several things most LGBT/civil rights lawyers don't really know a lot about.

If I do say so myself, I think that my case could be a watershed that frees everyone, because the reason for my coming out was specifically based on the lifetime psychological harm caused to children as young as 4 and 5 years of age who grow up gay (LGBT). Evidence of such psychological harm has been heavily documented through accredited scientific research for the past several decades. Including scripture cannot be used to condemn homosexuality any more than it could be used to condemn Galileo. These are facts and cannot be disputed by intelligent people. It would be about children worldwide who grow up gay (LGBT), which takes the issue of sexual orientation out of the adult arena, making gay civil rights (gay marriage) a must--who wants to deny children their civil rights? I only know this from my experience with coming out in a Catholic parish. People calm down almost immediately when you talk about children growing up gay (LGBT)--in part, I think, because many people can identify with this fact.

I am asking for monetary compensation for the past 13 years for the financial hardship caused, the unnecessary setbacks in advancing my education, as a priest and the damage to my reputation making it impossible for me to support myself, leaving me destitute. If the Vatican wanted to remove me from the priesthood, they should have done it immediately after I came out in March 1997. But they did not do this, likely because they did not want to fight the global publicity that they were against gay priests – even if gay priests remained faithful to their vow of celibacy. Instead, they let me continue on for 8 years before removing my faculties for cerebrating mass publicly in any Catholic Church - mainly because I would be allowed to continue to preach if they did not remove me, June 2006. It has been rumored by a priest that and likely my bishop that I was given more than 5 years to get on my feet to leave the priesthood. But I had no intention of leaving the priesthood. They were making it impossible for me to stay in the priesthood, but I had no intention of leaving the priesthood. Why would I leave the priesthood? It would completely destroy - the reason why I risked my life, to come out as a gay Catholic priest, to protect children worldwide, to help stop the severe implicit form of child abuse caused to children as young as 4 and 5 years of age worldwide by the Vatican unsubstantiated antigay teachings (as stated in the 2nd paragraph above). The Vatican would then be allowed to continue unchallenged in harming children worldwide in much the same way as the Vatican has been allowed to continue for decades worldwide to cover-up of the child sexual abuse cases.

I am seeking a legal cause of action to pursue, monetary compensation for the retaliatory treatment I have received and financial assistance for starting the Thalamus Center. The Thalamus Center is an educational international interactive web site on human sexuality to combat the severe lifetime psychological harm caused by unsubstantiated antigay teachings, in particular that of the Vatican. It is ignorance of human sexuality that is so harmful to children and world peace. The Thalamus Center is being designed on a similar format as that of National Public Radio, NPR web site. The Thalamus Center is focused on two areas of human sexuality from science (biology, physiology, psychology, etc.) and religion (all religions, ancient sacred texts, etc.) – operating 7 days a week, reporting, interviewing, and referencing researchers, scholars, theologians, including archiving data, listing all LGBTQ&I resources and addressing related current news media issues. The Thalamus Center would be employing a full time staff of 9 professionals, including related support staff members.

Is there any help for me?


Fr. Marty Kurylowicz, M.Div., M.S.

Old address:
Cornerstone Dr.
Canton, Michigan 48188

New address:
Woodcreek Ln.
Canton, Michigan 48188

Thalamus Center – Early Childhood Psychological Development 
Growing Up Gay
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/


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Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition


Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New International Version)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again. 

1 Chronicles 16:30 (New International Version)
30 Tremble before him, all the earth!
The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New American Standard Bible)
30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. 

Psalm 93:1 (New International Version)
1 The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed in majesty
and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New American Standard Bible)
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. Photo 

Psalm 96:10 (New International Version)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity.
Psalm 96:10 (New American Standard Bible)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity."Photo

Psalm 104:5 (New International Version)
5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Psalm 104:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will nottotter forever and ever.


 


Injustice anywhere is a
threat to
Justice everywhere
Martin Luther King

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.


What you cannot do is accept injustice.
From Hitler – or anyone.
You must make the injustice visible
– be prepared to die like a
 soldier to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!


“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that 
the most deadly of all 
possible sins 
is the mutilation of 
a child’s spirit.” 





…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.Matthew 18:6




Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.


Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

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