Sunday, August 7, 2022

After “COMING OUT” March 1997 for the protection of CHILDREN = I was ordered to be sent away to be reeducated on sexual orientation!!! = NAZI concentration camps (“reeducation”) Benedict XVI's unconscious early childhood traumatic reenactments growing up in Nazi Germany and RC Priestly Vow of OBEDIENCE versus COLLUSION to RC Hierarchy CORRUPTION??? - - - KNOW the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you FREE (John 8:31-32)

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Vatican ≠ Science ≠ 

TRUTH ≠ LOVE


Galileo 

Homosexuality

Sexual Orientation





Caritas in veritate

 ...Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space…

      …REASON always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself OMNIPOTENT. For its part, RELIGION always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development… 

Read more:

Pope Benedict XVI 2007 2009 

http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html

(Benedict XVI Caritas in Veritate 2009)







Photo

NASA

August 22, 2022


Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes

August 22, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope

With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s inner life… 

Read more:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-showcase-auroras-hazes/




Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Witness Galileo's famous struggle to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his discoveries about the cosmos. Aired October 29, 2002 on PBS

Read more:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/galileo-battle-for-the-heavens.html



Photos, PhotoTrial of Galileo

Galileo’s Trial 

Read more:

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/05/gay-marriage-proposals-new-hope-truth.html




Oct. 31, 1992

More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify one of the Church's most infamous wrongs -- the persecution of the Italian astronomer and physicist for proving the Earth moves around the Sun.


With a formal statement at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Saturday, Vatican officials said the Pope will formally close a 13-year investigation into the Church's condemnation of Galileo in 1633. The condemnation, which forced the astronomer and physicist to recant his discoveries, led to Galileo's house arrest for eight years before his death in 1642 at the age of 77.


The dispute between the Church and Galileo has long stood as one of history's great emblems of conflict between reason and dogma,  science and faith. The Vatican's formal acknowledgement of an error, moreover, is a rarity in an institution built over centuries on the belief that the Church is the final arbiter in matters of faith.


At the time of his condemnation, Galileo had won fame and the patronage of leading Italian powers like the Medicis and Barberinis for discoveries he had made with the astronomical telescope he had built. But when his observations led him to proof of the Copernican theory of the solar system, in which the sun and not the earth is the center, and which the Church regarded as heresy, Galileo was summoned to Rome by the Inquisition. 


Forced to Recant 


By the end of his trial, Galileo was forced to recant his own scientific findings as "abjured, cursed and detested," a renunciation that caused him great personal anguish but which saved him from being burned at the stake…

Read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/world/after-350-years-vatican-says-galileo-was-right-it-moves.html





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 Peace Prayer of St. Francis














COMING OUT” 

March 1997

for 

protecting 

defenseless  

LGBTQI and all 

children growing up!!!

and my

RC Priestly Vow of

OBEDIENCE

versus 

COLLUSION 

to 

RC Hierarchy's 

ANTI-GAY

CORRUPTION

continuous

 lifetime of crippling

VIOLENCE - aimed directly against

defenseless

very young CHILDREN 

globally

- the 

 WILLFUL

  COMPLETE

 ABSENCE

of 

SCIENCE

!?!


1997 

after 

coming out

  I was

 ordered 

to be sent away to be

reeducated 

on

sexual orientation!!!

 

Repeating 

 1937 

Benedict XVI’s 

(born 1927) unconscious

early childhood 

traumatic

reenactments 

growing up in 

Nazi Germany 

of 

Hitler’s 1937 false public accusations of homosexuality 

to silence and remove to concentration camps 

(“reeducation”) 

- the outspoken 

anti-nazi 

Catholic priests.






Photo (1937 Benedict 10 years old) Hitler’s Fierce Revenge Against Pope Pius XI ‘Mit brennender Sorge' Condemning Nazism 

Stages Massive Public   

immorality trials False  Accusation Charging the Catholic Clergy Crime of Homosexuality Read  more:

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/02/pope-francis-sexual-abuse-summit.html


 ‘NAZI TERRORISM HITS CLERGY’  Chicago Daily Tribune May 23, 1937 

Photo Nazis Unleash Vicious Attack on Roman Catholic Church May 27, 1937 

Photos Pope Benedict XVI's Life In Photos

Read more:

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2020/09/class-action-lawsuit-felony-vigneron.html


Thus 

rendering  

Returning to my diocese would be for me 

a return to 

a 

Nazi 

unsafe

and

 hostile environment,

to 

permanently silencing 

me from being outspoken with the TRUTH in

protecting defenseless  

LGBTQI and all 

children growing up!!!


Know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you FREE




Caritas in veritate

 ...Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space…

      …REASON always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself OMNIPOTENT. For its part, RELIGION always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development… 

Read more:

Pope Benedict XVI 2007 2009 

http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html

(Benedict XVI Caritas in Veritate 2009)









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Photo, Photo 


Benedict XVI

and

Ennis

Brokeback Mountain” 2005


AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 - A flashback far more severe than in

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

December 26, 2008 

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

Complete letter found below:






…“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:31-32











“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:37-39












The Sheep and the Goats

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:31-46












“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


Salt and Light

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

Matthew 5:11-13










…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







To love like Jesus means to serve & give our life. To serve means to put others’ interests first, to fight the cancer of indifference, to share the gifts God has given us. To give our life means to leave egoism behind, to make our lives a gift, spending ourselves for all in need.

Aug 19, 2022

Pope Francis



Without humility we cannot encounter God, we cannot experience salvation, and we cannot even encounter our neighbour, the brother and sister living near us.

Aug 20, 2022

Pope Francis















The above to be continued:

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz









Nazis Unleash Vicious Attack on Roman Catholic Church   

Chicago Daily Tribune

May 29, 1937



Pope Francis

(Buenos Aires, Argentina)

reversing 

the decades 

(1981-2013)

 of the severe toxic 

antigay  

social and religious environments created globally

 by Benedict XVI’s 

(born 1927) unconscious

early childhood 

traumatic

reenactments 

growing up in 

Nazi Germany 

of Hitler’s false public accusations of homosexuality 

to silence and remove to concentration camps 

(“reeducation”) 

- the outspoken 

anti-nazi 

Catholic priests.











 T a n g o   D a n c i n g 

i n   B u e n o s   A i r e s

In front of “Café La Biela” and

Sunday afternoon tango at 

Plaza Dorrego 


T H E   T A N G O

B u e n o s   A i r e s,   

A r g e n t i n a



A brief Tango History 

by Murray Pfeffer

     The Tango, often called 'The Argentine Tango', is Argentina's contribution to the world of dance. The Tango came from the brothels and low cafes of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. However, at it's very beginning, it was a ballet-like dance between two men, which, just a little later, became the obscene dance of the brothels where both men and women had the opportunity to rub their bodies together. Over the years, the Tango has changed becoming an elegant and stylish dance evoking a picture of high society, with women in sleek glittering evening gowns and men in tuxedos and tails…

Read more:

http://www.triogarufa.com/tango-history.html





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Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church

By NICOLE WINFIELD

August 11, 2022

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday.

L’Osservatore Romano said the encounter took place Wednesday on the sidelines of Francis’ weekly general audience. The newspaper quoted Sister Genevieve Jeanningros and the Rev. Andrea Conocchia as saying the pope’s welcome brought their guests hope.

The Blessed Immaculate Virgin community in the Torvaianica neighborhood on Rome’s outskirts opened its doors to transgender people during the coronavirus pandemic.

Francis previously met with some of them on April 27, June 22 and Aug. 3, the newspaper said.

“No one should encounter injustice or be thrown away, everyone has dignity of being a child of God,” the paper quoted Sister Jeanningros as saying.



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Francis has earned praise from some members of the LBGTQ community for his outreach. When asked in 2013 about a purportedly gay priest, he replied, “Who am I to judge?” He has met individually and in groups with transgender people over the course of his pontificate…

Read more:

https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-religion-rome-208b6a50c4872fde0e04335868b9d9e8





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Pope Francis removes archbishop tied to document barring same-sex blessings

January 11, 2022

Read more:

https://religionnews.com/2022/01/11/pope-francis-removes-archbishop-tied-to-document-barring-same-sex-blessings/








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Vatican apologizes for removing Catholic LGBT advocacy group from synod website

December 13, 2021

ROME (AP) — A Vatican official apologized to a leading Catholic L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it on the Vatican website, drawing immediate praise Monday from the group as a “historic” move to repair the painful rift between the Catholic hierarchy and the gay community.

The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministry on the website over the weekend…

Read more:

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/12/13/vatican-new-ways-ministry-synod-242024





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Liberal cardinal calls for revised Catholic teaching on gays

FEB 3, 2022

Read more:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/liberal-cardinal-calls-revised-catholic-teaching-gays-2022-02-03/




Top European cardinals want changes on homosexuality, priestly celibacy

Feb 4, 2022

In an interview published in Germany’s Catholic News Agency (KNA) earlier this week, Jesuit Cardinal Jean Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, voiced his belief that the Church’s position viewing homosexual relationships is wrong

Read more:

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/02/top-european-cardinals-want-changes-on-homosexuality-priestly-celibacy







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San Diego Bishop McElroy named by Pope Francis as a cardinal

May 30, 2022

(AP) — Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, one of Pope Francis’ ideological allies who has often sparred with more conservative U.S. bishops, was named by the pope on Sunday as one of 21 new cardinals.

The San Diego diocese said McElroy will be installed by Pope Francis on August 27 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome…

…In selecting McElroy, Francis passed over the higher-ranking archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone. Earlier this month, Cordileone said he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights…

…Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who has worked with McElroy for many years…

“By naming Bishop Robert McElroy as a cardinal, Pope Francis has shown his pastoral care for the Church in the United States,” Gomez said in a written statement…

..Over recent years, McElroy has been among the relatively few U.S. bishops who questioned why the bishops’ conference insisted on identifying abortion as its “preeminent” priority. He has questioned why greater prominence was not given to issues such as racism, poverty, immigration and climate change.

“The death toll from abortion is more immediate, but the long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is larger and threatens the very future of humanity,” he said in a speech in 2020.

Last year, he was among a small group of bishops signing a statement expressing support for LGBT youth and denouncing the bullying often directed at them.

The bishops’ statement said LGBT youth attempt suicide at much higher rates, are often homeless because of families who reject them and “are the target of violent acts at alarming rates.”

“We take this opportunity to say to our LGBT friends, especially young people, that we stand with you and oppose any form of violence, bullying or harassment directed at you,” it read. “Most of all, know that God created you, God loves you and God is on your side.”

Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, which advocates for greater LGBTQ acceptance in the Catholic church, hailed McElroy’s appointment.

“He represents the kind of prelate our church needs, one who will stretch out a hand, not a fist, to the LGBTQ community,” DeBernardo said. “As an elector of future popes, McElroy can play a role in making sure that the next papacy will continue in the welcoming spirit of Pope Francis.”…

Read more:

https://religionnews.com/2022/05/30/san-diego-bishop-mcelroy-named-by-pope-francis-as-a-cardinal/






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Pope Francis: I won't judge gay priests 

July 29, 2013


FAITH LEADERS RESPOND TO POPE FRANCIS COMMENTS ON LGBT PEOPLE

August 2022

Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director, DignityUSA:

“We find much to be hopeful about, particularly in the Pope’s firm desire that the Church be a ’home for all people,’ and his belief that God looks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people with love rather than condemnation.

“LGBT Catholics and allies will rejoice in the Pope’s call for Church leaders to focus on being pastors rather than rule enforcers. We hope that the bishops will heed this call and immediately end their anti-LGBT campaigns, the firings of church workers for who they are, the attacks on people who challenge or question official teachings, and the exclusive and judgmental rhetoric that comes too often from our pulpits.

“The Pope is unambiguous. Leave the bully pulpit, and accompany your people. We appreciate the Pope’s commitment to consultation, and his clear statement that the Church is all the people of God. We look forward to engaging members and leaders of the Church at all levels in ongoing dialogue about the issues of concern to LGBT Catholics and our families.

“This could be a moment of deep renewal for our Church, and for its LGBT members. We hope, pray, and work to ensure this is so.”…

Read more:

https://www.thetaskforce.org/faith-leaders-respond-to-pope-francis-comments-on-lgbt-people/































































2 Examples

of



Early Childhood

Lifelong

Disrupting

and

 Destructive  

Anti-Gay 

Traumatic

 Flashbacks




PhotoPhoto 


 Benedict XVI

and

Ennis

Brokeback Mountain” 2005


AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 - A flashback far more severe than in

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

December 26, 2008  

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz





The withdraw of parental love from a child 

for being gay 

is

A continuous 

lifetime form of 

child abuse 


In a brief generalization, a child not being loved by parents for being gay - IS NOT A ONE TIME TRAUMATIC EVENT!


POPE BENEDICT XVI is a perfect example of what it means - not being a one time TRAUMATIC EVENT - means is that every day as the gay child matures on through old age - will be tortured 24/7 by every normal and natural 

impulse of the functioning of his gay sexual orientation with nearly every attractive male that comes into his sight.



DEC. 22, 2008

Benedict XVI

ADMITS TO BEING 

OVERWHELMINGLY

OBSESSED 24/7 with  HOMOSEXUAL 

BEHAVIOR for more than 69 years and believes it will lead to his DESTRUCTION, from which he feels he needs to be SAVED! 




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Pope [Benedict] likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest

DECEMBER 22, 2008

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from

 homosexual or

 transsexual 

behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

“(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed,” the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican’s central administration.

“The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less.”…

Read more:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-gays/pope-likens-saving-gays-to-saving-the-rainforest-idUSTRE4BL2FE20081222



Early Childhood

Lifelong

Disrupting 

and

 Destructive 

Anti-Gay 

Traumatic

 Flashbacks



 Benedict XVI

and

Ennis

Brokeback Mountain” 2005






Benedict XVI’s

Flashbacks

To

Early Childhood

Years Growing Up In Nazi 

Germany


1937 (Benedict XVI is 

10 years old

Hitlers Fierce Revenge 

Against Pope Pius XI’s 

Mit brennender Sorge' 

Condemning Nazism 

Stages Massive Public 

immorality trials’ 

allegations

 of 

rampant homosexuality in the Catholic priesthood - to silence outspoken anti-nazi priests - sent to concentration camps to be

 re-educated?!?

Read more:

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2018/04/

Photos, ‘Mit brennender Sorge' Read more: | PhotosRead more:


A History of Christianity

by Owen Chadwick, 1998

 …In July 1933 Pope Pius XI shocked the democratic world by signing a concordat with Hitler, which was very favorable to the rights of the Catholic churches in the German states. The Nazis had no intention of keeping this agreement and gradually moved towards outright repression [of the Catholic Church]; they staged prosecutions of monks for homosexuality, with the maximum of publicity. In 1937 Pius issued an encyclical, Mit brennender Sorge (‘With burning anxiety’), which he listed all the breaches of the concordat [of July 1933] committed by the Germans. The encyclical was smuggled into Germany and read from the pulpits on Palm Sunday. It made the repression far worst… 

Read more

https://books.google.com/books?id=06F7wVQvjQUC&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=nazi+%22staged+prosecutions+of+monks+for+homosexuality,+with+the+maximum+of+publicity&source=bl&ots=aO1-pex4rT&sig=78VrGxaoYsS-T9HzKf6xN0DpcqU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJpuLnm7PYAhXlrFQKHdIdDPUQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=nazi%20%22staged%20prosecutions%20of%20monks%20for%20homosexuality%2C%20with%20the%20maximum%20of%20publicity&f=false



"Nazis Unleash Vicious 

Attack on Roman Catholic Church"

Chicago Daily Tribune: Saturday, 

May 29, 1937 Photo

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1937/05/29/page/3/article/nazis-unleash-vicious-attack-on-roman-catholic-church



Brokeback Mountain” 2005

AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 - A flashback far more severe than in

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

December 26, 2008  

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz











PhotoPhotoPhoto 

PhotoPhoto, PhotoPhoto,

 Flashbacks Read more:

Gay Adolescents

Sexual Confusion

 Photo Ennis’s early childhood Flashback in: 

Brokeback Mountain” film 2005 

Read more:

Video Ennis early childhood traumatic flashback

Video Jake’s flashback


Ennis’s

Early Childhood

 Anti-Gay

Flashback in:

Brokeback Mountain 

by Roger Ebert

December 15, 2005 

Ennis tells Jack about something he saw as a boy. "There were two old guys shacked up together. They were the joke of the town, even though they were pretty tough old birds." One day they were found beaten to death. Ennis says: "My dad, he made sure me and my brother saw it. For all I know, he did it."

This childhood memory is always there, the ghost in the room, in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain." When he was taught by his father to hate homosexuals, Ennis was taught to hate his own feelings. Years after he first makes love with Jack on a Wyoming mountainside, after his marriage has failed, after his world has compressed to a mobile home, the laundromat, the TV, he still feels the same pain: "Why don't you let me be? It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like this -- nothing, and nobody.”… Read more: 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brokeback-mountain-2005










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Brokeback Mountain” 2005
AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 - A flashback far more severe than in
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz


I have been so saddened by Pope Benedict XVI's cruel words to LGBTQ people around the world, to their parents, families and friends, most ESPECIALLY TO CHILDREN. After reading the accounts of this human travesty, I did not know where to find comfort or hope. And then I thought about your blog. And just like receiving a wonderful Christmas present, sure enough I found the hope and comfort I needed to hear. 

I am a priest and a clinical psychologist (MS). And for one of my research projects I chose to do a qualitative research project of the recorded verbal accounts of survivors of the Holocaust, 50 years after the event. It was a difficult research project, because I could not make sense of one of the accounts of the survivors. 

For example, one survivor was describing what it was like riding the train to AUSCHWITZ, but he was describing how he was trying to make conversation with a girl on the train. I listened and wrote out this one account almost 30 times but I just was not getting it. I could not understand how this man could be talking about wanting to make conversation with this girl on the same train to AUSCHWITZ!?! 

Because I had taught high school religion classes for nearly 20 years, it hit me hard, like a flash of lightning. Instantly, all the pieces came together, so fast. Though this survivor was in his late 60’s when he gave his account of his story on audiotape, he was remembering the events that took place, but naturally they were recounted through the mind of a teenager, the age he was on the train to AUSCHWITZ. That is why the dialogue wasn’t making any sense. I was thinking of him as an old man because the voice on the audiotape was the voice of a 68-year-old. As shocking as a bomb going off, all the different aspects of the psychological developmental stages of a teenager kicked in. I realized only too fully that he was just a young normal teenager on that train!!! And so was the girl he was trying to make conversation, and their moms and dads were there with them!!! There was no way to pretend I did not realize what I discovered. It kept hitting me: this is not some script from a movie or TV miniseries on the Holocaust. No; as much as I wished it were. The reality of this horror hit me all at once, on so many different levels of consciousness: what an unbelievable horror it was!!! How could we treat human beings like this! I remember when the realization of the magnitude of this horror first hit me, like an instant reflex. I threw down the transcript I was holding as if it were a blazing hot poker. It kept hitting me over and over again that this is not a movie script or some kind of play – this really happened! It really happened! Oh, my God, how could this have happened!?!!!

My supervisor told me at the time that I was traumatized by the oral content. Qualitative research is an attempt to understand the complexity of emotions, the kinds of emotions, and the degree of intensity involved. Our emotions are what allow us to connect with other human beings. We identify with the non-verbal quality of emotions more immediately and strongly than with the words used to express them. The non-verbal qualities include tone of voice, eye contact, facial expression, body posture, and gestures, all of which express emotions. Emotions are why we can connect with people through time, across cultures, and individually. It is the expression of human emotions in the arts that makes some works of art timeless, because they continually speak to all people through the ages. 

And when I heard what Pope Benedict XVI said about homosexuals and transgendered human beings at Christmas 2008, I felt that same trauma all over again. Because in some way, somehow, he was conveying in a non-verbal manner the horror of the Holocaust, in what appears to be a traumatized, trance-like, accepted social norm from that period of time dictating that some people just don’t count, aren’t important, and can be easily disposed of. And if you rock the boat, you could be next to be disposed of.

I truly have to believe that a person in his position would not be doing this consciously or intentionally. The horror of the Holocaust is like an atomic bomb with fallout so extensive that it spreads over a radius of more than 150 miles. The horror of the Holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945. The psychological fallout would have been far more extensive and more deadly, especially when it is not identified as such.

It hit me the way it did when I realized that the research I was doing about a Holocaust survivor, a man 68 years old telling his story, who was remembering what it was like to be on the train to AUSCHWITZ, from the perspective of a young teenage boy who just wanted to talk to a girl. It seemed like the same kind of horror, a tacit assumption that some people don't count and can be disposed of without remorse. 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 I asked myself was: 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? 

I think in truth on a much deeper level I was frightened, really frightened, to hear Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas remarks against homosexuals and transgendered human beings and even more frightened by the silence from the larger global community of human beings. What is so frightening is, even if there is agreement that one person does not matter or is not important, in truth then no one matters. Therefore, when I thought about your blog and what you did on October 5, 2008, I felt more reassured, I felt hope, and I felt comforted. NOW, isn’t that the true meaning of Christmas? 

God Bless you,

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

. . . .Written by Martin S. Kurylowicz, M.Div., M.S.
Edited by Madeline Wright, Ph.D., M.S. . . .







Fr. MSK




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