Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
February 14, 2019
An LGBT pamphlet against the Church.
The title is “Sodom” and the author a well-known French LGBT activist. The book
however, was hatched in Italy, during a conversation between the author and the
publisher, Carlo Fetrinelli, son of Gian Giacomo, the publisher-terrorist who
died in 1972, while placing a bomb on an Enel (Italian Electric Company) pylon
in Segrate. “Sodom” will be presented
within the next few days in eight languages and in about twenty countries.
The official launching of the book will take place
on February 21, in conjunction with the Vatican conference dedicated to the
sexual abuse of minors. What we are dealing here with then, is a powerful media
operation, which has the Catholic Church as its target. The author of the book, Frédéric Martel,
presented in the press at times with different titles i.e. sociologist,
researcher and historian, has achieved a certain amount of fame
for his last paper, Global Gay,
translated into various languages, (published in Italy by Feltrinelli) dedicated to the
current triumphant march of the homosexual movement all over the world.
Martel is now addressing sodomy in
the Church, stating that he had conducted an “in situ” investigation over a period of 4 years, interviewing
around 1500 people in the Vatican and various countries. In reality what the book is lacking is precisely
documentation. After reading, we know
nothing more than what we already did about the diffusion of homosexuality in
the Church.
This extremely grave problem, brought to light by
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s testimony, has been analyzed in a scientific
and documented manner by two Polish scholars, Father Dario Oko
and Father Andrzej Kobyliński, authors of studies that have been ignored
by the international press. But Martel is not looking for the truth. He has an
ideological thesis to display and in his pages he doesn’t reveal, but suggests,
insinuates, calumniates and denigrates.
Monsignor Battista Ricca, called by Sandro
Magister “the prelate of the gay lobby” opened the doors of the Vatican to him.
“ He explains painstakingly how to pass the control of the gendarme and the Swiss Guards. I am to meet a prelate
with watery eyes, a “sniper” close to Francis, who has known glory and downfall.
As we shall see, he is the one I’m obliged to for being able to stay in one of
the Vatican residences.” The author
recounts that he was installed in Rome for a week every month., “staying regularly
inside the Vatican, thanks to the hospitality of high-level prelates who often revealed
themselves as “part of the clique” ; about forty cardinals and hundreds of
bishops, monsignors, priests and nuncios (the Pope’s ambassadors) agreed to
meet me. Among them, purported homosexuals, there every day in the Vatican, allowed
me to penetrate their world of insiders."
Among his informers, we have Father
Antonio Spadaro “a Jesuit considered one of the Pope’s eminence
grise with whom I had regular discussions
at the headquarters of the periodical La Civiltà Cattolica, of which he is the
director.” He is the one who explains that “Cardinal Burke is at the head of
the opposition to the Pope.” Cardinal Raymond Burke, to whom Martel dedicates a
chapter of his book, is logically, one of his targets. His fault? That of categorically condemning homosexuality.
Martel’s thesis is that behind every “homophobe”
in reality there lies a homosexual, but since nothing of this sort can be demonstrated
against the American Cardinal, the French activist settles for a detailed caricatural
description of the Cardinal’s very normal apartment. “The Cardinal – he writes –in
his style of dressing and unusual gait, calls irresistibly to mind a drag-queen.”
However, Martel admits, “Burke is one of
the few who has had the courage of his opinions” as indeed has Monsignor
Viganò, who seems to him “a trustworthy witness, his letter irrefutable; it
appears to me nonetheless – he adds – that Viganò’s act is more irrational and solitary than one would want to believe; a desperate
act; a personal vendetta which is first of all –fruit of a deep interior wound.”
What then are the homosexual
churchmen guilty of? Not for having violated the moral law, but of being
hypocrites and of not having given public witness to their vice. “Let me be
clear; a priest or a cardinal should not be ashamed of being homosexual; I
think rather that it should be a possible social status among many others.” [So] the men
of the Church should say: we are homosexual and proud of it; the Church
[should] say: I was wrong in condemning homosexuality.
This is why Martel is
a supporter of Pope Francis’ “reform”: "Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation and Pope Francis’ resolve to reform, help set free the 'word'. This
Latin-American Pope is the first to have used the word “gay” – not only the
term “homosexual” – and may be considered, in comparison to his predecessors, the most “gay-friendly” among the modern
Pontiffs. He has used both magical and contorted words about homosexuality. ‘Who
am I to judge?’ And one might also think that this Pope doesn’t even have the
tendency nor the inclination, which were instead attributed to four of his
recent predecessors. Yet Francis is today the object of a violent campaign, due
to his presumed liberalism on questions of sexual morality, pursued by
conservative cardinals who are very “homophobic” – and for the most part, secretly
homophiles.”
“What Francis cannot bear, is not so much widespread
homophilia, but the vertiginous hypocrisy of those who sustain an austere
morality, despite having a companion, adventures and sometimes even escorts.
For this reason he incessantly whips the fake devout, the insincere bigots and
the Pharisees. This duplicity, this schizophrenia, have been frequently
denounced by Francis in his morning homilies at Santa Marta. His formula merits
being at the forefront of this book: “Behind
the rigidity, there is always something hidden; in many cases a double life.”
Martel, like Pope Francis, is convinced that
behind every “homophobe” there hides a “homophile”, a man attracted, or
obsessed by homosexuality, whether he practices it or not. "It might also be
said that there is an unwritten rule which is practically always true in Sodom:
the more a prelate is a homophobe, the more the probability that he himself is
homosexual.” “The more a prelate is vehemently against “gays”, the stronger his
homophobic obsession is, the more probability that he is not sincere and that
his vehemence is hiding something.”
The aim of the book? To destroy the Bastille of
Catholic morality. “Fifty years after Stonewall - the gay revolution in the
United States - the Vatican is the last bastion to get rid of! Many Catholics have now grasped the deception
even before reading the description of Sodom.”
The steps to follow are: support and
encourage the “Bergoglian Reform”; disqualify the Churchmen faithful to
Tradition; impede the discussion inside the Church on the plague of
homosexuality, above all, at the upcoming conference.
It must be noted, however, that the
LGBT’s support of Pope Francis will not help him at all in the gravely
difficult situation he finds himself;
the cardinals and bishops demonized in this book, will emerge much stronger
after this badly conducted attack; and if the Presidents of the world Episcopal Conferences do not deal with the
theme of homosexuality, the meeting of February 21-24 will be a [total]
failure.
What can be considered a fiasco as
of this moment however, is Frédéric Martel’s pamphlet.
Translation: Contributor Francesca
Romana
