Roman Emperor Nero, violent homosexualist, who “fiddled while Rome burned”, rejoicing that his fire would clear out the Catholics and allow him to rebuild Rome in his own image.
It’s all about sex! Well, no, it’s not.
From what I’ve seen in my lifetime, which includes a priesthood lived out in any number of countries on any number of continents, and twenty some years in Rome, all reality does not revolve around sex for the homoheretics. It may start that way, develop that way, but in the end, there is something which reflects it, but is much, much worse.
Homosexuality is inversion, and a rationalization of that inversion by turning others into oneself, a making of others into one’s own image as someone said recently, a living out of oneself in these others. Sex is a method to do this for a thousand reasons. But, in the end, it’s about power, power over self, over others, and, it is thought, over God, by way of the image of God: “God created man in His image. In the divine image He created him. Male and female He created them” (Gen 1,27 nab).
Lust for power trumps all, even lust for sex. Lust for power is diabolical.
Saint Paul speaks of this in Romans, chapter one. People suppress all that which speaks of God, ending up with nothing but themselves, so that they are turned in on themselves, which quickly turns into violent homosexualist rancor, but governed by power. When one is in a position of authority, it is the power to destroy, to destroy the faith even of millions of people. And this enthralls such inverts to no end.
Here then, in the RSV version, is Saint Paul’s chapter one of his letter to the Romans. It’s short. Read it all. It takes just a moment. And then you’ll know the truth of the matter:
Romans 1,1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 4 and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 6 including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ; 7 To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, 10 asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish: 15 so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “He who through faith is righteous shall live.” 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29 They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
Father George, you understand so much about homosexuality! It’s rare to meet someone who not only understands, but who is willing to voice such unpopular truths.
Also, how wonderful of you to admit the truth about sex and power and ulterior motives for sex. I’m so glad to have found your blog and to have found the support here to not remarry or seek out “romance.”
God bless you very much, Father George.
Di facere quod animalia non facere possum…
Gods may do what animals cannot!
Insecurity for intimacy leads to possessiveness. Possessiveness leads to jealousy and fear, to ownership and power, to suffocation and contempt. All these roads lead to the abuse of power and the building of walls of secrecy. Celibate men must be affirmed as the Lord’s Groomsmen or the run the risk of present Vatican decay.
jennifer: It’s not that I know anything about anything by way of some special insight or because I’ve thought about it for any length of time. Saint Paul had this by way of Divine Revelation, but also by way of personal insight, meaning that the closer he was to Him who is the Standard of goodness and kindness on all levels and in every way, that is, Christ Jesus Himself, the more what is not like that Standard shows itself to be what it really is.
It’s just so plain and clear what a mind-game and escape homosexuality must be when one witnesses such wholeness in Christ Jesus. I think that anyone who even a little tries to live their lives according to the living truth will also have to know at the same time that such things are just plain wrong and why.
Those who are immersed in sin cannot see the sin. No one saw sin more clearly than did Jesus and His blessed Mother, who had such clear vision because of her Immaculate Conception. Having said that, I must add that, of course, I fall way short of any aptness in seeing clearly. And yet, I too, with everyone else who in some way tries to follow Jesus, see this plainly enough.
There are many who say they follow Jesus, but only do so up to the point where it is convenient for them. If they have a loved one who is homosexual, they may not want to see clearly, as this would be inconvenient. One must stand before Jesus as He hangs on the cross and not count the cost. They one will start to see His wounds. Then one will begin to understand. That’s the whole of it.
Whenever being faced with such things, I cannot but immediately think that heaven is our homeland, and that we have to be on the Way, and that we need to get everyone on that Way, even if they are very far from Christ Jesus right now. Christ Jesus also loved us while we were yet sinners. He’s just that good and just that kind.
Arepo: Indeed: You might find these two posts in the ferocious series on priestly celibacy on the sidebar of the blog most interesting:
http://holysoulshermitage.com/2011/09/15/06-priestly-celibacy-notes-from-holy-souls-hermitage-eunuch-part-i/
http://holysoulshermitage.com/2011/09/16/07-priestly-celibacy-notes-from-holy-souls-hermitage-eunuch-part-ii/
Father Byers, when I contemplate the Crown of Thorns, I often think of the awesome gifts God has given us. I think of these gifts as beautiful roses! It seems the impetus is to cut these gifts from the root – God and truth, strip them of their leaves – the boundaries that in His goodness and kindness He has placed upon these gifts, and pluck off the blossoms – destroying the beauty of the gift. Cut off from God, these gifts are, then, turned against us.
Father Byers, though you haven’t yet made a direct comment regarding the approval of the German bishops regarding the approval of the use of Plan B, I hope you don’t mind my own perception, it seems to be an invitation to accept the thought that a woman’s fertility, her gift from God, can be considered her enemy.
While I have no special insights in homosexuality I have found in general that as I have tried to live a more serious Catholic life many of the things I used to think were no big deal (heavy metal and other forms of rock music, violent video games and movies etc.) have become repulsive to me. It’s like I can see these things for what they are—disordered and against God—in a way that I never could before. I also find myself more sensitive to people suffering around me and find myself becoming more patient and understanding. When I see my own sins I feel less apt to judge others. All that being said I am no saint by any means nor am I even partially holy; it’s just that as I try to pray more and listen to Our Lord all this stuff becomes clearer.
” for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him ”
I appreciate the diabolical nature of the problem more deeply now when Pope Benedict spoke of the closed circle worship of deformed liturgy. We turn in on ourselves and not towards God.
wow. I just posted Romans 1 on facebook yesterday. I had spent much time with it back in maybe 2008/9? It certainly does seem to me to pertain to this time we are living in now. Thank you, Father.
I am sorry, it sent the whole page rather than the one post. Ooops.
Thank you, Father George. You are a wonderful priest.
@matucker – that is what I was thinking, too.
When I first started looking at it (after seeing it in the diocese) I wanted to understand which came first and which was the penalty. I think it is disorder (or idolatry) in the worship which has the other as a penalty?
There was/is a lot of pagan practice in the diocese and parish that is cloaked in quasi-religious presentation. For example, the charismatic stuff and the enneagrams, etc. Now looking at it again after a few years, the liturgical abuse connection is standing out to me as well.