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Bishop's Blistering Letter: It's Time to Root Out "Homosexual Subculture" in Catholic Hierarchy"There is a certain comfort level with sin that has come to pervade our teaching, our preaching, our decision making, and our very way of living. For too long we have diminished the reality of sin—we have refused to call a sin a sin—and we have excused sin in the name of a mistaken notion of mercy. In our efforts to be open to the world we have become all too willing to abandon the Way, the Truth, and the Life." -Bishop Robert Morlino
In the pastoral letter to his diocese, Morlino speaks with utter clarity about the "depravity" that has been allowed to fester in the Church and insists it must be "rooted out" even from within the U.S. episcopate. "It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord," he writes. The sex abuse crisis has continued, he says, because the modern Church has become too comfortable with sin in her teaching and practice. "For too long we have diminished the reality of sin—we have refused to call a sin a sin—and we have excused sin in the name of a mistaken notion of mercy," he writes. "In our efforts to be open to the world we have become all too willing to abandon the Way, the Truth, and the Life." He continues: We must be done with sin. It must be rooted out and again considered unacceptable. Love sinners? Yes. Accept true repentance? Yes. But do not say sin is okay. And do not pretend that grave violations of office and of trust come without grave, lasting consequences. For the Church, the crisis we face is not limited to the McCarrick affair, or the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, or anything else that may come. The deeper crisis that must be addressed is the license for sin to have a home in individuals at every level of the Church. There is a certain comfort level with sin that has come to pervade our teaching, our preaching, our decision making, and our very way of living. If you'll permit me, what the Church needs now is more hatred! As I have said previously, St. Thomas Aquinas said that hatred of wickedness actually belongs to the virtue of charity. As the Book of Proverbs says "My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness (Prov. 8:7)." It is an act of love to hate sin and to call others to turn away from sin. The bishop urges the faithful to unite with him and the clergy of his diocese "in making public and private acts of reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for all the sins of sexual depravity committed by members of the clergy and episcopacy." He says he will be offering a special Mass on September 14, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, and is asking all clergy, religious, and diocesan personnel to fast and abstain from meat during the Church's traditional Autumn Ember Days on September 19, 21, and 22. "Some sins, like some demons, can only be driven out by prayer and fasting," he writes. "Right now there is a lot of justified anger and passion coming from many holy and faithful lay people and clerics across the country, calling for real reform and 'house cleaning' of this type of depravity. I stand with them," he concludes. "I don't know yet how this will play out nationally or internationally. But I do know this, and I make this my last point and last promise, for the Diocese of Madison: 'As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord'"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here. Click here to continue reading. 
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