Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as
follows:
Speaking tonight in St. Louis at this weekend’s
conference of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) is Sister
Margaret Farley, the nun whose book, Just Love, has been criticized by the Vatican. The
CTSA defends Farley, as does Lisa Miller of the Washington Post: Miller says
Farley is acting in the grand tradition of the late Catholic feminist Mary
Daly. Also speaking at the conference is retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland.
Who are these people?
Farley’s intellectual hero is Michel Foucault, a homosexual drug addict who
intentionally transmitted HIV to unsuspecting boys and who also justified rape.
In the 1970s, the CTSA sponsored a book by Rev. Anthony Kosnick, Human
Sexuality, that took a radically nonjudgmental position on homosexuality,
swinging, adultery, and bestiality; it was used to teach seminarians at a time
when the sexual abuse scandal was in full swing (the book was censured by the Vatican). Mary
Daly taught at Boston
College for decades,
maintaining that Christianity was a form of “phallicism” and oppression; she
quit in 1999 when she was told that she could no longer ban men from her
classes. Weakland resigned as Archbishop of Milwaukee after it was discovered
that his male lover of 23 years was paid $450,000 from church funds to keep
quiet.
The fact of the matter is that some on the Catholic left are prepared to
embrace virtually every expression of sexual deviance, no matter how perverse.
Worse, after contributing to the root causes of the priestly sexual abuse
scandal, they have the audacity to blame the Vatican, as well as the American
bishops. Moral depravity on a large scale does not spring from a social
vacuum—it is driven by a milieu that invites it.