M. Williams

Pope Alexander VI

Alexander VI, who it is fashionable to criticise when mentioning the excesses of the Renaissance, may indeed have kept wives and had illegitimate children, even while he was Pope. In spite of his alleged impurities however (even if they were true) I would still prefer a man like him serving as Pope, and men like him as priests and bishops, if it were a choice between men like him and the legions of homosexuals and pedophiles to be found in the Novus Ordo Church today. For in spite of the impurities of Alexander VI, never has it been said that he was a homosexual and never has it been said that he was a pedophile.





Put another way, I told a friend with only a little sarcasm: "Alexander VI may have had illegitimate children, but at least he wasn't gay!"

Indeed, if hypothetically the only people available for positions in the Hierarchy were sexually immoral, I would certainly prefer the lesser of two evils, viz., those with normal inclinations to women, rather than sodomites. While it is absolutely necessary that priests and bishops who commit "normal" sexual sins -- with a woman or an image -- should be punished, there should be an especially greater and more severe punishment for pedophiles and sodomites in the clergy.





Put them to death





Although most people will not admit it, especially after the latest change to the catechism of the Vatican II sect, the death penalty is the proper, just and entirely proportionate punishment for those who commit sodomy, lay or clerical. A constitution of Pope-Saint Pius V specifically ordered the State to use the death penalty for sodomy, for both clergy and laity:

If someone commits that nefarious crime against nature that caused divine wrath to be unleashed against the children of iniquity, he will be given over to the secular arm for punishment; and if he is a cleric, he will be subject to the same punishment after having been stripped of all his degrees.

It is interesting to note, as an aside, that marital sodomy -- a practiced condemned by Catholic morals -- would also apparently fit in this category. Sodomy of all forms is worthy of the death penalty.





It is also quite interesting that the recent change to the Vatican catechism forbidding the death penalty comes nearly parallel to the exposure of widespread homosexuality and pedophilia in the Catholic Church.





In the same way that frequent religious exercises -- prayer, daily Mass, holy Communion, private devotions -- lead to higher and higher degrees of sanctity, so too does frequent sin lead to higher and higher levels of depravity. Thus, a "small" sin against chastity can lead to a larger one. In time, due to curiosity and dissatisfaction with more "common" sexual sins, more extreme actions will be taken. From heterosexual sexual immorality, very often will come homosexuality. From homosexuality comes, in the course of time at least, pedophilia.