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| Gay Jewish convert wrote first draft of Nostra Aetate, later left priesthood |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 09:28 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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Gay Jewish convert wrote first draft of Nostra Aetate, later left priesthood
A primary drafter of Nostra Aetate, Jewish convert Gregory Baum later admitted concealing his homosexual life
while serving as a Catholic priest and Vatican II 'theological expert.'
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Sep 17, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — In the immediate wake of a controversial new document proceeding from the Vatican on the 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate, some voices on social media have found it appropriate to remind the public that one of the primary contributors to the conciliar document’s drafting was Jewish convert Gregory Baum, who was a homosexual and later left the Catholic priesthood.
Baum was born in 1923 to a Jewish mother and Protestant father who emigrated from England to Canada during World War II. He reportedly converted to Catholicism after reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in 1946 and then entered the Augustinian order — the same order as Pope Leo XIV — just one year later in 1947, being ordained a priest in 1954.
Gaining access to the role of a peritus (theological expert) at the Second Vatican Council, Baum authored the first draft of Nostra Aetate on the Church’s relation to non-Christian religions, including Judaism.
Baum later recalled that when Cardinal Augustin Bea sought a volunteer, “I came forward after everyone left and said I had some experience in this area” and was given the job.
Nostra Aetate, Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, has been criticized for its ambiguity regarding important concepts such as it lacking a clear definition of “antisemitism” as well as initiating a trajectory of religious indifferentism that was condemned by all the popes from Pius IX to Pius XII.
First Catholic theologian to publicly defend ‘ethical status of homosexual love’
In his 2016 memoir The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum wrote that he was 40 years old when he had his first sexual encounter with a man in a London restaurant in 1963 during the period of the Council.
He said he kept his mortally sinful homosexual activity private because “such an act of honesty would have reduced my influence as a critical theologian.” He added that he wanted to be heard as a theologian “committed to social justice, liberation theology, and global solidarity.”
Baum left the priesthood in 1974 and was laicized. In 1978, he married former nun Shirley Flynn, who died in 2007. After moving to Montreal in 1986, he began a relationship with a former priest named Normand, who, Baum wrote, “is gay and welcomed my sexual embrace.”
Dubbed a prominent “voice for modernity in the Catholic Church,” Baum called himself “the first Catholic theologian who publicly defended the ethical status of homosexual love.”
‘Black shadow’ behind Canadian bishops rejecting Humanae Vitae
Additionally, he was one of the most outspoken critics of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 seminal affirmation of the Church’s constant condemnation of contraception in the encyclical Humanae Vitae, even to the point of rallying opposition to this teaching based on God’s natural law.
In this regard, Baum played no small part in the outcome of the Canadian bishops adopting a position of open dissent from Humanae Vitae two months after its release.
In their September 27, 1968, revolutionary “Winnipeg Statement,” the bishops opened a door for couples to use contraception, stating that if a couple has “tried sincerely but without success to pursue a line of conduct in keeping with the given directives, they may be safely assured that, whoever honestly chooses that course which seems right to him does so in good conscience.”
Monsignor Vincent Foy, who was known until his death as the foremost expert on the Canadian bishops’ dissent in Winnipeg, wrote that Baum’s influence over the bishops’ proceedings at that time cast a “black shadow.”
“If it had not been for the black shadow of Baum over Winnipeg, his influence over some Bishops, the Canadian theological establishment and pressure groups, the Winnipeg Statement of the Canadian Bishops on Humanae Vitae would not have refused to endorse the teaching of the encyclical as it did,” he wrote.
Incalculable negative impacts of dissent on Humanae Vitae
The negative impacts of the broad use of contraceptives in modern societies cannot be overstated. Discussing these dynamics, Pope St. John Paul II demonstrated how a society that normalizes the use of contraception will naturally be inclined to demand legal abortion as a backup.
When such illicit methods are employed, “the life which could result from a sexual encounter thus becomes an enemy to be avoided at all costs, and abortion becomes the only possible decisive response to failed contraception,” the pope wrote in Evangelium Vitae.
In Donum Vitae (1987), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) applied the same logic to in vitro fertilization and embryo research. Dissociating the conjugal act from its natural end of openness to life serves to rationalize scientific means of procreation apart from the marital embrace, leading to in vitro fertilization and embryo research.
Techniques that produce and discard “spare embryos” treat nascent life as an object rather than a gift, violating the dignity of the human person and procreation.
Other gravely negative effects include impacts on women’s health, disruptions in relationships increasing the divorce rate, negative outcomes for children raised in broken homes, the abortifacient results of hormonal contraceptives, and even pollution of the environment which mutilates and otherwise wreaks havoc on wildlife.
Given the extremely high numbers of destroyed human lives from the “contraceptive mentality,” the negative consequences of this major dissent from natural law, fostered by Baum, remains incalculable.
Advocate of liberation theology, ecumenism, devolved power from Rome
Touted by some as a theologian “who let the Holy Spirit – rather than the institutional church – direct his restless, curious mind,” the homosexual author was cheered for his acceptance “of liberation theology in the face of condemnation from the Vatican,” for his strong support for Vatican II’s endorsement of ecumenism, and his campaign to change the Catholic Church and “let power devolve from Rome.”
In 2017, Baum died at age 94, an occasion for which LifeSiteNews encouraged prayers for the repose of his soul.
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| A Pope who wanted to purify the Church wouldn’t appoint McCarrick men |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2026, 09:02 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: A Pope who wanted to purify the Church wouldn’t appoint McCarrick men
McCarrick brought Saporito into the priesthood; McCarrick promoted him; McCarrick’s heir, Tobin,
consecrated him as a bishop and appointed him his Auxiliary Bishop in Newark.
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Pope Leo XIV smiles to the audience as he arrives in the Popemobile ahead of the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square on May 18, 2025, in Vatican City
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Sep 16, 2026
(Exsurge Domine) — Yesterday, on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington announced that Leo had appointed Michael A. Saporito, Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, as Bishop of Metuchen. The news takes up just a few lines in the Press Office Bulletin, and that is all it deserves if read as a routine administrative matter. But anyone familiar with the history of the Church in the United States — and I have known it at first hand for five years as Papal Representative — knows that an entire programme is laid out in those few lines.
The breeding ground
Metuchen is not just any diocese. It was the first episcopal see of Theodore McCarrick, who governed it from 1981 to 1986 before moving to Newark and from Newark to Washington, leaving behind a trail of abused seminarians, of compensation paid in silence, and of complaints shelved. It was precisely in Metuchen and Newark that the events I denounced in 2018 took place, and of which the Holy See had been aware since the pontificate of John Paul II.
RELATED: Pope Francis covered up McCarrick abuse, former US nuncio testifies
Now, Michael A. Saporito is being appointed to that post – a priest whom McCarrick ordained in 1992, whom McCarrick appointed in 1999 as deputy director of the vocations office – that is, mind you, the office responsible for selecting young men to enter the seminary, whilst ‘Uncle Ted’ (McCarrick) would invite them to his seaside home — and who, since 2020, by Bergoglio’s volition and through the hands of Cardinal Tobin, has worn the mitre. This is not merely a biographical detail: it is a matter of lineage. McCarrick brought Saporito into the priesthood; McCarrick promoted him; McCarrick’s heir, Tobin, consecrated him as a bishop and appointed him his Auxiliary Bishop in Newark. Today, Prevost is installing him in the See of Metuchen, which once belonged to McCarrick. Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos. [Ed: By their fruits, you shall know them.]
I am not saying that Saporito is guilty of his mentor’s sins: I do not know, and that is not the point.
I am saying that a Pontiff who truly had the purification of the Church at heart — that purification which Bergoglio proclaimed in words but sabotaged in deeds — would never have chosen, for McCarrick’s diocese, a man trained in McCarrick’s school. On the contrary, such a choice would have been made by someone intent on ensuring the continuity of that network. And Prevost, who was Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and is familiar with every file, and who, moreover — being American, and from Chicago — has direct and long-standing knowledge of those circles, cannot claim ignorance.
The CV
But there is more, and the LifeSiteNews article documents it with the sobriety of the facts. As parish priest in Maplewood, Saporito founded a group for ‘homosexual Catholics’ — Open Arms — and entrusted the sacred music to a director who had publicly declared that he was in a relationship with a man. After his departure, that parish hosted ‘Pride Masses’ and ‘Rainbow Rosaries’, and no one has ever denied that the seed had been sown beforehand. Since 2023, Saporito has been attending the closed-door sessions organised by New Ways Ministry — an organization condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and disavowed by the American bishops for its dissent from Catholic morality — for bishops on LGBTQ and gender issues; and he requested that his name be published, declaring himself ‘enriched’ by those meetings.
A bishop describes himself as ‘enriched’ by the teachings of those who deny that the act of sodomy is an abomination that cries out to heaven for vengeance. Not ‘troubled’, not ‘saddened’, not ‘concerned for souls’: but enriched. This is the vocabulary of the synodal Church, in which error is not refuted but listened to; and those who listen to it do not come away admonished, but enriched. If a bishop can claim to be enriched by ‘New Ways Ministry’, what remains of his role as guardian of the flock? What will Saporito say to the young people of his diocese who, as he himself once did, are about to enter the seminary?
And the method is always the same: they ignore doctrine and, in practice, impose a subverted version of it. Leo does not explicitly abrogate the Catechism, but regards it as an outdated ideal, and allows what one dares not write in documents to be carried out in practice. This is why I say that Leo is Francis’s successor: Bergoglio has set processes in motion; Prevost institutionalizes them.
The system
Saporito’s appointment must be viewed alongside that, a few months ago, of another priest from the McCarrick faction as Archbishop of New Orleans, James F. Checchio (formerly rector of the North American College, then Bishop of Metuchen), and must be linked to the ‘Lute case’ (Father Eleuterio Vásquez) in Chiclayo; to Leo’s personal secretary, Edgard Iván Rimaycuna, who grew up in Father Lute’s circle; and to the Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, Edgard Peña Parra, against whom allegations have been levelled that I have been denouncing since 2002. The picture that emerges is one of striking consistency. In the conciliar-synodal Church, proximity to certain circles and the practice of certain vices are not an obstacle to career advancement: they are a prerequisite. Those with skeletons in the cupboard are vulnerable to blackmail; those vulnerable to blackmail are manipulable; those who can be controlled are promoted. Moral corruption and sodomy are the glue that binds it all together.
If the Pope truly wished to clean up the Church, he would have to open the archives, publish the names of those who knew and remained silent, condemn the guilty, compensate the victims, and appoint bishops from outside that lineage. The famous McCarrick Report of 2020, which was presented as an act of transparency, served instead to exonerate Bergoglio and his accomplices, and to target myself, who had exposed that vast network of corruption. It is no coincidence that I have been excommunicated and declared a schismatic, whilst ‘Uncle Ted’s nephews’ are being offered episcopal sees and prominent positions in the Curia.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Viterbo, 16 September 2026
On the Feast of Saints Cornelius the Pope and Cyprian the Bishop, Martyrs, Wednesday of Quattuor Temporum in September
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This article, which first appeared on Exsurge Domine, was translated from the original Italian by DeepL Translate and checked by an Italian-speaking editor.
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| Pope Leo’s Vatican asks Catholics to ‘esteem’ other faiths |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2026, 08:41 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo’s Vatican asks Catholics to ‘esteem’ other faiths
The Vatican’s new document on inter-religious dialogue downplays evangelization
and rejects ‘a closed view of reality’ and ‘the defensive entrenchment in one’s own position.’
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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez
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Sep 16, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [Emphasis - The Catacombs]) —The Vatican has asked Catholics to ‘esteem’ other faiths in its latest document on interreligious dialogue and “fraternity.”
The document, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF); Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; and Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, appeared this morning.
Entitled “A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate,” the text discourages “proselytism,” that is, attempts to convert people of other religions.
“The defensive entrenchment in one’s own position and the view that proselytism is the only way to engage with the other no longer make sense in a world that increasingly resembles an interconnected and constantly evolving global village,” it states.
The document upholds “interreligious dialogue” and “fraternity” with other religions as an ideal, but frames these as means towards “peace” and “understanding,” as opposed to evangelization.
What does dialogue mean, according to the text?
“To engage in dialogue in the spirit of, therefore, presupposes a contemplative gaze directed toward the ‘other who is different.’ ‘Approaching, speaking, listening, looking at, coming to know and understand one another, and to find common ground: all these things are summed up in the one word ‘dialogue.’” Evangelization, conversion, and bringing one towards Christ are not cited in this conception of dialogue.
The document further explicitly differentiates “dialogue” from Christian evangelization, more clearly implying that the Vatican’s idea of interreligious dialogue does not involve evangelization.
“To those who might be tempted to insist exclusively on the obligation to proclaim Christ, they recall that also affirms the necessity of dialogue with other religious traditions, since such dialogue is now ‘a part of the Church’s evangelizing mission,’” the text states.
The text cites Pope Francis’ affirmation that such dialogue is “a necessary condition for peace in the world, and so it is a duty for Christians as well as other religious communities.”
So-called “fraternity” itself is also a stated goal, independent of any effort to convert others to Christianity. The document encourages “constant dialogue with cultures, religions, and consciences” that is ultimately “directed toward universal fraternity.”
In “building human fraternity,” what matters for each religion is not that they adhere to the truth, but that they embrace the “poor” and “wounded”:
“Hence arises the importance of a universal criterion of discernment that can be found in the sacred texts of the various religions: namely, whether one welcomes or rejects the wounded person lying by the roadside. Concrete concern for the most vulnerable is the essential measure by which the integrity of every project—whether political, economic, social, academic, religious, or cultural—must be judged. The poor, in all the forms their vulnerability may take, are the compass that allows us to know whether we are moving in the right direction.”
Moving forward, the document declares that our religious goal should be not to establish a “one great world religion in which all beliefs are flattened,” but to build “a fraternal society capable of accepting differences.” That is, Catholics must accept that their neighbors espouse error.
“This intention remains at the heart of interreligious dialogue,” it adds.
The document even suggests that adhering to dogma involves a “closed view of reality” that becomes a source of “suffering.”
“Monolithic and isolated models, which encourage a closed view of reality, are proving increasingly inadequate and, ultimately, become sources of violence and suffering for the most vulnerable,” it claims.
The DDF’s text goes so far as to declare that different, erroneous religions have “special gifts” that they do not have to part with: “In this regard, religions, like universities, have much to offer, without having to renounce their specific character and special gifts.”
Thus, by all indications, the document endorses religious indifferentism, which was condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, by Pope Pius IX in his Syllabus of Errors, and by other popes.
In this regard, the DDF text contradicts Church magisterial teaching.
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 20, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2026, 09:41 AM - Forum: September 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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