Tuesday, December 11, 2018

The apostate bishop José Gómez allows an openly gay priest to run a high school for boys in Los Angeles

Openly Gay Priest Lies About Heading All-Boys School

by Anita Carey • ChurchMilitant.com • December 10, 2018

Why all the secrecy?

LA VERNE, Calif. (ChurchMilitant.com) - An openly gay priest lied to Church Militant about being put in charge of an all-boys Catholic high school.
In November, Church Militant was tipped off that Fr. Richard Danyluk, an openly gay priest, was slated to take over as president of the prestigious all-boys Damien High School in La Verne, California.
A source, concerned for the direction the school is heading, explained that a phone message was sent to all school families explaining that their current president, Fr. Peadar Cronin, was leaving and Fr. Danyluk was taking over as interim president.
Church Militant reached out to the school, the order that runs the school and the archdiocese of Los Angeles to confirm the appointment back in November. None of the people we contacted could or would confirm Fr. Danyluk's appointment.
Church Militant contacted Fr. Danyluk directly, who replied via email, saying, "No I do not have a new assignment, I have enough here at Holy Name of Mary."
Over the weekend, Church Militant obtained an email from the director of advancement, marketing and outreach at Damien High School, Stephen Quintero, confirming the new leadership team includes Fr. Danyluk fulfilling the role as the interim president.

The email said, "In November 2018, Fr. Richard Danyluk, SS.CC., Pastor of Holy Name of Mary Church (San Dimas, CA), was named as the Interim President of Damien High School."
Church Militant reached out to the diocese of Los Angeles, both the director of media and the Office for Catholic Schools in late November. Media relations didn't respond to our request, and the Office for Catholic Schools said, since the school was run by a religious order, they could not confirm any changes to the leadership.
Church Militant then contacted the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who also could not confirm any change to the leadership.
Multiple calls were placed to the school, and eventually, we spoke with the vice principal, Jeff Coray, who refused to comment and told us to "never call here again."
Father Danyluk has been the pastor of Holy Name of Mary parish and the administrator of Holy Name of Mary School for nine years. Archbishop Jose Gomez, the ordinary of the diocese of Los Angeles, has allowed his pastorship and has not publicly commented on Fr. Danyluk's openness about his sexuality.
In 2005, Fr. Danyluk "came out" to his parishioners at St. Joseph Basilica in Almeda, in the diocese of Oakland, California. Angered by Pope Benedict's XVI 2005 proposed guidelines to ban gay seminarians, he decided to speak out.

In an article in the San Francisco Gate that has been recently removed from the site, Fr. Danyluk admitted to being an active homosexual while he was in the seminary. He later came to feel it was "sick" that he was using his fellow seminarians and claimed, "It was the acting out."

To avoid the internal conflict caused by his illicit sexual relations, he said he began drinking heavily. "It gave me a little more freedom to do things that I knew were wrong," he said.
This continued until he was arrested a second time for drunk driving in 1999. His last homily before he left for a rehab center in Minnesota was an apology for his alcoholism — not his active homosexual lifestyle.

He admitted feeling at odds with the Church's teachings on homosexuality that he would hear growing up. He said the Scripture passage where God told Jesus, "You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased" struck him one day as meaning God was saying that to everyone.
"I don't need a priest or a bishop or a pope to tell me who I am. I want everyone else to have that same right," he said.
Then-Bishop Allen Vigneron, the bishop of the diocese of Oakland at the time, made no mention of Fr. Danyluk's proclamation. In the article, Danyluk claimed he supports gay priests.
Holy Name of Mary has 90 ministries, including Boundless Compassion and No Barriers to Christ, a ministry for LGBT people and their families.
LGBT-affirming programs have not been shown to help with suicide rates. It has also been shown that transgenders who have gone through with sex-reassignment surgeries are 19 times more likely to die from suicide.
Boundless Compassion was written by Joyce Rupp and has been used extensively by the dissident priest Fr. Greg Boyle and praised by Fr. James Martin. Both Boyle and Martin have spoken favorably of gay marriage.
The six-week retreat teaches, "The seeds of compassion are symbols of the four main spiritual qualities necessary for compassion growth: nonjudgment, nonviolence, forgiveness and a mindfulness." It quotes from the Dalai Lama, ancient Chinese proverbs and teaches centering prayers.
"The techniques of centering prayer is neither Christian nor prayer," Fr. John Dreher wrote for Catholic Answers. "They are at the level of human faculties and as such are an operation of man, not of God." He said the technique originated with Hinduism and the effects are like a "self-hypnosis — a sleep-like state where participants' consciousnesses are focused inwardly and highly susceptible to suggestion."
Father Dreher noted centering prayers are dangerous, especially when done in large groups and can lead to "the delusion that one has found and pleased God," self-absorption and opening oneself to demonic influence.
The email from Damien High School states that Fr. Cronin "has taken a leave of absence from his role as President at Damien High School to deal with some personal health issues." Quintero asks for prayers for his "speedy recovery and we look forward to his future return to the school."
Father Cronin's swift departure is reminiscent of the previous president's forced retirement.
Prior to Fr. Cronin's tenure as president of the school, Fr. Patrick Travers served as the president and pastor for 49 years. In 2011, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary abruptly removed him.
In an exclusive interview with La Verne Online, Father Travers explained he didn't know he was being removed or why until it happened.
"It was a hurtful, devastating thing," Travers said.
The official statement on Damien High School's website stated:

Recently, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts considered it appropriate and timely — at the imminent approach of his 75th birthday — that Fr. Pat be allowed to take a respite from his lengthy labor of love to enjoy a much deserved and long overdue sabbatical.

Father Travers said he wasn't privy to any of the conversations about the decision to replace him, saying neither the archdiocese of Los Angeles or the order talked to him. He said he never even got a phone call and only learned of his termination when he was called in and told by his replacement, Fr. Cronin.

Church Militant again reached out to the archdiocese of Los Angeles, Damien High School and Fr. Danyluk for comments but they didn't respond to our request.

St. Hildegard of Bingen: homosexuality is the supreme offense against God.

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Please protect us, St. Michael the Archangel, against violence, murder, and robbery. In your goodness preserve us today from all the malice of sinful and wicked persons. In your sleepless vigilance watch over the safety and welfare of our homes, and keep guard over our possessions. Ever hold in your special care, most triumphant St. Michael, the forces of public order against the crimes of evil people, and defend all honest citizens in time of peril. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

(Pray for nine consecutive days)
Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.
Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).
Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.
Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.

St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, THE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Great Saint Joseph, who wast chosen of God to be the head of the holiest and most august of families, deign to cast thy eyes upon us, and take us this day under thy special protection. Holy Patriarch, model of the holiest faith, and of the most perfect virtues, obtain for all the members of this family grace to withstand the dangers and seductions of the world, and to remain stedfastly attached to the LORD. Obtain for us that, always united by the bonds of the most tender charity, and encouraging one another mutually in good works, we may taste under thy auspices the sweetness of that peace which JESUS has promised to His true disciples. But above all, when our last hour shall come, obtain for us that we may find grace before the Sovereign Judge, so that, reunited in heaven at the foot of Thy Throne, we may celebrate everlastingly the glory of GOD and thy praise. Amen.

St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)