Let us begin with the Apostle Paul, who, speaking of those who aspire to the episcopal throne, says: “Then let the bishop be blameless, the husband of one wife” (1 Timothy 3:2). That is: “a bishop must therefore be blameless, the husband of one wife.” Therefore, the prerequisite for someone to become a bishop was (inter alia) the monogamy of the candidate. But Jesus' disciples (with the exception of John) were also married ("lived married").
Shortly afterwards, things change. The Council of Neocaesarea (314 AD) prohibits marriage after ordination for all ranks of clergy. This is followed by the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325 AD), which condemns the habit of clergymen living with young women – except for their mothers, sisters or aunts.
Some (I do not characterize them as tragomaschals), before becoming bishops, had already untied women's braids and enjoyed the sacred juices of Aphrodite! Here are three cases of married bishops: Gregory the Elder (father of Saint Gregory the Theologian), Gregory of Nyssa (brother of Basil the Great) and Synesios Ptolemy of Ádas.
The Pentecostal Ecumenical Council of 692 AD ratified the so-called “Canons of the Holy Apostles”. One of them decrees: “We order that those who are unmarried and who have passed the priesthood, who wish to marry, be married only by readers and cantors” (Canon 26). That is: “Those who are unmarried who approach the priesthood and are thinking of marriage, we order that only readers and cantors be married.”
In the 6th century AD, the non-Greek Roman emperor Justinian (who circumcised the Greeks who insisted on their native religion) forbade the ordination of bishops who had fathered children. If a bishop who had a wife and children was ordained, then “he would be expelled from the Episcopate in every way.”
At the beginning of the 8th century AD, Emperor Leo III limited the prohibitions of Justinian and applied common sense. Those who were married and had children from a legal marriage now had access to the hierarchal office. For example, the Ecumenical Patriarch John XIII the Sweet (1316-1320) enjoyed a very sweet married life, "having both sons and daughters", but as soon as he was elected patriarch, his wife immediately became a nun ("his wife's monastic form immediately came"). Relatively recently (in 1901), John Martin, a father of children (widowed), was ordained bishop of Gortys and Megalopolis.
It is time to allow bishops to marry, so that these people too can enjoy the joy of married life, as the Apostles enjoyed it.. The argument that the bishop is "father of all the faithful" and that his fleshly children would prevent him from performing his priestly duties wholeheartedly is the greatest anomaly of the ages. The bishop does not cease to be a man and, as such, he needs the basics: bread, wine, a woman.
If clergy of all ranks were required to be married before being ordained, behavior like that of Cardinal George Pell would be dramatically reduced, if not eliminated altogether. With the current regime of clerical celibacy, many "weird guys" use the priestly garb as a cover to satisfy their unholy appetites.The Church needs honest and sincere clergy, not some hypocrites with impure minds.
Author "exposes" the Vatican: 4 out of 5 priests are gay even though they "rant" against homosexuality!
Nancy Kouloura
13/02/2019
British publisher Bloomsbury describes the book as "a shocking record of the corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican."
A large percentage of priests in the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church, who occasionally unleash slurs in their speeches against homosexuality, are themselves homosexuals, claims a book set to be published next week.
According to the author of the book "In the Closet of the Vatican", French journalist and writer Frederic Martel, almost 80% of the priests working in the Vatican they are gay, but this does not mean that they are sexually active.
In his 570-page book, Martel presents his findings and the evidence he collected over four years of research. Bloomsbury, which has published the French journalist's work in Britain, describes the book as "a shocking record of the corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican."
The apocalyptic book will be published in eight languages and will be available in 20 countries starting next Friday, the day a major conference on the subject begins at the Vatican. sexual abuse, which will be attended by bishops from all over the world.
Martel, a former advisor to the French government, conducted 1.500 interviews as part of his research for his book. Among those who spoke to the journalist were 41 cardinals, 52 bishops, 45 papal ambassadors and diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss bodyguards and more than 200 lay priests.
New allegations of Bartholomew's preferences for homosexual metropolitan bishops
KThe practice of rewarding homosexuals by the corruptible patriarch was counterproductive.
Before we proceed with this new report on the rewarding of homosexuality by Patriarch Bartholomew, we would like to clarify our position on the issue of homosexuality once and for all. We do not harbor any prejudice against any of our fellow human beings, regardless of their sexual preferences, ideological beliefs, or political views.
Especially for homosexuals, we appreciate the contribution of those who, perhaps due to their sensitivity due to their particularity, emerged as leaders in the field of art and culture, especially Greek. Two great names stand out, Konstantinos Cavafy and Manos Hatzidakis. Both of them, like others less well-known, lived with dignity. Without causing trouble, without turning their private lives into a public spectacle and above all without wanting to impose their preferences on society as something generally accepted. They were fully aware that their preference, whether sent by nature and God, or chosen by themselves, could not be required to become a social model of behavior, nor a family model. And although they lived in times of prejudice, they were appreciated by everyone and even by the political and social leadership. We will emphasize with particular emphasis that the two above and several others showed in their social behavior a straightforwardness, pride, and dignity that very few of those who want to be called "men" had.
Especially in the current circumstances, let us look in the mirror at certain so-called "men" and so-called "leaders" of the Greek Diaspora who behave like "chickens" and tolerate Mr. Bartholomew appointing a papist, ecumenist, controlled puppet, tax collector and - from what is published in American media - an agent of Turkey, as the so-called Archbishop of America. Whose arrival in the USA is equivalent to the total sell-out of the Church and the Greek Diaspora.
In our days, the above-mentioned dignified attitude of the well-known homosexuals we mentioned above has long been surpassed by various standards of “social and political correctness” that level everything. This leveling can be tolerated - and has now been done - in the wider Western society. We see it all around us. But it has absolutely no place in the Church, because, quite simply, Christianity does not accept it in principle and rejects it as a behavior.
In our case, we now have a Patriarch at the leadership of Orthodoxy who, while preaching the word of God and having officially condemned homosexuality as well as same-sex marriages and other forms of cohabitation, in practice rewards homosexual hierarchs. as we saw in the case of France and as the website www.protectingorthdoxchurch.blogspot.com reported, regarding the newly elected Archbishop of Australia, Makarios, citing sources from a Hierarch within the Holy Synod of the Phanar.
The new allegations show a specific ongoing practice of rewarding homosexuals. Taking the opportunity of the recent allegations, several Greeks who were members or had knowledge of the events in the community of St. Nicholas in Flushing, New York pointed out to us that around 1982, the then Archbishop Iakovos (who unfortunately is not without responsibility for the moral degradation of the hierarchs of the Archdiocese since he promoted them despite knowing about them) relieved the then priest of the community, Father Anestis (Anastasiadis), of his duties due to serious allegations of homosexuality. According to some, he sent him to Mount Athos for a period of repentance and then transferred him to another position within the Archdiocese.
Whatever happened, his official biography of course does not tell the truth. Except that in the period preceding the allegations against him, he was also the head of GOYA and other youth organizations of the Archdiocese, which of course Iakovos never allowed him to approach again.
In 1996, Bartholomew, after dissolving the Archdiocese of North and South America and dividing it with his policy of “divide and rule,” elected him Metropolitan of Central America with the name Athenagoras and his seat in Mexico, where he still lives and reigns. He is actually carrying out – apparently (we have not received any complaints from there yet) – a remarkable work. But the ability and the Christian love and virtue of forgiveness – which we all must uphold – are not enough to explain Mr. Bartholomew's decisions because it has now been established, beyond any doubt, that Mr. Bartholomew follows a specific practice of rewarding the homosexuality of hierarchs, and even within the Archdiocese of America, where he chose as Metropolitan of San Francisco the well-known (there are a lot of complaints against him) for the preferences of Gerasimos, who even went so far as to make statements in favor of same-sex marriage.
He did the same with the new Metropolitan of Chicago, Nathanael (a "soulmate" with Makarios, the new Archbishop of Australia, for whom there is also photographic material), who imposed him illegally and is now selling off church property in Chicago.
Of course, we don't need to go further north, to Canada, and deal with the famous "Sotiroula", nor repeat about the "Emmanuelle" of France and its bishop.
In no case can Mr. Bartholomew claim that he “did not know” about America, because here he has had a representative and collector, for decades, Fr. Karloutsos, who knows everything and everyone. If he really did not know, he should have dismissed Fr. Karloutsos immediately. The truth is, however, that he knew and chose to “elect” (i.e. appoint) hierarchs with “defects” in order to control them easily and subordinate them to his choices.
Under these circumstances, Mr. Bartholomew proves in practice that he neither respects the will of the Lord nor morality nor human law (e.g. allegations of bribery in the Ukrainian) AND HE MUST RESIGN/REMIST AFTER FIRST CANCELING THE ELECTION OF THE BEARER OF HOPE. And to appoint Metropolitan Methodius of Boston as the vicar of the Archdiocese with an explicit mandate to REORGANIZE THE ARCHBISHOPSHIP OF EK VARTHRON INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF RELATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE ELECTION OF ITS HIERARCHS, with the aim of maintaining only a spiritual bond with the Phanar and to immediately limit the dirty financial transactions.
(Signature: + The American Kalamios, Most Honorable and Exarch of the Oceans, "Pacific and Atlantic")
PEDALION – On masturbation, sodomy, adultery, incest and prostitution
The Pedalion is the official and still valid "Book of Punishment" of the Orthodox Church, which deals with the deviations of the faithful and their punishments in an unrealistic and comic-tragic way. It was compiled in 1793 by two learned monks, Nicodemus the Athonite and the hieromonk Agapios. It was originally published in Leipzig in the year 1800.
His views on morality are far removed from those that have prevailed since the very social evolution among the Orthodox believers of the 21st century. And just reading the text causes plenty of laughter. Thus, in order to survive in today's world, today's believer must either ignore the Helm as a moral guide or take it seriously and sink into remorse for how sinful he is.
The representatives of the official church, although they themselves daily reveal their inability to follow the dictates of the Pedal, even on a personal level, do not intend to adapt it to today's everyday life, but rather maintain it, not without a strong dose of hypocrisy, as a fear-mongering factor for today's Christian.
The book by the publishing house "Periplous" is an exegesis of the rules of Pedalius, on "Malacia, Masculinity, Adultery, Incest and Fornication". The terms are from the original text.
The detailed description of sexual perversions, as well as the sexual imagination of the book's monk authors, is impressive.
Excerpt from the book:
-Any layman who wishes to divorce his wife, except for the cause of fornication or adultery, and marries another woman who is free from marriage, let him be excommunicated. Likewise, let that woman be excommunicated who leaves her husband, except for the cause of fornication, and marries another.
-Because some painted on walls and picture boards some indecent images, such as naked women, or bathing, or being kissed by men, and other such obscene things, which deceive the eyes of the beholders, and move the mind and heart towards carnal desires, for this reason the present Canon commands that such images should not be painted in any way, and if one wishes to paint them, he should be excommunicated, because all the five senses of the body, and especially the first and most basic sight, easily transmits the images of those it sees into the soul.
-God, hating those proud philosophers of the Greeks so much, allowed them to be overcome by this sin as a punishment for their idolatry, because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God.
-So terrible is homosexuality that God Himself wished to descend personally to see if such a sin was really practiced, as if He did not believe it was possible for such a monstrous evil to be found on earth. And Saint Jerome says that because of this sin alone, the Son of God was delayed for so many thousand years in being born a man, and for this reason the pious Kings, following this divine law, put to death those who had homosexuality. And Justinian, according to Zonaran (book 3), and the great Theodosius first stripped the godless of all their possessions, then they beat them, and thus they gave them a bitter death. And Valentinian burned the male gazers in front of everyone. And Leo and Constantine the Kings in the election of laws (title 12, sec. 128 of the book. Jur. Graecorum) say that the lewd ones are to be put to death with the sword, both the perpetrator and the victim. And if the victim is under twelve years of age, he is to be forgiven for the minor.
-The present Canon prescribes that whoever commits a sin shall not receive communion for forty days, spending them on dry food, that is, on bread and water only, and making a hundred penances each day.
-Slutishness is the common and mind-destroying plague that corrupts and destroys most people in the world, and especially the poor young people, against which no matter what anyone says, having the aim of eradicating such a terrible and God-hating evil from the world, they never wanted to be thought vain and unnecessary.
-As everyone commonly says, both old and new doctors, the soft ones are miserable and pitiful, why?
First, they turn yellow,
B' their stomachs are weak and they are unable to digest,
Third, the sight of their eyes is weakened,
Fourth, they lose their voice,
They lose their intelligence and sharpness of mind,
Sixth, they lose their memory,
G. They lose sleep, with some restless dreams,
Their bodies tremble,
They will lose all courage of body and soul and become as cowardly as women,
Tenth, apoplexy follows them, that is, the plague,
XI. A discharge often follows them during sleep, and often even when they are intelligent due to the wide opening of their seminal vesicles, and
XII. After all, they grow old quickly and die badly.
-They are the most foolish who, through lasciviousness and fornication, lose their semen, which is the balm and strength, and the most precious fluid of their body, so necessary to the life and constitution of the body, that, according to all physicians, one dram of semen is worth forty drams of blood, and its power is equal to the power of forty drams of blood. So, my young brothers, beware, for the love of God, that you do not fall into such a god-cursed, devilish and God-hating sin. Fear it as a plague and corruption of the human race and hate it.
-Sexual abuse is done in three ways, either with the person's own hand, or with the hand of another, or by beating and striking the thighs. This should not escape the spiritual Fathers, because the cursed sex abuse also affects women. For this reason, they too must be regulated as men, not to say even more severely.
-If a man looks at his son-in-law, he is reprimanded for four years, eating dry food after the ninth, and performing two hundred kneelings at each.
-If a man looks at his brother in a masculine manner, he is reprimanded for eight years, fasting after the ninth, and performing four hundred kneelings each time.
-If the younger brother is looked at by the older one, without the older one looking at him, he is reprimanded for three years, eating dry food after the ninth and doing one hundred kneelings.
-If he falls with his daughter once, he is reprimanded for five years, and if more, for six years and seven, fasting after the ninth, and making five hundred knelt-downs for each.
-If he falls with his mother once, he is reprimanded for seven years, and if many times, for twelve years, with a dry diet after the ninth and five hundred kneelings.
Year of publication: 2006
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