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For One Hundred Years: Dominicans Tolerate Homosexual Members

The English Dominicans have been dealing with gay members “with relative openness since the 1920s.”

The lapsed British Dominican and homosexual, James Alison, 60, who received encouragement from Francis, writes this on ChristianCentury.org (August 13).

According to Alison, homosexual Dominicans acquired “a certain notoriety in the mid-1970s” and continued throughout the "35 years of [alleged] backlash" that began with John Paul II.

Alison calls pro-gay Father Timothy Radcliffe who was Master of the Order from 1992 to 2001, his “friend” and “a rare beacon of [homosexual] light in dark times” and also “in Francis’s far less fraught pontificate.”

Alison’s article confirms decades-old rumours about a homosexual problem in the Dominican Order including the bishops who have issued from it.

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Ultraviolet
Let's see how long before Be Ye Perverted arrives with his homosexual yearnings masquerading as outrage. P England has always had a troubled cultural relationship with this vice and it isn't entirely surprising it affected those seeking the contemplative life.
Caroline03
Yep.... Here we go again. The revision of history to give a false impression of not only the PRIESTHOOD, but now Monks...... Well look at this.... Monarchs get the same treatment AND playwrights.
Do you know - there is the most disgusting trickery going on. I've been doing some research on the Stuarts.
Take a look at this letter. The modern world states that THIS letter was sent from James I to …More
Yep.... Here we go again. The revision of history to give a false impression of not only the PRIESTHOOD, but now Monks...... Well look at this.... Monarchs get the same treatment AND playwrights.

Do you know - there is the most disgusting trickery going on. I've been doing some research on the Stuarts.

Take a look at this letter. The modern world states that THIS letter was sent from James I to George Villiers the Duke of Buckingham

......which is being accepted everywhere as fact .........

James I's letter reads.....

“And yet I cannot content myself without sending you this billet, praying God that I may have a joyful and comfortable meeting with you, and that we may make at this Christenmass a new marriage, ever to be kept thereafter; for God so love me, as I desire only to live in this world for your sake, and that I had rather live banished in any part of the earth with you, then live a sorrowful widow-life without you. And so God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your sweet dad and husband.
My only sweet and dear child
James R”

A history buff online stated THIS about the letter

"This rather touching love letter was written by James in 1624 towards the end of his life and a reader may at first be inclined to think this was directed towards his wife, Anna of Denmark. However Anna had died in 1619 and the letter was in fact written to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, James’ last and most enduring favourite."

Then even more scandalously she wrote....

"James’ sexuality has been the subject of much debate in his own lifetime and since and it was a work colleague that actually asked me the question “how gay was James I?”"

thehistoryvault.co.uk/james-i-vi-and-…

When I read this an inner feeling gripped me that it wasn't true. So I searched online.

HERE's the true context of the letter. It's incorporated within in a now out of print book published in 1848 - A book of Royal letters of various Kings of England -

The letter is addressed in it's original form NOT to the Duke of Villiers but to Prince Charles (yes that's right - James I's SON.

"James I. to PRINCE CHARLES

"My only sweet and dear child

Notwithstanding of your desiring me to write yesterday, yet had I written in the evening, if at my coming in out of the park such a drowsiness had not comed upon me, as I was forced to sit and sleep in my chair half an hour. And yet I cannot content myself without sending you this billet, praying God that I may have a joyful and comfortable meeting with you, and that we may make at this Christenmass a new marriage, ever to be kept hereafter ; for, God so love me, as I desire only to live in this world for your sake, and that I had rather live banished in any part of the earth with you, than live a sorrowful widow-life without you. And so God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear dad and husband, [1625.]

JAMES R.

God expose these liars who lie about anything and everything in order to manipulate people's view of History.- They don't care if it's not truth, it's the way they WANT him to have been and they won't check their sources. They lie about Christ - they lie about History..... they make statements and print books and pamphlets (such as the Da Vinci Code) to re-educate, prepare, and create a new society with a falsified view of Both GOD AND people - and to create an impression of a false state of affairs

google.cat/books

By the way - a similar charge is made of the one recently discovered to be Catholic - William Shakespeare . He wrote a Sonnet to a lovely boy expressing sentiments of longing -However the reality is that the subject of the Sonnet was his recently deceased beloved Son, Hamnet.