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Goodbye! Good Men - Michael S. Rose

Goodbye!
Good Men

A Contrived Priest Shortage

F O R E W O R D

There is a Time to Speak
by Alice von Hildebrand

THIS BOOK HOLDS THE KEY to a phenomenon which, to many, is also an enigma: Why are so many seminaries empty? Michael S. Rose has the courage – a courage that many Church leaders lack– of giving us the fearful but uncontestable answer: because vice has penetrated into many of them, and those who do not condone vice are excluded. True vocations are "disqualified."

Over the past two decades the Church has been rocked by scandal after scandal: pedophilia and homosexuality among priests and bishops especially. Such scandal is a nightmare for Church leaders, but too often their main or even sole concern is that this moral cancer should receive no publicity. This concern might be justified when such grave deviations from the moral law among clerics are few and far between. But when these scandals take on epidemic proportions, a different tack must be taken: Ezekiel says emphatically that it is the strict duty of the watchman to warn his flock of danger (Ezek., 3:16-21). Likewise, in his Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales writes, ". . .in charity we are bound to give the alarm whenever the wolf is found amongst the sheep." In other words, when evil and vice take over, the policy to suppress the truth cannot be justified. Today, the disease has indeed reached epidemic proportions; yet silence and cover up continue to be de rigueur for those in positions of authority in the Catholic Church. Woe to those who remain silent when it is their duty to confront evil!

Rose is no bishop; he is no pastor, but he has understood that "there is a time to speak" (Eccles., 3:7), and heart-breaking as it is, he blows the whistle. The picture is devastating but alas, true. In Goodbye! Good Men, Michael S. Rose bases his information on innumerable interviews with the victims of "political correctness." No one of good will could question the validity of his research and the many testimonies included within. Whoever reads this book will, upon closing it, feel a call to pray incessantly for our beloved Church, which has been invaded by ravenous wolves.

We do well to remember that in the diabolical plan of spreading vice and error among the clergy, the Devil uses men to carry out his plans. In his book The Problem of the Present Time, Enrico Delassus gives us a key to the drama unfolding before our eyes today: "Remove priests from work, from the altar, and from the practice of virtue [and they] will become ambitious, intrigant, and perverse. The best blow that can be dealt to the Church is to attack her heart through corruption."

Indeed, as the wise Sancho Panza remarked, "the Devil never sleeps." It is time now for us "to wake up from sleep" as St. Paul urges us to do. Michael S. Rose is to be commended for his courage to write this startling expose. This book is a must-read for those who realize how very late it is. The situation is grave but God will not abandon his Church: "The gates of Hell will not prevail."

ALICE VON HILDEBRAND, Ph.D.
New Rochelle, New York
February, 2002

CONTENTS

FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
There is a Time to Speak
by Alice von Hildebrand

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

CHAPTER 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
A Manmade Crisis
Why Archbishop Curtiss said the priest shortage is "artificial and contrived"

CHAPTER 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Stifling the Call
How for some men the road to ordination is cut short before it really begins

CHAPTER 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
The Gatekeeper Phenomenon
How good men are often screened out during the seminary application process

CHAPTER 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
The Gay Subculture
How homosexual politics discriminates against healthy, heterosexual seminarians

CHAPTER 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Heterodoxy Downer
How false teaching demoralizes and discourages the aspiring priest

CHAPTER 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Pooh-poohing Piety
How traditional expressions o f the faith often disqualify the orthodox seminarian

CHAPTER 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Go See the Shrink!
How psychological counseling is used to expel the good man from his seminary

CHAPTER 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The Vocational Inquisition
How the orthodox seminarian is identified and persecuted

CHAPTER 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Confronting the Obstacles
One good man traces his tortuous route to ordination

CHAPTER 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Heads in the Sand
How complaints about the poor state o f seminaries have gone unanswered

CHAPTER I I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
How a death wish for the male, celibate priesthood created an artificial priest shortage

CHAPTER 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
The Right Stuff
How to live up to the Church's expectations for seminary life

CHAPTER 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Where the Men Are
Why orthodoxy begets vocations
(or, how to learn from successful dioceses and seminaries)

APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

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