Pave Frans rehabiliterer den svært kontroversielle og splittende slovakiske erkebiskopen Róbert Bezák som ble sparket av pave Benedikt XVI etter et apostolisk besøk i 2012. Det skriver det katolske nettstedet Church militant.
Bezák, tidligere provins for redemptoristene i Slovakia, gjorde bispedømmet sitt til en «slags homoseksuell hovedstad i den slovakiske kirken», bemerker Fr. Dariusz Oko, polsk teolog og varsler i den homofile prestelobbyen.
Rapporter tyder på at Bezák besøkte homofile treningssentre og badstuer og at han var ansvarlig for å opprette et nettverk av homoseksuelle prester og ordinere seminarister som hadde blitt avvist av andre seminarer på grunn av deres uortodokse holdninger eller åpne homoseksuelle tilbøyeligheter.
Faithful clerics in Slovakia fear that the rehabilitation could include the offer of a cardinalate to the disgraced Róbert Bezák, former archbishop of Trnava, who is reported to have been at the center of an extensive homosexual clergy network.
Archbishop’s Lavender Mafia
Bezák, former provincial of the Redemptorists in Slovakia, turned his diocese into a “kind of homosexual capital in the Slovak Church,” notes Fr. Dariusz Oko, Polish theologian and whistleblower on the gay clerical lobby.
Calling out the scourge of “homoheresy,” Fr. Oko maintained that perpetrators like Bezák had created “not only a homo-lobby but even a homo-mafia,” shedding light on the Vatican’s secretiveness regarding the reasons for Bezák’s dismissal.
Benedict Fires Bezák
Pope Benedict XVI stripped Bezák of his archbishopric on July 2, 2012, after the prelate refused to step down following an apostolic visitation in January 2012 led by Jan Baxant, bishop of Litoměřice in the Czech Republic.
Bezák was forbidden to discuss the matter publicly, but spoke about it in a series of interviews that were turned into two books, Confessionand Between Heaven and Hell, and a film, Arcibiskup Bezák Zbohom (“Goodbye, Archbishop Bezák“).
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