Martin These Last Days News - September 7, 2023
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Prelate Admits Celibacy Was Never Part of Formation...

GREAT ATTACK PLANNED AGAINST PRIESTHOOD
"O My children, your streets will run with blood because you have not listened. Pastors, a great attack is being planned against the priesthood. You will be shot down like targets in the streets. Prepare now and pray. Wear your sacramentals. Protect Our sheep now; the battle is raging.” – Our Lady, September 7, 1977

NO EQUAL ON EARTH
"My child, make it known to Our priests in My Son's houses upon earth, churches, that We want Our priests to shine forth as pure examples of chastity and holiness. They have been misguided in direction by many superiors, who also follow like sheep to the slaughter, the misdirection of their superiors. It is like a wheel turning, My child, with the fire slowly destroying it.” – Our Lady, June 18, 1974

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ChurchMilitant.com posted:

by Jules Gomes

A senior archbishop is blaming historic seminary formation for failing to train priests to cope with celibacy and has admitted he came "close" to falling in love with a woman who is still a close friend.

"We were never trained for celibacy. You are cut out from the world," Abp. Diarmuid Martin, the former primate of Ireland and emeritus archbishop of Dublin, told Ireland's state broadcaster, RTÉ, in a new television series titled The Meaning of Life.

'Totally Immature'

"It's this idea of an extraordinarily narrow, dogmatic understanding of bringing principles and not looking at the broad circumstances in which a situation is taking place and the struggles that people have to face," Martin said.

"It was one of the problems with the Church in Ireland. We learned the rules before we learned who Jesus Christ was," the archbishop emeritus observed.

"The Church has got so caught up in the dogmatics — absolute rights and wrongs — that it has lost the context," Martin stressed. "If the Church appears only as a rule book, then they have lost Christianity. That isn't what Christianity is about."

The archbishop confessed that he was "totally immature" at the age of 17 when he joined Clonliffe Seminary in 1962 at the start of the Second Vatican Council.

In his candid interview, Abp. Martin also labels as "bad theology" Pope John Paul II's ban on contraception during an AIDS crisis.

Falling in Love

"The idea of a priest being married or being in love would never be talked [about]," Martin said. "Priests are not concrete blocks; they do have emotions. They do have a need for affection. It can be very lonely, and you can get very frustrated in that."

"I would have met one, two people that I certainly could have become a life partner to," the archbishop revealed when asked if he ever came close to falling in love with or becoming romantically involved with a woman.

Martin confirmed that "it was and is a mature relationship," and he remained in contact with one of the women who taught him how to use WhatsApp, even though "we live a long way away."

The seminary in Clonliffe was "miserable," "dreadful" and "seemed to be totally removed from reality," he said. Seminarians were not allowed to talk to their former friends, even when they met them.

"So [if you fell in love], you had to decide what do you want to do with your life? Where do you want to go? Falling in love may happen, but you don't want to do it just to satisfy yourself," Martin explained.

"If I wanted a child, I would have wanted a child with somebody, and that would be the important thing, and you build on that," he added.

When asked about the scale of the clerical sex abuse of minors in Ireland, the archbishop emeritus admitted that some predator priests may have singlehandedly serially abused over a hundred children.

The prelate denied that celibacy was a cause of the crisis. However, since they were not married, they were considered better for not being married, and their celibacy "gave them a boost in terms of access to children," Martin explained.

Clerical Concubinage

Meanwhile, academic studies conducted by historians and sociologists in recent years reveal an abysmal failure of a majority of priests in the Middle Ages to abide by the discipline of celibacy.

Ruth Mazo Karras, in her research book titled Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England, published by Oxford University Press, found that a significant segment of the prostitute population in England catered specifically to the clergy.

Municipalities in France frequently passed laws banning priests from entering city brothels, indicating that clergy were frequent customers, notes Michelle Armstrong-Partida in her paper titled "Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church."

"Historians have long been aware that the legislation of the Second Lateran Council in 1139 and the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 that prohibited marriage for subdeacons and higher clergy did not prevent clerics from establishing households with women and producing children," writes Partida.

In her paper titled "Priestly Wives: The Role and Acceptance of Clerics' Concubines in the Parishes of Late Medieval Catalunya," she notes that out of 661 clerics accused of clerical incontinence in the Girona diocese from 1314 to 1346, 495 (75%) kept concubines, and 166 (25%) were engaged in casual sex.

"The total number of clergy accused of concubinage in the four dioceses of Catalunya during the first half of the fourteenth century amounts to 2,027 (84%) out of 2,400 charged with incontinence in 3,705 parish visitations," she observes.

"The sexual activities of clergy represented in these visitations are just the tip of the iceberg," the researcher concludes. Scholars have arrived at similar figures in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and even Malta.

In a book coauthored with Cdl. Robert Sarah, Pope Benedict XVI defended priestly celibacy, noting that it "has great significance as an abandonment of an earthly realm," and for priests staying on the path to God, "celibacy becomes really essential."

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SUFFER GREATLY
"You will make it known to the world that those whom I have chosen to be shepherds of My flock will suffer greatly in the days ahead." - Jesus, September 7, 1974

NEED PRAYERS
"Many priests, bishops, cardinals in My Son’s House need prayers from the laity that they may be strong enough not to fall into the plan of the third-worlders, who are also known, My child, as the one-worlders. They seek to destroy My Son’s Church and build one on the creation of man." - Our Lady, October 6, 1976

RESPECT
"I repeat, My children, as I have told you in the past, that the great Council of Vatican II was manipulated by Satan. He sat there among you and he worked you like a chessboard. "What can you do now to recover? It is simple, My children: turn back and start over with the foundation given to you. You must bring respect back to your priesthood." - Our Lady, May 15, 1976

RETURN MICHAEL
"You must enter, My pastors, Michael into your houses, your churches. It is urgent. He is the Guardian of your Faith. You must re-enter him now into your churches." - Our Lady December 24, 1975

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HELL
"My child, I have to tell you in all truth, that there are many priests who have gone to hell because too few prayed for them; and they did not accept the road to penance, dedication, and truth." - Our Lady, June 6, 1987

NO PASSPORT
"Understand, My children, you do not pray enough for your priests! They too are human, and are subject to error and the deceits of satan. They too can lose their souls to satan unless you pray for them and do penance for them and make sacrifices for them. They do not have a special passport to Heaven, My children. They have to fight along the road filled with many thorns as you do." - Our Lady, September 7, 1977

INSTRUMENT
"You ask, My child, about the state of soul of the priesthood. This, My child, is not for you to question or judge. A human being he is, yes. Subject to error, yes. Subject to fall, yes. But still during the Consecration, and when he hears you in the confessional, the Holy Spirit comes down upon him, using him as an instrument to bring absolution to you." - Our Lady, October 6, 1973

MOCK
"I want you to stress, My child, the existence of hell and purgatory. It has been forgotten by many. Even the priests in My Son's churches have overlooked this essential knowledge. In fact, some now mock it as being untrue." - Our Lady, June 18, 1990

COMMON MAN?
"I admonish you now that you are not to set yourselves in as a common man. When I chose you to represent Me as a priest in My House--you are not to make yourselves a common man, for you will not bring the souls into the Kingdom by joining them in their sin. Yours must be a pure and shining example. You must follow your vows of chastity and poverty. Among you, We find little of this being practiced." - Jesus, August 14, 1974

“HIS HEART IS TORN ASUNDER”
"My Son, His heart is torn asunder by His representatives in the priesthood who now are Judases in His own House. They consort with the enemies of your God. In the manner of humanism and modernism, and an ecumenism that has been designed from hell, man now is plunging fast into making ready the full capitulation of My Son's Church and the world under a dictatorship of evil.” – Our Lady, November 22, 1976

SATAN SEEKS TO REMOVE THE PRIESTHOOD
Veronica - The priests are deceived, Our Lady said, in Her Son's House; they are deceived. They do not realize that satan has planned to dethrone them from their vocation. Little by little satan seeks to remove the priesthood.
As a representative of Jesus, a legally-ordained priest must be the only instrument of God to bring the Body of Jesus to the multitudes. Only in a severe manner must a man--and this severe manner being the absence of a priest in the face of a death--then the priest will allow a deacon--a man, not a woman--a deacon, a man in the extremist emergency to take the Sacred Body of Jesus to a dying person. And that will be the only time. – November 19, 1977

PRIESTS CONDONING ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY
"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood! I will not stand for My priests who allow the murder of the unborn with their permissiveness! I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!" – Jesus, June 18, 1982

STEPS MUST BE FOLLOWED
"You must keep in your hearts the knowledge of the true priesthood of My Son. The steps for obtaining Holy Orders must be followed. They have been developed through heavenly guidance for reason. No women must enter onto the holy place of the sacrifice.” – Our Lady, September 13, 1978

BECAUSE TOO FEW HAVE CARED TO PRAY”
"My child and My children, you wonder now of the happenings in Rome. Much that has happened has taken place because too few have cared to pray and do penance for the priesthood. One day all will be made known to mankind.
"I have come to you as a Mediatrix between God and man, in the will of the Eternal Father, to warn you, O priests in My Son's Church, His House upon earth, that you must turn back and start again.” – Our Lady, October 6, 1978

NOT TO COMPROMISE THE CHURCH
"My children, go to your bishops and tell them that all Heaven is disturbed, and Our hearts are torn by the laxity in attitude to pride and arrogance of the priesthood in My Son's Church. We ask for you to convert the unbelievers but not to join them, not to compromise My Son's Church. The reforms you are promoting will bring your destruction, for the sheep will leave.” – Our Lady, May 26, 1979

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