113: How Lavender Is the Church?—Joseph Sciambra

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🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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We read a lot about “the priestly sex abuse scandal,” which goes by various names, most of them euphemisms meant to deflect the truth of the matter. Joseph Sciambra knows all about the deflection of truth. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, a product of the beige Catholicism Lite of the 1970s and 80s.

Casual porn use starting before he was ten led him down an increasingly perverse path including a complete embrace of the homosexual lifestyle. He performed in gay porn. He had a near-death experience. He had terrifying encounters with the demonic. And Jesus Christ liberated him.

Joseph became friends with the founding father of reparative therapy, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, PhD, and the founder of the Courage apostolate. Father John Harvey, OFSF.

His fine blog, josephsciambra.com, is the go-to place if you want to see the pro-LGTB dioceses, archdioceses, gay-friendly prelates and programs infecting the Catholic Church in America and beyond. In this interview, we discuss just how lavender is the Church today, even after the ostensible efforts at ridding the Church of what Pope Benedict XVI called “the moral filth”?

In this episode you will learn

How he escaped the brutal, dark world of the Castro District homosexual life
Why homosexuals cannot function as healthy, effective Catholic priests
How homosexuality became normalized through pop culture
The reasons why Sciambra believes the “born that way” theory is dead wrong
How chastity and living the sacramental life of Christ continues to change his life
His message to bishops and archbishops who allow the LGTB agenda to take root in their dioceses

Resources mentioned in this episode

Disordered: A Critical Examination of Gay Life and Culture From One Who Survived by Joseph Sciambra
Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy audiobook by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, PhD
Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction Kindle Edition ed by Janet Smith and Father Paul Check
Courage Apostolate for same sex attracted Catholics and those who love them
Joseph Sciambra’s blog

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 113 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:03.5	Welcome to the show. Today we're going to talk about something I hate talking about.
0:06.9	I do not like talking about this topic, but because it's hiding in plain sight and it's in the news all the time and we have to
0:13.4	confront it on the ground outside and inside the church. We are going to talk about
0:17.4	it and that is how lavender is the Catholic Church. How gay is the church? How bad
0:22.2	is the problem? We've got this meeting coming up in Rome to
0:25.5	allegedly clean up what Benedict the 16th called filth in the church. We have a massive
0:31.2	crisis from a PR optics, but also more importantly, the reality of predation of young people, especially to the 80% percentile according to the John Jay report.
0:44.0	Teen boys, young teen boys.
0:46.9	So it's not pedophile priests.
0:48.5	We're talking about a different kind of predator altogether.
0:51.7	And I don't know anyone who's chronicled the state of the
0:54.4	church from this point of view more than my guest Joseph Shambra.
0:57.6	He is here right now to go on the record on the Patrick Coffin Show.
1:01.0	Straight ahead.
1:02.0	Warning.
1:03.0	A following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh Hey, look, if you aren't addicted to the Patrick Coffin Show, you don't even know what a drug is, man.
1:15.0	He, ha, ha, ha, ha.
1:17.0	True or false.
1:18.0	You're tired of secularist bullies punching your values in the face.
1:22.0	You're looking for smart commentary that... punching your values in the face.
1:23.0	You're looking for a smart commentary that doesn't sound like NPR,
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