(Ebook) The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church (Volumes 1 to 5) by Randy Engel ISBN 9780977860142, 0977860140

(Ebook) The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church (Volumes 1 to 5) by Randy Engel ISBN 9780977860142, 0977860140

Saint Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah is a treatise on clerical sodomy and pederasty, and the abuse of the Sacraments of Holy Orders and Penance by homosexual bishops, priests, and religious in the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th century. Saint Damian believed the vice of sodomy surpassed the enormity of all other vices:Without fail it brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. …It opens up hell and closes the gates of paradise. …It is this vice that violates temperance, slays modesty, strangles chastity, and slaughters virginity. …This vice excludes a man from the assembled choir of the Church. …it separates the soul from God to associate it with demons. This utterly diseased queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny infamous to men and odious to God. …She strips her knights of the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears of every vice. …She humiliates her slave in the church and condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and consumes his flesh like fire …this unfortunate man (he) is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails, and the mind’s vision is darkened. Unmindful of God, he also forgets his own identity. This disease erodes the foundation of faith, saps the vitality of hope, dissolves the bond of love. It makes away with justice, demolishes fortitude, removes temperance, and blunts the edge of prudence. Shall I say more?