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Roman Catholicism and Pederasty

 

The Catholic Church has long defended and practiced pederasty. In addition to the great St. Thomas Aquinas supporting pederasty, in 1531, Martin Luther upbraided Pope Leo X[1] for having vetoed a measure that cardinals should restrict the number of boys they kept for their pleasure, "otherwise it would have been spread throughout the world how openly and shamelessly the Pope and the cardinals in Rome practice sodomy."[2]

 

 Nor was Leo the only one. 
 
Guided by Aquinas’s divine perspective on the legitimacy of pederasty, Pope Benedict IX was famous for debauching young boys in the Lateran Palace, leading Saint Peter Damian to describe him as “a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest.” Pope Julius II (1503-13), who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, caught syphilis from Rome’s male prostitutes. Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303), known as a pedophile who massacred the entire population of Palestrina, even famously declared that “pedophilia” was no more a sin “than rubbing one hand against the other.”  And Pope Julius III, who was elected in 1550 and oversaw the second session of the council of Trent (1552-1554) that reaffirmed the celibacy of priests, entered a sexual liaison with a 15-year-old boy he had picked up off the streets of Parma. In fact, in 1555, before his death, Julius even made the boy a bishop.

[1] Leo X also famous for admitting about Christianity: “How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.”

[2] Derek Wilson (2007). Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther. London: Hutchinson.This allegation was made in the pamphlet Warnunge D. Martini Luther/ An seine lieben Deudschen, Wittenberg, 1531

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