"Remarkable Insights into the Nature of Homosexuality
In his description of the unnatural passions that rule over the sodomite, Saint Peter Damian reveals an extraordinary degree of perception regarding the narcissistic, promiscuous and compulsive psychosexual aspects of homosexual behavior.
"Tell us, you unmanly and effeminate man, what do you seek in another male that you do not find in yourself?" he asks. "What difference in sex, what varied features of the body?" he continues.
Then he … [More]

FEBRUARY 21, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
[HELP MY UNBELIEF!
February 21, 2011
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Father Edward Hopkins, LC
Mark 9:14-29
As Jesus came down the mountain with Peter, James, and John and
approaching the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them
and scribes arguing with them. Immediately on seeing him, the whole
crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him. He
asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?" Someone … [More]

Pt. II St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah: A Moral Blueprint for Our Times -http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/articles/damian2.htm
Part II Note: This article was originally published in the July 2002 issue of Catholic Family News. Randy Engel examines the life and role of St. Leo IX in implementing many of the clerical moral reforms inspired by the holy monk and their implications for Catholic Church today. This article is part II of II - click here for part I. Pope Leo IX -The Precursor of … [More]

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St.Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah:A Moral Blueprint for Our Times - Part I
The Book of Gomorrah - A Lesson for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Among St. Peter Damian's most famous writings is his lengthy treatise, Letter 31, the Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus), containing the most extensive treatment and condemnation by any Church Father of clerical pederasty and homosexual practices. [2] His manly discourse on the vice of sodomy in general and clerical homosexuality and pederasty in … [More]

Saint Peter Damian, O.S.B. (Petrus Damiani, also Pietro Damiani or Pier Damiani; c. 1007[1] – February 21/22, 1072) was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Gregory VII and a cardinal. In 1823, he was declared a Doctor of the Church. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Early lifePeter was born at Ravenna, orphaned early, and after a youth spent in hardship and privation, showed such signs of remarkable intellectual … [More]