Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals
Brought Corruption Into the Catholic
Church by Michael S. Rose
A Shocking Account Of Corruption
The story behind the crisis in the Catholic Church is far worse than you
think... Intimidation, Discrimination, Molestation, Rape, Sexual
Promiscuity, and Cover-Ups-Thats What Going on Inside Many Catholic
Seminaries Across the Country As the controversy surrounding the
Catholic Church deepens, many people are asking: How could this have
happened? In a new book, Goodbye, Good Men, author Michael Rose
presents shocking evidence that the root of the problem extends down to
the very place where vocations to the priesthood germinate: the seminary.
Rose, who over the course of two years interviewed some 125
seminarians representing fifty dioceses and twenty-two major seminaries,
has uncovered a profound spiritual problem inside the seminaries and a
sickness of untold proportions. Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals
Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church exposes the deliberate

infiltration by those who wish to change the doctrines, disciplines and
mission of the Catholic Church. This radical subculture and its liberal
mindset-one that accepts homosexuality and sexual promiscuity in many
seminaries-threatens the future of the Catholic Church. The gay
subculture is so prominent at certain seminaries that they have earned
nicknames such as: Pink Palace (St. Marys Seminary in Baltimore), Notre
Flame (Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans), and Theological Closet
(Theological College at the Catholic University of America in Washington,
DC). At these and several other seminaries, Rose found shocking
examples of how, time and time again, chaste heterosexual seminarians
are dismissed as unfit for the priesthood, while promiscuous
homosexuals, and even those who have harassed, molested, or even
raped other seminarians, are protected or promoted. For anyone who
has asked how pedophiles or predatory homosexual priests could possibly
have been tolerated-here is the answer, in the most explosive book on the
Catholic Church in a generation.
Personal Review: Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought
Corruption Into the Catholic Church by Michael S. Rose
It was Pope Paul VI who said "The smoke of Satan has entered the
Catholic Church." He might have been referring to what is the subtitle of
this book, "How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church".
Michael Rose gives us details about what is happening in Catholic
seminaries in the United States and the picture is anything but good. In
fact, it is terribly bad, for it has deprived us of so many priests that we
need, and provided the worst kind of dissidents, disbelievers and amoral
men to "guide us" to sanctity and the salvation of our souls. As a result of
their "malguidance" many Catholics are losing their way to holiness and
perhaps, even Heaven.
From more than 100 interviews he presents us with facts that indicate a
high level of corruption in a number of seminaries, honestly telling us that
these events he chronicles are not to be found in every seminary, but the
practices and policies are widespread enough to be of major concern. The
main theme of this book is the rejection or discouragement of good,
mentally stable and intelligent young men for seminary study and spiritual
formation, and for ordination to the priesthood. By means of questionable
psychological testing and interviews, the rectors and counselors soon
determine that a candidate is orthodox or heterodox, and in the particular
cases examined, their strong preference is for the latter. With the
administrators making choices like this, the whole purpose of the
seminaries is corrupted. These institutions exist to teach would-be priests
what the Church has always taught because it is what the Church has
always believed. This is orthodoxy.
There are three elements in this matter which are of primary importance;
Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy, spiritual exercises and formation, and
homosexuality. Heterodoxy is preferred and dissidence is welcomed, so
that authoritative and traditional Church teaching is undermined. The

reverse should be the norm in a Catholic seminary. Pious spiritual
exercises are discouraged, even frowned upon because the heterodox
teachers do not believe in them. So, what are they doing in a Catholic
seminary? They do not belong there. And the third element,
homosexuality, is a common practice in many instances. Not only is it
permitted and condoned, some faculty members lead the charge for
"cruising gay bars". If the Church has always taught that homosexuality is
sinful, what are these teachers doing in the seminary?
All of these things that Michael Rose writes about serve to explain much of
the turmoil in the Church. He implies a strong coincidence with the
Second Vatican Council, but does not say that the Council was the cause,
and rightfully so, for though the timing was coincidental, it was the
misinterpretation of Council documents that led to liberal attitiudes which
corrupted the Church's structure. He describes how the "death wish for a
male, celibate priesthood is a self-fulfilling prophecy" for the shortage of
priests we are experiencing.
Each of the thirteen chapters is a blockbuster expose about what has
happened in many seminaries to discourage GOOD MEN from entering
and becoming ordained priests, saying to them "GOODBYE". Even
without the author's elucidation of the topics, the chapter titles alone are
descriptive of the problems:
A Man-Made Crisis (about the priest shortage)
Stifling the Call (to priestly vocations)
The Gatekeeper Phenomenon (screening out good men)
The Gay Subculture
The Heterodoxy Downer (seminarians demoralized by false teaching)
Pooh-Poohing Piety (traditional faith practices disqualify orthodox
seminarians)
Go See the Shrink! (counseling used to expel good men)
The Vocational Inquisition (identification and persecution of the orthodox
seminarian)
Confronting the Obstacles (the tortuous route to ordination)
Heads in the Sand (complaints about seminaries go unanswered)
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (the artificial priest shortage)
The Right Stuff (living your life as the Church would expect you to)
Where the Men Are (orthodoxy attracts vocations)
Mr. Rose asserts that the pedophile priest problem is really a homosexual
problem, much more so than pedophilia, and that the bizarre atmosphere
and teaching in our seminaries plays a large part. Though it is
disheartening to learn that our future priests are being corrupted, and good
men are turned away, there is yet hope. Those dioceses and seminaries
that are orthodox are getting large numbers of vocations and the tide
seems to be turning.
We all probably know at least a little of what is going on in this matter, but
if you want to know the whole horrid story, this is the book to read.

Michael Rose has done an excellent job in his presentation of a difficult
and important topic.
Truly, "the smoke of Satan has entered the Catholic Church".
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