December 27, 2002

Dear Friends,

On this day, the Feast of St. John the Evangelist, please pray to St. John and ask him to intercede with our Lord so that the abuse of his good name by the Society of St. John may cease.

It was no accident that the Society of St. John seized upon the name of this great saint, for Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity, the founder of the SSJ homosexual cult, saw in St. John the means of elevating his own perverse appetite for boys into something holy and saintly. St. John, the young and beardless apostle, who lay his head on our Lord's breast at the Last Supper, represents in Fr. Urrutigoity's disordered imagination the ideal of homosexual love. This is why, after I publicly accused Fr. Urrutigoity of homosexual molestation in a letter dated December 8, 2001, his nonverbal response was to highlight the poignant scene of St. John and our Lord at the Last Supper in a bizarre collage on the back cover of the SSJ's newsletter. Like Fr. Ensey's perpetual use of the song "Danny Boy" to call out to potential victims, Fr. Urrutigoity's coded message spoke volumes: he believes his habit of sleeping with boys is justified by the special love that our Lord had for the young St. John, the beloved apostle. This is not the first time that St. John has been exploited by the general homosexual agenda.

The Society of St. John is not only a homosexual cult, but also a cult of youth. One young boy from St. Gregory's Academy, whose picture was ubiquitous on the SSJ's property, was transformed into an icon of youth. The fact that this boy had died in an accident that predated the SSJ's appearance at St. Gregory's did not prevent Fr. Ensey—though he had never met the boy—from displaying his picture as a personal tribute to boyish beauty, and speaking about it in reverential tones. Fr. Urrutigoity outdid Fr. Ensey, however, when he asked the boy's parents if their son's body could be removed from where it had been interred, and then reburied on the SSJ's Shohola property. This all makes a perverse sort of sense from Fr. Urrutigoity's skewed perspective, for such an event would have been even better than opera for sending the St. Gregory's boys into a frenzy of romantic passion.

Consider also the SSJ's frequent praise of the "Greek ideal" of male friendship. Obsessive male camaraderie with boys is the SSJ's trademark, including priestly slaps on the hindquarters of boys, not to mention "purple nurples" (nipples that have been grabbed and twisted), and impromptu wrestling bouts. In regard to this supposed "Greek ideal," the boys who flocked to the SSJ openly boasted of sleeping and drinking with priests, and male kissing on the lips.

For example, Fred Fraser, a student and then dorm father at St. Gregory's, proposed an intellectual and literary defense for receiving spiritual direction from Fr. Urrutigoity while sharing the same bed with him, namely, that Socrates had invited his students into bed, too. When I asked Fred how he knew this, he cited Plato's Symposium. I then told Fred that, in fact, Plato portrays Socrates' young friend, Alcibiades, as confessing that he had climbed uninvited into Socrates' bed, foolishly thinking he could exchange his youthful beauty for Socrates' wisdom. Socrates' response, according to Alcibiades himself, was to laugh at him. Fred, undaunted by the loss of his first literary authority, quickly shifted ground and assured me that Alyosha in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamozov slept in the same bed with the Father Zossima. When I pressed Fred for the appropriate passage in the text, he admitted that Alyosha and Father Zossima had not actually shared the same bed, but only the same cell. Nonetheless, it was clear that the literary figures of Socrates and Alyosha, even if misinterpreted (or never actually read), were sufficient grounds for Fred to share a bed with Fr. Urrutigoity. After all, why worry about details when you are one of the elect? (In fairness to Fred, I should also mention the additional evidence he provided for spiritual transformation through bed sharing. Fred, in all seriousness, told me about the dramatically improved relationship he experienced with a cat that had not liked him until they shared the same bed together.) In sum, great figures of history and literature are exploited by the SSJ for the purpose of justifying homosexual behavior.

Much of what was strange about the SSJ's vision makes eminent sense once their homosexuality and cult of youth is known. Consider, for example, the SSJ's educational plan as outlined in "A Vision of Peace and Worship: A Narrative of a Catholic City for Our Times." There it states that, at the age of nine, "The boys begin boarding at least four days a week" even though the boys' parents are presumed to be living in the very same Catholic village. The idea, of course, is to get the boys away from their parents at a formative age so that they can be initiated into the cult's ways and made ready to serve the lusts of the high priests of Sodom. The SSJ's favorite movie? The Dead Poets Society with Fr. Urrutigoity cast in the beguiling role of Robin Williams.

In my next letter I will provide an update on the ecclesiastical and civil proceedings against the Society of St. John.

Pax vobiscum,