Goodbye, Good Men
How Liberals Brought Corruption Into The Catholic Church, 11 CD Set
Item Number: 7835
These days Catholics and non-Catholics alike are asking, "How did the American Catholic priesthood go from an image of wise, strong men like Spencer Tracy in Boys Town and Bing Crosby in Going My Way, to an image of "pedophile priests"?" In the best-selling book Goodbye, Good Men, Catholic author and investigative reporter Michael S. Rose provides the shocking answer - an answer that you won't hear from the mainstream news media!
Now, by special arrangement with the publisher, St. Joseph Communications has produced an exclusive audio version of Goodbye, Good Men read by popular Catholic apologist and radio personality Tim Staples. A one-time seminarian that experienced first-hand many of the types of incidents recounted in this eye-opening book, Staples brings a real passion to the narration that greatly enhances the presentation of this challenging material.
The Root of the Problem
People around the nation and the world are still reeling over the recent revelations of serious clerical sexual abuse. In the introduction to his runaway bestseller, Michael Rose writes, "I researched and wrote this book over the past two years, interviewing more than 150 people, as a professional investigative journalist for the Catholic press, without any idea that the Boston debacle and its many ramifications would blow up just as Goodbye, Good Men was going to press. Although I did not set out to write a book about clerical sex abuse, what I discovered provides at least part of the answer to the burning question: How could this have happened?" In Goodbye, Good Men, you'll discover documented evidence that the root of this problem - both the cover-up and the sexual scandals themselves - reaches all the way back to the very place where genuine vocations to the priesthood are supposed to be nurtured and developed: the Catholic seminary. Rose powerfully relates how many men who support the teachings of the Church, especially in the area of sexual morality, are rejected or "written off" as "uncharitable" and "homophobic," while openly gay or dissenting seminarians are given preferential treatment and then receive Holy Orders. In short, the Catholic priesthood is being systematically "hijacked" in order to change the Catholic Church from within!
Spiritual Sickness
In 11 CDs or cassettes, Tim Staples reads Mr. Rose's powerful evidence that radical liberalism, like that found on many college campuses, has infiltrated the Catholic Church and tried to overthrow her traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines - especially Church teachings on sexuality. Rose tells us how, in bringing the "sexual revolution" into the Church, liberals have welcomed - and even preferred - radicalized active homosexuals to orthodox seminarians in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance." But now that "tolerance" has been exposed for what it is - a toleration of criminal acts.
Much of the material presented in this book will come as a surprise - even a shock - to many of the Catholic faithful. But as Rose reveals, these problems are well known within the "inner circles" of the Catholic hierarchy, especially among bishops and priests. What Rose uncovers in his unflinching treatment of this highly sensitive material is, in his words, "a profound spiritual problem, a sickness of untold proportions" showing how the very institutions charged with inculcating Catholic theology and discipline have come to prefer gay priests to straight ones, pop psychology to religious devotion, and Playboy to the pope!
Warning: This set contains explicit material intended for mature listeners!
What You’ll Discover:
- Why many qualified candidates for the priesthood have been turned away for political reasons over the past three decades
- How, through the seminaries, liberals have brought a "moral meltdown" into the Catholic priesthood
- Why dissenters from Catholic teaching - including teaching on homosexuality - have been rewarded
- How gay seminarians are encouraged to "act out" or "explore their sexuality" in highly inappropriate ways
- Why a constant emphasis on the end of the world can lead to mental illness
- And much, much more!
1. Msgr. Ronald Knox - Priest of Heroic Modesty 10/05/2009
2. Why Are Priests Celibate? 09/06/2009
3. Fr. Peter Whelan - Priest of Heroic Generosity 08/31/2009
4. Augustine Tolton - Priest of Heroic Patience 07/30/2009
5. Don Carlo Gnocchi - Priest of Heroic Kindness 06/18/2009
6. Indulgences for the Year of the Priest 06/05/2009
7. The Year of the Priest 06/04/2009
8. St. Anthony of Padua 02/26/2009
9. January 22 - A Day of Prayer and Penance for Life 01/14/2009
10. Catholic Schools Week 01/14/2009
11. Titles in the Catholic Church 01/06/2009
12. The Liturgical Ministry Series 12/09/2008
13. St. Jude Thaddeus 12/02/2008
14. A Resource Guide to Books by Pope Benedict XVI 11/25/2008
15. Christ the King Sunday 11/20/2008
16. Learn About the Church Fathers 11/13/2008
17. The Faith Database - A Resource for Every Catholic 10/17/2008
18. St. Teresa of Avila 10/14/2008
19. In Remembrance of Pope John Paul II 10/13/2008
20. The Anniversary of Vatican Council II 10/10/2008
21. Respect Life Sunday 10/03/2008
22. About the Battle of Lepanto 10/01/2008
23. The Immaculate Conception: Patroness of the US 07/23/2008
24. The Conversion of St. Paul 07/03/2008
25. Why a Year of St. Paul? 07/02/2008
26. The Martyrdom of St. Paul 07/02/2008
27. About the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls 07/02/2008
28. The Feast of St. Justin Martyr 05/31/2008
29. Feast of St. Sylvester I, Pope 12/30/2007
30. Feast of St. John the Evangelist 12/26/2007
31. The Women Who Led the Way 04/01/1996
32. Why the Church needs Priests 01/01/1900
