"Be careful," says St. John Climacus, "when that hellish dog, the devil, and not God, promises you divine mercy to indulge you to commit sin!"

These wretches not only do not bridle this fragility (homosexuality), but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are.

To be Thy spouse, O my Jesus, to be a daughter of Carmel, and by my union with Thee to be the mother of souls, should not all this content me?

We want you to rally to combat the abominable conspiracy against clerical celibacy. This conspiracy is spread daily and is promoted by profligate philosophers, some even from the clerical order.

"While Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them.