Gerard J.M van den Aardweg, PhD
Editor’s note: Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg, Ph.D., is a Catholic and veteran of psychotherapeutic practice since 1962 who holds a master’s degree in psychology from the university of Leiden, Holland, and a Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam, where he specialized in homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia as sexual neuroses. Dr. Aardweg has researched and written extensively on homosexuality, with three of his books translated into English: Homosexuality and Hope (1985); On the Origins and Treatment of Homosexuality (1986); and The Battle for Normality (1997).
(LifeSiteNews) — What motivates the Pope to impose universal recognition of homosexual relationships on the Catholic Church?
This question is in the back of the mind of many confused and perplexed people, Catholics and non-Catholics. It must be discussed openly, for people have a right to know who their leaders are and what they can expect from them. The answer is also of importance in view of the next conclave as it may be of influence to the choice of the successor of this pope.
The view discussed in this article is that the most probable answer to the above question in the title, the best explanation of the main motive of the Pope’s policy and overall behavior in relation to the issue of homosexuality, is (1) that he has a significant personal stake in it, that is, that he himself is afflicted by one or another form of same-sex attractions, and (2) that he has come to identify himself unrestrictedly with the ideology of the homosexual movement and made it his mission to introduce “normalization and justification” of homosexual relationships in the Catholic Church.
The first point is a psychological diagnosis, not an accusation. Same-sex tendencies are mental and emotional disorders, personality disorders, serious handicaps (not physical diseases). The second point, on the normalization and justification of homosexual relationships as the goal of the “gay” ideology, is of a different order; it is a matter of morality and here we have the big problem. In connection with the pressure exerted by the EU Parliament to recognize homosexual unions, Pope John Paul II offered a theological diagnosis of such a normalization: it is “a grave form of violation of the law of God,” the operation of an insidious “new ideology of evil.”[i]
Many well-documented observations of the Pope’s behavior strongly suggest the answer to our question above can be organized into three categories: first of all, those relating to the unabated fervor with which he promotes the recognition of homosexual relationships. He protects sexually criminal homosexuals; he elevates the dubious claims of a small minority of the population[ii] to a – perhaps the – central preoccupation of his pontificate while he grossly neglects and harms the real needs of the threatened family and normal marriage. Secondly, there are the observations about the way he pursues his pro-homosexuality policy; and there are the observations of salient traits of his personality. It is not conceivable that a normally heterosexual man would be able to identify himself in all these aspects so completely with the “gay” cause; even when an opportunistic heterosexual politician promotes it, he does not suppress his common sense and moral sense so radically as those for whom it is a personal need. This article intends to elucidate these points.
Clarifying terms
Homosexual and homosexuality. Some clarifications for a better understanding must precede our analysis. “Homosexual,” “lesbian,” are just loose designations of people who self-identify as sexually different or live homosexually and those who have same-sex inclinations or temptations.
Technically, the words “homosexual” and “homosexuality” should indicate men and women who are more or less chronically attracted to members of their own sex afterlate adolescence/young adulthood, and whose heterosexual feelings are very rudimentary or weak and immature. They should never be used in the sense that these people belong to a sexually “different” kind of human beings. There is no evidence at all that their inborn biological or psychical nature would be abnormal. Despite a century of research, in large part by self-declared and militant homosexuals keen on proving biological causation or at least some predisposition, nothing has been found.
The central, very effective slogan of the “gay” ideology, that one is “born that way,” has no scientific foundation whatsoever.[iii] On the other hand, there is a solid body of evidence from psychological research that chronic homosexual inclinations are manifestations of a sexual neurosis and that two childhood/youth factors often predispose individuals to them, namely, specific patterns of parent-child relationships and underdeveloped masculinity (femininity) and maladaptation to the same-sex community of their social environment.[iv]
Same-sex attracted people suffer from a “complex” of gender-inferiority, originating in pre-adolescence or adolescence. They felt inferior in masculinity (femininity), not belonging to the world of manhood (womanhood), longed for male (female) friendships, and sexualized affection. They are stuck with teenage feelings, habits, views, and relationships that were connected with their traumatic experiences of not-belonging to the world of same-sex peers and often same-sex parents.
Restricting ourselves here to the male sex: same-sex attracted boys develop a fascination – and admiration and adoration – for what they see as boyishness or manliness in other boys and young men in reaction to what they feel wanting in themselves, and crave for their friendship and affection. This craving, part of a gender-inferiority complex, is neurotic, that is, obsessive, addictive, and if acted out in solitary fantasies or contacts, insatiable. Puberty romances and infatuations soon end up in sheer sex addiction, like drinking salt water.
Seeking same-sex friendship is chasing an impossible illusion. This fixation to the hurt and craving “teenager-of-the-past” personality with all his habits and relations with parents, same-sex peers, and the opposite sex, and with his immature self-seeking and selfishness, inhibits psycho-sexual maturation and the capacity for the genuine loving of others. Homosexual “love”-seeking is an addiction to pubertal self-love; it implies a self-view and habit of self-pity and self-victimization, the habits of complaining, anger, and discontent that are typical of inferiority complexes in general.
Parental relationships
Parent-son relations and peer isolation. A combination of rather specific mother-son and father-son relationships results in underdeveloped or suppressed boyishness and masculinity which, in turn, predisposes such a boy to isolation among his peers.
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I hope that following this report the Cardinals will now be aware of Francis’s moral perversion and next time select a Pope who’s a genuine Upholder and Defender of The Faith.
Yes, he’s managed to conceal his true identity but now we see he’s an imposter who himself should be excommunicated, not Archbisop. Vigano’.