Editor’s note: This report includes descriptions of illicit sexual behavior. Viewer discretion advised.
(LifeSiteNews) — My friends, there’s huge breaking news just released this morning by our friends at the Lepanto Institute. Founder and president Michael Hichborn has been after this group called the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP).
This is a huge group that has major cardinals, archbishops, and bishops in the United States backing it, and he has just done a takedown on them like you will never see.
Let me give you the list of the bishops and cardinals who are involved. Hichborn has just exposed them as one of the most radical dissident groups, promoting the most dissident things you could ever imagine.
Before I continue, though, I want to say viewer discretion is advised, because they get into illicit sexuality in a way that’s just too graphic for everybody. So if there are young people watching, please do not watch this. For adults watching, just note viewer discretion advised.
At this conference, which Hichborn exposes, he got the audio from the meeting in which they positively describe masturbation, and it is just gross.
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But let me first give you that list of cardinals and bishops who Hichborn is literally taking down with this audio:
Cardinal Blase Cupich (Chicago)
Cupich is a frequent attendee and presenter at the AUSCP’s annual assemblies, showing high-level episcopal support.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory (Washington, D.C.)
Gregory has also served as a speaker at AUSCP gatherings, adding his considerable prominence to the group’s visibility.
Cardinal Robert McElroy (Washington, D.C.)
The then-bishop of San Diego delivered a keynote address at the AUSCP assembly in 2018 and continues to participate in its meetings.
Bishop John Stowe, O.F.M. Conv. (Lexington)
Stowe is an actual member of the AUSCP, serving as retreat director for their 2024 annual assembly, indicating a deep level of involvement.
Archbishop John Wester (Santa Fe)
Wester currently serves as the AUSCP’s official liaison to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), a key formal connection between the organization and the American episcopal conference.
Archbishop Robert Carlson (St. Louis)
The archbishop celebrated multiple Masses for the AUSCP at their events, another form of liturgical and public endorsement.
Bishop John Hartmayer (Atlanta)
Hartmayer served as retreat leader at the 2017 AUSCP assembly when he was the bishop of Savannah, Georgia.
Bishop Richard Pates (Des Moines) and Bishop William Wack (Pensacola-Tallahassee)
Both bishops led and gave presentations at the 2021 AUSCP assembly.
So that’s who Hichborn is taking down. This is so explosive. Go to Hichborn’s Lepanto Institute and see the full report. We’ve got one up at LifeSite as well.
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I want to give you some highlights. First of all, one of the priests in the recording that Hichborn is making available talks positively about masturbation, known in the Catholic Church to be a mortal sin. This priest says, out loud at the meeting, that for him masturbation is a form of “prayer.”
And if that’s not bad enough, another priest and member of the AUSCP stands up and says not only is masturbating not wrong to do but it’s positive to do, because otherwise it would lead to suicide or maybe to become a mass shooter:
I did it, I believed it, I tried not to do that masturbation thing, even though I didn’t know quite what it was. It was leading me to suicide because there was no release.
And I think that might be what’s leading some of the males in our society to mass shootings, to other expressions of violence.
And now get this. So the main presenter, who gave a three-hour presentation at this meeting, is none other than theologian Father Ronald Holheiser. Holheiser is a professor and former president at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, if you can believe it.
Hichborn exposes him as agreeing with this priest who said that masturbation is a positive thing and you could become a mass shooter otherwise. Listen to Michael’s explanation, and Fr. Holheiser himself caught on tape saying the heresy:
Psychologists say (to) imagine this: Imagine living in a building and you have a basement, a house, and every time you have something you don’t like, a piece of garbage, you just open the door and throw it down. Out of sight, out of mind – for a while. But then it’s going to ferment, it’s going to come up through the vents, and it may make for a mass shooter or for somebody with all kinds of stuff. See, so it’s going to snakebite you and weighs off on times that are not sexual at all.
It’s poisoning. It’s going to poison the air you’re breathing, it’s going to poison the psyche you’re trying to nurture. And so that’s why, you almost hate to see this public, sometimes masturbation is the better option.
Sooner that than get poisoned and be a mass shooter or (something) that it ruins your life in other ways.
And that, my friends, is why I tell you Hichborn is an incredible researcher. He’s a danger to the forces of evil, and therefore I’d ask you first to support the Lepanto Institute.
Go listen to his full rollout of this, and also pray for him, because when someone does this kind of exposé, they’re going to be in the crosshairs.
For LifeSiteNews, this is John-Henry Westen. May God bless you.
