Thanks to a disinterested and deeply compromised Vatican, which has acquiesced in decades of Liberal episcopal appointments, England has reaped a whirlwind of clerical infidelity.

Now, we all realise that the Church is not so much a house of saints as a sanctuary for sinners. Catholics gathered at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in union with their countless brethren throughout the world, offer Almighty God expiation for their sins. Hence the very idea of tailoring Masses for individual groups of sinners - liars, fornicators, adulterers, thieves, necrophiliacs... - is a truly absurd notion. (Not to say impractical: even scheduled on a daily basis, the endless litany of human wickedness would restrict each sinful category to about one parish Mass per lifetime!)

This absurdity, however, is clearly lost on the English bishops. With a nod from Rome, not only have they sanctioned such unique Masses for homosexuals, they have set them up at the behest of unrepentant homosexuals and lesbians: men and women who trumpet their deviancy while railing against Pope Benedict and the Church for calling sin by its name!

Appeasing the sodomites at every turn while resisting the pleas of their most faithful and obedient children to prevent the sin and scandal these Masses engender, our supposed spiritual Fathers have doggedly pursued this public promotion of evil. It is a scandal which arguably represents the lowest point yet reached by self-satisfied prelates lacking all fear of God.

As revealed in the article which follows, the flagrant nature of the blasphemy, sacrilege and "gay" propagandising associated with the Soho Masses is overwhelming. It is no surprise, therefore, that notorious 'celebrants' lead the charge.

On 5 August, for example, the Mass was celebrated by Fr Philip Slocombe of the Clifton diocese. The present writer was participating in the regular prayer protest outside the church, but an observer who attended the Mass reported that the priest "had six lay people on the altar with him. Just before the 'Lamb of God' one of the women broke the consecrated Host. and other abuses occurred." The report continues:

Given his history of "gay" activism, the fact that this earring-clad dissident ordained by Bishop Hollis is still in the priesthood at all speaks volumes. That he is permitted to darken the doorways of churches anywhere, let alone those given over to his "gay" brethren, is a breathtaking scandal which shows up the profound moral, doctrinal and spiritual turpitude of the hierarchy which supports him.

It certainly leaves the blackest of clouds hovering over his former Bishop, the now retired Mervyn Alexander. In July 1991, after following their parish priest to a "gay" nightclub in Bristol which he was known to frequent, three of Slocombe's long-suffering parishioners witnessed him on the dance floor. They each completed affidavits and handed them to Bishop Alexander. Incredibly, he took no action, preferring Slocombe's risible excuse that he had been "counselling" nightclub patrons!

With the continued support of Alexander, Slocombe went on his scandalous way. He even penned a report on his participation in 25th anniversary celebrations of the "gay liberation" movement. Titled "An Englishman in New York: Peter Slocombe's reflections", this hymn of praise for homosexuality appeared in the September 1994 newsletter of the dissident Roman Catholic Caucus of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. It puts his above Soho performance in full perspective, as he identifies himself wholeheartedly with "gay lib" deviants. Praising the 1969 Stonewall rioters in New York's Greenwich Village who sparked the "gay" movement, he wrote:

Slocombe praises the radical sodomite lobby group Dignity for "excelling itself" in the organisation of "a first-rate international conference and the largest ever mass [sic] for gays and lesbians." He then relates how an English lesbian who spoke at the conference "provided a clear picture of the situation in Britain - of less confrontation and polarisation than in the States, of personally helpful bishops unable to 'stick their necks out' for fear of Vatican reprisals."

Thirteen years on, with Westminster approval and Vatican blessing, this non serviam misfit and his rebellious clerical brethren turn up in Soho to lead blasphemous parodies of the Holy Mass for militant homosexuals, who, within the once sacrosanct confines of a church, promote hellish Gay Pride marches and direct the congregation to peddlers of graphic tips for 'better buggery.' So much for bishops fearing Roman "reprisals"!

It is not the cosseted shepherds but their abandoned flock who are fearful - of Vatican complicity!

This starts at the top.

Take Pope Benedict's much touted pre-election lament about "How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, by virtue of their priesthood, ought to belong entirely to Christ!" Not only has he failed to launch a clean up, but through his "gay"-friendly appointee Cardinal Levada he has effectively sanctioned these public perversions of truth and goodness; piling filth upon the encrusted filth which already cakes the Church in England.

Wherever we look, this suffocating layer of impurity and infidelity is obstructing the flow of God's grace to the local Church.

On 13 August 2007, for instance, the Daily Telegraph reported a scandal involving homosexual Charles Coyne, the head of St Cecilia's primary school in Liverpool who has lived in a "civil partnership" with his male 'partner' since October 2006. The Pope calls such partnerships "anarchic" and a danger to the family.

The archdiocese told the Telegraph that due to employment law, "nothing could be done" to sack Coyne. How convenient. And with Fr Michael O'Dowd involved in such deliberations, how unsurprising that they surrendered so obligingly. The Episcopal Vicar for Schools and Education, O'Dowd, like Fr Slocombe, is a notorious supporter of the sodomite lobby group Quest.

A concerned Liverpool layman submitted the following letter to the Telegraph in response to its report:

In a sane moral universe governed by men of conviction and substance, Kelly, of course, would hand in his notice first. An overseer of workaday scandals who has carried on seamlessly where his destructive Liverpool predecessor Derek Worlock left off, he even allowed the parish of Christ the King to host a Coyne-Jones 'wedding reception,' which convivial get-together for the 'happy couple' was attended by three priests, including the aforementioned Fr O'Dowd.

We are governed, however, by prelates brimming with those traits of "vainglory" and "self-complacency" identified and condemned by the Holy Father during his attack on the clerical "filth." Consequently, there is zero chance of a selfless, repentant Kelly handing in his episcopal meal ticket and foregoing the trappings of his prestigious office (like the overseas trips, for starters).

Kelly, Alexander, Murphy-O'Connor and their complacent peers are no doubt emboldened by the thought of strength in numbers: rationalising their indefensible promotion of the "gay" agenda in the knowledge that they are not just individually but collectively up to their cowardly necks in homosexual compromise. The Coyne affair, you see, is not a local scandal but the mere tip of a national "gay" employment iceberg which reflects the iniquitous spirit informing the episcopate's Diversity and Equality Guidelines.