Fr. Tom Bonnaci Giving Leather Bondage Spiritual Sex Lessons in Sacramento

Fr. Tom Bonnaci is giving lessons on how to integrate leather sexuality with spirituality at Christ the King Passionist Retreat Center in Sacramento.

““What we notice about our sexual experience as leather people is that much of what turns us on sexually has to do with such things as power exchange(dominance/submission); trust in s/m scenes where we feel the power of vulnerability and even fear, whether our own or the placing of another’s in our hands; and the intimacy of intense physical bonding which carries deeper meaning beyond the outward act itself. Words we use in the leather community such as “honor” and “respect” reflect that as well…. For us this has taken us into acknowledging the deeper meanings of our sexuality and its connection to the interior life. We choose to identify that dimension of our life as our spirituality. For us, that connection both grounds ‘spirituality’ in a healthy, freely given sexual life and acknowledges our capacity in sexual activity to have deep and soaring, even ecstatic, experience…”"

What?

Ah, come on, cut him some slack.

Can't an ordained guy incorporate leather and buggery into the Divinity of Christ and Sacramental life of the Catholic Church?

Like me, I'll bet you are wondering how a priest could feel so empowered by his bishop to do it right out in the open without fear or ramification.

Some of you may remember his bishop, Bishop Jaime Soto, recently canceled an event informing Catholics of the ethnic cleansing of Christians by islamic terrorists.

Still, isn't it nice of him to put a priest in charge of sex bondage and let him host an event on diocescan property.

From what I understand, after the phone rang off the hook at the Chancery asking Bishop Soto for intervention, he picked up the phone and asked Father Bonnaci to lead the sex bondage retreat at a facility that is unaffiliated with the Catholic Church.

I'm sure I speak for most people when I say that action by Bishop Soto just isn't good enough. Fr. Bonacci needs to be taken out of commission and sent to a lockdown facility for intense psychosexual and spiritual treatment and an exorcism of the demons counseling him.

This actually is very timely.

I received an email from the producer of Al Kresta's show, Nick Thomm.

Nick asked:

Now that you have publicly stated that “I like Al Kresta and all - but he DOES coverup corruption by refusing to report the corruption” I’d like for you to point out instances of where the program has covered up corruption.


I explained that I'm sure the message is upsetting, but asked if he could separate from the emotions of it and try to understand what is being said.

One cannot prove a negative.

Has Al done any programs exposing episcopal corruption in an effort to shut down something scandalous and spiritually abusive and malfeasant?

Has he ever responded to the pleas of Catholics begging Catholic journalists for help in exposing the unacceptable resolution to a scandal, intended to hold the Bishop's feet to the fire?

When you go to the archives and you come up with bupkis, there is your evidence that his silence is enabling and contributing to the corruption.

I'm going to write back to the producer and ask him if Al Kresta will help us expose the unacceptable response of Bishop Soto. I'll let you know his response.

Again, Al is doing tremendous work, as are other Catholic journalists. And everyone who knows how the Mystical Body of Christ functions is acutely aware that the Bishops response to exposing corruption will be tarring, feathering, slandering, threatening, bullying, public excoriation. Their careers will be over.

Al Kresta has got to rub elbows at swanky events with the men who are robbing people of their salvation and sometimes their lives.

And the reality is, there is a subgroup of people who find that compromise repulsive.

It doesn't make us better people. Everyone has their job to do. I have advised many priests, deacons, lay people working inside of the Church who are troubled that they can't speak out that it isn't their job to do so. God has given them a different role and they are not to feel any remorse over their silence.

But any and every righteous Catholic concerned about the salvation of souls understands that somebody has to do it. When theologically and spiritually immature or wounded Catholic journalists attack the people doing it, that a malicious action they need to be called out on.

Maybe they think rushing to the defense of a Bishop's misfeasance or corruption will earn them respect, get them an exclusive scoop, a ticket to a swanky event or maybe it is just personally important to them to feel like the bishop likes them.

For people like Voris, our friends at BCI, myself and others - the victims of misfeasance and corruption and the salvation of souls is more important to us than having the bishop 'like' us.

It isn't intended to give them an inferiority complex but if they have one over it and try to cure it by attacking righteous people, they are lemmings who need a good swift kick in the backside.