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David Konstant, ex-Bishop of Leeds,
remembered for a school sex program so foul it was banned
in the Birmingham Archdiocese!
Also famous for delaying
the printing of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
to suck up to feminism’s gender equality agenda.
Pope
St Pius X wrote of Modernists, " ...they
proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree,
so that there is no part of Catholic truth which
they leave untouched, none that they do not strive
to corrupt" [Pascendi Dominici Gregis,
#3]
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David
Konstant MA was born 16 June 1930. He was ordained
a priest 12 June 1954 by Cardinal Bernard Griffen. Predictable,
in the present climate of episcopal subversion of the
faith of the Church, he was raised to the episcopacy
by Cardinal Basil Hume, being appointed an auxiliary
bishop of Westminster on the 25 April 1977, and then
the 8th bishop of Leeds on 23 July 1985.
He is yet another Modernist thoroughbred
from the Hume stables. Many have asked, as the
late saintly Father Paul Crane often did of David
Konstant: "How did that man ever become a bishop?"
Before the Second Vatican Council Bishop
Konstant, as Father Konstant, worked as a teacher of
English in a Catholic boys school. After the Council,
when the upheaval in religious instruction started, he
was appointed to one of the new posts, Diocesan Catechetical
Director for the Archdiocese of Westminster.
Father Konstant had an office in the
building which housed the infamous Corpus Christi College
of Religious Education, which was later closed down by
Cardinal Heenan. He became close friends with the
Principal of Corpus Christi, Father Hubert Richards,
and later, when Fr Richards quit the priesthood to marry,
with his wife Clare. Frs Richards and Konstant
were also very close to Cardinal Heenan’s secretary,
Mgr Worlock, later Archbishop of Liverpool. As the saying
goes: birds of a feather. One can also see here
the working of the old boys' network, where prime English
sees are parceled out amongst ones chums.
He took over from Archbishop Michael
Bowen of Southwark as Chairman of the Department for
Catholic Education until replaced by Bishop Vincent Nichols
in November 1998, in addition, he served as Episcopal
representative for the Catholic Media Trust and Episcopal
Liaison for the National Conference of Priests. Bishop
Konstant’s record in all three important and very
influential posts, like his connection with The Catechism
of the Catholic Church, has been, in a word, dire.
A Catholic bishop unable to
answer simple questions on the Catholic faith.
It may seem astonishing but
Bishop Konstant was unable to give a simple affirmation
of Catholic faith when confronted by a series of simple
questions posed by the BBC's Today programme in 1998,
which included: "Do you believe in the literal fact
of the Resurrection of Christ?" "Do you believe
there will be a second coming of Christ?" "Do
you believe Adam and Eve literally existed?" "Is
there a purgatory?" "Are all of the Ten Commandments
applicable today?" About such basics of the Catholic
faith, the Bishop of Leeds replied: "None of
the questions is capable of a one-word answer, which
means that, for most people, any answer given.. is not
merely inadequate, but simply untrue."!
Bishop responsible for sex-ed
program, considered so "foul" that it is
banned from the Birmingham Archdiocese!
While in charge of catechetics in Westminster,
Father Konstant introduced a very explicit sex education
programme which parents did not like. They eventually
persuaded Rome to instruct Cardinal Heenan to withdraw
it and to remove his Imprimatur. Konstant has zealously
provided our children with the most explicit material
on sex ensuring that although they would grow up totally
ignorant of the Faith they would be well informed on
sexual matters from an early age. His book, Education
in Sexuality, was so bad that in addition to the
outcry from angry parents, Archbishop Couve de Murville
considered it so foul he banned it from his Archdiocese. It
was later re-issued with some of the offending material
removed, and this time Bishop Konstant’s name had
been dropped from the front cover, though it was still
published by his Catholic Education Service.
Bully Boy Bishop
The Catholic Herald (7/4/00),
reported that parishioners of St Michael’s, Knottingley,
had ended their three-year campaign to have the tabernacle
behind the high altar in their new church. They did so
after a personal appeal from their parish priest, who
had clashed with Bishop David Konstant over the Bishop’s
whim to put the tabernacle, where the body, blood, soul
and divinity of Our Blessed Lord is kept, somewhere else.
Like most mainstream Modernists, bishop Konstant prefers
that in the house of God, the presence of God, at least
in the manner in which He chose to dwell among men, is
not too obvious.
It seems the good parish priest, a Father
David Smith, had received a letter from Bishop Konstant "calling
for an end to the dispute". He was ordered
to cease his opposition. Our bully boy Bishop had Fr
Smith in a head-lock because he had refused to consecrate
the church until his will be done. A parishioner
told The Catholic Herald: "Fr David has asked
us to put it all behind us and move forward. We’ve
agreed to do it mainly because we are concerned for him,
for his career and his health. We will just have to comply
with the Bishop’s wishes. But we will never agree
with it. We are more concerned for Father David".
Welcoming "the end of the
dispute," one of Konstant spin doctors followed
up with the following sanctimonious garbage: "It
is good to see that Fr. Smith and the parishioners
of St Michael’s parish have felt able to make
this move. Everyone in the diocese is now looking forward
to working together to achieve the best for the parish
as it sets out on its journey of faith. The fire has
left deep marks on the parish. The future must be a
time of healing and further growth with the support
of all the diocese. The Bishop is looking forward to
celebrating the opening of this church with Father
Smith and the parish on Pentecost Sunday." Come
back Uriah Heep, all is forgiven!
While you shake your head in disbelief
at these events, let me explain that St Michael’s,
the church in question, was burnt down by an arsonist
in 1997. The parishioners raised one hundred thousand
pounds to repair the gutted building, and now the Bishop’s
determination that his will be done and the Blessed Sacrament
be relegated from the main altar will cost them an extra.....sixty
thousand pounds!
Bishop Konstant's "Developing
Theology"
An example of the manner in which ‘development
of doctrine’ can be abused is found in an article
by Fr. D Konstant, when Westminster Catechetical Director,
in The Universe, July 10, 1970. In an
article aptly entitled 'Revolution in the R.E. Class',
he stated: "Once the religion teacher can accept
the notion of a developing theology his biggest hurdle
(which is one of attitude rather than knowledge) is crossed."
The then Father Konstant was taken severely
to task on this point by Fr Romuald Horn O.P. (The
Universe, July 24,1970) who put it this way: "If
a lecturer in a teachers’ training college were
to say: 'Christ achieved divinity' would Fr.
Konstant call that a development? Perhaps the words
of another teacher may be quoted: ‘The greatest
care must be taken that the important duty of research
does not involve the undermining of the truths of Christian
doctrine. If this happens, and we have unfortunately
seen it happen in these days, the result is perplexity
and confusion in the minds of many of the faithful’ (Pope
Paul VI)...what teaching has Fr Konstant in mind: divine
revelation to be believed or human science which can
be understood? Who are his "pupils",
theological students or schoolchildren? That he is interested
in theological development is obvious in his article;
there is less evidence of his interest in catechetics,
or of his understanding of it."
Fr. Romuald Horn O.P. rebuking the youthful
Fr. Konstant way back in July 1970. Thirty years later
the rebuked priest had become the bully boy bishop of
Leeds still pursuing his "developing theology" and
forcing the good parishioners of St Michael’s,
Knottingley, to refuse Our Lord His rightful place in
the new church. Some "development"........
some "theology"!
Bishop delays the printing of
the Catechism for a year.
Bishop Konstant claims on his CV that
he was involved with the preparation of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church. This claim reminds me
of an amusing custom a friend stumbled upon while teaching
in India of job applicants putting the initials "BA
(Failed)" after their names.
Bishop Konstant was invited to contribute
to the section on morals and took the material he had
prepared with his team - Mgr Kevin Nichols and Sister
Cecily Boulding O.P. - to Rome. The general understanding
is that it contained the classic subjective morality
of the Modernists and Rome was therefore left with no
alternative but to reject it.
When the time came for the English
Translation to be made, Bishop Konstant and Cardinal
Law of Boston made Fr Douglas Clark a convert from Georgia
the sole translator, though they supervised his work
themselves. When completed the translation was
not approved by the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith because it was a revised version of the Catechism
not a translation. Mgr Michael Wrenn of new York,
himself an experienced translator, wrote of it, "Hundreds
of examples of error in the translation could be cited,
some of them do not represent small points.. .they possess
doctrinal and theological significance, sometimes major
doctrinal significance."
In the meantime Bishop Konstant had
assumed approval and already arranged for the printing
of his revised Catechism in England, so this flawed translation
not only put back the Catechism for English speaking
people for a year, it also wasted a significant amount
of money.
After he had realized that an accurate
translation of the Catechism would be available to English
speaking people, he spoke to the dioceses of Southwark,
Arundel and Brighton and Portsmouth at Guildford on 6th
June 1993 in the presence of a large audience including
the then bishop Cormac Murphy O’Connor. Bishop
Konstant’s message was that when the Catechism
was ready we should not buy it as it would be too difficult
for us to understand. No-one of course took any
notice. When at last the Catechism was ready it
became a best-seller (100,000 copies sold in England
in the first two weeks alone).
Bishop embraces feminism cult
In addition to the "Hundreds
of examples of error in the translation" bishop
Konstant's revised and rejected version of the Catechism
had adopted inclusive language throughout. Inclusive
language, or Fem Speak, is a language manufactured
by radical secular feminists to advance their agenda,
but spoken by no people on the face of the earth. The
same feminist cult also embraces liberal abortion and
artificial contraception, is anti-chastity (and therefore
anti-celibacy), against the indissolubility of marriage
and pro-sodomy. Not exactly the most obvious
bed-fellows for a Catholic bishop, one might be excused
for thinking.
Such feminists argue that we should
not use words like "man" or "mankind",
because these words exclude, so they allege, "women". Ninety-nine
percent of women naturally reject this twaddle out of
hand, and even feminists don't actually believe it, not
one of them for example would dive into shark infested
waters, on the grounds that man-eating sharks
excluded women from their diet.
The new catechism was already available
in France (one million copies sold) and Spain and Italy
(500,000 each). To say l’homme in the French
edition was fine, but "man" in English has
become an offense apparently serious enough to warrant
suppression. So even the catechism must undergo
torture by the ideologically infected. If the proposed
new language had been accepted by Rome, the Catechism
of the Catholic Church would have made some very sad
reading indeed. It takes some doing to make the Scriptures
seem wooden and pedestrian, but the inclusive language
enforcers had managed.
In their proposed translation; the lines
from Luke 17:33, for instance, would no longer have been, "He
who seeks to save his life will lose it, but he who loses
his life will save it." The new version would
have read, "Those who try to make their life secure
will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep
it." Or take the original from Genesis 9:5-6,
which reads: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by
man shall his blood be shed; For God made man in his
own image." This would have read: "Whoever
sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s
blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind." Stranger
still is what would have happened to the lyric beauty
of Matthew 25:40. It used to read: "As
you did it to one of the least of these my brethren,
you did it to me." In bishop Konstant's translation
the ideologically cleansed line reads: "What you
do to the least of my family members you do to me."
The laity, as usual, had been expected
to genuflect compliantly before yet another episcopal
fait accompli, but many Catholics were up in arms. According
to Father Joseph Fessio SJ of the Ignatius Press, these
changes, "are shocking to people who have heard
and prayed these passages their whole lives." One
might of course add that these changes would have been
shocking to anyone with a shred of sanity.
Bishop in charge of Catechetics.
During the twenty plus years Bishop
Konstant supervised the religious instruction in Catholic
schools and parishes in England and Wales, the books
used and the Diocesan teams chosen have consistently
failed to teach the Catholic faith. He rushed out a Scheme
for Senior schools, Weaving the Web and a scheme
for Primary schools, Here I Am into the schools
before the Catechism was completed. The National
statistics clearly show just how successfully Bishop
Konstant’s policy has been at driving young people
out of the Church.
Liaison with the National Conference
of Priests
(The forum for dissenting priests left
over from the sixties and seventies)
While Bishop Konstant has held this
position this group have become more and more rebellious
and less representative of the majority of Catholic priests
in the country. For example, in 1995 they invited
Archbishop Rembert Weakland* to address their Annual
General meeting, in 1998 they scolded the Holy Father
for writing Ad Tuendam Fidem and in 1999 they demanded
frequent General Absolution and Holy Communion for the
divorced and remarried. Bishop Konstant’s
encouragement is a matter of public record.
*Archbishop Rembert Weakland has subsequent
resigned his office after it was revealed that this disgraceful
prelate had paid out of Church funds some $450,000 in
hush money to a man he was accused of sexually molesting. Amazing
what these Modernist prelates spend the faithful's money
on isn't it? He apparently had kissed the man erotically
on the mouth and pulled his trousers down. The
young man in question had visited him to enquire about
the priesthood! After some Clinton style
theatricals before a small congregation of around 400
die-hard liberals in his Cathedral, in which he sank
to his knees and begged forgiveness, he quit the scene. Yet
another proof that there is a God - Halleluiah! Weakland
was also notorious for showing seminarians pornographic
films. For more information on this corrupt prelate
and darling of the liberal establishment, see the Weakland
File
Episcopal Representative to the
Catholic Media Trust.
Although not Chairman, Bishop Konstant
is a very influential voice on this Trust. The sorry
state of the Catholic papers in this country bear testimony
to his views. Editors who are too Catholic or who allow
the shortcomings in R.E. to be exposed do not last long,
and it is understood that he would like the slogan "Follow
Peter" removed from the front page of The Catholic
Times. The Trust fails consistently to defend the Catholic
faith in the media, leaving this to concerned lay people. His
record may seem unbelievably bad, but it is all factual
and can be checked.
Christ's body hemorrhages away
During the regime of this hireling every
indicator of the health of the body of Christ in his
diocese has nose-dived. Indeed, David Konstant
has managed to exceed the national average decline (itself
abysmal) on every count, sometimes by a substantial margin:
baptism for example down nationally 11%, down 30% in
the diocese of Leeds.
Decline between 1984 and 2002
|
National
Average
|
LEEDS
|
| Priests |
Down 11% |
Down 12% |
| *Mass attendance |
Down 36% |
Down 42% |
| Baptisms |
Down 11%
|
Down 30% |
| Catholic Marriages |
Down 53% |
Down 56% |
| Converts |
Down 20% |
Down 28% |
One should also note from the above
table that while our Modernist bishops bleat on about
the shortage of priests that they themselves have engineered,
David Konstant has been losing his laity almost three
times as fast! So he now paradoxically has substantially
more priests pro-rata then when he took office: approximate
one priest for every 251 Mass going Catholics when he
took office, against one priests for every 164 Mass going
Catholics in 2002!
As if these figures were not awful enough,
Konstant, his health now failing, is working on placing
his own cronies in influential positions so as to ensure
a seamless transition to the next generation of
Modernists. Thus there can be no doubt that the
devastation of the vineyard will continues long after
the Godfather has left the scene. Father Andrew
Summersgill (Secretary to the Bishops Conference) and
Mgr Peter Grant (Private Secretary to the Nuncio) are
two examples of Konstant's appointments.
* The figures for Mass attendance were
not published in the 1984 directory, so we have had to
compute this decline from the 1990 figures, so it is
almost certainly an underestimate.
David Konstant's distaste for the Catholic
Faith would appear to be an ingrained family trait!
Since publishing the above article,
I have received the following email from David Konstants
sister-in-law and another from his sister. Neither
of these missives dispute any of the facts related in
the above article, so need no comment from me. Note
the suggestion that I should go to confession to a lesbian
bishop! David Konstant's distaste for the Catholic
Faith would appear to be an ingrained family trait!
From: Eli
Konstant myjabulani@vodamail.co.za
To: don-mcgovern@cathud.com
Cc: Caroline <caroamber@mweb.co.za>, saohill@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM
Subject: David Konstant
David Konstant happens to be
my brother in law, a respected and much loved
man.
Whoever is responsible for the
article I have read is full of vitriolic jealousy
and frustration. Such deep hatred coming
from people who supposedly preach faith, hope and
charity, has entirely sickened me. If this
is an example of the Faith, then it is not David
Konstant that has depleted the congregations, and
subsequently the collection plate, but the attitudes
and banal opinions expressed in this diatribe.
To highlight just one extract
from your vacuous article would indicate a person
terrified of women and their abilities and arrogant
enough to believe he speaks for 99% of them!
Inclusive language, or Fem
Speak, is a language manufactured by radical
secular feminists to advance their agenda, but
spoken by no people on the face of the earth ....... Ninety-nine
percent of women naturally reject this twaddle
out of hand, and even feminists don't actually
believe it,
You are clearly unable to accept,
being stuck in your own tiny world and time warp,
that there are people out there, including Catholic
Bishops, who are not sheep. Are brave and
committed enough to their Faith and the people
they guide, to see that in order to progress attitudes
need to change. Which Pope was it that was ‘done
away with’ for his forward thinking? Let
not David visit the Vatican lest he too meets the
same fate by the hand of you and your ilk. Are
you afraid that with progress, you would be out
of a comfortable job?
Whoever you are, you are bitter
and sad. No doubt having not achieved much
in your life, and quite devastated by somebody
who has. I think you should lock yourself
in the confessional box for quite a long time (perhaps
with a Lady Bishop and, shock/horror, she might
have Lesbian tendencies !!), with a good and strong
string of rosary beads that will withstand the
saying of countless Hail Mary’s. Having said
those Hail Mary’s, perhaps, just perhaps,
the God to whom you pray (or do you just complain?),
will forgive you.
To go through life with such hate
and misery in your heart ...... you should be ashamed
to wear the cloth and even more to preach the Faith.
Eli Konstant (Ms)
2 Republic Street
Alicedale 6135
South Africa
Cell: 0724558184
Landline: 042 2311464
www.addoreach.co.za |
From: Caroline caroamber@mweb.co.za
To: Don McGovern <don-mcgovern@cathud.com>
Cc: Rory Johnston <saohill@hotmail.com>,Eli
Konstant <myjabulani@vodamail.co.za>
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: David Konstant
Dear Mr McGovern
Your correspondence is interesting – here’s
more for your blog – please publish it in
full.
Kindly do not tarnish my family with your sweeping,
negative judgment – you have not the first
inkling about us. Furthermore, what makes
you spokesman and judge for the Catholic Church?
Our Lord said: ‘judge not and thou shall
not be judged’ and ‘love your neighbour
as yourself’. He was the bringer of
kindness and compassion after the harsh, unforgiving
God of the Jews. Jesus was a visionary ahead
of His time, He challenged the ‘old’ ways – which
is why he was crucified by people with much the
same fearful mind-set you seem to have. Your
correspondence is opinionated, patronizing and
deeply unkind. Everything Our Lord is not.
Think humbly, if you can, about the attributes
the Catholic Church wishes to represent. Are
those: judgment, ridicule, personality assassination,
sarcasm, narrow-mindness, fear, rigidity, coldness,
aloofness, harshness, cruelty? If so, you
are the perfect representative of the Church. If
not, think carefully about the way you portray
yourself and the way you judge people.
Here’s hoping Our Lord will find a way to
fill your heart with His love,
God bless,
Caroline Konstant |
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