The Diocese Report has obtained video of Dr. David Brown speaking in front of the State College Area School Board in State College, PA. The video shows Dr. Brown defending homosexual behavior, distorting Catholic teaching including St. Thomas Aquinas and attacking Catholics and non-Catholics who have bravely tried to defend orthodox teaching. The shocking and repugnant aspect is that the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown employs Dr. Brown who is responsible for the intake interviews of potential seminarians.
Dr. Brown is no stranger to the people in the Diocese who have been defending orthodox Church teaching for many years in attempting to rid the schools and community of the promotion of perverse activities that are encouraged by the school district, Penn State University, religious organizations and even the local Catholic Campus Ministry.
Unfortunately the Diocesan administrators cannot claim ignorance, since Catholics of good will have alerted these officials about the activities of Dr. Brown and related issues for the past three years. In fact, some administrators have been presented with enormous volumes of documentation that laid out the militant homosexual activism occurring in the Diocese, which included the work of Dr. Brown. One local Catholic said, "It is time to stop fooling around, someone needs to bring a canonical lawsuit in order to clean this mess up."
I was also able to confirm in at least one case, a candidate for the seminary was subjected to highly irregular questioning about his sexual behavior, thoughts and opinions. In fact this same candidate was also questioned about why he held to the "anti-women" position that women cannot be ordained. In light of these facts, Bishop Joseph Adamec as recently as a month ago at a Priests retreat indicated that he had complete confidence in the vocations director to handle the situation. When the Diocese Report asked Father Becker, Director of Vocations about Dr. Brown the following response was given:
Dicese Report: Does David Brown still screen potential seminarians and if so does the Diocese see a problem that he has endorsed the homosexual lifestyle?
Father Becker: Regarding your questions, the answers to which there is no guarantee will not be misconstrued, please refer to the message which you received from Monsignor Carson. I would have no more to say.
Msgr. Stanley Carson did respond in more detail even though he was not directly asked any questions about Dr. Brown. I had simply cc: Msgr. Carson out of respect for him and the office he hold as Vicar General.
Msgr. Carson: "Acknowledging the reality of homosexuality among persons, some of whom might be candidates for the priesthood, does not necessarily mean an "endorsement" of the genital expression of affection."
While Carson's statement seems accurate, I was unable to discern how it related to the question I asked. I was merely inquiring as to why Dr. Brown was interviewing potential seminarians when it is obvious that he rejects fundamental Church teachings.
So as not to be charged with quoting anyone out of context, I have published the complete correspondence exactly as it was sent and received with times stamps.
The following is a chronological timeline of only some of the documentation that outlines the apostasy ramped in central Pennsylvania.
The following video clips are taken from school board meetings in which two basic issues were discussed. The first couple clips are taken from meetings in which a controversy had arisen over "diversity" workshops for teachers at an in-service day. The biggest complaint was that a few of the speakers were militant homosexual advocates from Penn State University. Dr. Brown not only defended the workshops but also defended homosexuality in general.
The later half of the videos are from a meeting which dealt with the proposition of adding the words "sexual orientation" to the State College Pennsylvania school district's non-discrimination and harassment policies. Dr. Brown once again defended the anti-Catholic argument and even went as far as stating that St. Thomas Aquinas taught that homosexuality was natural. After viewing these video clips and reading what he has written it seem obvious that there is no logical explanation why Dr. Brown should be allowed to function for the Diocesan in his current position.
Red highlighted link denotes the most blatent statements made in defense of his position
What began the most recent flurry of articles in the State College area began with a column written by Father Joseph Hlubik of the Penn State Catholic Community. Father Hlubik also took part in a homosexual affirmation service on campus. These two actions were reported in part one of this series. Following the publication of the Diocese Report article, Mr. Gary Morella and Father James Foster wrote articles rejecting the false teaching asserted by Father Hlubik. Dr. David Brown and Sister Mary Parks, Diocese Communications Director, have since responded to Morella and Foster.
