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Causing
Moral Perversion
In 1950, the U.S. magazine Pastoral Psychology was first published.
On the magazine�s editorial advisory board was notable humanist psychologist
and former president of the American Psychological Association, Carl R. Rogers.
Rogers had once stated: �We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave
people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them
by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their
loss of personhood.�
In 1964, funded by a three-year grant from the U.S. National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), Rogers conducted one of his depersonalization experiments
on some two dozen religious orders, including the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters
of Providence, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and other Catholic organizations.
Rogers was joined by Catholic psychologist William Coulson, who later admitted
that the psychological techniques used on the religious orders were aimed at
�provok[ing] an epidemic of sexual misconduct among clergy and therapists,�
and renounced the practice.
The study ended after only two years. By then the object of one of Rogers�
experiments, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was ruined. In 1993,
Coulson recanted and told the Catholic Press: �We corrupted a whole raft of
religious orders on the west coast in the �60s by getting the nuns and priests
to talk about their distress. � There were some 560 nuns when we began. Within
a year after our first interventions, 300 of them were petitioning Rome to get
out of their vows. They did not want to be under any- one�s authority, except
the authority of their imperial inner selves.�
Coulson admitted further: �The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian
encountering [Carl Rogers� therapy], is more sexual experience. Humanistic psy-
chotherapy, the kind that has virtually taken over the Church in Amer- ica �
dominates so many forms of aberrant education like sex education.� He said that
both he and Rogers knew that what they had created was �really evil.�
In 1992, a group dynamic (Sensitivity Training) seminar entitled, �Orientation
for a Celibate Form of Life� was held for young candidate priests in the Theological
Institution in Freiburg, Germany. The questionnaire contained numerous fill-in-the-blank
questions regarding sexual activity:
I consider it a prerequisite for real sexual pleasure [if]:___________.
The most exciting sexual experience where I felt especially physically or emotionally
happy was:___________.
At the moment I am able to satisfy my need for tenderness and eroticism to
the following extent:___________.
I estimate my possibilities for erotic expression as follows:___________.
The earliest erotic experience that I can remember was:___________.
The three most important wishes, which I have for the future in the sexual
erotic area are:___________.
Participants were induced to �shake [the] pelvis back and forth,� and then,
in pairs, place a cushion between each other at pelvis height and push against
each other�s genitals. The Swiss Catholic Weekly reported in 1994, that
rather than being an orientation to celibate life, it was a �seduction of the
future priests� aimed more at �arousing the desire for sex.�
Today, theological seminaries offer �human sexuality� courses for the assessment
and treatment of �sexual disorders� and �psychosexual disorders.�
Considering that, according to William Coulson, the result of sex education
is �more sexual experience,� there is no doubt as to psychologists� intention
or the direction of these courses.
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