Saint Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah is a treatise on clerical sodomy and pederasty,
and the abuse of the Sacraments of Holy Orders and Penance by homosexual
bishops, priests, and religious in the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th
century. Saint Damian believed the vice of sodomy surpassed the
enormity of all other vices: Without fail it brings death to the body and destruction to the
soul. …It opens up hell and closes the gates of paradise. …It is
this vice that violates temperance, slays modesty, strangles
chastity, and slaughters virginity. …This vice excludes a man
from the assembled choir of the Church. …it separates the soul
from God to associate it with demons. This utterly diseased
queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny
infamous to men and odious to God. …She strips her knights of
the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears
of every vice. …She humiliates her slave in the church and
condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors
him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and consumes
his flesh like fire …this unfortunate man (he) is
deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails, and the mind’s
vision is darkened. Unmindful of God, he also forgets his own
identity. This disease erodes the foundation of faith, saps the
vitality of hope, dissolves the bond of love. It makes away with
justice, demolishes fortitude, removes temperance, and blunts
the edge of prudence. Shall I say more?