Gay nudist retreat in Collegeville cancelled?

There has been alot of research done on that retreat at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN I reported on last week.  It appears at the moment that the retreat has been cancelled.  But this is far from clear.  And additional data points to  just how troubling, impure, decadent, and unchaste this retreat was planned to be.  First of all, it was a retreat that involved the retreatants undressing in front of each other – or undressing each other – and cavorting about:

……as Archbishop Sheen taught, anytime nudity is used in therapy or instruction, it is a sign of demonic influence……….

……….We have mentioned on a number of occasions that this technique of psychological instruction was used by sexually abusive monks at Collegeville, Minnesota.   It was employed by Abbot John Eidenschenk upon his novices with some predictable results. [the results were allegations of abuse and homosexual relationships]

Now, from the Pine Curtain, at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, the home of nearly a dozen credibly accused homosexual sexual predators, a counselor arrives on the scene advocating that students and monks touch each other.

The man to whom this allegedly Catholic institution is entrusting students, himself, teaches in the nude and does not share the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality.  One of Mr. Pileggi’s admirers [that is a Bob Pileggi, who was going to conduct the retreat] puts it like this in a blog post entitled, “When a Teacher of God 
Takes off His Clothes”:

I realized that when I undress another man and allow him to undress me – as I have in workshops and private sessions in erotic spirituality and as I will at the Edward Carpenter Community’s Gay Men’s Week this September (The Dance Between Power and Intimacy) – we are creating the sacred space in which we can use erotic energy to transcend ego and come into a new relationship with Spirit.

Just to be clear,  the retreatants were going to be encouraged to touch one another while unclothed.  This had all the makings of little more than a paganistic orgy.

Has the retreat been cancelled?  Maybe.  Or perhaps its just been moved off the grounds of the abbey. 

Fr. Bob Pierson of the Benedictine monstery at Collegeville was the organizer for the event on the monastery’s side.  A little data about him and Mr. Pileggi (emphasis mine):

The monk Fr Bob Pierson who was the contact person for this retreat is also Tresurer for the sponsoring organization “Catholic Association of Lesbian and Gay Ministry” and almost all the other board members of this group can be verified online to be involved in other organizations explicitly in favor of homosexual “marriage”; at least one board member (an “inferfaith minister”) performs same sex ceremonies. Based on web searching, the retreat leader Bob Pileggi is apparently a fallen away Catholic, has been a staff member of the pro-gay-marriage “Lambda Legal Defense Fund” [this is a very dangerous and aggressive group] for outreach and as coordinator of “The Marriage Project”, and he also offers his services as an interfaith minister conducting custom weddings and other ceremonies clearly including same sex “weddings”.

So, in addition to the pagan sex orgy aspects, you have the heretical or repudiation of Church Dogma aspects.  But then, that’s what St. Jerome said, heresy is invariably associated with sexual sins, and vice versa. 

Hideous.  Stay 50 miles away from Collegeville.  Who knows what kinds of demons may be flitting around that place.