At 8:21pm local time on Sunday, May 14, 2017, one day after the one hundredth anniversary of the first appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the three shepherd children in Fatima, an American tour guide in Rome tweeted the following about her husband after he delivered a speech at a small conference in Milan that he organized on the “future of the European Union”:

Who was that hot american guy making subsidiarity sexy? Oh, wait, it was my husband @tdwilliamsrome! #luckywife

At first glance, this might seem merely tacky in an adolescent sort of way, especially coming from a woman in her fifties. But the truth is that this tweet sums up the extreme danger the Church finds herself in today, both with regards to moral and sacramental theology, and with regards to the ongoing war against the priesthood itself, almost certainly set to escalate with the 2018 Synod called by Francis, the agenda of which will revolve around the priesthood, and it is greatly feared, an attack on priestly celibacy.

The woman who made the tweet is Elizabeth Lev. She is the daughter of former ambassador to the Holy See and Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, a darling of the neo-conservative wing of the American Catholic Church. The “hot American guy” is Lev’s husband, Brietbart columnist Thomas Williams.  Williams is actually the longtime public face of the Legion of Christ, Father Thomas Williams, who married Lev in a lavish New York City wedding in December of 2013, after carrying on a notorious “open secret” sexual affair with Lev for well over a decade, and fathering Lev’s fourth and youngest child in the early 2000s.

Given fallen human nature, there have always been a small number of priests who, in a moment of weakness, or, in cold calculation and contempt of their priestly vows to Jesus Christ and His Church, have kept concubines and fathered children.  This is nothing new.  What is new is the utter shamelessness with which such scandals are now treated – by the sacrilegious fornicating priest and his concubine.  Up until the post-conciliar era, when a priest would be laicized and leave the priesthood to marry his concubine, the couple would move far away and live a very quiet life of sober repentance, presumably in the sole interest of raising their children, never drawing attention to themselves or the circumstances surrounding their marriage.  This was done to protect from scandal the surrounding community.  Any appearance of a priest or a woman flaunting or luxuriating in having committed the grave sin of not merely fornication, but also of sacrilege, as all sins against the 6th Commandment by or with a priest under vows of celibacy are, was to be assiduously avoided by the couple themselves, and insisted upon by the Church in order to protect the community from scandal, be it the scandal of inciting others to sin, or the scandal of causing people to lose their faith when confronted by the horror of such human depravity.

Secondly, up until just a few short decades ago, shame was a powerful, healthy presence in people’s lives.  The Church teaches that shame and sorrow for sin are utterly essential in the Christian life, pointing directly towards both a servile and filial fear of the Lord.  Shame, especially for sins so grave as sacrilegious fornication, is spiritually profitable.  The Church knows this, and would thus expect such persons to order their lives in the most spiritually profitable way possible, which included shame, for the rest of their lives, for what they had done.

If there is one thing that both Lev and Williams have made clear over the years, it is that they are stunningly deficient in shame.

-Lev and Williams began their sexual affair sometime in the late 1990s or very early 2000s after Williams was sent by the Legion of Christ with the encouragement of Lev’s mother, Mary Ann Glendon, to recruit the at-the-time apostatized Lev, becoming her “spiritual director”. Lev had already established a reputation in Rome for her career ambition as an art historian and lax morality.

-When Lev fell pregnant with Fr. Williams’ child and Lev’s fourth child – her first three children, two daughters, and an infant son who fell into and drowned in a swimming pool while left unsupervised, being born while she lived as the public mistress of married Italian lawyer Paolo Giangrave in Bologna – Lev and Williams attempted to deceive the surrounding community into believing by calculated implication that the father of the child was Lev’s omnipresent male homosexual confidant, by calling the conception of the child “a one night stand”, and having the homosexual confidant attend the birth and stand prominently as godfather at the child’s baptism, and spend the next several years as the child’s co-caregiver. The fact that the child was born with a severe case of Down Syndrome obscured any clearly identifiable resemblance to the father, making any false assignation of paternity plausible.

-Far more scandalously, Lev and Williams further conspired to use the very Sacrament of Baptism to cover their tracks, having Fr. Thomas Williams baptize his own son, thinking that the surrounding community would discount the possibility of Williams being the father of the child, thinking that no one, much less a moral theologian, could possibly be so shameless and depraved to use the Sacrament of Baptism in such a mendacious way.

-Throughout the early 2000s, Fr. Thomas Williams and his mistress’ mother and grandmother of his child, Mary Ann Glendon, worked in intimate cooperation to publicly assassinate the characters of any whistleblowers that tried to warn of and expose the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, who was a drug addict and bisexual incestuous pedophile.  Fr. Williams lived with Maciel for many years and was one of the top-ranking and most powerful members of the Legion of Christ. During the same period, Williams put Lev on the payroll of Zenit, the Legion-controlled news agency which Williams helped found and served as the publisher for ten years.

-By Williams’ own admission, and by the admission of his superior Rev Alvaro Corcuera, Williams directly disobeyed orders in 2005 to reduce his public profile after admitting that he had fathered a child that was by now now a toddler.

In the subsequent years, Williams doubled-down on developing his celebrity status, and became a fixture on American mainstream media network newscasts commenting on all-things Catholic, and published numerous mass-market books, including 2008’s cringe-inducing title, “Knowing Right From Wrong”.  Katie Couric, apparently sharing Ms. Lev’s shallow and adolescent aesthetic of “hot” and “sexy”, referred to Fr. Williams as “Father What-a-waste”.

-Fr. Williams was the dean of the department of Moral Theology at the Legion of Christ’s Pontifical University in Rome, and was widely seen carrying on physical relationships openly both with Ms. Lev, and with students.  Williams continued in that post until February of 2012, when a group of victims of psychological and sexual abuse by the Legion of Christ forwarded an evidentiary dossier to the Vatican demanding action against Fr. Williams.

-In 2013, Williams announced his intention to leave the priesthood, and marry Lev.  Williams had not yet been laicized, and remained a Catholic priest.  A lavish New York City wedding was scheduled for December of 2013.  Lev and Fr. Williams, in an act of brazen shamelessness that to this day beggars belief, began soliciting cash gifts for their wedding, posting pictures of themselves in romantic, intimate poses that were taken while the as-yet Fr. Williams remained a Catholic priest.  In Rome, a fellow tour guide acquaintance of Lev’s organized a bachelorette party, which Lev consented to and attended.  Many of the guests did not know Lev, nor the circumstances surrounding the engagement.  Lev laughed and joked about scandalizing the devout Catholic attendees when she was asked who she was marrying. Fr. Williams had not yet been laicized, and remained, still, a Catholic priest.

-Lev and Williams ordered custom party favors for their New York City wedding reception: wine corkscrews with the words “Love Conquers All” custom-embossed in Latin, which they also distributed at their Rome wedding reception the following week.  When the custom-embossed corkscrews were ordered, Williams had not been laicized, and remained, still, a Catholic priest.

-Less than one week before the wedding, Fr. Williams’ laicization had not been signed, and Lev’s mother, the former Ambassador to the Holy See, Mary Ann Glendon, was dispatched to “pull strings” and get the document signed before the wedding, which was only days away.

Since what is sarcastically referred to in Rome as “The Royal Wedding”, Lev and Williams have done anything but live a life of private, sober repentance.  They hold themselves out as nouveau-aristocrats, Catholic elites, bragging of their sensuous and decadent lifestyles, going so far as to become certified sommeliers, and by their words and deeds making a mockery of the sacramental priesthood, priestly celibacy, and the entire notion of sorrow for sin, twisting a total lack of shame into a post-modern, neo-pagan virtue.  The message of these people’s lives is: Any priest who takes seriously his vows to Christ and His Church is a fool. To abandon the sacramental priesthood is an act of “conquering”. It says so, right there on the corkscrew.  And mercy?  Mercy according to this warped mindset is a purely legalistic false mercy without sorrow, shame, or most importantly, true repentance and conversion of life.

As the priesthood comes under attack with an eye towards eliminating the grace-conduit of priestly celibacy, the full horror is best summed up by the dismissive words of Thomas Williams himself, quoted in no less than the New York Times in January of 2017:

Rushing to meet his wife at St. Peter’s Square, Thomas Williams walked past priests in black cassocks and said that the only thing he missed from his own decades of wearing a priest’s collar was “a real sense of helping people very directly.”

He paused and added, “I’m sure I’m helping people in some way.”

Perhaps, but not by offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or absolving sins in the confessional. But, at least Thomas Williams knows an ’85 Tignanello from a 2001 Masseto, and his wife thinks he’s “hot”.

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….Post submitted by an anonymous eye-witness source from Western Europe

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36 Thoughts on “Breitbart’s Sexy ‘Father’ Thomas Williams: High-Flying FrancisChurch ‘Conservative’

  1. John on July 24, 2017 at 2:13 pm said:

    Frank, I don’t know whether to laugh or cray. Lev? Would she be jewish by chance? Is this man still considered a priest?

    • Dymphna on July 25, 2017 at 7:16 am said:

      And people still praise Mary Ann Glendon???

    • According to an Inside the Vatican article years ago now, Glendon conceived Elisabeth out of wedlock to an African-American man. She later married a Mr. Lev who adopted Elisabeth.

    • OkiePapist on August 22, 2018 at 12:55 pm said:

      Tu es sacerdos in aeternum, secundum ordinem Melchisedech. Once the indellible mark of the priesthood is on the soul, it cannot be removed, much like baptism. He could still hear a confession, in extremis, in the case of someone who is dying. Sad.

  2. Anabel on July 24, 2017 at 2:49 pm said:

    Words fail.

  3. Evangeline on July 24, 2017 at 6:53 pm said:

    She is a “beard”. A beard is a person who marries or links up with someone to cover the fact that the person is a homosexual. If I understand this correctly there were complaints coming from some quarter about him. I doubt they were all female complaints. Following that, a quick wedding to the beard.
    This is vile and disgusting, all of it. What reprehensible characters, not only offensive moral pygmies, but they have the boorish character to revel in it.
    He’ll get old and paunchy, just like everyone else. What will thrill these two lost souls then. I would say, how did this guy get through seminary, but I think I already know how.
    And we wonder why we’re circling the bowl.
    God deliver us from these types soon.

    • John on July 25, 2017 at 3:48 pm said:

      Some folks just look gay as a three dollar bill, just callin’ it as a I see it.

  4. Evangeline on July 24, 2017 at 6:54 pm said:

    Oh, and her tweet, utterly gross. No class whatsoever. Yuk.

  5. raphaelheals on July 24, 2017 at 8:34 pm said:

    We have all fallen from grace and there is forgiveness for us all. What is glaringly missing here with these two faux Catholics is a profound weeping and remorse for their sins. I feel ill at what I read and their sense of chronic brazenness in the face of mortal sin. Williams must have had quite the life living in the company of his ‘role model’ Fr. Maciel. They consciously attempted to hide their sins and then when caught in a corner he gave a ‘faux apology’. This man and woman are still ‘selling themselves’ in order to cash in. There is a high probability that these two are nothing but narcissists. She seems almost manic and full of glee that she ‘copped’ a handsome priest. But in truth his insides make him repulsive to me……and her too. How they are at the pinnacle of Catholic power in Rome only speaks to the moral depravity and corruption of so many who live there.

    • Anonymous on January 15, 2019 at 9:36 pm said:

      When I was in Rome she was our tour guide to the Vatican. She was amazing with her knowledge and her presentation, the way she got you excited about what you saw was amazing. Judge lest you not be judged

  6. Thank you. Excellent work. I think it is possible, with Lev’s mother, Mary Ann Glendon’s, constant apology for neoconservativism as well as the connections with neocons like George Weigel, for there to be some American intelligence connection in the whole disgusting mess.

  7. LaJeca on July 24, 2017 at 10:51 pm said:

    I am utterly scandalized. And I thought I was old enough to have seen it all.

  8. Ordained in the new deformed rites of Paulette VI so likely not a real priest anyway.

    • fgwalkers@att.net on July 25, 2017 at 6:55 am said:

      I’m sure the new rites are deficient, but I’ve never read that they don’t actually ordain.

    • John on July 25, 2017 at 3:46 pm said:

      LOL, Paulette and his sodomite boyfriend Paolo. Unbelievable this false Church of darkness.

  9. Michael Dowd on July 25, 2017 at 5:40 am said:

    Most Catholics, I fear, will view Fr. Williams actions as courageous and commend him on all the good work he is now doing. Vatican II has had the effect of inuring us to sin, failure of commitment while encouraging creative spiritual self expression, i.e., Protestantism.

    • Lilian on July 25, 2017 at 11:26 am said:

      Disgusting! Simply disgusting, scandalous even a lay person will be viewed as such!

  10. Garth Brooks on July 25, 2017 at 11:03 am said:

    “Oh, I’m shameless….!!”

  11. Diana on July 25, 2017 at 11:50 am said:

    Many words come rushing through my mind: sadness, anger, nausea, confusion, mostly sadness. I think we should pray for the lot of them, and each other.

  12. Their behavior was/is scandalous. A grave sin. However, this article commits the sin of detraction – “the sin of revealing another person’s faults to a third person without a valid reason.”

    If there is a valid reason, I fail to see it…..

    I’m ashamed a read even a small portion of this article.

    • There’s a reason, they are public figures. They influence others.

      The priest in my parish is doing the same thing. Engaged as a spiritual director with assistant, started sexual relationship, fathered children, and the comunity adores him and her and help them hide/cover up his holidays and disappearances. They lie for him, they help him numerous times.

      Whistleblowers are attacked and expelled from the comunity.

      These kind need to be exposed for what they are, simple frauds.

  13. I have conservative values, but I want nothing to do with Neo-conservatism

  14. Adoremus on July 25, 2017 at 11:12 pm said:

    Liz Lev is a professor for Christendom College’s Rome program. I now officially have zero respect for that school. The whole lot of them disgust me with their neo-con garbage. What a disgrace.

  15. Typical post Vatican II scum grifters. What else did we think was going to come sliding down the sewer pipe?

  16. R. Milla on August 10, 2017 at 1:28 am said:

    I’m saddened by this couple’s lack of shame. From what I heard, the University of Notre Dame has hired one or both of them. What Holy message could these two possibly transmit to young impressionable minds? And, I had signed up for a Catholic pilgrimage to Rome until I saw that our tour at the Vatican was to be led by Liz Lev! I’ve since learned that most of the well known Catholic tour companies hire Lev to lecture on Catholicism! Fr Williams or “Dr Williams” can even be heard on EWTN! Why?? Is it more important to these Catholic “enterprises” to make a buck even at the cost of scandalizing the faithful?? Yes, we are all sinners and by the Grace of Almighty God, we are forgiven, but how about some reparations? Penance? Shame? A little bit of embarrassment? But “who are we to judge?” seems to be the prevailing motto for all those choosing to justify their own depraved lifestyle.

  17. Margaret Wall on October 2, 2018 at 9:17 pm said:

    Thomas Williams was my spiritual director during the time he was carrying on this secret affair. I was troubled by his direction at the time and appalled to learn of his infidelity years later after I left Rome. I share the sentiments and thoughts of this author. But I also must add that the two of them made a business of their affair. Williams would direct us and other Catholics visiting Rome to Lev for tours, telling us that she was in need of making a living to support her children. He even suggested that we take her out for a meal after the tour! Do you think I can get my money back?😊

  18. Drive the scum out on November 30, 2018 at 3:28 pm said:

    Liz Lev now has TWO wrecked priestly vocations on her bloody hands. A young American woman who was the English language editor of the Vatican newspaper, and idolized the sexually aggressive “successful modern woman” Lev, went chasing after her own priest conquest and got him. An American priest working as a Latinist in the Vatican was seduced by the young woman, began openly fornicating, and sure enough, the young woman fell pregnant. The priest left the priesthood to marry his concubine and is now a Latin professor at Cornell. The woman openly cited the universal social acceptance and turning a blind eye to her mentor Liz Lev’s affair with Fr. Thomas Williams by the entire “catholic” Anglo community in Rome and child with Fr. Thomas Williams as her justification and reason for seducing and “catching” a priest. Bad trees bear bad fruit.

  19. thomas tucker on November 30, 2018 at 9:05 pm said:

    Maybe they should wear a giant “S” on their foreheads so everyone knows what gargantuan sinners they are.

  20. Dina colle on April 19, 2019 at 9:37 am said:

    AT THE AGE of 80 I don’t think I’ve encountered any thing so utterly brazen in the so called Catholic hypocritical , schizophrenical ….”let your conscience be your guide. ” What is so disturbing in this continuing saga is that Raymond Arroyo has featured her on his program and that women who is her mother. IF THEY WERE BORN IN Ireland they would have spent their existence in the Magdeline laundries where they could seduce the other so called Catholic neo-conservatives. I am truly shocked .

  21. Dana Bridges on April 24, 2019 at 1:37 am said:

    In order to filter out such dirty careerists, surely it is better that priests be obliged to earn their living by menial work, as did St. Paul.
    Then it would be less likely also that they would be chased by dirty women.
    As it is there is little to distinguish these types from Hollywood slags.

  22. Dana Bridges on April 24, 2019 at 1:42 am said:

    “Have nothing to do with evil but rather expose it”, St. Paul teaches.
    It is unfortunate that we have to know about such things. But if not, we might have been going to such a ‘priest’ for moral guidance., or influenced by such a depraved couple.

  23. Anonymous on August 19, 2019 at 8:16 pm said:

    Sad. And disgusting!

  24. It’s hard to convey the disgust I feel about these two. She now writes for Magnificat. I love Magnificat. I used to. Her presence taints it. Why aren’t these two shamed??
    I can hardly think this so angers me.

  25. Evan Matthew on May 20, 2020 at 4:17 am said:

    I knew the two in Rome. Why doesn’t the Vatican say something about this public disgrace; make a statement condemning these shameless impious frauds for their outrageous harm to the Christian faith and Catholic lifeway? He sickens the entire ethos of priesthood and she has destroyed any residue of goodness in that carcass of Roman Catholicism. The only thing that this couple deserves now is syphilis. A throt and a playboy. Can’t wait to see how their story ends.

  26. Anonymous on December 14, 2020 at 6:32 pm said:

    Unlike Liz and Katie , I find William’s looks to be repulsive.
    He reeks of weakness , effeminacy , perversion and disgusting vanity. I guess birds of a feather , or something .
    Sub- human creatures .

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