DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?

Michie · Monday at 9:27 AM

The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct. Two young priests who lived with Monsignor Francis B. McCaa, whom the Pennsylvania Grand Jury identified as a sexual “monster,” had no idea that their supervisory pastor was sexually abusing boys in their Ebensburg parish. Likewise, when I served with Father Robert Kelly for three years and Father Martin Cingle for two years, both the pastor and I had no idea that they were abusing teenage boys in our State College parish. One reason this happens is that we often assume that people with whom we live and work are very much like ourselves. Consequently, priests and parishioners who would never even think of harming a child often think other coworkers feel and act the same way,

Because most Catholics are heterosexuals, they have a difficult time believing studies that show how over 80 percent of American-born bishops and priests today are homosexuals. Likewise, because most Catholic couples are faithful in marriage, they have a hard time believing studies that show how, at any given moment in time, no more than half of all priests are leading celibate lives. If it were not for my years of supervisory and confessional experience, I too might question these findings. Consequently, I am not surprised if a devout Catholic might say to me, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” However, when asked about the validity of studies involving the high celibacy failure rate, Cardinal Jose Sanchez, a former Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons, responded, “I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of those figures.”

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DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?

The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct.

johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com

fide · 2025-07-12T04:22:41-0500

Michie said:
The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct. Two young priests who lived with Monsignor Francis B. McCaa, whom the Pennsylvania Grand Jury identified as a sexual “monster,” had no idea that their supervisory pastor was sexually abusing boys in their Ebensburg parish. Likewise, when I served with Father Robert Kelly for three years and Father Martin Cingle for two years, both the pastor and I had no idea that they were abusing teenage boys in our State College parish. One reason this happens is that we often assume that people with whom we live and work are very much like ourselves. Consequently, priests and parishioners who would never even think of harming a child often think other coworkers feel and act the same way,

Because most Catholics are heterosexuals, they have a difficult time believing studies that show how over 80 percent of American-born bishops and priests today are homosexuals. Likewise, because most Catholic couples are faithful in marriage, they have a hard time believing studies that show how, at any given moment in time, no more than half of all priests are leading celibate lives. If it were not for my years of supervisory and confessional experience, I too might question these findings. Consequently, I am not surprised if a devout Catholic might say to me, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” However, when asked about the validity of studies involving the high celibacy failure rate, Cardinal Jose Sanchez, a former Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons, responded, “I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of those figures.”

Continued below.

DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?

The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct.

johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com

I have known several truly holy priests in my life, who have been entrusted with suffering, deep suffering, at the hands of others consecrated outwardly but one must conclude not internally. Jesus showed us this ugly possibility - the outwardly religious living a lie. He made this clear to us through the "scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" throughout the Holy Scriptures. The holy men, and holy women who are truly consecrated in heart, are given the burden of His Cross to carry, to suffer, some to die on, in their deepest fidelity to Christ truly their Lord.

Meanwhile there were, and still are, the "hired men" who are not shepherds but wolves, permitted by the Lord in the mystery of His Supreme Act - this Creation - in which the greatest sufferings (and blessings) of His own are brought about by the enemies within the Household of His own:

Mt 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Mt 10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
Mt 10:36 and a man's foes will be those of his own household.
Mt 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
Mt 10:38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Mt 10:39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

And for us? Our Lord sent to the Fatima children, and from them on to us, this prayer for mercy for all now held within the Rosary:

O my Jesus,
forgive us our sins;
save us from the fires of hell;
lead all souls to heaven,
especially those who are in most need of thy mercy.

fide · 2025-07-12T07:08:21-0500

Michie said:
The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct. Two young priests who lived with Monsignor Francis B. McCaa, whom the Pennsylvania Grand Jury identified as a sexual “monster,” had no idea that their supervisory pastor was sexually abusing boys in their Ebensburg parish. Likewise, when I served with Father Robert Kelly for three years and Father Martin Cingle for two years, both the pastor and I had no idea that they were abusing teenage boys in our State College parish. One reason this happens is that we often assume that people with whom we live and work are very much like ourselves. Consequently, priests and parishioners who would never even think of harming a child often think other coworkers feel and act the same way,

Because most Catholics are heterosexuals, they have a difficult time believing studies that show how over 80 percent of American-born bishops and priests today are homosexuals. Likewise, because most Catholic couples are faithful in marriage, they have a hard time believing studies that show how, at any given moment in time, no more than half of all priests are leading celibate lives. If it were not for my years of supervisory and confessional experience, I too might question these findings. Consequently, I am not surprised if a devout Catholic might say to me, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” However, when asked about the validity of studies involving the high celibacy failure rate, Cardinal Jose Sanchez, a former Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons, responded, “I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of those figures.”

Continued below.

DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?

The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up their sexual orientation and misconduct.

johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com

Dear Michie, my post above was truly not intended to ignore or hi-jack the OP, but to address the symptom-problem with the larger problem. A broader still address to that larger problem is recently addressed by Bp. Strickland here:

When Wolves Wear Vestments

JimR-OCDS · 2025-07-12T09:45:45-0500

In my 73 years as a Catholic, I've only knew one priest who had some questionable behavior and was once accused of
sexual abuse by a person who was suing him, the order he belong to and the Church. I don't know the end result
and I believe things may have been settled out of court, which usually happens.

I know priests who were falsely accused and their cases dismissed. The damage done by the accusation as it made
the headlines in the local papers, was deep. The acquittal was not printed in the same papers which headlined
the accusation when it came out. The worst case was a Vietnamese monk who spent 23 years in a communist
prison and was released when he was diagnosed with cancer. A local monastery I often attended, took him in.
Eventually a woman who often dressed as a nun, but was not one, accused him of sexual abuse. Eventually the
case was dismissed by the woman's own testimony and confession in court. The priest died not long after
from his cancer.

RileyG · 2025-07-12T13:18:05-0500

JimR-OCDS said:
In my 73 years as a Catholic, I've only knew one priest who had some questionable behavior and was once accused of
sexual abuse by a person who was suing him, the order he belong to and the Church. I don't know the end result
and I believe things may have been settled out of court, which usually happens.

I know priests who were falsely accused and their cases dismissed. The damage done by the accusation as it made
the headlines in the local papers, was deep. The acquittal was not printed in the same papers which headlined
the accusation when it came out. The worst case was a Vietnamese monk who spent 23 years in a communist
prison and was released when he was diagnosed with cancer. A local monastery I often attended, took him in.
Eventually a woman who often dressed as a nun, but was not one, accused him of sexual abuse. Eventually the
case was dismissed by the woman's own testimony and confession in court. The priest died not long after
from his cancer.

Wow. How can someone be so cruel? Lord have mercy!

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