Yes.
It was obvious from 1985 that the Paulist train wreck was going to happen. Their formation/seminary process went woke back then and the new Paulists were simply not up to being Christian. I was in a parish in Minneapolis that was staffed by the Paulists. At the time they were really big on all Paulist parishes redefining their mission statements. I was on parish council at the time. I proposed elements of a mission statement that emphasized reconciliation. I got shot down in favor of a statement direct from Paulist central casting that emphasized inclusiveness. It was clear that the young Paulists intended that to mean sexual inclusivity.
There were old Paulists in residence in Minneapolis, of the sort that Fr. Isaac Hecker would have wanted. But they were put out to pasture as too old fashioned. The young Paulists had no room for them. Finally the archbishop in St. Paul had no more use for the Paulists either and that parish is now a vibrant Newman Center with exceptional leadership. I had years before moved out of the big city and ended up in a parish that eventually made it to the 'reverent mass' list. Then I moved again. But I saw the ungluing of the Paulists from the Christian faith. What is going on in New York now is no surprise at all.
There was one odd young Paulist in that crowd though, Fr Robert Sirico. I met him when he was a deacon. Something happened to him along the way that caused him to leave the Paulists and end up pretty much a real Catholic and part of the Acton Institute. The rest of them would all be of the sort that would quite naturally host a 'pride mass'. He, with his storied history, you would think should have ended up there too, but he didn't. God's grace can be like that.
