CALLING A SPADE A SPADE
Rhetorical Email to Pope Leo and the U.S. Bishops
Just as the world waits and watches to see how much mistreatment the Iranians will continue to tolerate at the hands of Iranian leaders and the Revolutionary Guard before taking control of their country, one also has to wonder how much longer Roman Catholic laity will support Church leaders who continue to engage in and cover up the sexual predation of children and vulnerable adults (like nuns and seminarians). To date, Pope Leo XIV has yet to laicize or excommunicate over 160 bishops credibly accused of sexual abuse.
Many Catholics are justifiably concerned and scandalized by perceived impunity within the Church regarding homosexual clerics who today constitute the majority of Roman Catholic clergy outside of Africa and a few other countries. Observations include instances of bishops returning priests to ministry after public same-sex "marriages," as well as reports of clergy using gay hookup apps like Grindr while remaining in positions of pastoral authority. It is not uncommon these days for homosexual clerics to be found cohabitating in the Vatican, in episcopal residences, in rectories, and in seminaries with other gay clerics and seminarians.
If Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò had the courage to publish his “Testimony” in August 2018, accusing Pope Francis and other bishops of covering up for the late ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; and if Bishop Joseph Strickland had the courage to confront his fellow bishops in November 2018 for their individual and collective silence in confronting the ongoing problem of clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in the Church, then I felt compelled to send Pope Leo, via the Apostolic Nunciature, and the U.S. Bishops, the following email which I would like to share now with my loyal Substack subscribers:
From: Gene Thomas <msgr.investigations@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Subject: THE HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES OF MANDATORY CELIBACY To: <nuntiususa@nuntiususa.org> Cc: U.S. Bishops
Just as U.S. bishops and Vatican officials buried Dominican Father Thomas Doyle’s prophetic co-authored 1985 sex abuse report, and Father Paul Sullins insightful 2018 sex abuse report, so too will most closeted homosexual bishops and priests do everything in their power to prevent Catholic laity, especially straight seminarians and their families, from reading “The History and Consequences of Mandatory Celibacy.”
After reading this and a soon to be published follow-on article, I was wondering if anyone can explain why the Church, dating back to the Council of Nicea in 325, forbade priests from living with women with whom they were not married or related to by blood, whereas today closeted homosexual popes, bishops, priests, and seminarians are allowed to live with one another despite the possibility of being tempted and becoming sexually involved?
If the late Bishop Rick Stika and Cardinal Justin Rigali were homosexuals, should they have been living together when a straight bishop or priest caught cohabitating with a woman friend would certainly be censured by the pope, especially if he were exercising a public ministry as Rigali and Stika continued to do? If Stika and Rigali were not homosexuals, then how does one explain why they invited Polish seminarian Wojciech Sobczuk to live with them after Sobczuk was expelled from two seminaries in Poland and St. Meinrad Seminary for homosexual misconduct? Why should one be surprised that Sobczuk, as a seminarian of the Diocese of Knoxville, is accused in these linked court documents of raping a Catholic layman for which the diocese is being held legally liable?
Of course, these are rhetorical questions, as I don’t expect either Church leaders or the media to explain why Catholic laity continue to financially support bishops and priests guilty of sexual predation and/or homosexual misconduct. Sexual abuse cover-ups by Church leaders continue unabated in dioceses throughout the world, including the Archdiocese of Lima where Cardinal Carlos Castillo has recently been accused of covering up for accused predator Father Marco Agüero. Despite requests to remove an accused predator priest from ministry pending a thorough investigation, Pope Leo and Omaha Archbishop Michael McGovern, like his predecessors Archbishops George Lucas and Elden Curtiss, continue to cover up the egregious satanic sexual abuse of Lisa Roars and another little girl that was reported to the Antelope County Sheriff’s Department.
Although the media is always quick to report when complicit Church leaders like the late Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Pope Francis, and now Pope Leo XIV, utter condemnations of those who engage in or cover up abuse, those same media sources fail miserably to report how these same hypocritical Church leaders were themselves reported by organizations like the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and others for covering up the very abuse they condemn. It is almost like the African priest who raped a nun, got her pregnant, forced her to have an abortion, and then celebrated her funeral Mass after she died in the process of aborting her unborn child.
My pastoral experience has led me to discover that avowed homosexuals are often more outspoken in condemning sexual abuse than closeted homosexuals, and even many heterosexuals. If I or another heterosexual were to have written In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, by self-proclaimed gay Frédéric Martel, we certainly would have been accused of being homophobic.
It was also the late controversial Irish Bishop Pat Buckley, himself too an avowed homosexual, who had the candor to say what no U.S. bishop would say when he wrote:
“Today, the Roman Catholic episcopate and priesthood are predominantly gay. Is it a case that they promote each other? Is it a case that they promote each other in return for sexual favors? The case of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a case in point. McCarrick saw to it that quite a number of his former bedfellows got miters. The old belief that the Holy Spirit appoints bishops is nonsense. A cleric gets promoted for being a company man, for having a brown tongue, and it seems for bending over for your superiors. Why are so many gay men attracted to the priesthood? Do they go in there to hide? Do they go in to escape? Do they go in for the position and the status? Do they go in for the easy, comfortable life?”
Fraternally in Christ,
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Gene Thomas Gomulka is a sexual abuse victims’ advocate, investigative reporter, author, and screenwriter. A former Navy (O6) Captain/Chaplain, seminary instructor, and diocesan Respect Life Director, Gomulka was ordained a priest for the Altoona-Johnstown diocese and later made a Prelate of Honor (Monsignor) by St. John Paul II. Email him at msgr.investigations@gmail.com.
Do we really want the Catholic Church cleaned up? Can it be cleaned up when 80 percent of the clergy working in the Vatican are said to be homosexuals? Having the Vatican in charge is like having the fox in charge of the hen house. Will the laity step up? If not now, then when? How can one legitimately claim that the Catholic Church is still the Church instituted by Jesus Christ when it certainly appears it has evolved into a satanic, homosexual, dope den?
Great article Fr. Gomulka, but there is no current solution to this depravity. All the positions controlling the church are run by the same group. Politics is run the same way also. The two are one in the same. The laity is not united, and the church leaders know this. I have known 3 priests in my parishes over the years that were laicized, and another one was forced to retire. One priest was a deacon at the time and he assisted at my wedding. He was also a family friend. In my small corner of the world, I have seen the destruction of the lavender mafia. I do not see any changes being made in my lifetime. The power is consolidated. It is sickening to see this, and know what is going on. As Fr. Rippeberger said regarding our priests, " You get the leaders you deserve." This is our chastisement. Sad for the holy priests and seminarians.