CLUELESS COMPLICIT CATHOLICS

What the clergy and the media are hiding

Had the populations of Dresden and other Axis cities decided not to go to work in their factories that were making tanks, bombs, and other munitions to fuel the Axis war machines, Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki might never have been obliterated. Even though they were not fighting in their countries’ armed forces, countless German and Japanese civilians perished during the aerial bombings because they were complicit in the horrors orchestrated by their leaders, Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

Owing to a propagandized media, most Germans and Japanese were uninformed about all the atrocities being committed that led to between 70 and 85 million deaths. This is very similar to lay Catholics who are not well informed by the Pope, bishops, and their parish priests about the true scope of the clerical sex abuse crisis that has destroyed countless lives and has led over forty U.S. dioceses, eparchies, and religious orders to file for bankruptcy. Because of complicit Catholic media sources, most Catholics in archdioceses like Washington, New York, and Chicago are clueless about how Cardinals Robert McElroy, Timothy Dolan, and Blase Cupich, have systematically been covering up sexual predation and homosexual misconduct, and how these corrupt Church leaders have unjustly reprised against whistleblower priests and seminarians.

Like most German and Japanese citizens who were not directly involved in atrocities carried out in concentration and POW camps, most Catholic laity likewise are not guilty of clerical sex abuse, cover-ups, and reprisals. However, one could argue that financial contributions on the part of the laity make them material participants in the immoral, and sometimes criminal, behavior of priests and bishops. As a result of money contributed by the laity to their parishes, 10-20 percent of which ends up in the coffers of the Bishop, canon lawyers can be employed to unjustly laicize whistleblower priests, while civil lawyers can be retained to defend accused sexually abusive bishops and priests to the tune of around $10-20 billion.

Just as the bishops grossly underreported the percentage of sexually abusive priests in U.S. dioceses at 4% instead of at 23-25%, it appears that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has also underreported the amount of money spent on credible sexual abuse allegations. How can the USCCB claim that 194 U.S. dioceses, eparchies, and religious orders spent $5 billion on abuse settlements when just two dioceses (Los Angeles and San Diego) spent over $2 billion? With 6.7 million Catholics in the Los Angeles and San Diego dioceses, a $2 billion payout equals $317.00 per Catholic. If there are 61.7 million Catholics in the remaining 192 dioceses, and if one multiplies 61.7 million times $317.00, the result is not $5 billion, but $19.9 billion, which, when combined with $2 billion, equals a total of $21.9 billion.

By failing to report how the U.S. bishops are lying about the number of predator clergy and the financial costs associated with the abuse, Catholic media are no better than the Axis media during World War II, or the Soviet media during the Cold War.

• Why is it that no reporter confronted Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio when, in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, with 2.7 million Catholics, he wrote that sex abuse “never occurred in my diocese”?

• Why is it that John Jay researchers did not question underreporting bishops like then-Archbishop Edwin O’Brien who reported in 2004 that, during the 52-year period of the study, there were only two abuse cases in the Archdiocese for the Military Services, when in fact the actual number was over 500?

• Why do most Catholic media and podcasters cover up or underreport that over 80 percent of American-born clergy are homosexuals, and that at any given moment in time, no more than half of all priests are practicing celibacy?”

• Why are Catholic media sources not questioning the real amount of money bishops have spent on abuse cases, over eighty percent of which involve the homosexual predation of men and boys by bishops and priests with same-sex attraction?

• Why is it that the media are not reporting how Pope Leo XIV has yet to meet with abuse victims; how the Pope spoke about gun control, but not how the transgender shooter blamed his desire to commit the attack on his struggle with gender dysphoria; or how millions of Catholics were scandalized by the Pope’s deafening public silence following the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

Whenever I raise questions like those above, the silence from Catholic clergy, laity, and the media leads me to believe that they are like many German and Japanese citizens during World War II who did not want to know what was happening in the concentration and POW camps. Some Catholics think: If I don’t know about the priests who are inserting consecrated hosts into the vaginas of little girls, or the nuns who were raped and forced to drink semen out of a chalice, or the bishops who are dismissing morally courageous whistleblower priests and seminarians for reporting abuse, then I can sleep well at night without lamenting that my Church is led by a number of hypocrites no different than the Scribes and Pharisees whom Christ confronted in his own day.

How can one respect Catholics who contribute to the Church in dioceses like Washington, New York, and Chicago that are led by complicit prelates who will continue to cover up abuse and punish whistleblowers as long as the money keeps coming in from “paying, praying, and obeying Catholics?”

How can Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington support Cardinal Robert McElroy who is covering up for priests like Fathers Carter Griffin and Adam Park, both of whom were accused of preying on seminarians; both of whom were ordained by ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; and both of whom served as a priest secretary to disgraced Cardinal Donald Wuerl? While Washington Catholics are funding Park’s graduate education in Rome, McElroy is working to laicize 69-year-old whistleblower priest, Father Michael Briese, who confronted him and Cardinal Wilton Gregory for covering up for Park and Griffin. While millions of Catholic dollars have been spent defending over 60 U.S. bishops credibly accused of abusing minors and vulnerable adults, Father Briese cannot even afford to pay a canon lawyer a retaining fee of $1,500 to help prevent him from being thrown into the street without a salary or health insurance.

Catholics who donate to parishes in the Archdiocese of New York are helping Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who not only is keeping several accused predator priests in ministry, but is also punishing whistleblowers like former seminarian Anthony Gorgia who reported sexual predation covered up by Dolan at the North American College in Rome (NAC). Instead of helping unjustly dismissed heterosexual seminarians who were perceived as threats to outing gay bishops, seminary faculty members, and vocation directors, contributing Catholics in New York and other dioceses are funding the reported homosexual lifestyles of sexually promiscuous clerics identified in sworn testimony provided by former seminarians and priests.

Catholics who donate to parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago are supporting pro-LGBTQ Cardinal Blase Cupich who unjustly dismissed Father Paul Kalchik who allowed his parishioners to burn a gay banner that a previous pastor hung in the Church sanctuary before his body was discovered in his mirrored rectory bedroom​, hooked up to a sex machine. When straight priests and seminarians like Kalchik, Briese, and Gorgia confront their closeted homosexual superiors, they are subjected to reprisals and suffer emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually, ordinarily with very little help from the laity or fellow clergy, the majority of whom today are homosexuals who have often been reported for sexual predation or homosexual misconduct.

Unless Catholics redirect their contributions to individuals and organizations that support authentic moral and dogmatic Church teachings, one should not be surprised if accused homosexual predators like Adam Park and Carter Griffin are one day named bishops by Pope Leo XIV. As long as Catholics ignore how homosexual clergy are often sexually active and even openly living together, and do nothing to help straight whistleblower priests and seminarians who are unjustly dismissed without cause, then they must accept responsibility for their children, grandchildren, nephews, and nieces leaving a Church that today has zero moral credibility.

Catholics who support the ordination of heterosexually oriented candidates and who wish to expose sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in Catholic seminaries are invited to contribute to the Save Our Seminarians Fund.

Gene Thomas Gomulka is a sexual abuse victims’ advocate, investigative reporter, and screenwriter. A former Navy (O6) Captain/Chaplain, seminary instructor, and diocesan ​R​espect 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.