HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY DESTROY HETEROSEXUAL VOCATIONS

Past and present crisis goes unaddressed by the media

A heterosexual celibate man in his 40s who is discerning a vocation to the priesthood contacted me recently about a particular seminary, inquiring if it might be infested with homosexual candidates. I told him that the vice rector was rumored for some time to be sexually involved with a retired bishop, and that I knew one recently ordained seminarian from that seminary who was alleged to have been in a sexual relationship with a New York pastor who was removed after two sex abuse lawsuits were filed against him.

After the man shared his history of relationships and friendships, I told him that I was not worried that he might be “turned” like many innocent and sexually inexperienced young Catholic men who today are closeted homosexual priests and bishops. While older and more experienced men have a better chance of making it through the seminary without being sexually harassed, groomed, or abused, I told him I was more worried about what might happen to him after he was ordained.

I counseled him that his bishop, vocation director, seminary rector, and formation advisor would, in most cases, be homosexuals who would never inform him that: 1) Over 80% of U.S-born bishops and priests today are homosexuals; 2) At any given moment in time, no more than half of all priests are leading celibate lives, especially homosexuals who have much higher partnering rates - a median of 67 for gay men and 10 for straight men; and 3) Only around 2 percent of priests and bishops can say that they never broke their promise of celibacy or vow of charity after they were ordained.

Most Catholic media sources like EWTN, CNA, NCR, Crux, etc., will not address these problems lest young straight men be discouraged from joining what Frédéric Martel, the homosexual author of In the Closet of the Vatican, believes is one of the most gay organizations in the world. According to Martel, “By forbidding priests to marry, the Church has become sociologically homosexual; and that by imposing a continence that is against nature, and a secretive culture, it is partly responsible for…[countless] instances of sexual abuse that are undermining it from within.”

When I was in the seminary in the 1960s, when the majority of Catholic clergy were heterosexual, if I reported a seminarian for coming on to me, he would have been dismissed. Today, however, now that most bishops and priests are homosexuals, I can cite many examples of seminarians who were separated after they reported homosexual predation or consensual homosexual misconduct to seminary or diocesan officials.

Because of the almost utter impossibility of leading a lifelong celibate life, I felt obligated to point out how infidelity on the part of heterosexual priests is dealt with by homosexual Church leaders. When a priest was reported for allegedly having had sex with a woman almost two decades ago, he was coerced into requesting laicization which released the diocese from any and all financial responsibilities. After serving as a priest for over 30 years, the accused priest now finds himself without a source of income, without health care, and without retirement benefits.

Let’s compare this laicized heterosexual priest to many homosexual priests who were accused of sexual predation or homosexual misconduct.

Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the former Secretary General of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), was found to have used a Grindr App to have sex with numerous men. Like many priests caught using Grindr, Burrill was not laicized by his alleged homosexual pope or bishop, but is serving today in the Diocese of La Crosse as the pastor of St.Teresa of Kolkata Church in West Salem, WI.

Washington priest, Father Adam Park, the former vice rector of the North American College (NAC) in Rome, was never investigated by Church officials after several former NAC seminarians accused him in sworn court documents of sexual predation and homosexual misconduct. After returning to the Washington area, where he worked as a hospital chaplain, it is believed that Cardinals Wilton Gregory and Robert McElroy have since sent him back to Rome to pursue doctoral studies. These same cardinals are seeking to have Father Michael Briese laicized after he confronted them for engaging in homosexual misconduct and for covering up sexual abuse, including both abuse and homosexual misconduct on the part of Park.

Father Peter Harman of the Springfield, Illinois Diocese and former NAC rector, is accused in court documents not only of covering up homosexual predation by Father Park, but also of having engaged in gay sex with retired Archbishop George Lucas when Lucas was Harman’s bishop in Springfield. Like Park, Harman was never properly investigated and is currently serving as pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Effingham, IL.

Father Steve Rosera left the priesthood in 1993 to marry another man. After being away from the Archdiocese of Albuquerque for almost three decades, Rosera returned in 2021 when Archbishop John C. Wester restored his priestly faculties, made him the pastor of a parish, dean of one of the archdiocese’s regional clusters of parishes, and a judge and Defender of the Bond in the archdiocesan marriage tribunal, where he now deliberates on the validity of sacramental marriages. Unlike straight priests who are thrown in the street and laicized in some cases for one sexual indiscretion, Rosera is reportedly living in style with Wester in his episcopal residence.

A final example to illustrate how sexually active homosexual priests are handled differently from heterosexual priests involves former Charleston Father Michael Cassabon. When Cassabon informed Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone that he had married a man, he reported that the bishop congratulated him, but counseled him to keep his relationship secret. It was only after Cassabon later returned to the bishop and requested that he discipline Father Hayden Veverek, the priest he alleges sexually abused him in high school, that the bishop removed Cassabon from ministry. Hence, Cassabon was not dismissed because he married a man, but because he reported clerical sexual abuse. After dismissing Cassabon, Guglielmone himself was later accused of sexually abusing a young parishioner in New York in the 1970s when he was a priest in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.

After relating these various cases to the potential seminarian, I also mentioned how a young, handsome, newly ordained, heterosexual priest felt very lonely while living in a parish where his gay pastor frequently invited men to the rectory where they engaged in sex in his bedroom. After reporting the matter to his bishop, the straight priest was transferred to another parish where the pastor was constantly propositioning him for sex. Feeling out of place like a straight priest in a gay bar, and suffering from “destabilization” (i.e., isolation felt by heterosexuals who find themselves in a predominantly homosexual environment), the priest succumbed to the sexual advances of a female parishioner. When the priest, feeling guilty for having violated his promise of celibacy, went to the bishop and told him what had been happening with both his pastor and the woman, the bishop sent him packing only after he had him sign a request for laicization which was quickly granted by the pope. Both of the sexually active gay pastors of the former heterosexual priest remain in ministry to this day.

When I hear Catholics condemn straight priests who are reported for breaking their vows, I’m tempted to ask them, “How would you feel if your spouse brought someone home and they went into your bedroom to make out? Might that tempt you to also cheat on your spouse? How do straight priests and seminarians feel when prelates like Cardinal Justin Rigali and Bishop Richard Stika invite a gay Polish seminarian, Wojciech Sobczuk, to live with them after Sobczuk was dismissed from three seminaries because of sexual misconduct allegations?

At a time when the institution of marriage is being challenged by the LGBTQ community that has not only gained legal marital status but has also been afforded adoption rights, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the outed homosexual Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has just issued a document, Una Caro (“one flesh”), as if polygamy - a problem in places like Africa - poses a worldwide threat to Christian marriage today. Interestingly, while the document mentions that marriage is “a unique and exclusive union between one man and one woman,” some parts of the document read as if marriage could involve two men or two women. In the conclusion (VII), instead of saying that marriage is a unity composed of a “husband and wife,” the document reads, “marriage is a unity composed of two individuals.” Might this doctrinal note, like Fiducia Supplicans, co-authored by Pope Francis and Cardinal Fernández, be a step in getting people to accept monogamous homosexual relationships? In light of the homosexual orientation of Fernández, author of Heal Me With Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, it is not surprising that the Dicastery has never issued a document entitled De Homosexualitate when homosexuality presents a much greater threat to Christian marriage today than polygamy.

With the promulgation of Fiducia Supplicans, which involves the blessing of same-sex couples and doctrinal Notes like Una Caro, which portrays polygamy as a greater threat to Christian marriage than homosexual relations, how inclined might a straight candidate for the priesthood be in promoting such documents as a priest?

While I would never attempt to talk a young man into becoming, or not becoming, a priest, I believe straight candidates need to know exactly what is really going on behind the closed doors of seminaries and chanceries today. Fearful of losing readership, viewers, and income, most Catholic media outlets will never report on how many straight seminarians and priests are treated today, and how many have left or have been dismissed over the past decades.

When Baltimore deacons like Wieslaw Walawender and San Diego seminarians like Mark Brooks are thrown into the street after being drugged and sodomized by gay priests like Monsignor Edward Staub and Father Nicholas Reveles, the Catholic media is silent. When priests like Father Michael Briese or seminarians like Anthony Gorgia are dismissed for reporting homosexual predation and misconduct, one will never read about it in Crux, the National Catholic Reporter, The Loop by Catholic Vote, Catholics for Catholics, or on broadcasts by the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). These news outlets do not want Catholic laity, particularly potential candidates for the priesthood or religious life, to know that most priests and nuns today are gay and lesbian. It’s for this reason that no one wants to address why straight priests, deacons, and seminarians are being dismissed or laicized while priests like Burrill, Park, Harman, Rosera, and others, together with 160 bishops credibly accused of abuse, are all leading very comfortable lives, protected by the Lavender Mafia, and financed by paying, praying, and obeying Catholics.

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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.