Thank you for sharing this insight, painful as it is. I think bit by bit we are beginning to realise how useless, cowardly and self-serving our 'leaders' have become, in all instiutions across the West. The new temple of the secular state is not much better. Not sure what we can do except to feel powerless and slightly grubby by paying my taxes / placing money in the collection.
Easy. It’s the same as a member of the Wehrmacht who leaves the German Army because he cannot accept what is happening in concentration camps and he can’t appeal it to higher authority who are involved in orchestrated the Holocaust. Should he stay because he swore an oath when he was commissioned into the Wehrmacht? It sounds like you are either denying the clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct that is ongoing in the Catholic Church, or feel that canceled priests should accept being unjustly treated, become alcoholics, and even take their own lives as I have seen happen with some good priests who did not leave.
Popes like Leo X and Julius III were sexually active homosexuals, but, unlike Francis, they did not try to change Catholic theology or dogmatic teachings to approve of their behavior. Francis is trying that now when the overwhelming majority of bishops and priests outside of Africa and Asia today are homosexuals along with around 90% of the College of Cardinals.
Thank you for your reply. I am sorry for your negative experience with Father Kelly, but one experience can not vouch for all seminaries and definitely NOT for all seminarians. Even relating countless first-hand experiences (which yours are not) are just YOUR experiences, not evidence enough to claim that only previously married individuals in seminary or the priesthood are straight. Honestly, some homosexuals marry the opposite sex while trying to deny their sexual preference, so marriage is not a barrier to homosexuality. My experience with seminarians and priests in the Archdiocese of Phialdelphia has been quite the opposite. I also believe the recent study on seminaries which show an increasing number of seminarians leaning toward more traditionally forms of worship etc. also support my experience as those practicing gay sex would not typically be atttracted to those forms.
Did you ask the seminarians who left studying at St. Mary's why they left? Typically about half of all seminarians "discern out". They don't leave because of the rampant gay sex occuring. Such a dramatic picture you're painting. If you polled them, their reasons would vary from individual, but most often the reason would be that they were unsure of their call or became sure that they were called to marriage instead. Additionally, just because a seminary or rector doesn't write back to you, who obviously has an ax to grind, does not mean that what you posited was true. It may just mean that they are used to the haters, and don't feel it even merits a response because they are so busy with the more important work of forming men to be Godly priests. I don't doubt that the remnants of the homosexual culture still remains among our clergy and seminaries. Yet, I believe that now it is the exception rather than the norm. From my experience of walking alonside a few seminarians, the seminary is extremely discriminating now, and is especially adept at trying to root out young men with homosexual tendencies. I think painting a picture that may have been true in the 70s and equating it with today's seminaries just based on your own negative experiences and a couple of conversations is unfair and damaging to the heroic young HETEROSEXUAL young men who feel called by God to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. Instead of spreading fear and criticism, perhaps spend more time praying for a healing of the past homosexual culture of our seminaries and Church, and most importantly, pray for courage for more seminarians to answer the call to become holy priests. +JMJ
I deal with clerical abuse and reprisal victims from all over the U.S. and I both hear and find that a number of so called "traditional" seminarians and priests who are into the Latin Mass and pomp and circumstance are no more straight than those who are more comfortable with the Novus Ordo. Secondly, I'm not just dealing with old cases but cases in court at this very moment. The sworn affidavits in the Gorgia case in New York Supreme Court is not ancient history, and the gay priests (Harman, Park) who were at the NAC continue to be protected in Springfield and DC like Gregory, and now McElroy, is protecting Carter Griffin, the rector of St. John Paul II in DC. I have reports from two former seminarians, one straight and one gay, who claim Griffin came onto them. The gay seminarian said he was discontinued by Gregory not because he was caught engaging in sex, but because he refused a proposition from Griffin. Just two days ago I got an identical complaint involving a former seminarian who was dismissed because he was asking questions about a seminarian who left after claiming that he was abused by a faculty member. Asking questions resulted in him being dismissed without cause as happened with Georgia in Rome. The evidence against these gay priests on seminary faculties is rock solid, and yet the straight and celibate gay seminarians are being shown the door. There was NO collusion between the two former JP II seminarians who ran in totally different circles. When I confronted Griffin with the allegations, all he could talk about were the books and videos he produced extolling priestly celibacy. If Griffin were not a fraud, he would inform the seminarians that at any given momemnt in time, no more than half of all priests are practicing celibacy; that most US born priests and bishops are gay who engage in more sex than African and Asian priests who not only are sexually involved with women, but who also have children while remaining in the priesthood. I'm still waiting for you to comment on "Addressing the Present Day Clture of Sexual Predation and Cover-ups in U.S. Sminaries"found at www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf I actually wish you were right and that what Michael Rose and Donald Cozzens wrote about in the past (In Goodbye God Men and The Changing Face of the Priesthood) were no longer true, but the reports I receive say otherwise. Closeted gay bishops don't want to be outed and their secretaries, vocation directors, seminary rectors, etc.., almost always share their homosexual orientation which put young, naive, vulnerable seminarians at risk. I trust you watched the video about Gorgia and the NAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04G4jISSW8&t=23s
I see that you have a lot of experience with this. I did read the links you provided and found the articles quite depressing, and again citing specific instances. The 2014? Poll was quite alarming. I didn’t see where the poll was taken or evidence of how credible it was? So… if I am being naive in this area, which to be clear, I don’t think I am, what do you propose as the solution? As I stated, I do believe there are still some problems in some seminaries, but it is your blanket generalization that troubles me. Might you be a bit cynical or jaded bc of your work in victim advocacy? More importantly, What are faithful families to do who have a heterosexual son who feels called to the priesthood? Are we just to scrap all seminaries as sexual perversion breeding grounds? What advice might you give? I feel that the culture is changing positively in this area of the Church, but to read your take it is almost worse now than in the past. Can you offer any Hope bc that’s what we lay people need.
The 2014 study has been validated by what we refer to inthe military as HUMINT. When I called a gay priest in a Midwestern archdiocese and asked him what percentage of the US born priests were straight, he estimated around 5% (about 20% fewer straight priests than in the 2014 study). I knew one priest in that diocese who was the son of a lawyer who provides me with bro bono assistance. I knew for sure that the priest was straight as I am. When I asked the gay priest, "Is Father so-and-so straight or gay." The gay priest responded, "Mark is definitely STRAIGHT!" Unllike the majority of laity, priests know who the straight and gay priests are. My conversations with priests throughouot the country support the findings of the surveys I quote. Were it not for the foreign priests from Africa, India, etc., the Catholic clergy would be the same as that of clergy in Protestant denominations that ordain gays and lesbians. While the number of Evangelical Protestants and Orthodox who do not ordain homosexuals are holding steading or going up, Catholics and mainline Protestants who are served mainly by gay clergy are going down. That's why for every person llke J.D. Vance or Candace Owens who converts to Cathollicism today, 8.4 Catholics leave the Catholic Church. If I had a son who was interested in the priesthood, I could not encourage him to become a priest because I would know that he only has a 2% chance of living his entire life as a celibate; his bishop and most of the priests with whom he will serve will be gay; and if he opens his mouth and reports a priest for abusing a child or vulnerable adult, the bishop will get rid of him and not the predator priest. After writing this letter (www.gomulka.net/Head.pdf), the seminarian (Walawender) was dismissed. The diocese, with the collusion of the Catholic DA, John Flynn, dismissed Walawender's report saying that the semen on the boy was his own as he probably masturbated in the rectory bathroom. The fact is,however,is that the boy,Anthony Ravarini, may have looked like he was around 10 to Walawender, but at the time he was only 6 1/2 and physically incapable of producing semen. The priest, Father Riter contuned in ministry until his death and Walawender was dismissed from Buffalo never to be ordained a priest. Unfortunately, this is not only happening to straight seminarians. Father Michael Briese,67 years old, has been suspended for over 3 years in the Archdiocese of Washington after reporting two priest predators. (See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/a-deal-with-the-devil). So,even if a straight seminarian makes it through the seminary as Ryszard Biernat did after not reporting to the police how he was sexually assaulted by Father Art Smith (See: https://www.wkbw.com/news/i-team/the-malone-recordings/buffalo-bishops-silenced-fr-ryszard-about-alleged-sex-assault), he can still later be suspended and never be allowed to exercise his priesthood. How would you feel if Walawender or Biernat were your sons whom you gave to the Church? Please read: www.gomulka.net/Maria.pdf
You offer no solutions only stark and dismal anecdotes. This is an extremely disturbing and pessimistic view. No matter the true reality, If there are no priests, there are no sacraments and no Eucharist, so then all is lost. Not encouraging those courageous young men feeling called to the priesthood is certainly not the answer. I choose prayer, fasting and trust instead. Thankfully Our Lord is a God of miracles. If anyone can fix the mess that is our Church, He can. May our Lady obtain the graces we need to straighten out our course and protect our young men.🙏🏻
When clerical researchers like myself who know what really is going on behind closed doors in rectories and seminaries suggest that far fewer boys and young men would be abused if priests were allowed to marry, some Catholics will object and argue that "priests should remain celibate." The only problem is that at any moment in time, less than half of all priests practice celibacy, and only 2% report that they mainted it throughout their entire lives. Hence, young men are being set up for failure by being asked to make promises that 98% of them will never keep. A Catholic told me when I returned to PA recently from CA how pleased she was with her pastor. I did not tell her how well I knew him and that he fathered two children that he has been supporting over the years. One third of my seminary class left before ordination mainly to marry or to lead openly gay lives. Another one third left after they were ordained, also mainly to marry or lead openly gay llives. The last one third who are still in ministry are mainly closeted homosexuals. In our diocese of roughly 120 priests, 51 were credibly accused of abuse. Today, there are less than 40 left serving in our diocese. These are facts that you will probably never read anywhere else just like that woman I told you about will probably never know about her priest's two children. Did you ever wonder why Jews consider celibacy to be incompatible with the Jewish sceme of creation? I named my Substack account "John 18;37" because like Christ who came into the world to "witness to the truth," I fell obliged to tell the truth which, unfortunately, as you said, can be "extremely disturbing." Much of what is happening today under gay Pope Francis happened in the 16th century under promiscuous gay Popes Leo X and Julius III. It was with the election of St. Pius V that the the downward direction of the Church was reversed. How about if we pray 🙏🏻together for the election of a pope like Pius V? God bless you and yours!
In your own massively impressive biography, you state you left a bad diocese and then married and became a father of twins. Did you “resign” from being called Father when you became Dad? And if we are to discourage any parent from allowing their sons to enter seminary, doesn’t that likewise discourage anyone from conversion to the Roman Catholic Church?
I never resigned from being called "Father" which was a title I always cherished and continue to do so. That's why even when I was made a "Monsignor," I never introduced myself as "Monsignor Gomulka" or wore my monsignor cassock. The first time I wore it (after my installation ceremony in 1999) was recently for a photo as some people questioned if I was telling the truth about St. John Paul II having made me a Prelate of Honor (i.e. monsignor). As much as I enjoyed being called "Father Gene" or "Father Gomulka," however, I am moved even more when my twins call me "Dad" which should not be misinterpreted as me "resigning from being called Father." With regard to discouraging young men from studying for the priesthood. The last person I encouraged to study for the priesthood gave up a very successful career. He was in charge of our Confirmation Program - admired by young and old alike. When I learned that he left the seminary after the administration failed to discipline seminarians who were propositioning him for sex, I reported it to Archbishop O'Brien who neither inquired what seminary he attended or whether he would be interested in returning to study at another seminary. It was the same O'Brien who revoked my endorsement to serve as a chaplain along with the endorsement of Dominican Father Tom Doyle who was serving in the Air Force. Both of us were coerced into leaving the priesthood because we were both outspopken about clerical sex abuse in the Church. Tom's testimony at numerous abuse trials probably cost the Church over a billion dollars. Based on reports I receive and lawsuits currently underway involving former seminarians who either left or were dismissed because of homosexual predation and misconduct in different seminaries, I cannot recommend a heterosexually young man to study for the priesthood. The Catholic Church continues to spend millions of dollars on lawyers to fight former straight seminarians like Anthony Gorgia of Staten Island whose life and family have been destroyed by Cardinal Dolan and officials of the North American College. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCiI5kPTkI With regard to discouraging someone from converting "to the Roman Catholic Church," I think you have to distinguish between the official teachings of the Catholic Church (which I wholeheartedly endorse), and what many Catholic bishops are preaching or not preaching about today. While some Catholics might be "fed spiritually" by a good, holy priest, others might be "poisoned" by priests whom they witness blessing gay couples and giving communion to politicians like Joe Biden who supported abortion and those who engage in homosexual misconduct (both forbidden by official Church teachings grounded in the Scriptures and the Natural Law). The reason for every one person who converts to Catholicism today, 8.4 leave (See: https://wng.org/opinions/mass-exodus-1743031983?fbclid=IwY2xjawJvhWlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjUzkDPOsrho1A8K0IkCL2AJocgjen2lxpE--xLwCzblVn_9-P1Z8K4dGTPI_aem__FzZC2GMgIfi8RJ2nSnlYg) The Episcopal Church and other mainline Protestant churches that have compromised their church's teachings on issues like abortion and homosexuality, have likewise experienced a major drop in church membership. Dioceses headed by good, holy straight bishops, and parishes pastored by good, holy straight priests (like in Africa) are growing. So, if you ask me about practicing your faith, I will encourage you to find a parish pastored by a good, holy priest. I would not want you, your spouse, or your children to be "poisoned" by a priest like Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill who is suing Grindr for selling his information which revealed how he was leading a double life (See: https://drjulesgomes.substack.com/p/priest-caught-using-grindr-sues-gay). Does this answer your questions? Happy Easter! "Father Gene"
No, not quite. Priests do not marry and have children without some reckoning with the Church. You don’t address that status. I am well aware of the indelible mark of priesthood.
Obviously, you are very naive to believe that corrupt Church officials would even think of "reckoning" my situation. I approached three bishops who would only submit my case to Rome only if I avoided writing about all the abuse I reported that Archbishop O'Brien and Bishop Adamec were covering up. The bishops wanted me to write and say that I should be laicized because my parents forced me to become a priest or I requested a ;eave of absence because I found it impossible to lead a celibate life. In the end, I told them neither Tom Doyle nor I should be laicized, but rather the pope and bishops whom I could prove were guilty of engaging in and/or covering up abuse should be laicized, not to mention the pope and bishops engaging in homosexual misconduct with other bishops and priests. See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/why-pope-francis-should-never-have
I think that this might have been the case in the past, but at least in my diocese of Philadelphia, the seminarians are healthy, well rounded heterosexual young men. In fact, those that demonstrate any tendency toward homosexuality are denied ordination. I think you make a lot of assumptions and paint generalizations. I don’t doubt that some seminaries are still full of homosexuals, but to say that all seminarians are homosexual is the sin of detraction and not helping our Church.
I can't see where I wrote that "all seminarians are homosexual." Knowing some priests who were ordained over the past years who became priests after their wives died, I could never say that "all seminarians are homosexual." However, what I have discovered over the past fifty years of experience and research is that if you want to know who is straight and who is gay in a seminary, DO NOT ask a heterosexually oriented seminarian. I lived with Bob Kelly for three years at the NAC in Rome. We later served together for three years in a parish here in State College, PA. If you asked me in Rome or in State College,"Is Bob Kelly gay?" I would have quickly responded, "No! Why do you ask?" The fact is that I had no idea that Father Kelly was preying on my altar boys in State College. When he later returned to the NAC in Rome to be the Academic Dean, he was visited by a college student who was a former parishioner who was discerning a vocation to the priesthood. At the end of a one-week visit, he asked a first year seminarian, "Can I ask you a question? Is Father Kelly gay?' The seminarian responded, "Are you kidding, he'ssleeping with half the faculty members and a number of seminarians." The reason he could say that was that he, like Kelly, was gay. About a year later Kelly returned early from his 5 year assignment in Rome after someone said he came on to a straight seminarian who reported him to his bishop. When Kelly returned,the bishops said he returned because of a "drinking problem." It was not long after this that some young men started coming forward accusing Kelly of abusing them when they were teenagers. What I have discovered over time is that homosexual seminarians, priests, and bishops are good at hiding their sexual predation and homosexual misconduct from straight clergy and the laity. Straight priests today who know how they are a very small minority in their dioceses (excluding foreign African and Asian priests who tend to be straight) are less inclinded to encourage straight young men to become priests unlike in the past when the majority of Catholic clergy were heterosexually oriented. The only two seminarians from our diocese - both of whom were straight - were sent to St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore. They both left within a year. Straight men don't like hanging out in gay bars as I wrote in: "Church Closures Linked to Destabilization."See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/church-closures-linked-to-destabilization For a far more detailed analysis which I invite you to critique, see: www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf When I sent this report to every seminary and rector, no one wrote back and said, "Things have changed. Our seminary faculty and students are no longer dominated by homosexuals." I welcome evidence to be proven wrong. Thankyou for writing! GTG
Also, I didn’t realize PF was an active homosexual - or even previously. Whatever the timeline. I suspected it but until now have not read that he actually is/was. God have mercy!
"During the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), Martin Luther was excommunicated after he refused to renounce his writings critical of practices like the selling of indulgences to obtain the forgiveness of one’s sins. While Catholic Church historians are prone to report how Luther in 1523 married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, they often fail to note how Pope Leo X (1513-1521) and Pope Julius III (1550-1555) were both sexually active homosexuals during this turbulent period. For example, Leo X who excommunicated Luther in 1521 was said to have been elected because the conclavists were looking for a candidate who would serve a brief pontificate. The cardinals knew Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici was a homosexual and they elected him, Pope Leo X, believing he would die soon as a result of an anal fistula caused by "unsafe sex." It was also during the Reformation in 1550 that the conclavists elected Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte who took the name, Julius III. A sexually active homosexual like Leo X, Julius III was reported to have “shared [his] bedroom and bed” with 15-year-old Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte whom he made a cardinal at the age of 17."
Fair enough - Evil up men act in evil and vicious ways. Would you say though (I’m not familiar with all your writings so forgive the question if it’s already been addressed) that the difference with PF is that he is actively working to destroy the Catholic Church? These men used the church for their own power and gain - it would appear that PF and others want to fundamentally change the Catholic Church.
Now that Francis sees how the Episcopal and other churches have approved of homosexual behavior and are ordaining gay and lesbian ministers and bishops, Francis would like gay Catholic clergy to have their behavior approved sothat they no longer have to live in the closet. Having studied with Cupich, Dolan, and even Wuerl who sat next to me in a doctoral level seminar when he was Cardinal Wright's secretary, I can tell you that they all were groomed and became homosexuals in the seminary and then felt that they could not return home as homosexuals. By staying in the seminary, getting ordained, they could then hide what they had become and noone would ever know. Hence, their ordination was not so much a response to a vocation from Christ as much as a means to lead a closeted, comfortable life.
Okay, you’ve probably heard this before, but as repulsive as all this is, the reason why I find your writings (among others) helpful is because it makes sense of the swirl around me. I grew up, like many others, under Pope John Paul, revered and admired and even despised by many; whatever you can say about him, you have to admire him as a human. Same for Pope Benedict. Then along come PF. The stench is overwhelming - but he’s the pope! But what the heck is he doing? But he’s the pope! Why is he so….dumb and spiteful? But he’s the pope!
I’ll leave aside whether or not he’s rightfully the pope (maybe you wrote about this?), it just makes sense now that he is a disgusting person. Okay. Great. Clarity. Disgusting people do disgusting things. He’s in that category.
It’s like a lightbulb went off in my brain. Refreshing clarity.
What a difficult read about something that must be eradicated from the Church. This can’t be an easy task to report on. May God bless you and St Michael protect you. And May God have mercy on us
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read the whole article because the story is too putrid for me to continue. That male should never have been ordained. God will make it right in His own good time. He always does.
The Vatican has had the seminaries filled with homosexuals for at least 40 years. This is why since the 80s a record 85% of priests were/are Homosexual. This was all a part of the infiltration into the Catholic Church by the Soviets and what the Holy Mother l had warned us about at Fatima. I have heard accounts of many seminarians who have left the seminary because it is just a cesspool of homosexuality. We have to stand fast and pray for our church. There are good priests coming out of the seminary, but we have a whole bunch of nasties before them.
Oh, the church has it’s problems, but Mr. Gomulka. You’re claims that 80% of US bishops are “closeted homosexuals” is wild man. The fact is the church is interested in heterosexual men who are affectively mature.
Your linked artical claims that that as long as they have not had homosexual sex within three years of ordination that the church may find them acceptable. I thought the church policy is that the candidate has no same sex desire within 3 years of potential ordination. That’s a major difference. I was a seminarian four years ago and saw the churches strong efforts to root out obstinate homosexuality. But the young men who volunteered the fact that they had unwanted Same sex attraction—7 years from ordination—the church would spend years trying to heal that soul of the given disorder. If the disorder remains, they are dismissed. Obviously the priest who has unwanted and yet perfectly controlled SSA is not an optimal candidate. The straight priest who isn’t chaste in his affections isn’t a good candidate either. The church, Being Christs divine institution on earth, is surprisingly compassionate until it is finally severe. Candidates who experience SSA in seminary major are axed. To them it feels merciless. To the faithful it is mercy. I’m straight. But I’ve know three Catholic men who perhaps are deeper, more faithful, more rounded than most who bear this strange cross. They hated it and God eventually delivered them from it. One is married, one was forced out of seminary, the third lives alone and dates occasionally. His problem now is that he is so emotionally mature, his out of most women’s league. Anywhow, I don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. I’m not a fanboy of any bishop these days. It’s all about discernment and love. People have strange problems in This world and the churches problems of the seventies, in formation, have largely been addressed. It’s 2025.
Thank you Andrew for your response. I would love to chat with you at at 619-203-8911. I want my reporting to be as accurate and balanced as possible. Much of my research and writing is based on input I receive from priests, seminarians, and former priests and seminarians. If the problems I identified in US seminaries in www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf were not ongoing, then former seminarians like Anthony Gorgia would not be suing Cardinal Dolan and the North American College. If what you said is true about the problem being corrected, might the seminarians that testified against Father Adam Park when he was the NAC vice rector and was hitting on men at Dupont Circle in DC, as well as the man who testified being present at an orgy when the NAC rector, Father Peter Harman, allegedly sodomized current Omaha Archbishop George Lucas, be lying? If the problem in seminaries no longer exists, why did two straight seminarians from my diocese recently leave the "Pink Palace" in Baltimore after six months owing to "destabilization" that I wrote about in: https://www.complicitclergy.com/2024/10/11/church-closures-linked-to-destabilization/ ? Are there some celibate men in some seminaries with SSA who truly want to lead holy, dedicated celibate lives? Yes. But remember, even these men are leaving not because they were sleeping with other seminarians, but because they reported being hit on by gay rectors, vice-rectors, and faculty members. One young former seminarian with SSA who left after being hit on by a priest has brought suit in RI court. Another straight former seminarian has brought suit after being sexually assaulted by his formation director in Brooklyn. These are ongoing cases that did not happen "decades and decades ago" as disgraced Cardinal Wuerl once said. I would really like to believe that most bishops, priests, and seminarians are not sexually active homosexuals and that I could recommend a good, holy straight young Catholic man to study for the priesthood as I did for many years before I discovered that they left either before ordination or after ordination because of "destabilization." This problem is not only happening in the Roman Catholic Church. Fifty years ago most Protestant ministers were married with children. While that is still true among Evangelical Protestants like Baptists, Missouri Synod Lutherans, etc., it's no longer true in the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, as well as many Methodist and Lutheran churches today. Good straight Catholic young men are ordinarily inspired to study for the priesthood by good, holy, straight priests. Multiple sources would indicate that, not counting foreign-born priests, particularly from Africa and Asia, no more than 5-15% of active US-born priests today are heterosexuals. If you want to know who the gay priests really are in an (arch)diocese, don't ask the straight priests. When sex-trafficked Ryszard Biernat and Wieslaw Walawender were told they would be ordained if they kept quiet about how they were sexually assaulted by Father Smith and Msgr. Staub, they kept quiet only later to be thrown out for refusing to keep quiet about widespread sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in their dioceses and seminaries. Nothing ever happened to their predators or the bishops who covered up their abuse. It was just announced that the rector of the LA Seminary in Camarillo was relieved after complaints about him had been covered up for many years. Why does it take a lawsuit for the Church to get rid of predators? St. John Paull II Seminary rector, Father Carter Griffin, in DC who was reported by a former straight and a former gay seminarian for coming onto them is still in office and protected by Gregory who has also been accused of abuse in a Vos Estis complaint that I'm sure will be "archived" like most complaints. Because I receive reports of sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in seminaries today, and because priests even in their 60s and 70s continue to be persecuted for reporting clerical abuse and cover-ups, I cannot in conscience recommend the priesthood to anyone.
The pope is satans right hand man
Thank you for sharing this insight, painful as it is. I think bit by bit we are beginning to realise how useless, cowardly and self-serving our 'leaders' have become, in all instiutions across the West. The new temple of the secular state is not much better. Not sure what we can do except to feel powerless and slightly grubby by paying my taxes / placing money in the collection.
Easy. It’s the same as a member of the Wehrmacht who leaves the German Army because he cannot accept what is happening in concentration camps and he can’t appeal it to higher authority who are involved in orchestrated the Holocaust. Should he stay because he swore an oath when he was commissioned into the Wehrmacht? It sounds like you are either denying the clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct that is ongoing in the Catholic Church, or feel that canceled priests should accept being unjustly treated, become alcoholics, and even take their own lives as I have seen happen with some good priests who did not leave.
What a disgrace !!!!
Disgusting
Homosexuals have been priests for centuries, so tell me something new!
Popes like Leo X and Julius III were sexually active homosexuals, but, unlike Francis, they did not try to change Catholic theology or dogmatic teachings to approve of their behavior. Francis is trying that now when the overwhelming majority of bishops and priests outside of Africa and Asia today are homosexuals along with around 90% of the College of Cardinals.
Didn’t Jesus imply harsh punishment for those who lead others astray? Just asking.
Yes, but these complicit bishops and priests don't believe in God. They have been living in the closet all their lives. Their entire lives are lies.
Thank you for your reply. I am sorry for your negative experience with Father Kelly, but one experience can not vouch for all seminaries and definitely NOT for all seminarians. Even relating countless first-hand experiences (which yours are not) are just YOUR experiences, not evidence enough to claim that only previously married individuals in seminary or the priesthood are straight. Honestly, some homosexuals marry the opposite sex while trying to deny their sexual preference, so marriage is not a barrier to homosexuality. My experience with seminarians and priests in the Archdiocese of Phialdelphia has been quite the opposite. I also believe the recent study on seminaries which show an increasing number of seminarians leaning toward more traditionally forms of worship etc. also support my experience as those practicing gay sex would not typically be atttracted to those forms.
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Did you ask the seminarians who left studying at St. Mary's why they left? Typically about half of all seminarians "discern out". They don't leave because of the rampant gay sex occuring. Such a dramatic picture you're painting. If you polled them, their reasons would vary from individual, but most often the reason would be that they were unsure of their call or became sure that they were called to marriage instead. Additionally, just because a seminary or rector doesn't write back to you, who obviously has an ax to grind, does not mean that what you posited was true. It may just mean that they are used to the haters, and don't feel it even merits a response because they are so busy with the more important work of forming men to be Godly priests. I don't doubt that the remnants of the homosexual culture still remains among our clergy and seminaries. Yet, I believe that now it is the exception rather than the norm. From my experience of walking alonside a few seminarians, the seminary is extremely discriminating now, and is especially adept at trying to root out young men with homosexual tendencies. I think painting a picture that may have been true in the 70s and equating it with today's seminaries just based on your own negative experiences and a couple of conversations is unfair and damaging to the heroic young HETEROSEXUAL young men who feel called by God to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. Instead of spreading fear and criticism, perhaps spend more time praying for a healing of the past homosexual culture of our seminaries and Church, and most importantly, pray for courage for more seminarians to answer the call to become holy priests. +JMJ
I deal with clerical abuse and reprisal victims from all over the U.S. and I both hear and find that a number of so called "traditional" seminarians and priests who are into the Latin Mass and pomp and circumstance are no more straight than those who are more comfortable with the Novus Ordo. Secondly, I'm not just dealing with old cases but cases in court at this very moment. The sworn affidavits in the Gorgia case in New York Supreme Court is not ancient history, and the gay priests (Harman, Park) who were at the NAC continue to be protected in Springfield and DC like Gregory, and now McElroy, is protecting Carter Griffin, the rector of St. John Paul II in DC. I have reports from two former seminarians, one straight and one gay, who claim Griffin came onto them. The gay seminarian said he was discontinued by Gregory not because he was caught engaging in sex, but because he refused a proposition from Griffin. Just two days ago I got an identical complaint involving a former seminarian who was dismissed because he was asking questions about a seminarian who left after claiming that he was abused by a faculty member. Asking questions resulted in him being dismissed without cause as happened with Georgia in Rome. The evidence against these gay priests on seminary faculties is rock solid, and yet the straight and celibate gay seminarians are being shown the door. There was NO collusion between the two former JP II seminarians who ran in totally different circles. When I confronted Griffin with the allegations, all he could talk about were the books and videos he produced extolling priestly celibacy. If Griffin were not a fraud, he would inform the seminarians that at any given momemnt in time, no more than half of all priests are practicing celibacy; that most US born priests and bishops are gay who engage in more sex than African and Asian priests who not only are sexually involved with women, but who also have children while remaining in the priesthood. I'm still waiting for you to comment on "Addressing the Present Day Clture of Sexual Predation and Cover-ups in U.S. Sminaries"found at www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf I actually wish you were right and that what Michael Rose and Donald Cozzens wrote about in the past (In Goodbye God Men and The Changing Face of the Priesthood) were no longer true, but the reports I receive say otherwise. Closeted gay bishops don't want to be outed and their secretaries, vocation directors, seminary rectors, etc.., almost always share their homosexual orientation which put young, naive, vulnerable seminarians at risk. I trust you watched the video about Gorgia and the NAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04G4jISSW8&t=23s
I see that you have a lot of experience with this. I did read the links you provided and found the articles quite depressing, and again citing specific instances. The 2014? Poll was quite alarming. I didn’t see where the poll was taken or evidence of how credible it was? So… if I am being naive in this area, which to be clear, I don’t think I am, what do you propose as the solution? As I stated, I do believe there are still some problems in some seminaries, but it is your blanket generalization that troubles me. Might you be a bit cynical or jaded bc of your work in victim advocacy? More importantly, What are faithful families to do who have a heterosexual son who feels called to the priesthood? Are we just to scrap all seminaries as sexual perversion breeding grounds? What advice might you give? I feel that the culture is changing positively in this area of the Church, but to read your take it is almost worse now than in the past. Can you offer any Hope bc that’s what we lay people need.
The 2014 study has been validated by what we refer to inthe military as HUMINT. When I called a gay priest in a Midwestern archdiocese and asked him what percentage of the US born priests were straight, he estimated around 5% (about 20% fewer straight priests than in the 2014 study). I knew one priest in that diocese who was the son of a lawyer who provides me with bro bono assistance. I knew for sure that the priest was straight as I am. When I asked the gay priest, "Is Father so-and-so straight or gay." The gay priest responded, "Mark is definitely STRAIGHT!" Unllike the majority of laity, priests know who the straight and gay priests are. My conversations with priests throughouot the country support the findings of the surveys I quote. Were it not for the foreign priests from Africa, India, etc., the Catholic clergy would be the same as that of clergy in Protestant denominations that ordain gays and lesbians. While the number of Evangelical Protestants and Orthodox who do not ordain homosexuals are holding steading or going up, Catholics and mainline Protestants who are served mainly by gay clergy are going down. That's why for every person llke J.D. Vance or Candace Owens who converts to Cathollicism today, 8.4 Catholics leave the Catholic Church. If I had a son who was interested in the priesthood, I could not encourage him to become a priest because I would know that he only has a 2% chance of living his entire life as a celibate; his bishop and most of the priests with whom he will serve will be gay; and if he opens his mouth and reports a priest for abusing a child or vulnerable adult, the bishop will get rid of him and not the predator priest. After writing this letter (www.gomulka.net/Head.pdf), the seminarian (Walawender) was dismissed. The diocese, with the collusion of the Catholic DA, John Flynn, dismissed Walawender's report saying that the semen on the boy was his own as he probably masturbated in the rectory bathroom. The fact is,however,is that the boy,Anthony Ravarini, may have looked like he was around 10 to Walawender, but at the time he was only 6 1/2 and physically incapable of producing semen. The priest, Father Riter contuned in ministry until his death and Walawender was dismissed from Buffalo never to be ordained a priest. Unfortunately, this is not only happening to straight seminarians. Father Michael Briese,67 years old, has been suspended for over 3 years in the Archdiocese of Washington after reporting two priest predators. (See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/a-deal-with-the-devil). So,even if a straight seminarian makes it through the seminary as Ryszard Biernat did after not reporting to the police how he was sexually assaulted by Father Art Smith (See: https://www.wkbw.com/news/i-team/the-malone-recordings/buffalo-bishops-silenced-fr-ryszard-about-alleged-sex-assault), he can still later be suspended and never be allowed to exercise his priesthood. How would you feel if Walawender or Biernat were your sons whom you gave to the Church? Please read: www.gomulka.net/Maria.pdf
You offer no solutions only stark and dismal anecdotes. This is an extremely disturbing and pessimistic view. No matter the true reality, If there are no priests, there are no sacraments and no Eucharist, so then all is lost. Not encouraging those courageous young men feeling called to the priesthood is certainly not the answer. I choose prayer, fasting and trust instead. Thankfully Our Lord is a God of miracles. If anyone can fix the mess that is our Church, He can. May our Lady obtain the graces we need to straighten out our course and protect our young men.🙏🏻
When clerical researchers like myself who know what really is going on behind closed doors in rectories and seminaries suggest that far fewer boys and young men would be abused if priests were allowed to marry, some Catholics will object and argue that "priests should remain celibate." The only problem is that at any moment in time, less than half of all priests practice celibacy, and only 2% report that they mainted it throughout their entire lives. Hence, young men are being set up for failure by being asked to make promises that 98% of them will never keep. A Catholic told me when I returned to PA recently from CA how pleased she was with her pastor. I did not tell her how well I knew him and that he fathered two children that he has been supporting over the years. One third of my seminary class left before ordination mainly to marry or to lead openly gay lives. Another one third left after they were ordained, also mainly to marry or lead openly gay llives. The last one third who are still in ministry are mainly closeted homosexuals. In our diocese of roughly 120 priests, 51 were credibly accused of abuse. Today, there are less than 40 left serving in our diocese. These are facts that you will probably never read anywhere else just like that woman I told you about will probably never know about her priest's two children. Did you ever wonder why Jews consider celibacy to be incompatible with the Jewish sceme of creation? I named my Substack account "John 18;37" because like Christ who came into the world to "witness to the truth," I fell obliged to tell the truth which, unfortunately, as you said, can be "extremely disturbing." Much of what is happening today under gay Pope Francis happened in the 16th century under promiscuous gay Popes Leo X and Julius III. It was with the election of St. Pius V that the the downward direction of the Church was reversed. How about if we pray 🙏🏻together for the election of a pope like Pius V? God bless you and yours!
In your own massively impressive biography, you state you left a bad diocese and then married and became a father of twins. Did you “resign” from being called Father when you became Dad? And if we are to discourage any parent from allowing their sons to enter seminary, doesn’t that likewise discourage anyone from conversion to the Roman Catholic Church?
I never resigned from being called "Father" which was a title I always cherished and continue to do so. That's why even when I was made a "Monsignor," I never introduced myself as "Monsignor Gomulka" or wore my monsignor cassock. The first time I wore it (after my installation ceremony in 1999) was recently for a photo as some people questioned if I was telling the truth about St. John Paul II having made me a Prelate of Honor (i.e. monsignor). As much as I enjoyed being called "Father Gene" or "Father Gomulka," however, I am moved even more when my twins call me "Dad" which should not be misinterpreted as me "resigning from being called Father." With regard to discouraging young men from studying for the priesthood. The last person I encouraged to study for the priesthood gave up a very successful career. He was in charge of our Confirmation Program - admired by young and old alike. When I learned that he left the seminary after the administration failed to discipline seminarians who were propositioning him for sex, I reported it to Archbishop O'Brien who neither inquired what seminary he attended or whether he would be interested in returning to study at another seminary. It was the same O'Brien who revoked my endorsement to serve as a chaplain along with the endorsement of Dominican Father Tom Doyle who was serving in the Air Force. Both of us were coerced into leaving the priesthood because we were both outspopken about clerical sex abuse in the Church. Tom's testimony at numerous abuse trials probably cost the Church over a billion dollars. Based on reports I receive and lawsuits currently underway involving former seminarians who either left or were dismissed because of homosexual predation and misconduct in different seminaries, I cannot recommend a heterosexually young man to study for the priesthood. The Catholic Church continues to spend millions of dollars on lawyers to fight former straight seminarians like Anthony Gorgia of Staten Island whose life and family have been destroyed by Cardinal Dolan and officials of the North American College. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCiI5kPTkI With regard to discouraging someone from converting "to the Roman Catholic Church," I think you have to distinguish between the official teachings of the Catholic Church (which I wholeheartedly endorse), and what many Catholic bishops are preaching or not preaching about today. While some Catholics might be "fed spiritually" by a good, holy priest, others might be "poisoned" by priests whom they witness blessing gay couples and giving communion to politicians like Joe Biden who supported abortion and those who engage in homosexual misconduct (both forbidden by official Church teachings grounded in the Scriptures and the Natural Law). The reason for every one person who converts to Catholicism today, 8.4 leave (See: https://wng.org/opinions/mass-exodus-1743031983?fbclid=IwY2xjawJvhWlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjUzkDPOsrho1A8K0IkCL2AJocgjen2lxpE--xLwCzblVn_9-P1Z8K4dGTPI_aem__FzZC2GMgIfi8RJ2nSnlYg) The Episcopal Church and other mainline Protestant churches that have compromised their church's teachings on issues like abortion and homosexuality, have likewise experienced a major drop in church membership. Dioceses headed by good, holy straight bishops, and parishes pastored by good, holy straight priests (like in Africa) are growing. So, if you ask me about practicing your faith, I will encourage you to find a parish pastored by a good, holy priest. I would not want you, your spouse, or your children to be "poisoned" by a priest like Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill who is suing Grindr for selling his information which revealed how he was leading a double life (See: https://drjulesgomes.substack.com/p/priest-caught-using-grindr-sues-gay). Does this answer your questions? Happy Easter! "Father Gene"
No, not quite. Priests do not marry and have children without some reckoning with the Church. You don’t address that status. I am well aware of the indelible mark of priesthood.
Obviously, you are very naive to believe that corrupt Church officials would even think of "reckoning" my situation. I approached three bishops who would only submit my case to Rome only if I avoided writing about all the abuse I reported that Archbishop O'Brien and Bishop Adamec were covering up. The bishops wanted me to write and say that I should be laicized because my parents forced me to become a priest or I requested a ;eave of absence because I found it impossible to lead a celibate life. In the end, I told them neither Tom Doyle nor I should be laicized, but rather the pope and bishops whom I could prove were guilty of engaging in and/or covering up abuse should be laicized, not to mention the pope and bishops engaging in homosexual misconduct with other bishops and priests. See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/why-pope-francis-should-never-have
Also, you don’t mention my Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Gregory and his successor is notorious, but that doesn’t cover all seminaries.
I think that this might have been the case in the past, but at least in my diocese of Philadelphia, the seminarians are healthy, well rounded heterosexual young men. In fact, those that demonstrate any tendency toward homosexuality are denied ordination. I think you make a lot of assumptions and paint generalizations. I don’t doubt that some seminaries are still full of homosexuals, but to say that all seminarians are homosexual is the sin of detraction and not helping our Church.
Kerry,
I can't see where I wrote that "all seminarians are homosexual." Knowing some priests who were ordained over the past years who became priests after their wives died, I could never say that "all seminarians are homosexual." However, what I have discovered over the past fifty years of experience and research is that if you want to know who is straight and who is gay in a seminary, DO NOT ask a heterosexually oriented seminarian. I lived with Bob Kelly for three years at the NAC in Rome. We later served together for three years in a parish here in State College, PA. If you asked me in Rome or in State College,"Is Bob Kelly gay?" I would have quickly responded, "No! Why do you ask?" The fact is that I had no idea that Father Kelly was preying on my altar boys in State College. When he later returned to the NAC in Rome to be the Academic Dean, he was visited by a college student who was a former parishioner who was discerning a vocation to the priesthood. At the end of a one-week visit, he asked a first year seminarian, "Can I ask you a question? Is Father Kelly gay?' The seminarian responded, "Are you kidding, he'ssleeping with half the faculty members and a number of seminarians." The reason he could say that was that he, like Kelly, was gay. About a year later Kelly returned early from his 5 year assignment in Rome after someone said he came on to a straight seminarian who reported him to his bishop. When Kelly returned,the bishops said he returned because of a "drinking problem." It was not long after this that some young men started coming forward accusing Kelly of abusing them when they were teenagers. What I have discovered over time is that homosexual seminarians, priests, and bishops are good at hiding their sexual predation and homosexual misconduct from straight clergy and the laity. Straight priests today who know how they are a very small minority in their dioceses (excluding foreign African and Asian priests who tend to be straight) are less inclinded to encourage straight young men to become priests unlike in the past when the majority of Catholic clergy were heterosexually oriented. The only two seminarians from our diocese - both of whom were straight - were sent to St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore. They both left within a year. Straight men don't like hanging out in gay bars as I wrote in: "Church Closures Linked to Destabilization."See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/church-closures-linked-to-destabilization For a far more detailed analysis which I invite you to critique, see: www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf When I sent this report to every seminary and rector, no one wrote back and said, "Things have changed. Our seminary faculty and students are no longer dominated by homosexuals." I welcome evidence to be proven wrong. Thankyou for writing! GTG
Also, I didn’t realize PF was an active homosexual - or even previously. Whatever the timeline. I suspected it but until now have not read that he actually is/was. God have mercy!
Francis is only one of a number of sexually promiscuous homosexual popes. As I wrote in, https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/is-the-church-headed-for-another,
"During the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), Martin Luther was excommunicated after he refused to renounce his writings critical of practices like the selling of indulgences to obtain the forgiveness of one’s sins. While Catholic Church historians are prone to report how Luther in 1523 married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, they often fail to note how Pope Leo X (1513-1521) and Pope Julius III (1550-1555) were both sexually active homosexuals during this turbulent period. For example, Leo X who excommunicated Luther in 1521 was said to have been elected because the conclavists were looking for a candidate who would serve a brief pontificate. The cardinals knew Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici was a homosexual and they elected him, Pope Leo X, believing he would die soon as a result of an anal fistula caused by "unsafe sex." It was also during the Reformation in 1550 that the conclavists elected Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte who took the name, Julius III. A sexually active homosexual like Leo X, Julius III was reported to have “shared [his] bedroom and bed” with 15-year-old Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte whom he made a cardinal at the age of 17."
Fair enough - Evil up men act in evil and vicious ways. Would you say though (I’m not familiar with all your writings so forgive the question if it’s already been addressed) that the difference with PF is that he is actively working to destroy the Catholic Church? These men used the church for their own power and gain - it would appear that PF and others want to fundamentally change the Catholic Church.
Now that Francis sees how the Episcopal and other churches have approved of homosexual behavior and are ordaining gay and lesbian ministers and bishops, Francis would like gay Catholic clergy to have their behavior approved sothat they no longer have to live in the closet. Having studied with Cupich, Dolan, and even Wuerl who sat next to me in a doctoral level seminar when he was Cardinal Wright's secretary, I can tell you that they all were groomed and became homosexuals in the seminary and then felt that they could not return home as homosexuals. By staying in the seminary, getting ordained, they could then hide what they had become and noone would ever know. Hence, their ordination was not so much a response to a vocation from Christ as much as a means to lead a closeted, comfortable life.
That makes a lot of sense. 100%.
Hold the phone - I’ve read the link you posted.
Okay, you’ve probably heard this before, but as repulsive as all this is, the reason why I find your writings (among others) helpful is because it makes sense of the swirl around me. I grew up, like many others, under Pope John Paul, revered and admired and even despised by many; whatever you can say about him, you have to admire him as a human. Same for Pope Benedict. Then along come PF. The stench is overwhelming - but he’s the pope! But what the heck is he doing? But he’s the pope! Why is he so….dumb and spiteful? But he’s the pope!
I’ll leave aside whether or not he’s rightfully the pope (maybe you wrote about this?), it just makes sense now that he is a disgusting person. Okay. Great. Clarity. Disgusting people do disgusting things. He’s in that category.
It’s like a lightbulb went off in my brain. Refreshing clarity.
Please keep up the good work.
What a difficult read about something that must be eradicated from the Church. This can’t be an easy task to report on. May God bless you and St Michael protect you. And May God have mercy on us
Thanks Irene! God bless you and yours.
No!!!!
Yes!!! See: https://www.complicitclergy.com/2023/11/03/the-pope-the-bishops-and-the-blessing-of-homosexual-unions/
and https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/why-pope-francis-should-never-have
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read the whole article because the story is too putrid for me to continue. That male should never have been ordained. God will make it right in His own good time. He always does.
The Vatican has had the seminaries filled with homosexuals for at least 40 years. This is why since the 80s a record 85% of priests were/are Homosexual. This was all a part of the infiltration into the Catholic Church by the Soviets and what the Holy Mother l had warned us about at Fatima. I have heard accounts of many seminarians who have left the seminary because it is just a cesspool of homosexuality. We have to stand fast and pray for our church. There are good priests coming out of the seminary, but we have a whole bunch of nasties before them.
Please encourage former seminarians to share their stories with me like Wes Walawender whom I helped to write this letter: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-seminarian-supports-rico-investigation-of-us-bishops-on-behalf-of-abuse-victims/?utm_source=most_recent Former seminarians can write me confidentially at msgr.investigations@gmail.com
🤮 barf
The down fall of the catholic church
Oh, the church has it’s problems, but Mr. Gomulka. You’re claims that 80% of US bishops are “closeted homosexuals” is wild man. The fact is the church is interested in heterosexual men who are affectively mature.
Your linked artical claims that that as long as they have not had homosexual sex within three years of ordination that the church may find them acceptable. I thought the church policy is that the candidate has no same sex desire within 3 years of potential ordination. That’s a major difference. I was a seminarian four years ago and saw the churches strong efforts to root out obstinate homosexuality. But the young men who volunteered the fact that they had unwanted Same sex attraction—7 years from ordination—the church would spend years trying to heal that soul of the given disorder. If the disorder remains, they are dismissed. Obviously the priest who has unwanted and yet perfectly controlled SSA is not an optimal candidate. The straight priest who isn’t chaste in his affections isn’t a good candidate either. The church, Being Christs divine institution on earth, is surprisingly compassionate until it is finally severe. Candidates who experience SSA in seminary major are axed. To them it feels merciless. To the faithful it is mercy. I’m straight. But I’ve know three Catholic men who perhaps are deeper, more faithful, more rounded than most who bear this strange cross. They hated it and God eventually delivered them from it. One is married, one was forced out of seminary, the third lives alone and dates occasionally. His problem now is that he is so emotionally mature, his out of most women’s league. Anywhow, I don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. I’m not a fanboy of any bishop these days. It’s all about discernment and love. People have strange problems in This world and the churches problems of the seventies, in formation, have largely been addressed. It’s 2025.
Andrew, Great speaking with you. Can you send me your email address to genegomulka@gmail.com ? Enjoy your weekend and the warm Florida weather!
Thank you Andrew for your response. I would love to chat with you at at 619-203-8911. I want my reporting to be as accurate and balanced as possible. Much of my research and writing is based on input I receive from priests, seminarians, and former priests and seminarians. If the problems I identified in US seminaries in www.gomulka.net/Seminaries.pdf were not ongoing, then former seminarians like Anthony Gorgia would not be suing Cardinal Dolan and the North American College. If what you said is true about the problem being corrected, might the seminarians that testified against Father Adam Park when he was the NAC vice rector and was hitting on men at Dupont Circle in DC, as well as the man who testified being present at an orgy when the NAC rector, Father Peter Harman, allegedly sodomized current Omaha Archbishop George Lucas, be lying? If the problem in seminaries no longer exists, why did two straight seminarians from my diocese recently leave the "Pink Palace" in Baltimore after six months owing to "destabilization" that I wrote about in: https://www.complicitclergy.com/2024/10/11/church-closures-linked-to-destabilization/ ? Are there some celibate men in some seminaries with SSA who truly want to lead holy, dedicated celibate lives? Yes. But remember, even these men are leaving not because they were sleeping with other seminarians, but because they reported being hit on by gay rectors, vice-rectors, and faculty members. One young former seminarian with SSA who left after being hit on by a priest has brought suit in RI court. Another straight former seminarian has brought suit after being sexually assaulted by his formation director in Brooklyn. These are ongoing cases that did not happen "decades and decades ago" as disgraced Cardinal Wuerl once said. I would really like to believe that most bishops, priests, and seminarians are not sexually active homosexuals and that I could recommend a good, holy straight young Catholic man to study for the priesthood as I did for many years before I discovered that they left either before ordination or after ordination because of "destabilization." This problem is not only happening in the Roman Catholic Church. Fifty years ago most Protestant ministers were married with children. While that is still true among Evangelical Protestants like Baptists, Missouri Synod Lutherans, etc., it's no longer true in the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, as well as many Methodist and Lutheran churches today. Good straight Catholic young men are ordinarily inspired to study for the priesthood by good, holy, straight priests. Multiple sources would indicate that, not counting foreign-born priests, particularly from Africa and Asia, no more than 5-15% of active US-born priests today are heterosexuals. If you want to know who the gay priests really are in an (arch)diocese, don't ask the straight priests. When sex-trafficked Ryszard Biernat and Wieslaw Walawender were told they would be ordained if they kept quiet about how they were sexually assaulted by Father Smith and Msgr. Staub, they kept quiet only later to be thrown out for refusing to keep quiet about widespread sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in their dioceses and seminaries. Nothing ever happened to their predators or the bishops who covered up their abuse. It was just announced that the rector of the LA Seminary in Camarillo was relieved after complaints about him had been covered up for many years. Why does it take a lawsuit for the Church to get rid of predators? St. John Paull II Seminary rector, Father Carter Griffin, in DC who was reported by a former straight and a former gay seminarian for coming onto them is still in office and protected by Gregory who has also been accused of abuse in a Vos Estis complaint that I'm sure will be "archived" like most complaints. Because I receive reports of sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in seminaries today, and because priests even in their 60s and 70s continue to be persecuted for reporting clerical abuse and cover-ups, I cannot in conscience recommend the priesthood to anyone.