‘WE ALL KNEW’

‘Culattoni Tutti Insieme’

A psychotic person experiences hallucinations (seeing/hearing things not there) and delusions (fixed false beliefs). When Pope Leo XIV met with cardinals and bishops residing in Rome at Christmas, his Master of Ceremonies, Monsignor Marco Agostini, outed them by identifying them on an open microphone as “culattoni tutti insieme” (all the faggots together). Agostini was appointed the Pontifical Master of Ceremonies under Pope Benedict XVI and, until his recent firing by Pope Leo XIV, he served faithfully for “more than sixteen years across three pontificates.” Is Agostini psychotic? Does he suffer from hallucinations and delusions? Or, like many bishops who said “We All Knew” about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, is Agostini saying something about Pope Leo, the cardinals, and bishops that everyone (clergy, laity, media) knows, but is afraid to say?

Interestingly, while the outing of the pope and other homosexual clerics was reported by InfoVaticana, Complicit Clergy, Silere Non Possum, and Hiraeth In Exile, a Rome-based journalist reported, “Not a single Catholic media outlet reported the scandal. Even the so-called independent traddy Vaticanists were as silent as church mice, or busy rustling up stories on the Latin Mass.” Could it be that most editors, journalists, and podcasters, along with most Catholics, are delusional and have a “fixed false belief” that most Catholic clergy today are both heterosexual and celibate?

What Agostini said about Leo’s gathering of prelates at Christmas could also have been said about most of the participants at the recent Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals. The problem is not that Cardinals like Stanisław Dziwisz from Poland and Reinhard Marx from Germany (pictured above) are known homosexuals, but it is their documented cover-up of abuse by other homosexuals that should result in their laicization or excommunication. When a Polish seminarian, Wiesław Walawender, who was sex trafficked from Poland to the United States, wrote (this heretofore unpublished letter) to Dziwisz reporting sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in his Buffalo seminary, instead of having the sexual predators investigated and disciplined, Dziwisz had the straight, celibate seminarian dismissed as a whistleblower.

What Dziwisz did to Walawender is no different than what New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan did to former seminarian Anthony Gorgia, and what Washington Cardinals Wilton Gregory and Robert McElroy have done to Father Michael Briese for reporting clerical homosexual abuse and misconduct. Unfortunately, because Popes Francis and Leo also have a documented history of covering up abuse, corrupt, complicit, closeted Cardinals like Dziwisz, Marx, Dolan, McElroy, Gregory, and others will never be disciplined.

Anyone who questions Agostini’s statement is encouraged to read In the Closet of the Vatican by Frédéric Martel who estimated that around 80 percent of the clergy working in the Vatican are homosexuals. The 555-page work is the result of over 1,500 interviews with people in the Vatican and in 30 countries: among them, 41 cardinals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 apostolic nuncios and foreign ambassadors.

Some of Martel’s conclusions include:

• The Vatican has one of the biggest gay communities in the world….it is one huge closet.

• The Church has become sociologically homosexual. By imposing a continence that is impossible for most to practice, and by creating a secretive, closeted culture, it is responsible for countless instances of sexual abuse that are undermining it from within.

• The priesthood is the ideal escape route for young homosexuals. Homosexuality is one of the keys to their vocation.

• There are more and more homosexuals as one rises through the Catholic hierarchy. In the College of Cardinals and at the Vatican, the preferential process is said to be perfected; homosexuality becomes the rule, heterosexuality the exception.

• According to gay prostitutes of Roma Termini, “priests are willing to pay more than a normal client,” and, based on their impression of Catholic clergy, “happiness does not go hand in hand with money or the priesthood.”

Any bishop with supervisory experience, or any priest like myself who has heard priests’ confessions, knows very well that most priests are neither straight nor celibate. Although I cannot violate confidentiality and identify gay bishops and priests based on their confessions, I can say that I never encountered one homosexual priest who himself was not groomed or abused, often in the seminary. I also discovered that those who were groomed, and look back on what happened to them with a gay priest or seminarian as sexual acts of “love and friendship,” are far more inclined to attempt to enter into similar relationships with teenage boys in their parishes, schools, or seminaries. I also found that priests who were preyed upon and who look back upon what happened to them as “abuse,” are not prone to become abusers, but in many cases, are more inclined to be whistleblowers.

Lest he possibly be outed or blackmailed, a closeted homosexual bishop will rarely appoint a straight priest to serve as his secretary, vicar general, chancellor, or seminary rector. Consider, for example, that newly appointed New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks served as the Vicar General to Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich. When he became the Bishop of Joliet, Hicks chose homosexual David Salvato to be his chancellor. When Salvato left his position to “marry” another man, present at his wedding was Hicks’ Vicar General, Father Richard Smith. Can one understand why many people believe that Cupich, Hicks, Salvato, and Smith are all homosexuals?

In my counseling and confessional experiences with homosexual clergy, I’ve discovered that most priests do not want to identify the bishop, priest, or seminarian who groomed or abused them. Many homosexual relationships that begin in seminaries continue when the men become priests and bishops. It is not unusual for a bishop to befriend a handsome seminarian whom he later makes his priest secretary. However, even if a young priest secretary may not be sexually involved with the bishop, in almost every case, he will share the bishop’s homosexual orientation.

One can often figure out who a cleric may have been sexually involved with early in life by looking at who is socializing and vacationing together, as well as who is in attendance at events such as ordinations, episcopal installations, consistories, and funerals. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy, and Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester were all very close friends of the late San Francisco homosexual Archbishop John Quinn. Quinn made McElroy his secretary and his Vicar General; he made Wester his assistant; and he was a special guest of Cupich when he was installed as the Archbishop of Chicago. Pro-LGBTQ prelates McElroy, Wester, and Cupich were all present at Quinn’s funeral in 2017 at which Wester was the homilist, and Cupich performed the final commendation, blessing Quinn’s coffin before it was removed from the cathedral and taken for interment at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. In commenting on the life and death of homosexual prelates like Quinn, researcher and author, Randy Engel, wrote, “The lesson Catholics should know by now, after the McCarrick scandal, is that homosexual prelates always support other homosexual prelates – in life and in death – to their own condemnation.”

Insofar as not all homosexuals are predators, the problem is not that the Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops are homosexuals. The problem is how their sexual orientation has impacted their theology, teaching, and ministry. Research by Father Darius Oko, a professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, explains why homosexual prelates often cover up for fellow homosexual clerics who engage in sexual predation and homosexual misconduct.

Sex abuse survivors were deeply saddened that absent from the agenda of Pope Leo’s First Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals was any plan for the pope and cardinals to hold themselves accountable, to dismantle the systems of secrecy they created, or to take any concrete action to end the ongoing cycle of abuse and cover-up they have perpetuated. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) identified participants in the consistory, including Pope Leo, as “men who transferred known offenders, concealed criminal evidence from the public, obstructed justice, and facilitated hundreds of thousands of sexual assaults across generations.” SNAP spokesperson, Peter Isely, criticized the consistory for having brought together “the very men who engineered the global cover-up of clergy sexual abuse.” Because Pope Leo has yet to discipline over 160 bishops credibly accused of abusing children and vulnerable adults, SNAP believes “it is essential for the courts, lawmakers, and governments of civil society to step in and hold the Vatican accountable for its actions. Until church leaders face real consequences beyond their own closed systems, the abuse and cover-up will continue.”

As long as Catholics financially support and continue to delusionally view closeted, complicit Church leaders as celibate heterosexuals, one should expect more abuse, more church closures, fewer straight vocations, and a continued decline in Church membership outside of places like Africa where the majority of clergy remain heterosexually oriented.

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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.