However, we never see Roman Catholics jump on other Roman Catholics for all of the anti-Francis articles.
I went through 12 years of Catholic schooling. My guess is that about 90% of the clergy who ran my all boys high school were gay. This was in the early-mid 90’s. If anyone comes after you for criticizing the Church, you can send them to me. You have my permission to speak the truth without being jumped on.
A couple of my stories:
There was one brother who taught me freshmen year old testament. He was cool and made class fun. He seemed a little light on the loafers, but I wasn’t totally for sure that he was gay. At the time, there seemed to be a little bit of a blur between devout piety and homosexuality. I’m now convinced that that was just my naivety - if there’s ever any doubt, he’s gay.
Anyway, this brother eventually became a priest and then president of the school. Then I read several years ago that he was discipled and removed for having a gay relationship with one of the students. The report said the student was 18 when it started, but I have my doubts.
When I was in elementary school, another priest was family friends with one of my buddies. One day he took us into “the city” to do some touring around. We did some sightseeing, and it was a pretty ordinary day. At one point we were walking past a sex shop and he suggested that we go in. So, we did. There wasn’t any more to the story than that. This priest seemed to be more of a guy’s guy, so it could have been him trying to be the cool friend who was also a priest. But, I could have also had a bad read on him. It was just really weird.