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…a popular priest has told his family, his bishop and the people in his parish that he is gay...

In a written statement Saturday, Bishop Sam G. Jacobs said the Roman Catholic Church makes a clear distinction between homosexual actions and orientation.

As Jesus says, one judges a tree by the fruit it bears.

One cannot, perhaps, control the thoughts that enter the mind unbidden. However, one can certainly control those thoughts “invited” to stay. Most definitely, one can control the thoughts on which one chooses to act.

Why would anyone, especially a priest, want others to know what thoughts, or even the kind of thoughts, that might enter his mind unbidden? If these thoughts generate no action, then they are no business, or even meaning, to anyone else in the normal course of events.

There is a strong implication of a not-so-hidden agenda in this priest’s action. I suspect "fruits" are to follow.